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ARMA 021EP
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For the new Arma release Ena explores different, distinct facets of his sound across three productions. "Pale" distills his vision of techno as a minimalist, repetitive construct. Working around non-standard time signatures, he creates a densely-woven lattice of percussive pulses, which cut a polyrhythmic path through nightmarish sheets of noise. "Secondary Color" uses a broader palette that opens the Ena sound up to the light. "Wired" heads further away from the grid in pursuit of sound design exploration, as a rack of pipes and chambers strike, boom, and chime against artful distortion and cavernous reverb. While Ena has historically been hesitant about remixes of his material, he warmed to the idea of long-time Arma friend Jasss reworking "Wired." Taking the track into her own fiercely individual sound world, she uses the harmonic tonality of the original as a jump-off point for an epic, emotionally forthright chiller loaded with cold wave bombast, trap hats, and Silvia's own voice. Coming from entirely different angles of approach, Ena and Jasss are bound together by their fearless individuality. One can sense the slithers of pre-existing music somewhere in their constructions, but such familiarities are no more than faint echoes of places they passed through on their way to somewhere new.
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DIFFLP 009LP
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Two years in the works, Baroque follows from the D&B-styled flux of Ena's early 2019 collaboration with Felix K (F&E #1) to sound out more unorthodox areas of inquiry of abstruse, Chain Reaction-like sound design and algorithmic decomposition. In terms of the music's boneless construction and roiling spectral nature, it surely ranks among Different Circles' headiest and most psychedelic releases following the dread kinematics of Logos' Imperial Flood album (DIFFLP 003LP) and the cult acclaim given to their killer Raime and Szare 12"s in the past year. Variously recalling the sound of stressed-out machinery or the sferic mystery of The Conet Project, Baroque sees Ena transition further from recognizable styles into a richly enigmatic tonal and texture-rhythmic language. Over the album's six tracks he uses this futurist-primitive mode to express a detached, meditative state-of-mind that speaks to paradoxical ideals of club music and domestic listening: of being simultaneously in it, yet out of it; of finding yourself lost in the crowd of noise. It's a sound that resonates with the short-circuiting AI convulsions of Logos, Mumdance, and Shapednoise's EP for The Death of Rave as much as the hypnagogic mulch of Thought Broadcast or the most abstruse Chain Reaction releases -- think a rusted and sunken Dynamo or Porter Ricks in radioactive waters -- and comes primed in artwork by Raime that perfectly highlights the music's strange, semi-organic nature and austere yet psychoactive allure. RIYL: Porter Ricks, Felix K, Dynamo, Pendant. Mastered and cut at Dubplates & Mastering, Berlin. Edition of 300.
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LTNC 009EP
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"Latency 009, from Tokyo: four eerie, multi-rhythmic, bass-heavy excursions, with roots in abstract hip-hop and the classic d&b of Photek and Source Direct."
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7EVEN 025EP
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"Bass music producer from Tokyo, ENA is a major player of the Japanese underground dubstep and drum & bass scenes for more than a decade. Taking influences from early drum & bass productions, rave sound and Abstract Hip Hop, quoting names such as Photek, Krush, Source Direct and Renegade Hardware, ENA is recognized for his tight production technique and massive audio dynamics, as well as for his Djing selection and technical quality. ENA's 12" on 7even Recordings is the third of the Tokyo's producer for the label in two years. Rare, ENA's productions always impress by their uniqueness and high level of studio technique. 'Purported' and 'Whereabouts' are two dark pieces of electronic music, and have now become classic tracks on the Japanese underground scene. Limited to 300 copies."
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7EVEN 019EP
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First release on 7even from Japanese producer ENA. Both deep cuts, with the blended drum & bass of "Instinctive" previously featured on his Abstractor podcast. The vinyl-only "Sign" makes its debut here. Another notable bass music producer from Japan, stepping up alongside the likes of Goth-Trad, Quarta 330 and 100Mado.
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