10 Songs with…
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An Osaka-based artist.
They focus on the forms that remain after the body makes contact and wears down, prior to intention or expression.
Tracing the unintended marks left behind in the rush of everyday life as points of departure.
1. What was the last track you listened to?
Lillie – frozen night
I still can’t bring myself to like winter, and I want to blow away all that cold, numbing feeling.
2. A track that plays when you close your eyes?
Kazumasa Oda – Tashika na Koto
It might have been my very first music experience. I listened to it in the car when my parents took me to the countryside in Gifu to look at the stars.
I don’t remember whether I actually saw the stars, but when I close my eyes, the view from the passenger seat and this song come back to me.
3. A track you listen to while taking a walk?
Jim Nopédie – winter sun through train window
Step out the front door and follow the river, and it connects all the way to Osaka Castle and the Yodo River.
It’s a great location—unlike busy downtown areas, the only thing brushing against my shoulders here is the wind.
4. A track you listen to after leaving the club?
Saho Terao – Northbound
When I need to steady my breathing for a moment.
5. What were you listening to in high school?
Nariaki Obukuro – Summer Reminds Me
One winter morning with no plans at all, I suddenly felt like seeing the ocean, so I biked for about three hours to Nishikinohama Beach.
If I hadn’t started riding that day, I think I’d still be struggling inside a very small map of the world.
During that long ride, I was casually listening to Bunri-ha no Natsu, and even now it reminds me to rewind time and head toward worlds I don’t yet know.
6. A track that describes your personality?
I can’t choose one myself.
But interestingly, everyone who came to mind when I thought about this question was an Aquarius.
7. A track that gives you courage to connect with people?
tofubeats – WHAT YOU GOT
Awkward dancing—the entrance to the club experience.
8. A track that fits your space for making or drawing?
ki ya tori – ocha
Drawing is an act of gradually escaping the conscious world. Starting from the first line you touch, you move carefully yet forcefully, picking up speed as you go.
When I’m adjusting and refining things, I often listen to a mix Hue Ray did for Visla. Near the end, this track comes in, and it lets me accelerate endlessly.
9. A track that represents the city you live in now?
dj woahhaus – Kōtōfū
I live in an urban area, but within my daily range I often see old downtown streets and suburban scenery.
Different buildings and shifts in the land catch my eye. It’s definitely a city, but it never feels like there’s a place that truly belongs to me.
I keep drifting toward the edges of the city, sometimes running under elevated tracks, constantly searching for where I fit amid the dense urban landscape.
It’s Tokyo, but this kind of scenery has only ever surfaced for me through this mix. I hear it’s associated with rooftops too, and that feels right.
10. A track that represents your inner world?
Takuma Matsunaga – Chigau Nanika
An indispensable masterpiece for me.
You couldn’t make an album like this without responding sharply to your own sense of unease while remaining completely clear and transparent.
That’s how I want to be, too.
11. Tell us about the origin of your name.
If I said it has no meaning, that would end the conversation—but names are things that stay with you, so I thought about it a lot.
I liked the idea of it walking on its own as a proper noun. Seeing people struggle a bit to pronounce it makes me feel like naming it was worth it.
Also, it takes up a lot of space on screen, so I like slimming it down into half-width characters until it almost stops looking like text.