After critically acclaimed records as Elysia Crampton or E+E, Chuquimamani-Condori takes their Aymara name - part of the Great Pakajaqi nation, currently occupied by the states of Bolivia, Peru, Chile and Argentina - reclaiming their intrinsic identity and historical and cultural baggage. A multidisciplinary artist based in California, they develop an ongoing process of reconfiguration around the legacy of cumbia, tarqueada and other sounds and dances from the Andes, both devotional and speculative - a sound that projects possible futures of a tradition lived in the present’s hyperactive continuum. ‘DJ E’, released last year on Bandcamp without much fanfare, as reflex of its own urgency, creates a maximalist environment that feels almost immaterial, where rhythms and melodic bits of their heritage are splintered into waves of sound full of compression that flow as living mirages, in a quest for catharsis and ascension.