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Designed by Shoumik Biswas for Red Bull Music’s Consolidate Showcase, featuring _RHL, Disco Puppet, Worms’ Cottage, Blindnight and Naquash (visuals) at Tabula Rasa, Hyderabad in 2018.

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Blindnight - Where is the fire? 

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Blindnight aka Suren Makkar has been closely associated with Consolidate in various capacities for a few years now: a designer, occasional performer, and a collaborator. 

Where is the fire? is his first release for the label. 

The EP at its core is a beat tape, rough around the edges, built on sample driven instrumental hip-hop aesthetics, where the coherent and absurd go hand in hand, the rigid and free collide, humour and meditation take turns to upstage each other. Blindnight’s choice of sounds and samples are always those that have vocal character. Manic laughter in ‘Everybody likes to die sometimes’ paints the city at night into a hardboiled soundscape. ‘Magic maybe’ is made complete with a catlike femme fatale. Makkar also enjoys creating contrast that lead to absurd situations. Ustad Kitty’s social commentary on beauty culture in ‘Fruity Pie’ is complimented by the easter egg that is bit of the theme from Bojack Horseman. The stretched out scream juxtaposing the baby’s gurgle in ‘Fever’ (which features Disco Puppet’s ghostly vocals) has a sense of horror as well as comedy. Where is the Fire? sounds like a series of handmade ransom notes made out of cut out letters from different magazines and newspapers. Makkar employs a visual, almost collage-like approach to making music where the designer and the producer merge, break boundaries and even compromise. As Suren jumps from motif to motif, the common thread becomes Makkar’s ability to displace sounds from the musical and sonic contexts - creating a soundtrack that sounds like a post 3AM youtube binge. Blindnight Links www.facebook.com/blindnight800 soundcloud.com/blindnight800 www.instagram.com/makkarman  

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“Fever” - Blindnight with Disco Puppet

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I was just a royal guard. I was sent with 3 male guards to take out a bat pony hive that was feeding off of a small town. On the way their we found some bat ponies and as we drew our swords we were hit int he back on the head with something hard. I woke up to sreams and saw the 3 male guards being eatten alive by the bat ponies. I found that these were not normal bat ponies. They chained me to the ground. When they finished with the guard they looked at me. Not to long after they all put their fangs into my flesh. Something kept me alive during the whole time. I sreamed is pain loud. After they were done feeding they threw me back into canterlot. I was found by a guard. He took me to the castle but on the way my body started to change. He droped me and called out a few guards. They watched as my wings peeled and broke. They formed to bat wings. Fangs ripped my teeth. I was put in a cell for months. They let me feed on small things. After a years of being there. I found how to control myself. They let me out within a month. Now I am back as a guard. They gave me back my rank but I left canterlot and I now roam around the land looking for where I could fit. I still help when it is needed. Some see me but others run. Few fight and others just watch.