Listen: Danny L Harle + Torus – Starlight Divergence

Dutch experimental producer Torus and London-based musician, composer and producer Danny L Harle release Starlight Divergence, a nine-track project made by Torus using stems of Harle’s acclaimed recent single ‘Starlight’ – a collaboration between Danny L Harle and alt-pop icon PinkPantheress as the source material for each track.

Torus (Joeri Woudstra) is a multidisciplinary artist who operates at the intersection of visual art and experimental music. Taking the hyper out of hyper pop and transmuting it to genres like ambient and club, Torus utilises dance music vocabularies to dissect pop culture and politics. By laying bare Harle’s interlinking and often densely-arranged material, Torus encourages the listener to focus on one element at a time, allowing for a more focused sense of emotion to come out of the harmonies and melodies. The layered grandeur of Harle’s original is dissected and laid out into a frieze of static emotion.

The concept of an extended ‘Divergence’ release occurred to Harle while he listened through to the stems of ‘Starlight’ and realised how much material there is in music that could branch off into other interesting tangents, and how it might be interesting for another artist to harvest this material to make something new. Torus took this concept and added a new dimension to it, structuring this ‘Divergence’ as a mixtape. He stretched, reversed, and chopped the material, sometimes bringing it to the brink of recognisability.

Purchase / Stream Starlight Divergence https://dannylharle.x-l.co/starlight-divergence