Listen to Exodus1900 and Zootzie’s “Shopping”: The Ones

Exodus1900 and Zootzie: “Shopping”

There’s a Presbyterian church in Ridgewood scoring a few extra dollars by hosting underground rap and noise shows, and last weekend I walked into the nave, where a few teenagers were gathered around the rapper Sellasouls crouched on the ground like Gollum. There, Sellasouls, with their long hair obscuring their face, mostly did a bunch of ghoulish, rave-ready hissing as if they were speaking in code. It felt like a spirit were being summoned, or that at any moment the music would stop and someone would be chosen as sacrifice. Cool, I guess?

The next set I vibed with a bit more: Their name was Exodus1900, and they mostly grunted over high-speed, overlapping beats that were straight-up wild. Exodus even got a small mosh circle going among the unusually sober (no drinking or smoking allowed in the church) and intimate crowd. I went home and fired up Exodus’ SoundCloud page; it’s full of glitchy, dark, bugged-out music. The song that most grabbed my attention is “Shopping” with Zootzie, mostly because it feels like waking up after a night of drinking to your little cousin playing Mario Kart at full blast. It’s such a collision of sound effects that I can barely hear what Exodus and Zootzie are saying. I have no idea where I would even listen to a song like this, but I bet it would go off in the church.

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