GEOCLASHING is a mini interview series focused on getting to know an artist's relationship with the world through the music they consume. Six prompts, six songs, six stories.

You might know Estonian-American producer and DJ Umru Rothenberg from his impact on the experimental pop landscape, with his abrasively singular production being backed by the likes of Charli xcx, Tommy Cash and Safety Trance, to just name a few. You might know him from his bone-rattling DJ sets that have blown through dance floors from Tokyo to Tbilisi, from Reykjavik to Rio, from Melbourne to Montreal, and countless places in between. Whether you know his name, his snares, his pioneering Minecraft music festivals or his remixes that rule SoundCloud, umru is an undeniable pillar of the underground, beyond any specific city or country, in the chaotic, borderless and ever-in-flux world of the internet.

Mis Maa See On - Siiri Sisask & Ühendkoorid, words by Peeter Volkonski

“There’s a great video of this being performed at the Estonian song festival, where a huge chunk of the population comes together every 4 years. It’s a lot of traditional choral music but this is a more recent poem turned into a composition that I really love”.

Evoluiu - MC Kevin o Chris

“I don’t speak Portuguese at all but I’ve spent so much time listening to Brazilian funk at this point I feel like it still holds some significance to me”.

Ghost of Tom Joad - Pete Seeger

“Pete Seeger lived a town over from where I grew up, was a huge part of the local community until he passed away”.

1 Sec - Novelist & Mumdance

“I haven’t really lived in a place outside NYC as an adult, but have visited many. I think I musically owe a huge amount to the UK and London in so many different ways though - it was just the 10 year anniversary of this song and it’s really such a definitive classic”.