On Colour Field, shimura bends shimmering glitch, ambient electronics, and 2-step-tinged rhythms into a ten-track journey where melodic fragments flicker through industrial tension and drifting light.
Melody bent through glitch fields
Shimmering electric flutter frames shimura excavating glitch and grit within Colour Field, a ten-piece suite of skittering melodic layers bent through ambient electronic and 2-step garage-adjacent spheres. Opener “Halo” drifts weightlessly, its pummeling beat patches slowly mutating, before “Angel of { }” emerges in ethereal breakbeat shadow, guided by an abstract rhythmic spine.
“Moonlite” reshapes dystopian echoes and disembodied voices inside a dense haze of shuffled design, as though assembled from fractured frequency bursts, while the title track moves with technoid precision, releasing lighter melodic sparks that seem to glide through open air. Inspiration traces back to Mark Rothko, whose immersive colour-field paintings occupy a tense threshold between tragedy, ecstasy, and doom.
Created with Ableton/Max while stepping away from Eurorack, this shift sharpens sputtering noise and industrial IDM energy: “Vhikk X” surges with experimental propulsion, “Oculus” pushes blips and bleeps into overdrive, and closing piece “Scanner” maps mechanical terrains, scraping across distortion fields. Time dissolves, glitch-driven exploration endures, and Colour Field blooms deep within the dark.
Colour Field is available on Petite Victory Collective. [Bandcamp]
