With ‘Mooning’, Dijf Sanders opens the gate to Tangkoa II, the upcoming album due on May 8 via Unday Records. The single, released on today, captures Sanders at his most instinctive and untamed: electronic music not as a fixed structure, but as a living organism.
For this new chapter, Sanders feeds field recordings from Vietnam into his self-built machinery, where sound is bent, stretched, and set loose. Nothing is pre-sequenced, nothing obediently loops. Instead, samples and synths are played live, driven by Simon Segers (Sylvie Kreusch, De Beren Gieren), who operates as a human interface between rhythm and circuitry, a true man-machine.
Sanders himself acts as a living effects processor, continuously manipulating sound in real time. What emerges is a form of live composition that is nearly impossible to recreate in a studio context. Each performance, and each recording, exists fully in the moment.
Improvisation is key, and jazz seeps naturally into the music. Vitja Pauwels (guitar), Viktor Perdieu (saxophone), and Louise van den Heuvel (bass) push the sound further into uncharted territory. The result is music that feels raw, trance-like and tribal, balancing precision with surrender.
‘Mooning’ doesn’t aim for perfection, it aims for presence. It is electronic music that breathes, sweats, and occasionally levitates.
