Following two striking EPs and a full length album through Lovefingers' excellent ESP Institute label, techno innovator Hoshina Anniversary arrives on clipp.art with the intensely adventurous “Gekokujo”. A brief debrief of the Tokyo-based DJ & producer shows him turning out fascinating music for over a decade, journeying through abstract techno, experimental deep house and drone-core. Sonic voyages that always explore the boundaries of the Japanese musical scale, with more than a few bangers as a result.
Gekokujo the term itself roughly translates to "the low overcomes the high" and the three movements of the release itself create a swirling cauldron of contrasts. Gekokujo and Gekokujo II find Hoshina Anniversary at home with his self-styled 'watechno' sound - infusing electronic fundamentals with jazz sensibilities and subtle Japanese aesthetics. Dueling tracks laden with audio contrast, meandering crunchy stabs, wilding out LFO’s, clashing percussive time signatures, rising arpeggiated motifs and dystopian breakdowns, all stepped against clanging 4/4 high hats. Kaguya Hime (either influenced by the titular character from Studio Ghibli film The Tale of the Princess Kaguya or 10th century Japanese folklore monogatari The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter) pits wigged out circular synth sonics against a bubbling acid-y bassline before giving way to straight up Herbie Hancock expressionism. As we start to close the chapter on another year of ups and downs inside the simulacrum, we face the challenges of discerning our own groove from the melee, wondering which patterns will repeat in 2022. The low overcomes the high, only to be replaced by the low.. the cycle continues.
File under: electronic musical envelope pushing
1 / Gekokujo — 07:07 ISRC USA2P2148971
3 / Gekokujo II — 07:36 ISRC USA2P2148970
3 / Kaguya Hime — 06:27 ISRC USA2P2148969
released November 26, 2021
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