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¥ØU$UK€ ¥UK1MAT$U DJs Techno & Gabber in Tokyo, Japan
Keep Hush Live
A Keep Hush Live session from Tokyo headlined by ¥ØU$UK€ ¥UK1MAT$U. We are, as a community, obligated to pretend we can pronounce that, while secretly grateful the tracklist is in English. This is not a set; it’s an audio assault course, a chaotic sprint through hard techno, gabber, and electronica that makes a mockery of genre boundaries and our ability to keep up.
The vibe is claustrophobic, experimental, and brilliantly unhinged, the sound of a rig being tested to destruction. With a wild BPM range from 94 to 176 and an average sitting at a deceptive 139.5, the energy is almost entirely low-end dominated—a thick, distorted soup of sub-bass and broken rhythms. The selection is fearless: dropping SOPHIE’s hyper-pop glitch masterpiece ‘Msmsmsm’ alongside the visceral noise of Slikback’s ‘WA1023’ is a statement of intent.
Albert Keyn’s ‘Silent Angels’ remix offers a fleeting moment of melodic respite, while El Gordo’s ‘Kuliki’ and a trancey edit of ‘Learning to Fly’ showcase a bizarre, captivating eclecticism. It begins in a blur of unknown chaos, peaks with the relentless drive of Armin van Buuren’s ‘Lost in Space’ rework, and collapses, beautifully, into the rainbow-colored catharsis of Rustie’s ‘Morning Starr’.