TR020 - Ken Ikeda 'namaewamad@nai' [sample] by cafeOTO published on 2020-06-04T13:53:04Z Ken Ikeda pushes his multi-faceted electronic dream music skyward in this dizzying new release. Compiled at home using a selection of dub based fx components and improvised techniques, Ken splashes collapsing waves of digital synthesis against one another, creating moments of crescendo before pulling the plug and letting the sounds drain out completely. In between each small cyclical movement Ken enters wandering phrases that blip and bob, as if his electronic space station is caught in free fall, teetering on the edge of lost transmission. There's a timeless feeling to this 27 minutes - the sort of thing you can imagine aliens discovering somewhere alongside Morton Subotnick's 'Silver Apples of Moon' and thinking, "hey, do you think they know about us?"