Sote presents Sound System Persepolis

A driving force behind Tehran’s vibrant electronic music scene, Ata Ebtekar is the founder of the Zabte Sote label, a platform to promote experimental and electronic music in and across the Iranian diaspora. His latest LP Sound System Persepolis on Diagonal revisits and actualizes his unique take on synthetic hardcore to once again push the very limits of underground brain/body music.

Taking its name from the beating heart and administrative center of the historical Persian Empire, the harmonics, rhythmic textures and buffeting decay conjure the sense of a monumental sound rig playing at earth-shaking volume—capable of displacing huge volumes of atmosphere, yet with barely a kick or a snare in sight. This music is not only meant to be heard but physically felt by the listener, its brutalist vibrational polyrhythms acting as a high-velocity, high-resolution sensory overload that is at once cathartic and ecstatic: a medium for both escape and release for the body and the brain.

Behrooz Moosavi’s work spreads across the multidisciplinary; aside from his skills as a musician, producer, DJ, songwriter and performer, he’s also a concept designer, video/projection mapping expert, and curator, initiating the Tehran Contemporary Sounds arts and music festival, collective and label in Berlin in 2015. Ever-evolving, his music lurks uneasily through the grimy pummel of rhythmic noise, woozy ambience and mind-warping loops.

His upcoming Zabte Sote release On Schizophrenic Ears and Amnesic Listening, is an auditory memory in becoming. Inspired by Deleuze & Guattari's Anti-Oedipus and their Schizo-analysis of politics, culture and subjectivity, the album is the result and a continuation of Behrooz Moosavi's »schizo-listening« in his auditory memory since moving to Berlin from Tehran. Made up of tape manipulations, loops, and other digital / analogue techniques, it attempts to dehistoricize and re-historicize the musical heritage that he has brought with him to Berlin.