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Riot (HM020LP) [AMBIENT, BEATDOWN, EXPERIMENTAL]

by Kiji Suedo

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1.
Refuser 05:12
2.
Drifter 05:02
3.
Fla I 03:41
4.
Fla II 01:46
5.
E De Vo La Fall Cyrus 03:37
6.
Guardian 04:10
7.
Tri 03:30
8.
Searcher 05:01

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FEEDBACK:
‘Thnx...V nice.’ CHARLES WEBSTER
‘I like the tune Searcher’ ANTAL (Rush Hour)
‘It does indeed sound like Theo Parrish doing dub techno’ ROBERT HARRIS (Ban Ban Ton Ton)
‘Sounds really nice. Definitely feeling the beatdown comparisons (plus glitch, obviously)’ NICK CRADDOCK (Gateway To Zen)
‘Thank you for sharing this release with me! Really diggin it’ INTERGALACTIC GARY
'I found very interesting Searcher and Drifter, nice album' LEO MAS
‘Interesting. His work gives the label different scope’ RYOTA OPP (Tokyo)
‘Digging Refuser - looking forward to playing on the rooftop in Camden Market later today’ BEN OSBORNE
‘These are quality but I’m going to need some more time to process them as they’re f*cking nuts’ DRIBBLER (Pikes, Ibiza // Paradise Lost, Red Light Radio, Pure)
"Love the album!" TOBIAS FISCHER (15 Questions Blog, Berlin)

RADIO:
STUART MACONIE played 'Refuser' (Freak Zone, BBC 6Music, 13.11.22)
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001dy1y
GIOVANNI MARCO CIVITENGA (Skyapnea, Rome) played ‘Drifter’ on Skyapnea Show, NTS Radio
‘Great release!’ LORNA CLARKSON (Down Low Disco, 2Ser 107.3M, Sydney)
'I will play this on my EHFM radio show' SNIDE RHYTHMS

PRESS:
“Kiji Suedo makes house and techno indebted to Detroit producers Theo Parrish and Rick Wilhite but adds his own, somewhat skewed experimental edge, resulting in a singular sound... Suedo’s assiduous and subtle deconstructions of dance rhythms are a real delight for the ear.” DJ MAG (Jan '23)

No. 3 in MIXMAG ASIA's Top 10 Albums of 2022
mixmag.asia/feature/best-albums-2022

Beatport Best New Hype Electronica Chart (5.12.22)

'Look into my Head' - Fifteen Questions
15questions.net/interview/fifteen-questions-interview-kiji-suedo/page-1 (Interview by Tobias Fischer, Berlin, Dec '22)

'Kiji Suedo arrives with stunning debut album, 'Riot'. The Osaka-based artist follows up on recent EPs with a gorgeously experimental long-player the album sees Suedo craft an immersive selection of tracks, with eight mesmerising grooves that veer through Detroit beatdown, glitchy electronica, dusty deep house and far beyond... Expansive, introspective and profoundly original, the music bubbles and broods with thick atmospherics. Evolving through dreamy textures into shadowy topography, the steadily morphing grooves have already won over an array of admirers in the discerning end of the electronic music spectrum.... Highlights from the collection include the murky topography and paranoid swells of 'Searcher', the scattered grooves and hypnotic waves of 'Refuser', and the pitch black soundscapes of 'Guardian'. MIXMAG ASIA, 25.11.22: mixmag.asia/read/kiji-suedo-riot-new-releases

"Kiji Suedo’s full-length offering, Riot, out this Friday via Edinburgh’s Hobbes Music, finds the Osaka-based producer locating the sound that he’s been searching for. In his own words, something with “A completely unique texture.” Clearly rooted in a history of rigid 4 / 4s, Kiji’s music here takes those influences and tropes somewhere a little different. Try to imagine Detroit beatdown fed through dub techno’s filters, or if The Indelible MCs / Company Flow had turned their hand to house. Drums thud, funky, loose, and kinda outta sync. Their bumpy, broken groove a bit like a hypnotic Theo Parrish production, though more a muted crashing and colliding. An offbeat, but powerful pulse. Bulbous bass-lines emit a Basic Channel-esque boom, and teasing acid twists. Buried in the mix are fragments, suggestions, of familiar classics, but these details, snippets, are submerged, blurred, smudged into a warm, fuzzy, fog. Manoeuvring the murky depths, vocals are pitched-shifted, sleazy, subliminal. Syncopated swings are serrated. Snares are stuttered. Eq`d almost out of existence, Relief Records` raw Chicago jack is reduced a shuffling ghost by Kiji’s machines. Forget Funkadelic`s Cosmic Slop, this is a “cosmic sludge”, an amorphous, evolving, organic ooze. A dose of deep listening for the discerning, leftfield, dance-floor." BAN BAN TON TON (30.11.22): banbantonton.com/2022/11/30/kiji-suedo-riot-hobbes-music/

INTRO
Following the debut album by Scottish artist Maastricht Research and Edinburgh legend George T’s new single (in October and November respectively), Kiji Suedo is the latest signing to HM and a new artist from Osaka, Japan. This will be his third release and first album, having put out a couple of EPs earlier this year via Canadian label Solar Phenomenon.

His music is reminiscent of Pole plus Theo Parrish and Detroit's Beatdown scene. He plays with rhythm, odd samples and sounds in an unusual way, creating a novel sonic palette and dense, dark moods.

In his own words:
"These songs are the sound I've always wanted to express. It's not for the dance floor, but it's for listening, for excitement, and I think it's a completely unique texture."

PREVIOUSLY
"Kiji Suedo is an exciting new talent from Japan. His sound palette of hisses and clonks is reminiscent of the late ‘90s/early ‘00s “clicks & cuts” movement, but he’s clearly focused on taking it somewhere new. His other EP this month, Yin, is murky, steady-stepping dub, and is well worth a spin. But Hughes II is where things get really interesting, with some spiky, outsider house bounce in the mix. Intriguing and promising."
JOE MUGGS // BANDCAMP BEST ELECTRONIC

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released December 2, 2022

Composition, programming, production and mixing by Kiji Suedo in Osaka, Japan.
Mastering by Chris 'Jacksonville' Lyth at Tron Mastering, Edinburgh.
Artwork by Hobbes.

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