http://trabajo.bandcamp.com

Brooklyn electronic duo Trabajo is Yuchen Lin & TJ Richards. Their sound explores traditional and popular regional music from across the globe, refracting each style thru an experimental framework of samples, loops, and avant noise-scapes. From lush ambient drones to bursts of high energy post punk, Trabajo is a constant diversity of sonic investigation and stylistic celebration.

TIME OUT NEW YORK (Critics’ Pick) – “Be sure to pay close attention to Trabajo, a fascinating duo whose new album, Gamelan to the Love God, wrings blissed-out grooves from Indonesian gamelan samples.”

TINY MIX TAPES “ – With the ghost of post-punk lurking underneath the floors, NY duo TJ Richards and Yuchen Lin make focused tumult of shifting styles and segments with drums, blown-out electronics, and plenty of samplers… [with] the equivalent energy of an entire marching band (you can actually hear it), Trabajo make all their work seem like a lot of fun.” Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.