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Hoshina Anniversary - Gekokujo [CLIPP201]

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

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Hoshina Anniversary - Kaguya Hime

Italian producer Tracya blends acid, lo-fi house, spatial IDM, and raw electronica, across a whopping 7 new tracks. Collectively known as “Control Interface”, written and produced at the height of the global pandemic and has been gathering digital dust in our hard drive of backlog releases until the present moment. Testament to the art of acid dance, these overdriven squelchy sonics sound as propulsive today as they did the day they hit our overfilled inbox. Across the blistering pump of “Others” and “Static”, 808 driven electro groove and low bass of “CCTV” and “Init”, breakneck rhythms of “Northern Lights”, and broken computer punch of “All Them To Rule You” and “Encrypted Channel”, Tracya injects an sci-fi otherworldliness and whirlpool ambience that detaches listeners, while pulling them deeper into the maelstrom with each passing iteration. The effect is not unlike cybernated waves of an acid ocean crashing against the shores of distant memory, a place where you can both observe and participate, the opportunity to lose control ever present. Enjoy interfacing with this intense series of lo-fi bangers and see you on the beaches, amici.

Tracya - Init

Tracya - All Them To Rule You

Tracya - Northern Lights

Tracya - CCTV

Tracya - Others

DJ Cockroach make dem tunes that keep kickin' after the atom bombs drop.

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We first inhabited Felix’s lo-fi house aesthetic on the track ‘Fantasies’ from the inaugural ‘высокий спрос’ compilation [CLIPP143] back in the deep deep Covid quagmire of 2020. “высокий спрос. vol 1” showcased underground artists & producers residing in Eastern Europe and the Russian Federation blurring out the boundaries between Eastern and Western European dance music and obviously we loved Felix’s track to invite him back for more. He followed up with “Dreaming of You” - a gliding dreamlike-but-bumping house cut with the added vibe of Felix’s own introspective vocal styling. On his third outing “Kingdom of The Past”, Felix takes those prior concepts and turns them up several vibes. I dare you not to fall in love with the addition of a pondering guitar riff. It welcomes you to a place where you can forget that “145BPM” is a thing (even if just for a moment). You know that an avalanche of Tik Tok Techno is ready to obliterate you entirely, collapsing on you in the next Boiler Room or HOR video, but for this moment allow yourself to slide into Felix’s safe space. It may sounds passé but I do think it might also be The Future. Chill and bump the groove. It’s nice to visit the Kingdom of The Past.

Felix G - Kingdom Of The Past

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In prehistoric Japanese folklore “Amanojaku” is the name given to a demon-like creature. This creature is usually depicted as a kind of small troll-like demon (known as an “oni”) who was thought to be able to provoke a person's darkest desires, instigating them into perpetrating wicked deeds. A “twisted person”. Sometimes used to describe a being with an extremely contrary nature, someone that if ordered something, would do the opposite. This might be a strange introduction but might be the best way to set a discussion about our friend Hoshina Anniversary and his new introspective album “Leave Behind” from where the tracks “Amanojaku (天邪鬼)” and “Landscape (風景)” are lifted. Not that we would ever think of Hoshina as a small troll demon, but to say he is an artist not unaccustomed to doing the opposite of what is expected, then a fitting description indeed. 
“Leave Behind” is an electronic album created mostly using non-electronic instruments, featuring Hoshina’s vocals and socially noncompliant lyrical styling. Inspired by Steely Dan and Weather Report, “Amanojaku (天邪鬼)” is a song described in Hoshina’s own words “created with a rather strange chord progression”. A song he says is about the crisis in social networking, which is no doubt a location where one finds many a “twisted person”. Quote the lyrics: “If you tell me Yes, Then I’ll tell you No. It’s a boring communication. Desire for recognition. You are always right. I’m always wrong”. Words spoken by someone who if ordered to do something, would not be unlikely to do the opposite. But what other choice would you make when finding yourself tied into knots by the endless scroll of social activity. Regardless, “Amanojaku (天邪鬼)” is a total vibe of a tune.

On the opposite end, “Landscape (風景)” is a song described by Hoshina as “About death, and when I wrote about death in relation to the landscape, I felt a sense of selflessness”. It’s a tune that wouldn't find itself out of place on an album by synth maestro’s AIR and which contains as much gravity as I think the French legends ever did. Quote the lyrics: “I thought I was obsessed with so many things. I feel myself becoming numb. Our own joys and sorrows seem to have nothing to do with the landscape that is spread out here.” A beautiful sentiment and fitting taste of what’s to come on “Leave Behind”.

Hoshina Anniversary - Landscape (風景)

Hoshina Anniversary - Amanojaku (天邪鬼)

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In Japanese folklore predating written text, “Amanojaku” is the name given to a demon-like creature usually who was thought to be able to provoke a person's darkest desires, instigating them into perpetrating wicked deeds. Also described as a “twisted person” or a being with an extremely contrary nature - someone that if ordered something, would do the opposite. As a way of description this may not be an obvious choice when referring Hoshina Anniversary and his latest release, an introspective album titled “Leave Behind”, but as an artist accustomed to doing the opposite of what is expected, we would argue it be a fitting introduction for an artist consistent for the magnitude and variety of musical output beyond the last decade.

