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Dim Grow

  • Cat No: 2PPLP001
  • updated:2026-05-18

電子マレットが放つ神秘の響き。リビングからフロアまで寄り添うリズメロディックなサウンドデザイン。旋律と拍子の対話のような共鳴に引き込まれます!FACTA&K-LONE主宰〈WISDOM TEETH〉諸作でも知られる名古屋のプロデューサーabentisが自身のレーベル〈2++〉設立!記念すべき第一弾としてのアルバム作品が到着しています!

最近では名古屋とその周辺で活動する音楽コミュニティによる「Nagoyaka na Kaze / 和やかな風 (Quiet Wind)」のキュレーションでも注目を集めたabentisがレーベルをローンチ!鍵盤打楽器や撥弦楽器にも似た、柔らかい倍音の電子マレットを使用。これまでのダンス作品でも展開してきた複合拍子、ポリリズミカルなリズム構造も駆使したオーガニックサウンドスケープ。過去作と比べてもリスニング志向性が高い作品ながら、身体に心地よくヒットする低音や身体的リズムなど、サウンドシステムで味わっても極上の予感がする一枚です。 (Akie)

From Wisdom Teeth’s recent compilation nagoyaka na kaze / 和やかな風 (quiet wind)—which cast a spotlight on the Japanese city of Nagoya—emerges “2++”, a new label launched by abentis, who curated the compilation alongside Facta and K-LONE as a central figure in the scene. Conceived as a series introducing facets of Nagoya’s underground electronic music to the world on vinyl, its inaugural release is abentis’ debut album, Dim Grow.

Across the album, intricately designed electronic mallet sounds—created using Ableton Live’s physical-modeling synthesizer—take center stage. Fresh and percussive like marimba or kalimba, yet simultaneously carrying an otherworldly, unreal quality, these tones form the core of the record’s sonic identity. In moments of near-silence, a crystalline resonance poised between glass and metal shimmers with subtle shifts in temperature, giving the album its distinctive texture.

While resonating with the sonic sensibilities of fellow Wisdom Teeth affiliates such as K-LONE, Tristan Arp, and Salamanda, abentis’ uniquely strange palette can be traced back to one of his strongest influences: Haruomi Hosono. In particular, Hosono’s mid-’70s tropical-infused solo albums — Tropical Dandy (1975), Bon Voyage Co. (1976), and Paraiso (1978) — serve as a key reference point. Symbolically reflected in Hosono’s marimba and vocal performance at a 1976 live show in Yokohama Chinatown, the marimba functioned as a central instrument for constructing imagined exotic landscapes inspired by Martin Denny and Hawaiian music.

For abentis—who worked at a local jazz bar before becoming active as a hip-hop beatmaker—the language of “tension chords,” a harmonic vocabulary rooted in jazz and R&B that hovers ambiguously between brightness and darkness, forms a consistent grammar throughout Dim Grow.

Behind the album’s core theme of “mallets + tension chords” lies a broad musical lineage: the harmonic sensibility of Claude Debussy, who anticipated the tensions of jazz; the proto-minimalist spirit of Erik Satie; the marimba-centered structures of Steve Reich; their continuation in Japan through Mkwaju Ensemble (with Midori Takada and production by Joe Hisaishi); and the subsequent branches into post-rock, electronica, and ambient music.

Growing up in Nagoya—an industrial city where creative independence is deeply valued—and being rooted in punk and hip-hop counterculture scenes naturally fostered abentis’ affinity with these predecessors. His practice between genres, combined with an encounter with the highly cross-pollinated musical perspective cultivated around Wisdom Teeth, provided the framework through which his own musical language crystallized. Dim Grow stands as the natural culmination of that journey.

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