The album starts off with fluctuating IDM and beat-infused choruses to jazz-blasted and grooving hip-hop sound sculptures, and eventually transforms into dreamlike fragments that appear to have no end and no beginning.
Cosy atmospheres, fluid rhythms, and tantalizingly obscure field recordings that crunch, snap, and sizzle across the landscape
Gotoh (a Japanese electronic music producer—aka QuBic88, aka The Fire Video) launched 海空時間電子宇宙 (which means: sea, air, time, electron and space) in November 2018. Only recently have we had a chance to consume these arcane, multifaceted electronic structures as the artist reached out to us recently.
Having contributed to People Can Listen’s Tenth Listen compilation under his QuBic88 alias, on these ten extruded downtempo and instrumental pieces, Gotoh finds cosy atmospheres, fluid rhythms, and tantalizingly obscure field recordings that crunch, snap, and sizzle across the landscape. Like lost clip-hop recordings, fuzzy outtakes and nostalgic video game spurts slide across ambient terrain and detuned melodic segues.
The album starts off with fluctuating IDM and beat-infused choruses to jazz-blasted and grooving hip-hop sound sculptures, and eventually transforms into dreamlike fragments that appear to have no end and no beginning—a sort of cyclic post-ambient infusion that straddles the lines between improvisation and organized audio trails. While an old-school layer of robust sonic artifacts, low-end pulses, and strangely alluring blips’n bleeps are fully encrusted on this album, we’ll be on the lookout for further The Fire Video offerings.
Highlights include “80,” “GraBeat4004,” “HeartHeat,” “Hendasu,” and “Paint Color More, however, the counterbalancing chapters hold their own too.
海空時間電子宇宙 is available on Bandcamp.
