Process

Propagandata is my attempt at mapping the emotional, environmental, and psychological costs of late-stage capitalism through dense lyricism and fragmented drum break landscapes. It represents a deliberately human-centred approach to creation in an age of algorithmic content generation.

Where it comes from

The production is mostly sample-based, with almost all tracks starting life on my Octatrack. I pull samples from:

• voice memos
• old records I love
• YouTube clips
• news broadcasts
• field recordings of protests and gigs
• documentaries from the ’30s
• recordings of book readings
• TED talks and more

170 and 85

The same breaks that are used to make jungle and drum and bass at 170 are also used to make hip-hop at 85. Same source material either way. The tempo is the decision.

What it’s made on

• Ableton Live 12
• Elektron Octatrack MKII
• Novation Circuit Rhythm
• Roland S-1
• Korg Monotron Delay

There is no sacred cultural detritus that can’t be chewed up and spat out. Each fragment becomes part of a larger collage — a sonic archaeology of our current moment.

What the lyrics are doing

Lyrics reference wanderings, people I’ve met and things I’ve seen with the intention of trying to untangle my ideas of what it means to be human. As I said on 2024’s It Takes A Nation Of Minnows To Hold Us Back:

acoustic levitation in an anechoic situation cooped up in this 4d cube not of my making

Made by a human

All songs written, produced, performed and arranged by Nug Chompah. All visual assets created by Nug Chompah. Mixed and mastered by Jeremy Costa at Backward Clock Sound.