In four club-geared tracks, Kyoto-based producer Ko Yang maps the allure of floating off-world and the joy still here on planet earth. 

A founder and resident of Osaka’s long-running City Boy Lounge party, Ko Yang has been a steady contributor to Japanese music culture for the better part of a decade, hosting international and domestic artists at the homegrown CBL nights. 

The offering is rounded out by a remix from Alex Kassian, a major talent whose name has become synonymous with quality. 

The opener and eponymous track, A1. “Pony” - made for a friend who shares the name - kicks off with a chopped and distorted rolling break, indistinguishable and yet somehow familiar. Voices suddenly rush past, chords stab, and synths swell like fireworks shooting off an unforgiving planet. Ko Yang has wasted no time - we've arrived on his world. 

A2. “Gianism” opens with a wiggly, subby bass born to make a peak time statement. Soon some kind of pad - or engine - begins to warm up, cutting out suddenly just as dub chords blast off. A voice enters, beckoning in an unidentifiable language. A synth appears midway in some alien signature and time slows. We’re in deep space now. 

On B1., we’ve suddenly returned to planet earth. "Koinobori" is the name of the carp-shaped wind streamers that are flown during Japan's "Golden Week", a series of holidays at the beginning of Spring. Ko Yang's track is a worthy homage to the mood of this celebration: an elated chorus chants, children shout in joyful play, and melodic synths rise and turn our spirits toward the sun, toward warm, toward life on earth beginning again. 

The offering is rounded out by a remix from Alex Kassian, a cut of proggy, tribal euphoria that seems to lift off indefinitely, and is already bringing clubs to a froth internationally. 

Bliss Point is honored to bring you this collection of off-kilter, otherworldly club sounds from one of Japan's most exciting talents. 
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releases September 9, 2022 

Produced by Ko Yang 
Mastered by Anne Taegert at Dubplates & Mastering 
Artwork and packaging by Chris Harnan

B2. Ko Yang - Pony (Alex Kassian Remix) (Clip)

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Took My Love Away

Ok, let's just be honest. Tom is an impatient type. You can feel he is not having it. All that doom and gloom of the recent past, the feeling of being betrayed by things you cannot change for the better, however hard you try. And still you try. You could also say he is quite the escapist. He obviously believes in an utopia where people are buzzing on a club floor, free, happy and united. This is most probably why his music sounds how it sounds. It serves a purpose.
Tom also seems to be longing for his music to feature everything he likes, and due to said impatience he does not distribute his ideals and ideas to many different tunes, instead he aims to make them work in just a few tunes. And how they do work. They work so well in fact, that fulfilling this purpose mentioned above is not theoretical in the slightest.
Wailing divas singing to divas, all pride and joy? Check. Pumping kick drums and bass like they do not do this anymore? Check. Euphoric pianos like only Italians could imagine Chicago would sound? Check. Pad drama to counter the punch? Check. Acid to the highest point of intensity? Check. Asking an admired artist for a remix that gives a whole other spin on it, and still works as well, like in this was just meant to be? Check! 
You'd might agree that the man accomplished his mission so well that he could get some rest, but better not bet on it.

Released on Frank Music by @johannesalbert
Mixed by @malugienergy and Tom
Mastered by Lopazz
Words by @finn_johannsen

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