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Insomnia is the second act in the string of four records that Japanese producer Kosei Fukuda has scheduled for release this year. Although they are meant to jointly create a narrative arch of deep brooding techno, each one stands on its own as an accomplished mood-setter. As the title suggests, here the atmosphere of nocturnal menace dominates. The eponymous track that kicks off the record is a mid-tempo yet highly propulsive soundtrack to a scene of fright and eeriness. Or a prelude to a dark celebration. Intricate kick drum, ultra crisp high hats, and expansive soundscapes all around – that’s the hypnotic formula employed here to lock you into the groove. Side B is split between Eternal Redemption and Chrono, the former building up a tension that the latter resolves only partially, leaving it to the third EP to pick up the dreamless story where the second drops it. However, Chrono is a hell of a musical conclusion in its own right. Like the mystery of time to which it explicitly refers, it is at once concrete and abstract. Behind its relentless beat, a simple but massive, two-chord wall of sound gradually emerges to engulf the listener with its remorseless darkness. While this is a DJ tool able to fill spaces of big techno rooms with a properly somber climate, it can also serve as a musical metaphor. Deep techno of this kind keeps us sleepless and amazed, not unlike the inevitable passage of time, and it is also a kind of anonymous mask to hide behind, not unlike the one on the cover fittingly designed by Muriel Gallardo and Valentina Berthelon.
Dominik Bartmanski
Berlin, May 2018
credits
released May 7, 2018
Music produced by Kosei Fukuda
Mixed by Hannes Bieger
Mastered at Dubplates & Mastering
Sculptures by Muriel Gallardo
Design by Valentina Berthelon
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