My Brothel The Wind

Description

DJ DIE SOON is the apocalyptic alter ego of Daisuke Imamura, whose masked malevolence performances have been a staple of the Berlin underground for a decade. His latest album, My Brothel The Wind, draws inspiration from Sun Ra at his most grotesque, evoking a distorted phantasmagoria with an eclectic team of compatriots like Rully Shabara, Sara Persico, and his long-time collaborator Kiki Hitomi. The visual contributions from director Hiroo Tanaka in the album cover, poster, and music video complete the album's narrative, telling a story not of malice but of ghostly whimsy in a dying world. My Brothel The Wind showcases DJ DIE SOON as an alchemist of distortion, transmuting the avant-garde club rhythms of his debut album Kappa Slap (2020) and the bubbling horror landscapes of DIEMAJIN, his 2022 collaboration with Tokyo singer MA. Imamura's obsession with noise stems from his upbringing in Tokyo, where he grew up hearing the deafening roar of trains every day. "The buildings were really tall, so sounds reflected so much and it was so loud that you couldn't even have a conversation on the phone. Hearing that noise every minute when I lived in that apartment became normal," he recounts. While most would settle for avoiding the volume, DJ DIE SOON seeks to unpack his visceral potential. The underground productions of DJ DIE SOON form a monstrous gestalt with the eclectic contributions of his network of co-conspirators. "Unfinished" and "Directions" are pulsed chimerae that highlight the animalistic vocalizations of Hitomi and Shabara; the verses from Italian MC Franco Franco weave beneath the noisy onslaught. The tectonic textures of "Dandelion Crackers" are courtesy of the handmade stone synth from multi-instrumentalist Laure Boer. The mutilated utterances of Sara Persico hang like fleshy reminders of human fragility on "SAQ4IME"; in the music video directed by Hiroo Tanaka, the sound strangeness of the track is rendered cinematic, with an ambient terror referencing 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. "Everybody, Shake Your Body, We Chill At Party" sounds like the sonic equivalent of a wax museum burning to the ground, rigid smiles melting into the fire. Rather than a vision of the future, My Brothel The Wind is a cry of despair in the face of a hellish present. DJ DIE SOON confronts the world with a new handmade mask, reborn from the ashes.