Biography
Joseph Fraioli operates under the Datach'i alias as a sound designer whose experimental electronic output has undergone continuous transformation since the late 1990s. Early efforts such as the 2000 album Wearealwayswellthankyou shattered drum'n'bass and experimental techno into fragments, routing playful nostalgic melodies, eccentric samples, and warped breakbeats through heavy distortion. Darker and more refined statements followed, including 2004's Mmale and Ffemale, after which Fraioli concentrated on his audio design company. He returned in 2016 with System, a collection of modular synthesizer pieces.
Datach'i debuted in the late '90s via Caipirinha Records, which put out the first album 10110101 = (Rec+Play). The year 2000 brought both Wearealwayswellthankyou and This Is My EP, the latter containing reworkings by Bogdan Raczynski, Mogwai, Cex, and Kid606. Once Caipirinha ceased operations, Datach'i resurfaced in 2002 on Klangkrieg with a split EP alongside Com.A for the Connected Series. A fitting home emerged at Planet Mu, which issued the third album Mmale and Ffemale in 2004; the record marked a clear shift toward a more ominous tone, exchanging earlier playfulness for a sinister and at times malevolent atmosphere. Production and compositional command had advanced markedly, a progression that continued on the subsequent album The Elements. Built around distorted Amen breaks, that set appeared as a split release between the Canadian label Sublight and Suburban Trash Industries, the imprint operated by German breakcore artist Noize Creator. Sublight then issued the comparatively restrained Shock Diamonds and the fiercer Black Trees digital EP in 2006 before folding the following year.
Fraioli subsequently directed substantial effort toward Jafbox Sound, his audio design company, which supplied material for numerous films, television programs, and advertisements. He also launched Jafbox Recordings, which delivered two digital EPs in 2008 along with digital reissues of earlier out-of-print albums. Ten years passed before Fraioli resumed activity as Datach'i. An enthusiastic collector of modular synthesizers, he produced several demonstration videos and ultimately accumulated sufficient original material for a new album. System arrived in 2016 on Timesig, the imprint headed by Aaron Funk (Venetian Snares). After relocating to Los Angeles, Fraioli issued his second Timesig album, Bones, in 2019.
Datach'i debuted in the late '90s via Caipirinha Records, which put out the first album 10110101 = (Rec+Play). The year 2000 brought both Wearealwayswellthankyou and This Is My EP, the latter containing reworkings by Bogdan Raczynski, Mogwai, Cex, and Kid606. Once Caipirinha ceased operations, Datach'i resurfaced in 2002 on Klangkrieg with a split EP alongside Com.A for the Connected Series. A fitting home emerged at Planet Mu, which issued the third album Mmale and Ffemale in 2004; the record marked a clear shift toward a more ominous tone, exchanging earlier playfulness for a sinister and at times malevolent atmosphere. Production and compositional command had advanced markedly, a progression that continued on the subsequent album The Elements. Built around distorted Amen breaks, that set appeared as a split release between the Canadian label Sublight and Suburban Trash Industries, the imprint operated by German breakcore artist Noize Creator. Sublight then issued the comparatively restrained Shock Diamonds and the fiercer Black Trees digital EP in 2006 before folding the following year.
Fraioli subsequently directed substantial effort toward Jafbox Sound, his audio design company, which supplied material for numerous films, television programs, and advertisements. He also launched Jafbox Recordings, which delivered two digital EPs in 2008 along with digital reissues of earlier out-of-print albums. Ten years passed before Fraioli resumed activity as Datach'i. An enthusiastic collector of modular synthesizers, he produced several demonstration videos and ultimately accumulated sufficient original material for a new album. System arrived in 2016 on Timesig, the imprint headed by Aaron Funk (Venetian Snares). After relocating to Los Angeles, Fraioli issued his second Timesig album, Bones, in 2019.
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