Jun 25
Space! Chiptune! Noise! Pop! It’s Transistor Kirac!
A few months ago, my friend posted a video from this band on his facebook and I was mesmerized by the unique sound of Transistor Kirac ever since.
Transistor Kirac is a Japanese duo making self-branded techno music.
But it’s not techno music, it’s much more than that. As the title says, it’s spacey, chiptune, and noise pop. Add a little bit of operatic singing in the mix and you have Transistor Kirac.
I had a very hard time finding a place to purchase their music, so I asked the band themselves where I could purchase some. They ended up sending me a copy of Kukeihae KISS which was the album they sent to all press.
I was familiar with a few of their live songs from youtube such as Rainy Comet and a few of their Yapoos covers. Nothing prepared me for what was on that CD.
From discordance to perfectly balanced sounds, this album is just kinda weird. I generally adore weird music, but there was something about the way the synthesizers sounded along the vocals that lit up my brain. To be frank, it sounded somewhat amateur at first.
Each song is based around a certain melody, and there’s discordant riffs coming from a synthesizer. The singing doesn’t exactly match the way the song goes, but it somehow works.
Nothing matches! But then you listen more, and then it all matches!
It almost has that improvisational feel that jazz does, but adapted to a metallic chiptune noisepop setting.
You can buy this album from amazon.co.jp
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