Abstract Sekai
"the hip hop artist keeps the mantra #GoUnderground at the core of all that he creates". - Gerard Longo, Underground Music Collective
Non Conformist Records founding artist has been sharpening his pen deep in the darkest depths of the underground since 2018, Inspired by legendary master wordsmiths such as Kool Keith, Hymphatic Thabs, Method Man and Ms Lauryn Hill and showing just a tip of the iceberg in releases such as An Ode to Odin, Temporal Form and Waxing Gibbous, and now worthy wordsmith, he casts his net of lyrical wit within intriguing abstractions, diving into the realms of mythology, science fiction and all things cosmos over electronic, ambient, downtempo and trip hop breakbeats he crafts himself,showcasing his production capabilities in abstract tapes such as , From Dusk till Breakbeat, Third Planet From The Iris, Free Thoughts and Concepts and Echoes From Isoka and more recently The Impertinence of the Shallow Abyss. Murky, abstract craftsmanship his trade, Influenced by old school boom bap and flipping them into his own signature sound, having drawn production Influences from the likes of Dj Krush, Nujabes and Kanif the Jhatmaster.
Hailing from Chingola, Zambia, though born and raised in Gaborone, Botswana. The now Lusaka based artist retraces his hip-hop roots back to his high school days of 2010, skipping class to cypher with his friends behind science labs. However Abstract's full dive into creation only comes about years later when he picked up FL-Studio in 2018 and started mimicking the productions of experimental giant Dj Krush. He states Ki-Oku as the project that most paved his production pathway and the Iapetus Records collective as those most influential to his lyrical choices.