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Chrome Monsoon: Inside The Record

How a rainy-season EP became Culture Vulture Records' loudest statement

  • 19 Aug 2026
  • 5 min read
  • Mumbai

Four weeks, one room, no computer on the signal path. The brief was simple: make the record sound like the city sounds in August.

"If a take had a mistake in it that made me feel something, the mistake stayed."

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The result is six tracks that move like weather — pressure building, breaking, building again. It is the clearest thesis statement the label has released.

Session frames from the monsoon weeks.

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