Ichion - One
Each of the tracks is composed from one sound only, each sample being manipulated into a full-length track.
The purpose of the album was to produce something strangely beautiful from fractured rhythms and extreme frequencies.
Tracklisting:
- Vagesa
- Pepe
- Sinebass
- Rack
- Barber
- Daj
- Banabana
- Binapa
- Piano 42p2p2
Ichion
Ichion is a project by Jason Hobman, a digital sound artist based in Tokyo. His work is ultra-minimal, and the tracks are based around short, often inaudible, samples, looped and manipulated by effects. His intent is to showcase the sound of the digital glitches rather than the samples themselves.
Reviews
Musique Machine
Ichion is the brainchild of Jason Hobman, a sound artist based in Tokyo, Japan. The project takes a sophisticated approach to the most minimal side of techno, refined and arranged as perfectly as a spider web.
Throughout this nine-track digital release, there is deep flirting going on here between techno and IDM (intelligent dance music), a cerebral, introspective, and electronically uplifting manifestation, a multi-dimensional experience.
Think a somewhat desaturated, low (or lower) profile version of, let’s say, Autechre, that keeps a post-Kraftwerk or post-Coil (“The Snow” era) aesthetic minus the vocals. Each of the nine tracks utilises a single sound, thus, each sample is being lengthily manipulated into a solid piece.
Tiny beats, tiny crossovers between rhythms, strong basslines and ambient-ish backgrounds, all of them nodded back to the 90’s school of sound- the era of transgression in the electronic spectrum. I cannot stress enough the minimalistic usage of the raw materials that led to Ichion - One, so fragile and yet so vibrant and crystal clear.
What I love the most about this album is its futuristic and yet retro style in the sound and conception. A flashback to a non-specified time where the knowledge of its topography doesn’t really matter, making Ichion - One a universal release. I really hope that will find its way soon for a proper physical release. Until then grab a digital copy from here and get submerged in its beauty.