RESTOCK ARRIVING END OF JUNE
Amazingly esoteric application as ever from Purge with this latest collection of soundtrack work from cult Japanese composer, Takashi Inagaki. This is familiar ground for the label, who have previously issued two other collections of Inagaki's compositions and this latest set corresponds with his partnership with cult short film director, Toshio Matsumoto, specifically his transgressive work from the 80s. It's a confluence of midnight midi synth pulse and whoosh (Moroder wouldn't go near films like this, though his influence seemingly does) and more abstracted, dissociative undulations, the kind of experimental sound design that suitably reflect the images they soundtrack. Compilation this might be, but it flows remarkably well, and in a strangely contemporary manner, too, in part reminiscent of the mercurial drift of that beguiling Seraphim on Lost Domain and Bruce Gilbert's Radio On remix from 2022. Magical and eerie deep cut hypnosis. Edition of gonna-run-out.
FFO: Brue Gilbert, Patrick Cowley, Seraphim, Anti-Clock
