Video: Warm Drag, ‘Cave Crawl’

Daiana Feuer on July 3rd, 2018

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Warm Drag‘s Paul Quattrone (Oh Sees, !!!) and Vashti Windish (Golden Triangle) take a hip-hop approach to rock. Quattrone feeds synth, drum and guitar into his two Akai MPC 1000 samplers so the machine can chew it up and spit out a collage of sensible noise. “I basically wanna make Bomb Squad versions of rock ’n’ roll songs,” Quattrone says, referencing the production team notably affiliated with Public Enemy (and then some) in the 1980s, who liked to pile on at least a dozen samples into a single track and blend harsh sounds into their palate. “It sounds weird but I can hear a common ground where girl groups, dub, harsh noise, minimal synth, repetitious industrial, voodoo percussion, power electronics, black leather jacket rock n roll and DJ Screw-inspired slowing down/pitching down of samples all meet.” As for Windish, she’s a colorful character, who finds common ground with Quattrone in their mutual desire to fuse disparate music styles into a soundtrack that she can bounce off. “Warm Drag gives me the chance to blend genres up into a musical milkshake that remains uniform despite all of its parts,” she says. “I can scream, dance, cry, rage and seduce, all in a single show.” The duo’s debut eponymous album will be released by In The Red Records on Aug. 31.

||| Watch: The video for “Cave Crawl”