{"id":635801,"date":"2024-09-10T20:16:48","date_gmt":"2024-09-10T17:16:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/hakushi-hasegawa-soundtracks-your-strangest-daydreams\/"},"modified":"2024-09-10T20:16:48","modified_gmt":"2024-09-10T17:16:48","slug":"hakushi-hasegawa-soundtracks-your-strangest-daydreams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/hakushi-hasegawa-soundtracks-your-strangest-daydreams\/","title":{"rendered":"#Hakushi Hasegawa soundtracks your strangest daydreams"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a413c8eb6d84\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: 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class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/hakushi-hasegawa-soundtracks-your-strangest-daydreams\/#The_Japanese_underground_artist_curates_euphoria_on_their_debut_album_Mahogakko\" >The Japanese underground artist curates euphoria on their debut album, Mah\u014dgakk\u014d.<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2 class=\"deck\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_Japanese_underground_artist_curates_euphoria_on_their_debut_album_Mahogakko\"><\/span>The Japanese underground artist curates euphoria on their debut album, <i>Mah\u014dgakk\u014d<\/i>. <span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"content_blocks\">\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-264041\" class=\"content_block breaker triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left image\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1440,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/LEAD_HH_01_Credit_Naoki_Takehisa_wmuams\/hakushi-hasegawa.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_220,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/LEAD_HH_01_Credit_Naoki_Takehisa_wmuams\/hakushi-hasegawa.jpg 220w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_300,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/LEAD_HH_01_Credit_Naoki_Takehisa_wmuams\/hakushi-hasegawa.jpg 300w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/LEAD_HH_01_Credit_Naoki_Takehisa_wmuams\/hakushi-hasegawa.jpg 400w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_600,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/LEAD_HH_01_Credit_Naoki_Takehisa_wmuams\/hakushi-hasegawa.jpg 600w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_750,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/LEAD_HH_01_Credit_Naoki_Takehisa_wmuams\/hakushi-hasegawa.jpg 750w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_840,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/LEAD_HH_01_Credit_Naoki_Takehisa_wmuams\/hakushi-hasegawa.jpg 840w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_960,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/LEAD_HH_01_Credit_Naoki_Takehisa_wmuams\/hakushi-hasegawa.jpg 960w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1260,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/LEAD_HH_01_Credit_Naoki_Takehisa_wmuams\/hakushi-hasegawa.jpg 1260w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1800,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/LEAD_HH_01_Credit_Naoki_Takehisa_wmuams\/hakushi-hasegawa.jpg 1800w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_2400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/LEAD_HH_01_Credit_Naoki_Takehisa_wmuams\/hakushi-hasegawa.jpg 2400w,\" sizes=\"100vw\" alt=\"Hakushi Hasegawa soundtracks your strangest daydreams\"><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"img_caption\"><\/p>\n<p>    <span class=\"caption\"><br \/>\n      Hakushi Hasegawa<br \/>\n    <\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <span class=\"credit\"><br \/>\n      \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>      Naoki Takehisa<\/p>\n<p>  <\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-264035\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>            <i>Discover Blogly is The FADER\u2019s curated roundup of our favorite new music discoveries.<\/i><\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-264036\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>            Listening to Japanese experimental artist Hakushi Hasegawa\u2019s full-length debut <i>Mah\u014dgakk\u014d<\/i> over the past couple of weeks, I kept thinking of the quote SOPHIE gave to a documentary on <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2ifh0tDrwBA\">Arte<\/a> in 2018. \u201cYou have the possibility with electronic music to generate any texture, in theory, and any sound,\u201d she said. \u201cSo why would any musician want to limit themselves?\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-264039\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>            Hasegawa broke into the Japanese underground in 2017 with <i>Air Ni Ni<\/i>, a hyper-jazz record that jumped between tempos and time signatures like a lounge musician hurtling through portals into other dimensions. They\u2019ve developed a more global cult fame since, playing at Porter Robinson\u2019s mid-pandemic Second Sky \u2014 our own Jordan Darville wrote that their set \u201cshowed an internal life thriving in the face of an uncertain and despairing world\u201d \u2014 and getting nods at Paris Fashion Week. Their sound has sharpened as their profile has grown. Tracks like <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=i8adbqn6ZAo&amp;pp=ygUQ4oCcT3RvZ2FzdXJ1LOKAnQ%3D%3D\">\u201cOtogasuru,\u201d<\/a> a collaboration with the J-pop artist yuigot, proved that Hasegawa could play to a mass audience without losing their chaotic instincts, while 2022\u2019s solo <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=G1kM8iAExCE\">\u201cUni\u201d<\/a> proved that those instincts hadn\u2019t dulled at all.<\/p>\n<p>            <i>Mah\u014dgakk\u014d<\/i> is something else entirely though, a relentless clash of breakbeats, blast beats, and glitches glued together, miraculously, by blissful melodies. It\u2019s a deeply complex, richly textured record, and even Hasegawa\u2019s attempts to downplay the precision involved are baffling \u2014 they say they use an \u201cExplanatory Ratio\u201d to \u201cguide\u201d their work. \u201cThis is not a sophisticated musical theory at all,\u201d they say, \u201cbut simply a subjective scale that looks at the balance of sounds that are explainable to me and sounds that are not explainable to me, and whether or not they are distributed in the ratio that I set for each piece. This is the only thing I am intentional about in my work.\u201d Trying to decipher that while listening back to <i>Mah\u014dgakk\u014d<\/i> gave me a headache.