After the first three tracks of Midnight Menu, one name comes to mind: Flying Lotus. Tokimonsta therefore belongs to the select company of the progressive producer. Who is she? She is Jennifer Lee aka Tokdimonsta from Los Angeles. On the Facebook page of this Korean you can read that as a child she was an undisciplined classical piano student, but that this study helped her to produce the instrumental
… soundscapes, as we hear on her debut album Midnight Menu, which is striking. enough is not released on the Flying Lotus label. She digitally processes live instruments, including percussion, and adds a dusty LP to complete the circle. For example, she goes back to one of the older sound carriers to put an ultramodern jacket around it. Because of all the different influences, it is not enough to call her music hip-hop. Tokimonsta has managed to merge electronic, robotic bleeps and psychedelic synths into exceptionally melodic and harmonious layers. Intense! (GL)more
