BD1982 - Distance Vision (2021)

Japan’s Disktopia mark their 10th year of operation with a warm clutch of crystalline ambient pop and expressive synth noise by the label’s key player, BD1982 who supplied their 2nd release back in 2011
The label and artist have grown in sync over the proceeding decade to become integral to one another, and ‘Distance Vision’ scopes out their shared tastes for futuristic city-pop and cyber-noir soundtracks. Arriving three years since BD1982’s ‘Decades Tempest’ album, the Japan-based US producer commits some of their most impressive material here threading their own, breathy vox thru carefully lit and designed scenarios ranging from the spa dream of ’Silentwaves’ to the mission-complete end sequence feel of ‘Cascading Titans’ via gauzy takes on YMO city-pop in ‘Artificial Avalanche’ and the refractive FM dimensions of ‘Enter’, and more furrowed, furtive workouts such as the shadowy post-punk stepper ‘Running’, and the psychedelic drama of ‘Order of the Golden Fang’ at its core.