Unfinished (feat. Kiki Hitomi & Franco Franco)

DJ DIE SOON – My Brothel The Wind

12" Vinyl + A1 Poster | PR by James Gui - 9PR | Includes Video for Lead Single

DJ DIE SOON is the apocalyptic alter-ego Daisuke Imamura, whose performances ofmasked malice have been a fixture in the Berlin underground for the past decade. His latestrecord My Brothel The Wind takes inspiration from Sun Ra at his most grotesque, conjuringa distorted phantasmagoria with an eclectic crew of compatriots like Rully Shabara, SaraPersico, and longtime collaborator Kiki Hitomi. Film director Hiroo Tanaka's visualcontributions in the album art, poster, and music video complete the album'snarrative, tellinga 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 theclub-forward beats of his 2020 debut Kappa Slap and the seething horrorscapes ofDIEMAJIN, his 2022 collaboration with Tokyo vocalist MA. Imamura's obsession with noisestems from his upbringing in Tokyo, where he grew up hearing the deafening roar of trainsevery day. "The buildings were really tall, so the sounds reflected so much and itwas soloud that you couldn't even have a conversation on the phone. Hearing this noise everyminute when living in this flat, it became a normal thing," he says. While most would contentthemselves with avoiding loudness, DJ DIE SOON seeks to unpack its visceral potential.

DJ DIE SOON's subterranean productions form a monstrous gestalt with the eclecticcontributions of his network of co-conspirators. "Unfinished" and "Directions" are pulsatingchimeras that highlight animalistic vocalizations from Hitomiand Shabara; Italian MC FrancoFranco's verses snake underneath the noisy onslaught. The tectonic textures of "DandelionCrackers" are courtesy of multi-instrumentalist Laure Boer's handmade stone synth. SaraPersico's mangled vocables hang as fleshy reminders of human fragility on "SAQ4IME"; inthe Hiroo Tanaka-directed music video, the track's sonic uncanniness is made cinematic,with an ambient dread that references Hiroshi Teshigahara's 1964 psychological thrillerWoman in the Dunes.

While Sun Ra's intergalactic Moog reached for the stars, DJ DIE SOON plunges into thedepths of hell. "Everybody, Shake Your Body, We Chill At Party" feels like the sonicequivalent of a wax museum burning to the ground, rigid smiles melting into the fire. Ratherthan a vision of the future, My Brothel The Wind is a laugh-cry of despair in the face of aHadean present. DJ DIE SOON confronts the world with a new hand-made mask, reborn inthe ashes.