Khaki Blazer

Ohio experimental musician Pat Modugno records under the solo name Khaki Blazer while also serving as one member of the free jazz/noise duo Moth Cock. Although the two projects share a disjointed, giddy, and chaotic sensibility, his Khaki Blazer output leans more explicitly toward warped abstractions of hip-hop and dance music, especially juke and footwork. The tracks typically foreground mangled drum breaks alongside cartoonish sound effects that have been twisted and stretched until they defy ordinary logic, resulting in a confusion that remains consistently delightful. Modugno first issued Khaki Blazer cassettes in 2010 through imprints such as Pizza Night and Fairchild Tapes. In 2015 Hausu Mountain put out the seventy-minute cassette Moontan Nocturnal, and that same year Northern Spy released Cloud Nothings’ Here and Nowhere Else Remixed, to which he contributed. Experimedia issued his debut vinyl full-length, Coco Nara Deezer, in 2016. Hausu Mountain followed with the 2017 cassette Didn’t Have to Cut and then Optikk in 2019.