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. Announced today alongside its first single, upcoming 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.
Out today, first single ‘Unfinished’ is a pulsating chimera featuring animalistic vocals from Kiki Hitomi of Ninja Tune bass explorers King Midas Sound, with Italian MC Franco Franco’s verses snaking underneath the noisy onslaught. He had this to say on it:
“I instantly knew that the song would be the first on the album. Raw, heavy and noisy – these elements are crucial for my art and Kiki and Franco boosted them even more with their voices.” DJ DIE SOON
‘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. “The buildings were really tall, so the sounds reflected so much and it was so loud that you couldn’t even have a conversation on the phone. Hearing this noise every
minute when living in this flat, it became a normal thing,” he says. While most would content themselves with avoiding loudness, DJ DIE SOON seeks to unpack its visceral potential.
While Sun Ra’s intergalactic Moog reached for the stars, DJ DIE SOON plunges into the depths of hell. Rather than a vision of the future, ‘My Brothel The Wind’ is a laugh-cry of despair in the face of a Hadean present. DJ DIE SOON confronts the world with a new
hand-made mask, reborn in the ashes. 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.
DJ DIE SOON ‘My Brothel The Wind’
Out 25TH JULY
Track list:
Intro ft. Kiki Hitomi
Unfinished ft. Kiki Hitomi, Franco Franco
Dandelion Crackers ft. Laure Boer, MC Schlumbo
My Brothel The Wind ft. Rully Shabara
Botu
Directions ft. Rully Shabara
Everybody, Shake Your Body, We Chill At Party ft. MC Schlumbo
The Beginning Of The End ft. MC Schlumbo
SAQ4IME ft. Sara Persico
KiBotu ft. MC Schlumbo
Kappa Slap 2 ft. Rully Shabara
Kappa Slap 2 ft. Rully Shabara(Yokai Opera Remix ft. Kiki Hitomi) – Bonus Track
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