Perma#ffrost is a duo between SAAGAR and Racerboy, fusing trance, ambient and club music while incorporating vocals as part of the framework — something we feel has been missing from modern explorations of the sound. The name Perma#ffrost came from the natural phenomenon of the same name: sediment being trapped underground for so long, in such cold conditions, until it's eventually held together by ice, mirroring our approach to create deep, underground icy sounds that are often left forgotten, but stand the test of time.
We've been close friends for nearly 10 years, but this is the first chapter in our joint musical journey, with lots more to come.
Photographer: Ayden Gooch (@aydengooch)
Ethnicity: SAAGAR - British-Indian / Racerboy - British
Location: London, UK
Instagram: @perma.ffrost
Website:
GET TO KNOW - completed December 2024 (Words by SAAGAR)
Introduce the band:
SAAGAR - vocals + production
Racerboy - production + engineering
3 words to describe you:
Icy, despair, underground
Describe your sound:
Our sound is a mix of ethereal ambient music and icy cold trance sounds with deep influences from the UK club music we both listened to when we first met. Our songs are full of yearning and loneliness, focussing on themes of love, loss and turmoil with a touch of curious optimising running through its veins. This project has been our most personal to date, and we want people to feel the same level of emotions we felt when making it.
Describe the moment you knew that you wanted to pursue music:
We've both been involved in music since we've been teenagers. It has always been part of our growth and understanding of the world. Whether it was discovering artists and having a real moment of adoration, or learning to produce and write music ourselves. Music has always and always will be deeply connected to how we approach and appreciate art.
How does your heritage impact your art?
For me, being exposed to sound palettes, producers, scales, and melodies that weren't typically from the UK was always going to be a massive factor in how I approached music. You come to realise later on in life that all the Bollywood music, bhangra, classical music and Desi lullabies you'd hear as a child would play a big role in your opening your mind up to all the possibilities that were out there. Despite by parents not being as obsessed with music as I am, the exposure i had to all those sounds from a young age meant I could never accept anything mediocre when it came to my influences, and having such artistry around me meant that my art would always seek to push boundaries, no matter who I was working with.
What moment are you most proud of in your music journey so far?
This project (Perma#ffrost) has been our most personal and emotional output to date. I think we're both in agreement when we say that this is the best music we have ever made, and we have made A LOT. I am so proud that this is the music we came out with on our first try as a duo - it has felt so natural, organic and authentic, unlike anything I've made before.
Your next music/career goal:
To keep making more. To play live shows. To have our music played by our favourite DJs on our favourite radio shows. To show the world that this is just the beginning.
If you could collaborate with anyone, who and why?
We would love to collaborate with Corbin or Malibu. We love their explorations of ambient sounds mixed with their ethereal vocal work. Two extremely unique artists that have a had an immeasurable impact on underground music today, and the music we love making as Perma#ffrost.
Lyrics you live by:
"daydream tendencies,
had you smiling soft and sweet,
keep those blurry memories,
somewhere safe you may need them"
(Lefty - Title Fight)
3 songs you're listening to right now:
Unplanned - Clara La San
Benzema - Ballad
Blessing 2 - Beloved Trinket
Anything else you'd like to share:
We have a very exciting, artistic, and surreal video coming out for the first track of our new release 'the world keeps spinning'. We hope it conveys the same level of bleak, grey, desolation that the release does.
