Borful Tang – proud to be a nerd.
There is something reassuring about the way each new generation of Americans produces a fresh breed of musical freaks. These are not just the quaint eccentrics the British specialise in, but are some seriously bonkers individuals who somehow find a sonic outlet for their skewed view of the world.
A case in point is Borful Tang (aka Dominic Cramp / Qulfus) who I first encountered via The Wire magazine‘s subscriber compilation Below The Radar Volume 5 . For this he contributes a previously unreleased track called Sanctuary featuring, among other strange happenings, a cut up of a Californian weather bulletin (“cloudy visibility…for tonight….after midnight …winds will diminish”).
This intrigued me enough to want to learn more about the brains behind this project and led me to the website of Gigante Sound – pronounced HIGG – ANT – A , an online label run by Borful Tang and Jared Blüm (aka Blanketship) which operates under the tagline :”Uncomfortable music since 2005″.
On his profile, Borful Tang is described as “a being from another time and another place; a place not of this Earth but a parallel world”. Continue reading
