Project initiated in Guatemala and finished in Berlin. The name comes from the words "Kiez" from the German "barrio" or "neighborhood" and "Manifesto" making a clear allusion to the political message contained within their music. 
Through noisy overdriven guitars, groovy bass lines and vigorous drums, Kiez Manifesto seeks to reflect the discomfort of the message being delivered. 
The first EP narrates in a sarcastic and ironic way what it is like to live in a decadent, chaotic and violent city like Guatemala City, infamously known as "The City of the Future".

2) YA NO PUEDO MÁS

1) DON DINERO

Project initiated in Guatemala and finished in Berlin. The name comes from the words "Kiez" from the German "barrio" or "neighborhood" and "Manifesto" making a clear allusion to the political message contained within their music.
Through noisy overdriven guitars, groovy bass lines and vigorous drums, Kiez Manifesto seeks to reflect the discomfort of the message being delivered.
The first EP narrates in a sarcastic and ironic way what it is like to live in a decadent, chaotic and violent city like Guatemala City, infamously known as "The City of the Future".

3) QUÉ DÍA ES HOY?

4) EN LAS CALLES DE MI BARRIO

5) ERAN PAJAS

Japanese native Maiko Okimoto, also known as Lemna, is a composer / producer / sound designer based in Tochigi, Japan.

Maiko began studying music and classical piano at age 4. Starting as a vocalist/guitarist in bands, she gradually began to take an interest in musical acoustics and composition. After she studied music production and sound engineering at the academy, she began her musical journey in 2006 in the most unlikely of ways - as an MC for D&B DJ's in Tokyo under the name of Key. Following a natural progression as a recorded vocalist, she began to experiment with production even more deeply. Stylistically starting as D&B hybrids, Lemna's music grew into a totally robust, unique sound, equal parts ambient and techno with a rhythmically experimental approach defining the bulk of her work. She signed with Berlin based label: Horo in 2016, and debuted her first live performance as Lemna entitled “Sediment” at Berlin Atonal in 2017.

Maiko tries to find out the beautiful ratio to frame the moment of the constantly changing dynamic world and express it on a time axis, while hovering between regularity and irregularity, which is like order and chaos, artifact and nature, intellect and emotion, or conscious and subconscious. She is always trying to find a balance in them, not to split them in a dualistic way.

Since she only performs live and never DJs, which has honed her approach to music making. She plays live as a one-time-only performance composed of only newly-written music for each show so as to value the ephemeral freshness every time.

Already a prolific music producer, a large percentage of ideas and music concepts seemed to be getting lost with many of these live performances not being memorialised in audio form. Releasing The Five Elements is our way of balancing this out.

Lemna presents The Five Elements is itself a stand out from Maiko’s many live performances. This cassette / digital release is a reconstruction of a live set which was performed at the Mononoke Matsuri 2019 festival at Togakushi Ski Resort in Japan with a specific narrative or motif informing the music’s creation.

In her own words:

“I made this set entitled "The Five Elements" under the theme of the yin-yang five elements, because I felt that the venue Togakushi village, which is a time-honored sacred ground, has the energy of those elements. In the theory of the five elements, it is considered that the natural world circulates in harmony by keeping the balance of the five elements that influence each other. I visited Togakushi beforehand and recorded various sound materials associated with the five elements (wood, fire, earth, metal and water), and composed music by using them while trying to find a balance between the organic natural sounds and the artificial electronic sounds, which also based on one of the common themes of my expression - harmony and contrast of order and chaos.”

Buy Lemna's EP - The Five Elements
https://lemna.bandcamp.com/album/the-five-elements

Made In Tracks #16 - Systems Radio | Focus on Lemna (JP)

Originally from Guatemala City but currently based in
Berlin, he has been strongly influenced by his
political studies, social activism and the artistic
trends of the city. Through passages of ambient guitar,
synthesizers, noises, effects, dissonant sounds and
experimentation with historical audio archives, he
seeks to position the perspectives of historically
vulnerable, exploited and marginalized groups and call
for reflection.

2) YA NO PUEDO MÁS

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