Distance Vision by BD1982
“Where BD1982 has previously been inspired by grime and club music, here he’s weaving classic gothic, industrial, and shoegaze influences into his sound. The effect is bleak but gorgeous, with an air of deep introspection.” The Best Electronic Music on Bandcamp: February 2021
“BD1982, releases his new, most stylistically complete album to date, reconciling unusual live-recorded instrumentation – including kantele and psaltery – with new age proto-techno chug, wonky ethno-dub, and deconstructed schlub. A glorious album, designed double-take and mystify.” Juno Records - Best New Albums February 2021
“Distance Vision immediately sets itself apart as something remarkable even within the prolific producer’s broad catalogue.” Inverted Audio
“BD1982 kicks off a rickety clockwork melody line that could be the start of a Penguin Café Orchestra workout before sinking it under watery swells of Yen Records synth tics and breathy shoegaze sighs.” The Wire
“Excellent touches on ambient, shoegaze, dub, techno and industrial.” Resident Advisor
We at Diskotopia are extremely proud to officially kick-start our 10th anniversary year with an exciting new LP from label co-founder BD1982. Distance Vision is Brian Durr’s most realized project from conception to completion, a sonorous work that fully encapsulates decades of listening, learning, and experimenting with disparate genres, instrumentation, and production techniques.
Inspired by the varying global cultural beliefs on life, death, and reincarnation visited in Colin Wilson’s 1971 book The Occult: A History, Distance Vision is a spiritually contemplative album that marks quite a sonic departure from the tribalist warehouse soul of Durr’s key releases to date. BD1982’s signature rhythmic sensibilities are still an important feature — thanks in part to maintaining an MPC-centered workflow — but with this release, Durr has incorporated more original vocals and live instrumentation, including zither-family kantele and psaltery.
The result is a carefully crafted sound of greater emotional depth and scope; psychedelic atmospherics of ethereal wave and shoegaze clash with industrial and classic-dub-reggae textures, all spread across a substructure of skewed proto-techno and machine-funk pulses.
This is by far the best and most complete project that BD1982 has yet to release, and with its cerebral and palindromic narrative, it’s an album that exists out of a specific time or place.
The limited-edition CD version includes three exclusive bonus tracks that won’t appear anywhere else in the future. The 51-minute CD comes shrink-wrapped in an attractive matte-finish digipak featuring eye-catching yet minimalist artwork conceptualized and designed by the artist himself.
Limited edition CD-only Bonus Tracks:
11. Digifalls
12. Freeze
13. Hell
Tracklist
| 1. | SILENTWAVES | 2:56 |
| 2. | Artificial Avalanche | 4:39 |
| 3. | Enter | 4:03 |
| 4. | Running | 3:20 |
| 5. | THEW3ST | 2:55 |
| 6. | Order of the Golden Fang | 3:01 |
| 7. | Made of Light | 2:45 |
| 8. | Anima Migration | 3:53 |
| 9. | Glide Level | 4:21 |
| 10. | Cascading Titans | 5:38 |
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BD1982 is a Tokyo-based producer who co-runs the Diskotopia label with A Taut Line. In 2021, Diskotopia’s 10th anniversary year, he released the seminal Distance Vision album – marking a drastic development in musical direction(s) drawing on dub, new-wave, industrial, and outsider pop. Ritual sound studies in warehouse soul.