Repeating Town.
Nonturn
The city’s fragments repeat, overlap and resonate — a quietly grooving electronic landscape built only from field-recorded samples.
Every sound on Repeating Town was recorded in and around Koenji, Tokyo — traffic signals, footsteps, air conditioning units, construction, passing cars, fragments of speech. None of it is remarkable. These are the sounds a city keeps in the background, the ones you stop hearing. But this is not a documentary about Koenji.
All seven tracks unfold within a shared time of 96 BPM. That time carries over from the previous album, Territory. The tempo follows the rhythm of lived time: walking, stopping, waiting at a signal, walking on.
Repeating Town remixes the reality of the city in a post-club grammar. It is also a practice of not entrusting the starting point of music to off-the-shelf instruments and existing formats alone.