Opening track “What Can We Leave Behind In This World (この世界に何を残せるか)” sets the tone for what is to come. Interlacing layers of detuned keys falling endlessly into the void - a muted twist on the work of synth maestro’s AIR.  Like much of the album, a leap of faith. There are elements of deconstruction and awareness throughout. “Essence (本質)” reporting from the front-lines of personal reflection “Self-will is born from a terrible lack. That's what my experience has told me” echoes around drum tones. But there are lo-fidelity flourishes wherever you look, on “Toukai (東海)”, “Asia” “Obsession (Kyouhaku Kannen 強迫観念)”, “Rine (輪廻)” and “Teinen (諦念)”  clank along like the best of 2017 without ever trying to be as mired in coolness. It's a liberating look at Lo-Fi House.

“Landscape (風景)” is a song described by Hoshina as “About death, and when I wrote about death in relation to the landscape, I felt a sense of selflessness”. Quote the lyrics: “I thought I was obsessed with so many things. I feel myself becoming numb. Our own joys and sorrows seem to have nothing to do with the landscape that is spread out here.” Again the theme of leaving one’s history behind to discover the new self.

Inspired by Steely Dan and Weather Report, “Amanojaku (天邪鬼)” is a song described in Hoshina’s own words “created with a rather strange chord progression”. A song he says is about the crisis in social networking, which is no doubt a location where one finds many a “twisted person”. Quote the lyrics: “If you tell me Yes, Then I’ll tell you No. It's a boring communication. Desire for recognition. You are always right. I’m always wrong”. Words spoken by someone who if ordered to do something, would not be unlikely to do the opposite. But what other choice would you make when finding yourself tied into knots by the endless scroll of social activity. Much like a "twisted person". 

Coming back to the theme of Life & Death (opposites or just different sides of the same coin?), and what is beyond, Hoshina has said if he were to die tomorrow he’d be happy he created this collection of songs, so it’s fitting “Leave Behind” ends with “Alone In A”. In a year we lost the great Japanese musical icon Ryuchi Sakamoto, this tune comes as a soothing balm to your humble narrator. It’s a song I could imagine the great man himself nodding along to. It also generated from a place Hoshina could only get to after abandoning almost all of the Japanese instruments and Watechno elements present in his work over the last 5 years. We resonated with this overall feeling ourselves, having changed what we are as a record label/event/concept over the last 5 years. Not often looking back. But like most things in this mortal coil, we must be prepared to leave behind the things we do and are, moving always towards the new. Sometimes in the most opposite of places.

Hoshina Anniversary - Alone In A

Hoshina Anniversary - Teinen (諦念)

Hoshina Anniversary - Rinne (輪廻)

Hoshina Anniversary - Obsession (Kyouhaku Kannen 強迫観念)

Hoshina Anniversary - Asia

Hoshina Anniversary - What Can We Leave Behind In This World (この世界に何を残せるか)

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Contrary to popular belief, the fashion brand Comme des Garçons is not French. It was founded by Japanese creative Rei Kawakubo in the late '60s in Tokyo. The Japanese designer was inspired by a song called "All the Boys and Girls," by Francoise Hardy. Comme des Garçons itself is French though.. It translates to "like some boys". When you hear the word though you think of the scene in Pulp Fiction. Pumpkin calls out “Garçon! Coffee!” The Waitress sardonically replies “ 'Garçon' means boy.” She’s not wrong. Back in 1981, Rei Kawakubo held her first fashion show in Paris, but by then, she was already a household name in Japan — her fans were called the "Black Crows". Knowing the fashions of Comme des Garçons, it’s not hard to understand why, even though Fashion itself isn’t often easy to appreciate and let’s not even begin on understanding. But most people know what they like.  And we like Levi. 
Levi lives in Japan. 
And from what we understand, Levi understands fashion. 
You listen to Levi’s music. It's kinda catwalk music. Slinky. Low slung. Lo fi. 
Made for all the boys and girls. Or maybe the Black Crows. 'Garçon' means boy. 
Or something in-between.

LEVI - GARÇON

Exclusive promo mix by @hoshina Anniversary for his EP "Tough"

Tracklisting:
1. WAFFLES - Uganda (Waffles)
2. Moodymann - Dem Young Sconies (Planet E Communications)
3. Mike Theis - We Have To Talk (Mille Feuilles)
4. Hoshina Anniversary - Tough (Boysnoize Records)
5. KLANKEN - Twee (Deewee)
6. OBSOLETE MUSIC TECHNOLOGY - Broken Siren (Emphasis Recordings)
7. Brother Brown - Brotha Brotha (Yoshitoshi Recordings)
8. Chiapet - Tick Tock (Yoshitoshi Recordings)
9. SCNTST - RNDM JM (Boysnoize Records)
10. Concret - Hottie feat. Soni Ceron (Mijo Remix) (Toy Tonics)
11. Hazed - World Marches On (Plus 8 Records)
12. XS - Phantasy Tribe (Remix) (Yoshitoshi Recordings)
13. Street Side Boys - I Want To Be With You (AFX Edit) (White)
14. WAFFLES - Uriah (Waffles)
15. Bjarki - I Wanna Go Bang (трип)
16. Hoshina Anniversary - Motion Emotion D.I.C.E. (Boysnoize Records)
17. Djedjotronic Feat. Miss Kittin - Pleasure & Pain (Jensen Interceptor Remix) (Boysnoize Records)
18. Dave Clarke - The Compass (Josh Wink South Philly Acid Pass) (Skint Records)

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