PREMIERE: Owl & Marimon - PPP3A [Grabaciones Perpendiculares]
Just past midnight, somewhere deep in the forest. Purple light bouncing off the surrounding trees. Fog slowly swallows the edges of the clearing. Behind the decks, Javier Marimon and Owl were presenting something they had spent months developing specifically for that moment.
What unfolded that night wasn’t a traditional DJ set, nor a live performance in the conventional sense. It was PPP, short for Ping-Pong-Ping, a collaborative process built around exchange and transformation. One artist creates an atmosphere, a soundscape, a fragment of an idea. The other takes it apart, reshapes it through sequencing and arrangement, and sends it back. No additional elements. No expanding the palette. Just a continuous exchange between two minds working with the same material until it becomes something neither could have arrived at alone.
The result feels remarkably organic, especially considering the strict limitations of the process. Rather than two artists meeting in the middle, PPP often sounds like a third entity altogether, shaped equally by both contributors but belonging entirely to neither.
We’ve always had a soft spot for music that lives slightly outside the spotlight, B-sides if you like. Javier Marimon and Owl operate comfortably within that territory. Their individual work often gravitates toward mood, texture, and atmosphere, making this collaboration feel like a natural extension of a shared language.
Premiering today is PPP3A, one of two collaborations from the duo featured on the latest Grabaciones Perpendiculares various artists release - V.A. 03.
The track unfolds patiently. A halftime framework provides the foundation, but the focus remains on the space between the drums. Dub-inflected snare echoes drift through the arrangement, cutting through the haze like a signal in the dark, offering brief moments of orientation before dissolving back into the fog. A low-end presence slowly gathers weight beneath the surface. As the track progresses, the atmosphere becomes increasingly murky, eventually revealing a bassline that feels more sensed than heard. Nothing here feels rushed. The tension comes from accumulation rather than impact. By the time the closing synth emerges, pulsing steadily through the final moments, the track feels as though it has completed a quiet transformation.
PPP3A appears on the third various artists release from Grabaciones Perpendiculares, alongside another collaboration from Javier Marimon and Owl, as well as a contribution from ABSIS and Avsluta. Copies of the vinyl were made available during Perpendicular Festival, with the full release now available for pre-order on Bandcamp ahead of its digital release on June 22.