<\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-264037\" class=\"content_block paragraph embed triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\">\n    <iframe style=\"border-radius:12px\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/album\/4pNJ4qCheT1fQASProMDrj?utm_source=generator\" width=\"100%\" height=\"352\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-264038\" class=\"content_block paragraph embed triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\">\n    <iframe allow=\"autoplay *; encrypted-media *; fullscreen *; clipboard-write\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"450\" style=\"width:100%;max-width:660px;overflow:hidden;border-radius:10px;\" sandbox=\"allow-forms allow-popups allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-storage-access-by-user-activation allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.music.apple.com\/us\/album\/mah%C5%8Dgakk%C5%8D\/1742101178\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content_block paragraph triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-264040\" class=\"content_block paragraph image triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1440,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/HakushiHasegawa_ArtistPhoto_h6itdi\/hakushi-hasegawa-discover-blogly.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_220,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/HakushiHasegawa_ArtistPhoto_h6itdi\/hakushi-hasegawa-discover-blogly.jpg 220w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_300,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/HakushiHasegawa_ArtistPhoto_h6itdi\/hakushi-hasegawa-discover-blogly.jpg 300w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/HakushiHasegawa_ArtistPhoto_h6itdi\/hakushi-hasegawa-discover-blogly.jpg 400w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_600,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/HakushiHasegawa_ArtistPhoto_h6itdi\/hakushi-hasegawa-discover-blogly.jpg 600w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_750,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/HakushiHasegawa_ArtistPhoto_h6itdi\/hakushi-hasegawa-discover-blogly.jpg 750w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_840,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/HakushiHasegawa_ArtistPhoto_h6itdi\/hakushi-hasegawa-discover-blogly.jpg 840w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_960,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/HakushiHasegawa_ArtistPhoto_h6itdi\/hakushi-hasegawa-discover-blogly.jpg 960w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1260,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/HakushiHasegawa_ArtistPhoto_h6itdi\/hakushi-hasegawa-discover-blogly.jpg 1260w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1800,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/HakushiHasegawa_ArtistPhoto_h6itdi\/hakushi-hasegawa-discover-blogly.jpg 1800w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_2400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/HakushiHasegawa_ArtistPhoto_h6itdi\/hakushi-hasegawa-discover-blogly.jpg 2400w,\" sizes=\"100vw\" alt=\"Hakushi Hasegawa soundtracks your strangest daydreams\"><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-264042\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>            What\u2019s magic about Hasegawa\u2019s work, though, is that these tracks aren\u2019t math problems to be solved, riddles crafted by the artist to confuse or confound the listener. The hyperactive energies that animate the record read instead as democratic; to paraphrase SOPHIE, this is music that resists elitism and academia. The opening song, \u201cDeparted,\u201d speeds along above a pummeling beat, the sound of a dozen indecipherable instruments clashing together in perfect staccato, but Hasegawa\u2019s voice careens into hummable hooks. \u201cKY\u014cFUNOHOSHI\u201d has that same frantic feel, but its high-up horns could have been ripped from a gospel-rap record a decade ago. Even the wildest, fastest, least predictable tracks on <i>Mah\u014dgakk\u014d<\/i> seem designed to induce euphoria, not anxiety.<\/p>\n<p>            That sense of bliss is magnified on the often startlingly pretty softer tracks, when the beats fizzle out and Hasegawa\u2019s voice floats into looping pseudo-strings. \u201cRepeal (Tekkai)\u201d is an audible daydream, \u201cForbidden Thing (Kimmotsu)\u201d is a stunning ballad, all the more heartstopping for its sparseness sandwiched between two truly odd little skits. The record ends with Hasegawa\u2019s bizarre interpretation of a bombastic power ballad, helmed by a piano but punctuated by shouts and enormous bells in place of a snare, compression and Auto-Tune rendering everything ghostly and thrilling. Best of all is \u201cBoy\u2019s Texture,\u201d a mix of acoustic guitar loops, Hasegawa\u2019s oddball ad-libs twisted beyond recognition (\u201cTaste me! Taste me! Taste me!\u201d), and falsetto vocals that make no more sense in translation than they do in Japanese. <\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>            Maybe there are reference points for all of this \u2014 some of the ambient moments reminded me of Sam Ray\u2019s work as Ricky Eat Acid and heroin party, while the fringe ideas might not sound completely out of place in a scene that produced Bis Kaidan \u2014 but that\u2019s not the point. Beneath the chaos and carnage, Hakushi Hasegawa sounds limitless.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"author\">\n    <span><br \/>\n      By <span class=\"credit_name\">Alex Robert Ross<\/span><br \/>\n  <\/span><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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Hakushi Hasegawa \u00a0 Naoki Takehisa Discover Blogly is The FADER\u2019s curated roundup of our favorite new music discoveries. Listening to Japanese experimental artist Hakushi Hasegawa\u2019s full-length debut Mah\u014dgakk\u014d over the past couple of weeks, I kept thinking of the quote SOPHIE gave to a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":635802,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/c_limit,w_1024\/c_crop,h_532,w_1023,x_1,y_326,f_auto,q_auto:eco\/LEAD_HH_01_Credit_Naoki_Takehisa_wmt20s\/LEAD_HH_01_Credit_Naoki_Takehisa_wmt20s.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[147820,87515,151037],"class_list":["post-635801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-social-mediaa","tag-discover-blogly","tag-experimental","tag-hakushi-hasegawa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=635801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635801\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/635802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=635801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=635801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=635801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}