Takkak Takkak make cultural cross-pollination seem easy. Bursting out of the gates with a thunderous mix of metal, electronica, and traditional Japanese and Indonesian sonics, Shigeru Ishihara and Johanes “Mo’ong” Santoso Pribadi grab the reins of their various wild elements and boldly steer them across a landscape of their own design. Keen explorers of modern experimental electronic music have, over the course of the last several years, encountered increasingly compelling connections between disparate genres and distinct musical traditions. But there’s something especially potent about the noisy overtones of Javanese instrumentation combined with seething heavy metal distortion and bludgeoning kicks. Building on the groundwork of artists like…

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