Papermag contributor Matt Moen dives into the past, present, and future of Fractal Fantasy with foundersSinjin Hawke and Zora Jones.
“When we talk about the future of club music, what we’re really talking about is Sinjin Hawke and Zora Jones. Individually accomplished in their own rights, Hawke with his cerebral approach to trap that has garnered him production credits for the likes of Kanye West and Ian Isiah as well as Jones who’s R&B-tinged footwork launched her as an underground phenom leading her to collaborate with rising club legends like Murlo, DJ Taye, and Jlin. But it was after they got together that they found they elevated each other’s game to a whole new level, and thus Fractal Fantasy was born.
Founded in 2014, it would be a disservice to explain Fractal Fantasy as merely a forward-thinking record label. Sure, Fractal Fantasy’s catalog sounds like it was plucked out of a chrome-plated nightclub in the year 3019 but listening is only half of the experience. Each release on the label appears alongside its own unique visualizer, coded to fluctuate and pulse in step with each track as you mouse over glitchy, often surreal, CGI landscapes. It is this effortless merging of audio and visual components into one enhanced release that has quickly established Fractal Fantasy as a creative force to be reckoned with and put Hawke and Jones on the cutting edge of club music today.”
Listen to Sinjin Hawke & Zora Jones’s exclusive mix for Papermag below and catch their live a/v performance at Rewire 2019 on Friday, 29 March. Learn more at Sinjin Hawke & Zora Jones.
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