Daniela Lalita enters the world of TAC TAC through playful misuse, built-in Ableton tools, and a production process shaped more like a rule-free playground than a clean studio session.
Featuring Vienna-based electronic artist Mietze Conte, the single follows Tiroteo and pushes Daniela’s production language into a darker, more tactile space. Pulsing electronics, stacked percussion, textured synths, and blunt vocal phrasing turn the track into what she calls “microscopic music”: detailed, physical, and slightly dangerous.
The Peruvian singer-songwriter and producer explains:
TAC TAC is a form of innocent rebellion and the song the EP is named after. Through the extreme playfulness and forced ignorance/naivety of the process Mietze Conte and I applied while producing and recording the song, I found the way in which I wanted to create most of the sounds used in this EP and in the upcoming album. We would only use Ableton built-in plugins and playfully add, stack, and misuse them in a way that mimicked a playground with no rules or limitations aside from chasing what sounded and felt right. This approach then informed the way I would relate to the music production and sound design of the next songs I’d make for the next two years, acting like a kind of manifesto that was always considered by me and my other collaborators. The lyrics are cheeky and devilish as I was contemplating the notion that the way I’d envision the devil would be like a playful, selfish kid with too many responsibilities and not enough empathy, picking at situations and relationships to see their reactions. It worried me to notice that I’d see the same kind of apathy in nature.
Born and raised in Lima, Daniela moves between sound, visual art, couture, and electronic production. After studying piano as a child, she later attended design school and completed a graduate music technology programme at NYU, where she studied under Morton Subotnick.
Since her 2022 debut EP Trececerotres, Daniela has built a self-contained world shaped by ritual, memory, layered vocals, raw production, and immersive visual language. With TAC TAC, she tightens that world into a manifesto for play, misuse, instinct, and controlled chaos.