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Katapulto is the solo music project of Wojtek Rusin (Poland).
In Katapulto’s music deadpan lyrics meet quasi-danceable beats and beautiful melodies. Maximal rather then minimal, it is multi-dimensional music of constant metamorphosis. Juxtapositions of dry electronics and exotic, raw folk instruments like the whistle or Greek bouzouki mandolin set the overall tone of his music.
He makes surreal, experimental videos which also function as visualisations for his live shows, which are an explosion of maniacal energy, cheap keyboard riffs and deranged vocals. The result is an audio-visual spectacle of modern hysteria.
Katapulto also makes sound design and music for theatre and installations…
He has played at international festivals including NonoLogic, Barcelona 2012, Venn festival in Bristol, England (2008) and Um International Festival of Experimental Intermedia in Lisbon (2009). Katapulto has gigged with Felix Kubin, Micachu, Ariel Pink, Janek Schaefer, Infinite Livez, Man from Uranus, Dj Scotch Egg, Dj Sniff ...
Releases: …
2007 Purity and Danger, Animal Fact Records.
2008 Bodyhammer, Proot records, Selva Elletrica.
2010 Pralines of Doom, Onec records.
2011 Animalia, Sangoplasmo records.
2012 Bad Tourist, Amdiscs.
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Compilations:…
2008 Saturator Compilation
2009 “Greatest it”, cock rock disco, proot, ego twister.
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Music and sound design:…
2012-2013 Our Glass House, Common Wealth Theatre
2009 The Ups and Downs of the Town of Brown, Common Wealth Theatre production
2008 You and Your Work 5, Festival for performance and live art
2008 Blind Carbon Copy, a Matthew Noel Tod film, 2008,UK
2008 At Tethers’s End, a Wonder Club Theatre production, 2008,UK
Reviews
"Poland’s Katapulto makes crazy upbeat spastic pop music. The array of sounds blends together so wonderfully, and unlike alot of electronic music Katapulto steers clear of redundant repetitions. His songs are very colorful with references to early 90’s dance music, 80’s hip hop and tropical cabana sounds".
Sickoftheradio.com
Pralines Of Doom (LP, Onec Records)
• Katapulto’s unhinged maximalism, nailed here to some dancefloor discipline, has resulted in an album of immense delight. Previously pigeonholed as “an explosion in a marimba factory”, imagine a deliriously inventive pinball machine jammed inside a jukebox featuring Yello, Blancmange, Jimi Tenor and Daft Punk. ‘Big Iron’ sees Wojtek Rusin narrating a cowboy shoot-out to rubbery techno, as if Morricone had discovered glow sticks. The filtered disco of ‘Fake French Rap’ and ‘Power Failure’ (boasting impressively demented guest vocals from Amanda Palma) suggests a neon-lit nightclub run by Klaus Nomi. There’s a brilliantly original reading of Marvin Gaye’s ‘Sexual Healing’ morphed into sleekly unsettling day-glo house music. It’s immaculately produced and genuinely special.
Kid Pensioner, Venue magazine
The music is full of energy, with nice up-tempo beats, great song-structure, unexpected breaks and nice cut-ups (...) Pralines of Doom is for now the sunniest moment in these dark days.
Vital Weekly no 758
Katapulto is the solo music project of Wojtek Rusin (Poland).
In Katapulto’s music deadpan lyrics meet quasi-danceable beats and beautiful melodies. Maximal rather then minimal, it is multi-dimensional music of constant metamorphosis. Juxtapositions of dry electronics and exotic, raw folk instruments like the whistle or Greek bouzouki mandolin set the overall tone of his music.
He makes surreal, experimental videos which also function as visualisations for his live shows, which are an explosion of maniacal energy, cheap keyboard riffs and deranged vocals. The result is an audio-visual spectacle of modern hysteria.
Katapulto also makes sound design and music for theatre and installations…
He has played at international festivals including NonoLogic, Barcelona 2012, Venn festival in Bristol, England (2008) and Um International Festival of Experimental Intermedia in Lisbon (2009). Katapulto has gigged with Felix Kubin, Micachu, Ariel Pink, Janek Schaefer, Infinite Livez, Man from Uranus, Dj Scotch Egg, Dj Sniff ...
Releases: …
2007 Purity and Danger, Animal Fact Records.
2008 Bodyhammer, Proot records, Selva Elletrica.
Compilations:…
2008 Saturator Compilation
2009 “Greatest it”, cock rock disco, proot, ego twister.
…
Music and sound design:…
2012-2013 Our Glass House, Common Wealth Theatre
2008 Blind Carbon Copy, a Matthew Noel Tod film, 2008,UK
2008 At Tethers’s End, a Wonder Club Theatre production, 2008,UK
Reviews
Sickoftheradio.com
Pralines Of Doom (LP, Onec Records)
• Katapulto’s unhinged maximalism, nailed here to some dancefloor discipline, has resulted in an album of immense delight. Previously pigeonholed as “an explosion in a marimba factory”, imagine a deliriously inventive pinball machine jammed inside a jukebox featuring Yello, Blancmange, Jimi Tenor and Daft Punk. ‘Big Iron’ sees Wojtek Rusin narrating a cowboy shoot-out to rubbery techno, as if Morricone had discovered glow sticks. The filtered disco of ‘Fake French Rap’ and ‘Power Failure’ (boasting impressively demented guest vocals from Amanda Palma) suggests a neon-lit nightclub run by Klaus Nomi. There’s a brilliantly original reading of Marvin Gaye’s ‘Sexual Healing’ morphed into sleekly unsettling day-glo house music. It’s immaculately produced and genuinely special.
• Katapulto’s unhinged maximalism, nailed here to some dancefloor discipline, has resulted in an album of immense delight. Previously pigeonholed as “an explosion in a marimba factory”, imagine a deliriously inventive pinball machine jammed inside a jukebox featuring Yello, Blancmange, Jimi Tenor and Daft Punk. ‘Big Iron’ sees Wojtek Rusin narrating a cowboy shoot-out to rubbery techno, as if Morricone had discovered glow sticks. The filtered disco of ‘Fake French Rap’ and ‘Power Failure’ (boasting impressively demented guest vocals from Amanda Palma) suggests a neon-lit nightclub run by Klaus Nomi. There’s a brilliantly original reading of Marvin Gaye’s ‘Sexual Healing’ morphed into sleekly unsettling day-glo house music. It’s immaculately produced and genuinely special.
Kid Pensioner, Venue magazine
The music is full of energy, with nice up-tempo beats, great song-structure, unexpected breaks and nice cut-ups (...) Pralines of Doom is for now the sunniest moment in these dark days.
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labels:
ONEC RECORDS
PROOT RECORDS
SELVA ELLETRICA
ANIMAL FACT RECORDS
ELLEN WILKINSON
