Korkikrac Swaps Guitars for Softsynths on 'Initial State (first contact)'

Frederic Diana spent years playing guitar in alternative rock before digging into hardware emulations and synths under the moniker Korkikrac. 'Initial State (first contact)' was never planned as a techno cut, sparking up almost by accident while he was messing around with the onboard sequencer in Arturia's Pigments. He threw the parts into Logic to finish tracking, running drums off UJAM Beatmaker, adding Model 84 patches, and running bits through ShaperBox 3 and a vocoder. He points straight to the bassline and the rolling sequence as the bits that worked out best, keeping the tune raw and focused on the synth work.