Yen Tech – Lazarus

SVBKVLT‘S resident sci-fi rap iconoclast Yen Tech embraces the bombast of pop excess, channeling dystopian swagger and video game hyperactivity into his cinematic sound. It was this quality that artists Korakrit Arunanondchai and Alex Gvojic saw in the rapper and producer, leading them to feature him as a major character in their 2016 collaborative work, There’s a word I’m trying to remember, for a feeling I’m about to have (a distracted path towards extinction). “We loved how Yen Tech both embraces the tropes of idolisation of a pop star while constantly remaining self aware and conceptually critical,” says Gvojic of Yen Tech. “His work has always worked on multiple levels of reality just like the character in the film.” There’s a word I’m trying to remember is set in a dying world, and addresses notions of spirituality, digital escapism, the anthropocene and humanity’s apathy towards ecological calamity due to the constant expansion of virtual worlds and the digital representations of the self that p