Opposite Mirrors

Since about 2019, Telematic Visions has been making club music and playing live houses all over Tokyo. Starting mostly as straightforward techno, his compositions gradually became more knotty and complex, morphing into longer grooves with labyrinthine structures as he welcomed more possibilities to his process. He cites a wide breadth of influences, from Burial and Skee Mask to the later more experimental fare of Yellow Magic Orchestra’s Ryuichi Sakamoto. 2023’s bluespring was his most refined collection of dancefloor cuts yet, a balancing act between audio research and four-on-the-floor thumpers. Finally content to abandon the pretense of making something you can easily dance to, Telematic Visions fully embraces the absence of clear form or function opposite mirrors. It will give intimations of swinging synth-funk, only to give way to new agey arpeggios or curtains of static. Vocal synth is part of the toolkit, but it’s so stretched and processed that it’s barely recognizable as anything resembling speech. It feels spiritually similar to Aphex Twin’s Syro the way it’s uncompromising and temporal, but still fun and cute.