Japanese manufacturer Gorgonn and Berlin-based visual artist Utku Önal contort horrible images and spooky noise into a modern ghost story.
Back at the start of the year Japanese manufacturer Gorgonn launched Six Paths, a thick, squashing collection of bass experiments and soundsystem weapons that serves as both a writing on Japanese Buddhism and as the conclusion of years of “sci-fi steppas” and cooperations with some of the most relentless professionals of heavyweight bass experimentation, consistingof The Bug, JK Flesh and DJ Scotch Egg.
The 6 courses of the album’s title refers to the numerous branches that, according to the Japanese Buddhist faith, the soul is drawn down after death, depending on the karma accumulated throughout one’s lifetime. Between an afterlife invested in the world of the celestials, or amongst the demigods, an eternity invested in suffering throughout a karmic cleaning in jigoku, a hellish purgatory administered over by the Japanese lord of death, Emma-ō, or a liminal presence roaming the earth as a starving ghost, it’s reincarnation as another human, or animal, that Gorgonn takes goal at on the foreboding rise of a ‘Life As A Beast.’
Driven by queasy low-end, throbbing feedback and spooky environment, Berlin-based visual artist Utku Önal spins a sneaking ghost story of mundanity out of haunted GAN animation and cursed images, twisting his own vision of a living hell. Here, crumpled metal melts into pale flesh, crash test dummies blurred into real carsandtruck crashes. Sheets of plastic billow into concrete and steel and back onceagain, while authorities tape pieces through jerking body bags.
Hyenas shining with cold light stretch out fur-covered arms with human fingers, snakes w