Zigoku /

Acclaimed Japanese musician 99Letters joins Phantom Limb for new album Zigoku / 地獄, seamlessly processing traditional Japanese instrumentation into pitch-black techno and quasi-industrial sound design. Though the music of Zigoku / 地獄 is ostensibly programmed with dark, disorientating, disturbing sound design, 99Letters continues his now-characteristic practice of sampling, processing and disguising traditional Japanese instrumentation to develop a sound world both organic and unsettling. The very real presence of beauty, culture, and folklore remains throughout the record, in attendance as a kind of heaven to offset the willful hell of Kinoshita’s craft.