Artist:
JakoJako
Title:
Tết 41 (Remixes – Part 1)
Label:
Mute
Cat#:
IR1STUMM513
Release Date:
17th February 2026
Format:
download & streaming
Tracklist:
01.
Kumquat
(Rolando Remix)
02.
Ghi-Ta
(Elin Piel Remix)
Press Info:
JakoJako, Berlin-based modular synthesist Sibel Koçer, marks todays Lunar New Year with Tết 41 (Remixes, Pt.1), remixes by Rolando and Elin Piel of tracks from her latest album, Tết 41, out now limited-edition vinyl and digitally via Mute. Pt. 2 will follow next month, alongside an ambient live set at Hackney Church on 21 March, with fellow Mute artist Alessandro Cortini.
Taking its name from Tết (Vietnamese Lunar New Year), Tết 41 – which catalogues her journey to Vietnam with her mother connecting with their heritage – uses a minimal modular set up and field recordings to create a unique and very personal work. Detroit’s Rolando, former Underground Resistance member also known as The Aztec Mystic, takes on ‘Kumquat’’s bright searching melodies and polyrhythmic beats for the perfect introduction to Vietnam’s Lunar New Year, Kumquats being ubiquitous as a key symbol of the Tết celebration, said to bring prosperity and abundance. [DJ
Gothenburg’s Elin Piel, who also appeared on last year’s JakoJako curated collection ‘Hardwired’, remixes ‘Ghi-Ta’. Named after a type of Vietnamese guitar that Sibel encountered on her trip, Piel explains, “What drew me to Ghi-Ta was the harmonies and the small changes in the repetitiveness. It was really fun to play around with the stems trying to find a pulse and create new patterns but still match the original vibe.”
Tết 41 is, in many ways, a distillation of ideas Koçer has been exploring for many years. Tapping into a deep understanding of machine-based music and illuminated by references to her heritage, the album reflects on notions of rebirth, and the pursuit of a sonic core. The album was created with a minimal hardware set up, and from this simplicity emerges some of her most expansive, unworldly compositions to date.
Koçer explains, “I wanted to collect the atmospheres of Vietnam, and strip it back to my language – electronic music. I don’t have huge ties to the traditions of my Vietnamese family, so being able to experience them with my mother, and then bring the Lunar Celebration – the colourful flowers, food and customs – back to Europe through music has helped me realise how important this side of my heritage is.”
A big part of her production process lies in searching for spontaneity, which was heightened during the creation of this album – on just a Eurorack and a Waldorf Iridium Core. Whilst normally she would have a computer to mix and arrange the record, the effects and sequencers of the gear became her tools. She expands; “The more you play with a single machine the more you get to know it. You’ll get muscle memory and play it more like an actual instrument, instead of treating it as a tool.”
Opening and closing with field recordings taken during the Lunar New Year celebrations, she uses the space in between to cast new frameworks, allowing melodic cycles to flow autonomously. Rhythmic fragments weave between analogue processing and harmonic distillations, swirling in organic cycles of warehouse maximalism and sonic minutiae that speak to the somatic and spectral in equal measure.
Engaged in a constant dialogue around the use of hardware in music, JakoJako’s artistic output is informed by the tension and release of techno, but ultimately propelled by ever-expanding forms and structures that play with the contours of the genre. A producer, live artist and DJ who has held a residency at Berghain whilst touring some of the world’s most respected electronic music institutions, she delves into the mathematical patterns of arpeggios and loops, locating kinetic energies that convert into moments of dancefloor catharsis.
Infinitely curious about the threads that connect different genres, as opposed to the rigidity of genre itself, Tết 41 is driven by a desire to document the potentials of analogue and modular synthesis, and to consider new contexts within which these could exist. It’s also a bold and generous vision of new sonic worlds.
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Related Releases:
EP “Tết 41 (Remixes – Part 2)” on Mute
album “Tết 41” on Mute
Recommendations:
JakoJako’s “Segmente EP” on NovaMute
JakoJako’s “Verve EP” on Mute
“In Vere EP” by JakoJako & Rødhåd on WSNWG
compilation “We Are Not Alone (Part 2)” w/ JakoJako on BPitch
compilation “Second Nature” w/ JakoJako on Life In Patterns
“Atlas Der Gedanken” by Mareena & JakoJako on Edition Dur
JakoJako’s “Metamorphose” on Bigamo
“The Third Chimpanzee (Rmxd)” by Martin Gore w/ JakoJako rmx on Mute
New Order’s “Be A Rebel (Remixed)” w/ JakoJako remix on Mute
compilation “Hardwired” curated by JakoJako on Air Texture
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