Listening to the music released by labels such as Terminal Explosion (Japan) can be a challenging exercise for whoever questions genres and subgenres, and climbing. KronoL, their latest release, is a 24 minutes serious deep sound trip among with mineral and digital textures crafted the Kobe based beatmaker xEm. This post is a perfect opportunity for us to put some heavy tom beats from Japan in your news feed, so read more below.
Ryūhō Kotoge started to interact with the Bandcamp sphere as xEm in with a monthly letter concept approximately 1 year ago. Since then, three releases populated his discography, full with ambient drones and daring noises, with the support of collaborators such as Yuta Inoue, Astraltable (Million Pavillons), ANRI and his twin brother Ryūei Kotoge (Daytripper Records). His last release on Terminal Explosion (named KronoL after a fictional hallucinogen drug in the movie Snowpiercer) takes a step away from the « beat-tape » format, in favour of a one 24 minutes long introspective track.
Note : a 3 minutes long track called KronoL (Version X) was also featured on last month’s release Robot Fes 2014, a 31 tracks compilation apparently made in 10 days.
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