My Brothel The Wind [LP]

Dj Die Soon - My Brothel The Wind [LP]

DJ Die Soon is the apocalyptic alter-ego Daisuke Imamura, whose performances of masked malice have been a fixture in the Berlin underground for the past decade. His latest record My Brothel The Wind takes inspiration from Sun Ra at his most grotesque, conjuring a distorted phantasmagoria with an eclectic crew of compatriots like Rully Shabara, Sara Persico, and longtime collaborator Kiki Hitomi. Film director Hiroo Tanaka's visual contributions in the album art, poster, and music video complete the album's narrative, telling a story not of villainy but of phantom caprice in a dying world. My Brothel The Wind shows DJ Die Soon as an alchemist of distortion, transmuting the club-forward beats of his 2020 debut Kappa Slap and the seething horrorscapes of DIEMAJIN, his 2022 collaboration with Tokyo vocalist MA. Imamura's obsession with noise stems from his upbringing in Tokyo, where he grew up hearing the deafening roar of trains every day. While most would content themselves with avoiding loudness, DJ Die Soon seeks to unpack its visceral potential. His subterranean productions form a monstrous gestalt with the eclectic contributions of his network of co-conspirators. "Unfinished" and "Directions" are pulsating chimeras that highlight animalistic vocalizations from Hitomi and Shabara; Italian MC Franco Franco's verses snake underneath the noisy onslaught. The tectonic textures of "Dandelion Crackers" are courtesy of multi-instrumentalist Laure Boer's handmade stone synth. Sara Persico's mangled vocables hang as fleshy reminders of human fragility on "SAQ4IME;" in the Hiroo Tanaka-directed music video, the track's sonic uncanniness is made cinematic, with an ambient dread that references Hiroshi Teshigahara's 1964 psychological thriller Woman in the Dunes. While Sun Ra's intergalactic Moog reached for the stars, DJ Die Soon plunges into the depths of hell. 01. Intro (Featuring Kiki Hitomi)_x000D_ 02. Unfinished (Featuring Kiki Hitomi, Franco Franco)_x000D_ 03. Dandelion Crackers (Featuring Laure Boer, MC Schlumbo)_x000D_ 04. My Brothel The Wind (Featuring Rully Shabara)_x000D_ 05. Botu_x000D_ 06. Directions (Featuring Rully Shabara)_x000D_ 07. Everybody, Shake Your Body, We Chill At Party (Featuring MC Schlumbo)_x000D_ 08. The Beginning Of The End (Featuring MC Schlumbo)_x000D_ 09. SAQ4IME (Featuring Sara Persico)_x000D_ 10. KiBotu (Featuring MC Schlumbo)