Biography
Polish duo Skalpel channeled the influence of the homeland’s wealthy jazz traditions to their very own contemporary digital sound. DJs/companies Marcin Cichy and Igor Pudlo initial teamed in Wroclaw, Poland, in 1998. Employed in digital anonymity, Skalpel shortly started assembling the to begin their Eastern Western european fusion-inspired cut-and-paste mosaics by sampling traditional LPs from performers including Krzysztof Komeda, Tomasz Stanko, as well as the Novi Sisters, spending a few months and also years searching for the right noises to complete every individual monitor. In 2000 Pudlo interviewed Ninja Melody label musician DJ Vadim for the Polish hip-hop newspaper Klan. Immediately after, Vadim asked Skalpel to tour Poland along with his Russian Percussion ensemble, and after time for Wroclaw the duo released their debut CD-R, Polish Jazz. Despite limited distribution, the discharge was the main topic of rapturous acclaim and in 2001 Ninja Melody extended an archive offer. Skalpel spent another 3 years focusing on its self-titled debut LP, gaining evaluation to jazz symbols Mls Davis and Herbie Hancock with the outcome. Konfusion implemented in 2007.