Diskotopia kick off 2018 with the debut single from Tokyo based electronic artist Kym Sugiru. Ophelia marks Kym’s first release proper, and the artist’s unique brand of aqueous mutant-electro caught the attention of label heads A Taut Line & BD1982.

The A side Ophelia (Floriography) is a minimal but hallucinatory dancehall riddim permeated through a crude electro membrane. Bouncy enough for the club, messed up enough for life in 2018.

The 135bpm B side Tanka takes its cues equally from original 1980s Detroit electro and the millennial-era European revival and submerges the result into a kind of magnetically coated syrup designed to be smeared across Shibuya club floors. Synth African kalimba patterns playfully dance around a swung squelchy bassline creating a staunch groove interjected only by snippets of two Japanese junior high school students discussing their poetry homework.