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Listen to "Iliok ft. KoiFin" by Kenji Araki taken from "Hope Chess" out on 10th November via Affine Records

Bandcamp: https://kenjiaraki.bandcamp.com/album/hope-chess

Originating amidst a time of artistic transition and personal maturation, "Hope Chess" stands as the sophomore album by Kenji Araki, a Vienna based digital artist and musician with roots in Japan. Drawing inspiration from a wide range of sonic influences and practices, this album is home to calculated subtleties, bold juxtapositions as well as a unifying tapestry of texture and harmony. Though Kenji Araki’s musical situatedness in a heterogenous web of post club approaches stays evident, "Hope Chess" takes a more left-field turn. It defies potential expectations built up by the debut record "Leidenzwang" (June 2022) and shifts to a more introspective sound, granting the melodies, vocals and textures more time and spatial freedom to unfold. Rhythmic elements are narrowed and placed carefully, yet they inhabit a distinct character and purposefully complement other elements and narratives.
As we traverse through the album, we come across distorted synths, shape shifting guitars, grimy noisescapes, eerie melodies and contemplative vocal parts. Moments of serenity interweave with controlled eruptions, conveying feelings of vulnerability and catharsis. It’s an honest reflection of Kenji’s personal life throughout the last year.
While evolving into an integral part of Vienna’s transgressive underground club and electronic music scene, Kenji constantly stayed open for new influences, friendships and aesthetics, leading to the formation of the novel sensitive indie duo "ENNS" together with friend, DJ, producer and promoter YBsole and continuous output of hyperpop blossoms with Viennese art pop luminary Anthea. This desire for collaboration is also reflected on "Hope Chess". Half of the album has features - including the frequent collaborators YBsole and Anthea, as well as KoiFin, The Roomate and SISKA.
Instead of letting other's actions and missteps determine the outcome of things, namely playing hope chess, Kenji Araki’s Album "Hope Chess" is about sincerity, introspection and collective trust.

Written & produced by Kenji Araki & KoiFin
Mixing: Kenji Araki
Mastering: Dino Spiluttini
Artwork: Georg Hampe & Kenji Araki

Links:
Kenji Araki
https://soundcloud.com/kenjiaraki
https://www.instagram.com/_kenjiaraki_
https://linktr.ee/kenjiaraki
KoiFin
https://soundcloud.com/koiboiissad
https://www.instagram.com/ko1f1n
Affine Records
https://soundcloud.com/affine-records
https://affinerecords.bandcamp.com
https://www.instagram.com/affinerecords

Hope Chess

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[Premiere] Kenji Araki - Iliok ft. KoiFin (Affine Records)

Originally premiered + paired with an interview on Nina: https://www.ninaprotocol.com/articles/figure-skater

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Another dose and a packet. Here's your canister, the promised receptacle. Just a container of sorts for content, an object or material holder. It's yours. Here it is, here's that. What to place within? Perhaps FIGURE SKATER'S 'estro moodswings', originally premiered via Nina. It's in.

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FIGURE SKATER - estro moodswings [MK PREMIERE]

Philly-based digital shoegazers share an eclectic mix of their favorite electronic tracks in this guest hour. 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/guests/episodes/full-body-2-13th-april-2024

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Exzald S - Seashell Optimist

taken from "nigdy nie jest dobrze (wojtek)"
https://bffmusicbffmusic.bandcamp.com/album/nigdy-nie-jest-dobrze-wojtek

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§ Ⅰ【260624_Julek】😭
ok, listen up. maybe you can’t be ur best friend. that’s okay i guess but plz think about it sometimes.
ehhh sry to start the bandcamp note like that but this album made me do it.
“nigdy nie jest dobrze (wojtek)” is made of mental health walk sounds, cognitive behavioral sound design, leave me alone atmospheres and high-passed lust for life.
it’s an in-between moment to try having a party within urself, to test some new ideas about urself, and finally to inhale some professional-amateur-cheese-consuming-basses.
heh
yeah
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main tag : me-core♪


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§ ⅠI【240624_Domi】😰
The idea of deeply personal voyeurism is very tempting for me to explore but I find it rly hard to convey in a non-visual medium - it just always lacks somethin. “nigdy nie jest dobrze (wojtek)” somehow makes it work. Maybe because ehh hahah is an observer like me? Heh
With fire-prone snares, rims and stick sounds, he translates big narratives into small stories - stories that are poetic, stories that are introspective, and stories that are goofy. This album feels like a friend who makes my mundane life a bit more fun and helps to enjoy a day while it lasts.
When first hearing it, I had this image of opening a window during a sunny summer day, looking around, grasping all that is happening in my neighborhood.
I cherish that memory, as I cherish this album.

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§ ⅠII【160624_EhhHahah】🥲
this album is for sure a very personal one to me, in the sense that i was making it while discovering that I’m depressed and trying to deal with it - hence the strong melancholic background of the whole thing.
music is certainly an obvious way of expressing emotions for me, but what may be peculiar is that I made most of the songs very spontaneously and in short sessions, without spending too much time on them - it’s a more expressive approach that allows me to more accurately capture the momentary mood. Therefore, i can risk saying that it’s a form of therapy BUT I’d rather not use this term directly, so as not to depreciate real therapy.
The songs are ultimately selected to present a certain spectrum of different inspirations - ambient (“hen daleko rap”), nu-jazz, hip-hop, field recordings. there are also IDM moments, more danceable ones. it’s also a form of searching for one's place and I think the whole thing is about some loss and searching (which may never come, wojtek)

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〉music by ehh hahah
linktr.ee/ehhhahah

〉artwork by 000d1g1m0n
www.instagram.com/000d1g1m0n/

〉master by Fausto Mercier
linktr.ee/faustomercier

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ehh hahah - wojtek

BETTA RUN & HEAR ME SAY ARE SINGLES FROM THE FORTHCOMING ALBUM OF SMOKIN-N-STEPPIN-ROBO-BLUNTED-BADDIE XXHARDBIT3S TITLED "ALL-TIME MASSIVE (NON-STOP JUNGLIST FM)" - THE SEQUEL TO THEIR DEBUT ALBUM "NON-STOP JUKE FM."

THESE TWO RAGGA JUNGLE CUTS WERE RELEASED IN COLLABORATION WITH @asionytaltd ON DUBPLATE. YOU CAN SUPPORT THE RELEASE ON BANDCAMP HERE:
https://asionyta.bandcamp.com/album/betta-run-hear-me-say
https://asionyta.bandcamp.com/album/betta-run-hear-me-say
https://asionyta.bandcamp.com/album/betta-run-hear-me-say

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ASIONYTA 2024
All trax written & produced by KK Chachra
Mastered by Adam Love at Majordecibel
Cut at Lofi Concept
Distributed by Create

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