Despair (JPN) - Biography
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Biography
Despair produce the most extreme form of industrial music in existence in Japan today.
First vomited forth by a stagnant Japanese music scene in 2001, Despair quickly rose to prominence thanks to an uncompromisingly aggressive sound and dynamic stage presence. In 2005, Despair made their European debut with dates in the U.K. and at Wave Gotik Treffen 2005, sharing the stage with such luminaries as Psyclon Nine and Haujobb.
Guitar, bass and drums - the traditional tools of a rock band - have been abandoned in favour of a totally technological approach. All original and found sounds are mangled and re-processed into a brutal industrial sound-collage which recalls the structural approach of classic Skinny Puppy, punctuated by periods of ambient tranquillity reminiscent of a melancholy film score.
This musical style is mirrored in the lyrics, the intentionally-scrambled English forms new rhythmic patterns of meaning akin to the cut-up texts of "William Burroughs". Despair: the greatest hope of Japan's emerging industrial scene and the cyberpunk soundtrack of 21st-century Tokyo's disaffected underground.
(Source: despair-nation.com)
First vomited forth by a stagnant Japanese music scene in 2001, Despair quickly rose to prominence thanks to an uncompromisingly aggressive sound and dynamic stage presence. In 2005, Despair made their European debut with dates in the U.K. and at Wave Gotik Treffen 2005, sharing the stage with such luminaries as Psyclon Nine and Haujobb.
Guitar, bass and drums - the traditional tools of a rock band - have been abandoned in favour of a totally technological approach. All original and found sounds are mangled and re-processed into a brutal industrial sound-collage which recalls the structural approach of classic Skinny Puppy, punctuated by periods of ambient tranquillity reminiscent of a melancholy film score.
This musical style is mirrored in the lyrics, the intentionally-scrambled English forms new rhythmic patterns of meaning akin to the cut-up texts of "William Burroughs". Despair: the greatest hope of Japan's emerging industrial scene and the cyberpunk soundtrack of 21st-century Tokyo's disaffected underground.
(Source: despair-nation.com)