DeCOY

When two pieces of metal in motion come in contact with each other, a
shock or pressure wave propagates through them. This wave is called
the shock pulse and is centered around a frequency of 36Khz. At the
same time, the objects recoil and start vibrating until the energy is
dissipated.

Using this phenomena as a corollary to everyday city life, Urban Hippy
Project & deCOY create their own take on the impact of colliding
personal interactions between city dwellers. This person to person
contact creates a background noise of shock pulse and reverberates
thru our collective conscience as social experiences.

A train ride that transcends people from lively chaos to an
understated calm, and young people exposed to new collectives of
dreams, technology and life. Daily life with its loudspeakers, shop
installations, advertising projections, fireworks and visual stimuli,
interlaced with 1000Watts of human energy, oscillates indefinitely as
the the soul of the city.

What remains constant is the sounds and the visions, the backdrop and
the soundtrack to our loopy excursions.
The music of Urban Hippy tries to capture this pattern sonically - the
grid like motion of the inhabitants,
the repeating activities and the tempo of the everyday city in motion,
and tries to follow the graphical curve of the shock wave.

An intersecting point of ref for the project was reminiscences of good
times spent at pubs and clubs with friends with 80’s club muzak in the
background. Equating the resurgence of this retro sound from another
era, to the shock wave, is an affirmation of the soul of the city
vibrating on its own pulse, while our lives recoil and oscillate to
their own rhythms.

deCOY plays with visual textures and snapshots from memories of urban
times, weaving them through the underlying beat of the city.

36khz is the first collaborative project between Urban Hippy Project and deCOY.

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Sounds: Urban Hippy Project (Himanshu Pandey & Manoj Kurien)
Recorded at: HOMEGROWN STUDIOS
contact: +91 9867615750, himanshux@gmail.com

URBAN HIPPY PROJECT
The band started out as a side project for Manoj and Himanshu (a.k.a
baba G & Mojo) in 1997, while they played full time as guitarists for
hard rock act Southern Cross. After their last live performance with
the band in 2001, they focussed on moulding the sound of UHP along
with some friends, but their sound remained very folksy and organic
till 2005. After embracing electronica in 2005, the band sound took on
a whole new approach and became a meeting ground for their folksy
hippy sounds and electronic, industrial, dark core alter egos.
Himanshu and Manoj are the core duo behind the band and describe their
sound as electronic folk.

HIMANSHU: After his last performance with Southern Cross in 2001,
Himanshu stopped playing live shows to be able to focus on playing
other instruments and refining his own sound. The current setup of
Urban Hippy Project evolved after Himanshu completed his home studio
setup in Bombay, which coincided with a change in his musical
approach. Combining his multi instrumentalist tastes with electronic
sounds, the band came a full circle when they decided to exploit their
jamming bonhomie and mix it with looped and sampled sounds. Himanshu
plays the guitar, keyboards, harmonica, drums and mandolin and does
all the programming and recording and editing for the band and manages
the financial research project for a major investment bank as his day
job.

MANOJ: Manoj plays guitar and does programming for Urban Hippy
Project. He played on and of as guitarist for Southern Cross and
dabbled in various side projects before coming together with Himanshu
to form Urban Hippy Project in 2005. A software programmer by
profession, he is a qualified engineer and sworn hippy till death.

Visuals: deCOY (Dhanya Pilo)
Visual Jockeying & Compositing at: STUDIO PILO
contact: decoy@dhanyapilo.com