Genre: Electronica/IDM
Release: 2006
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Tracklist
1. This City
2. Rat's Step
3. This City Is Hell
4. Brother's Chase
5. Butterfly
6. Oasis
7. Beginnings
8. Snakeing
9. Open Kastle
10. Assassouts
11. Safety In Solitude
12. Where?
13. White Dream
14. Bonus Track by Asian Kung-Fu Generation
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Plaid composed the soundtrack to the feature length anime film Tekkonkinkreet. The film's director Michael Arias describes the music and its intent pretty well in the liner notes.
"Music will be a very important aspect of TEKKONKINKREET, serving not only to add weight to exposition and momentum to action, but also as counterpoint to the larger themes of the film. For TEKKON's first act, the music should have an analog, old-world feel, to compliment the nostalgic ambience of the Treasure Town we see in the opening scenes: the yakuza underworlds, the street urchins' hand-to-mouth existence, the multi-ethnic potpourri of Treasure Town's streets and various factions and tribes. As we move into the second act - Snake's act - old world analog will give way to newer, alien, synthetic forms: minimalist breakbeats and dissonant post-techno sounds. When the action picks up and we descend into White and Black's respective madnesses, the music will drive us forward with increasingly rhythmic trance-like elements. As the film's various conflicts are resolved, and balance between opposing forces achieved, an altogether new type of music - a soothing and harmonious hybrid combining elements of the old and the new forms - will take over. This music will echo fragments heard over White's dreams of ocean paradise and apple trees." - Michael Arias
