"This group of songs are from my 'everyday music' kind of playlist. A playlist that I listen to whenever I'm cooking, cleaning, building a synth or reading a book. Any time, any day, any task kind of music." - TAKA
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"This group of songs are from my 'everyday music' kind of playlist. A playlist that I listen to whenever I'm cooking, cleaning, building a synth or reading a book. Any time, any day, any task kind of music." - TAKA
Nueen - The Now Liminal
Bo Khat Eternal Troof Band - The Noonan’s
Takashi Yama - just enough to slip through my fingers
David Behrman - Interspecies Smalltalk Part 2
Alessandro Alessandroni - Aliante Giallo Pt. 2
Anne Laplantine - On The Street
Kazumasa Hashimoto - Nami
Klein - Listen and See as They Take
Jaques Morelenbaum, Paula Morelenbaum, Ryuichi Sakamoto - Derradeira Primavera
Taka - deaf
Takashi Yama - NAVI
Ben Bondy - Wish
Fennesz - Shisheido
Bo Khat Eternal Troof Band - CIS1
10023CD
320 kbps, LAME-encoded
If TAKA’s previous album, Theory, was a series of études inspired by the likes of NOTON and Mille Plateaux, then his latest for 10k is the theory in practice. The NYC artist and producer previously cut his teeth on experimental hip hop beats, vapour-infused sampledelia, and scintillating tours through electronic styles. Part 1: Fear Of Living is his most fully realised project to date, fitting all of the puzzle pieces together to create stunning electroacoustic tapestry full of magic.
Grand yet warped orchestral movements introduce us to the album’s ethereal, epic world, with glass shattering through the opening track’s illusive sheen. It’s a far cry from his early productions in 2015 where breakbeats and glitches lurk through hazy, stuttering Björk and FKA twigs samples. Yet TAKA’s “learn by making” approach to his electronic music education lives on in Fear Of Living’s expanded palette of crisp yet submerged drum machines, crystalline plucks, and bitcrushed glimmers. ‘Light In Darkness’ twists and vibrates with corkscrewing strings, frissons of buzzes and beeps, and deconstructed beats agitating the pristine landscape, a playful and masterful synthesis of all his lessons so far.
Embaci’s wispy vocals billow into converging lines of plucks and fizzling synths, surrounded by sighing strings and brassy melodies. ‘Until You’re In My Arms Again’ swells in catharsis, with rebounding guitars and erratic string buzzes bittersweet yet tinged with hope. ‘There’s A Price To Pay’ meanwhile contorts electro-adjacent rhythms writ in alien pen, and ‘Memories’ skirts the lanes of electronica and leftfield techno with bitcrushed glimmers and the decay of fireworks bangs and bursts clipped into bristly-textured split second beats. ‘Interlude’, fittingly, bridges these worlds: the tender, rhythmic, and abstract. Bubbling icy floes whistle and shoot upwards, anchored by dense bass, and punctuated by silvery metallic cicada chirps.
TAKA is poised as a premier experimenter in many electronic worlds with his latest album Part 1: Fear Of Living.