First of all: No, The Kiffness didn’t choose his artist name as a reference to cannabis (in German, “kiffen” means “to smoke pot”). Instead, “kiff” means something like “cool” or “nice” in South African surfer slang. If you want to limit yourself to one term, this one would be a pretty good description of the sound that mastermind David Scott creates – but it still doesn’t quite do the whole thing justice. The multi-instrumentalist has too much of a love for sampling, and he records everything that comes by his microphone on his way through everyday life – be it the pulse of an unborn child in its mother’s womb, schoolchildren in music lessons, a wide variety of instruments, street noises, or the meowing of the Alugalug Cat on TikTok. The producer and parodist’s sense of music knows no bounds. He effortlessly filters rhythms and harmonies from various contexts, translating them into catchy tunes that stay in your head for days. A celebrated live act in his home country for many years, The Kiffness will be bringing sophisticated loop art without stylistic boundaries to our stage in September.