“Electronic experimentation intrinsically tied to Andean folklore, Bolivian indigenous heritage, and queer celebration. It’s a fucking trip. One that might be forecasting the future of electronic music.” (Resident Advisor)

Leading online music platform Resident Advisor - which focuses on electronic music - noted a striking trend in their 2025 annual review: “A renewed fascination with noise and distortion (...) as a rejection of the overpolished club tools that continue to flood the scene.”

The prime example is the eponymous and downright insane debut of Los Thuthanaka (US/BO), the project of American-Bolivian Chuquimamani-Condori (better known as Elysia Crampton) and his brother Joshua Chuquimia Crampton. Strikingly, their debut was not available via streaming services like Spotify, Apple or Tidal, but only via their own Bandcamp. Even more strikingly, the record was not mastered, but released to the world raw, pure and unadulterated.

And see what happened: Pitchfork named it Album of the Year and called it "a monumental self-titled debut". Resident Advisor prophesied: “It's a fucking trip. One that might forecast the future of electronic music.” Artists such as Kode9 and Maria Somerville out themselves as die-hard fans. BRDCST agrees: this - along with Blawan’s SickElixir - must have been just about the weirdest musical uppercut of 2025.

So BRDCST will be closing in style with Los Thuthanaka.