Mitosis, by Moskitoo

Mitosis

by Moskitoo

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watershed 不思議な世界をさまよい歩くようだ。
I feel like walking in the strange world.

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1.	Wonder Particle 05:31	buy track
2.	Trajectory 01:45	buy track
3.	Mint Mitosis 04:39	buy track
4.	Micro Porta 03:11	buy track
5.	Fluctuations 04:50	buy track
6.	Velpecula 02:39	buy track
7.	Who Lives In The Skin Burn? 01:48	buy track
8.	Taxonomy 01:42	buy track
9.	Night Hike 04:31	buy track
10.	Fungi 02:34	buy track
11.	Fragments Of Journey 06:19	buy track
12.	Astra 03:31	buy track

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2007 saw the album debut of Moskitoo with 12k’s Drape (12k1041). Since then, Moskitoo (Tokyo’s Sanae Yamasaki) has been busy performing live, recording and releasing new work (including sound/voice for Japanese media/television and iOS apps) and expanding her talents as a visual artist in Japan. After six years of growth as an artist she presents her sophomore album, Mitosis.

Mitosis begins with “Wonder Particle,” a track that very much sums up Moskitoo’s intentions: to embrace the digital with not only a human, but a distinctly feminine touch. Wispy, layered vocals swim around rhythmic fragments and warm insect-like noises. The music is strange and otherwordly, perhaps the soundtrack to an evening stroll on a warm night in a bustling alien city. There are lights, swarms of sound, a myriad of conversations blended by a thousand different stories of passers-by always on the move.

The inspirations behind this second album are not far away from these ideas. Moskitoo herself was thinking of journeys, even ones on the cellular level. Mitosis, or the division of a cell into two identical sets of chromosomes, was a point of departure for Moskitoo as she explored the ideas of division, expansion, the human body, and small particles of matter. One can draw a correlation between these ideas and her music as it nervously wiggles it way through sounds both liquid and electronic.

Mitosis is a dreamy, playful and serious album that shows Moskitoo’s talents as a sound explorer and songwriter. It is at once both catchy and curious, a question that doesn’t always need an answer.

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released January 2, 2015

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12k is a New York based experimental music label run by artist Taylor Deupree that has decisively defined and developed its own concept of minimalism in the realms of experimental and ambient music since 1997.

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