ZULI pushes further into abrasion with The Screaming Abdabs, easily the most aggressive body of work in his catalogue to date. Picking up on the scorched intensity first heard on 'Trigger Finger', the EP doubles down on raw signal abuse, treating harshness as the central architecture of the sound.
Rather than traditional mastering, the material is driven through layers of saturation and clipping instead of compressors and limiters. The result is a dense, overdriven sound where transients splinter and the low end constantly threatens to collapse the mix, giving the record a volatile live-wire presence.
As with several of ZULI’s previous releases, the tracks were slowly shaped through performance, tested and reworked across live sets over the past four years before arriving in their final form here.
The EP opens with 'Abdabs', featuring vocals from long-time collaborator Elvin Brandhi, whose feral delivery tears through like a signal pushed beyond breaking point. 'Khosh' pushes deeper into the EP’s sonic turbulence, pulling timbre and resonance apart into tightly wound, high-energy structures. 'Half Empty' shifts the EP into a heavier register. A half-time, percussion-heavy stomper and one of the most brutally saturated tracks on the record... more
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releases April 24, 2026
Produced, mixed and saturated by ZULI
Vocals on tracks 1 and 5 by Elvin Brandhi
Cover art and photography by Ludwig Wandinger
Special thanks to Ludwig Wandinger, Rama and ltfll <3