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K2 - Pandemix Coronalis [999 Cuts - 2022]

K2 aka Kusafuka Kimihide is a true aural landmark within the Japanese (and worldwide) noise scene. Since the project's 1983 debut Student Apathy- it’s unleashed one hundred and fifty-three albums and twenty-four, forming an impressive body of noise assaults. 

The covid-19 pandemic gave us many hours of isolation. While in the vortex of the first and most severe quarantine in 2020, Kimihide recorded new material, giving it the title of Pandemix Coronalis, and has recently unleashed it via 999 Cuts, the label of Michael Zolotov (Kadaver). 

Modular and semi-modular synths are being brutally abused and furtherly manipulated with delays and other effects. Within this bipolar assimilation, concrete walls of harsh noise absurdity are generated, viciously hammering all the deranged melodies that reside in parallel. An endless punching, where these bursts of sound are rapidly altered and suffocated by the destructive process onto them, annihilating an already distorted foundation! Melodies are being massacred, looped and delivered in an essential Dadaist mess. 

Pandemix Coronalis is an output with a solid structured form. One cannot overlook the sense of composition within this obliteration; effort and love are graciously invested in the making. The different layers are quite distinctive and within them, all possible frequencies are splashing and colliding in a vulgar and unforgiving manner!. There are no mishaps in production,  which are sometimes evident in noise releases, and there’s an eerie harmony within the mangled flow of K2 harsh noise. Everything sounds equalized and thick overall. Heavily saturated by the plethora of elements being employed, the many details and the many qualities. 

There is zero sense of minimalism or any form of low-profile approach here, as everything on Pandemix Coronalis is exaggerated to the max!. A psychedelic imprint no less, a merciless clash of synths,  but really I  was not expecting anything less than this from K2.  Be sure to grab a copy from here.

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Karl Grümpe
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