Octo Octa Essentials

Octo Octa Essentials

Octo Octa’s music collapses decades of dance music into the here and now. On early tracks like 2011’s “Let Me See You”, she was already channelling ’80s house sounds from her native Chicago. Similarly classic tropes have fuelled most of her music since, whether breakbeats (“Goddess Calling”), rave stabs (“Move Your Body”), or acid (“River”). More than just stylistic markers, these nods to the past are ways of bringing rave’s promise of freedom to fruition once again. As euphoric cuts like “Goddess Calling” make clear, for Octo Octa, house music is a deeply spiritual thing.

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