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Bagagee Viphex13 and Pierre Blanche team up on new EP ‘Requiem’

Techno Epic, produced by three guys.

Words: ARIEL JO

Bagagee Viphex12 and Pierre Blanche shares new EP, ‘Requiem’.

The collaboration may have been somewhat foreseen. Their propensity to like both the dark, driving sound and the melodies is hard to find even in the Korean underground scene. But they have found a common musical features through the label ‘Davotab’ and they moved more systematically to express the sounds they pursue.

‘Requiem’, released through Davotab, stands on a different line from the work it has ever done. Techno scene has recently been dividing into a party music that eliminates the existence of breakdowns and excludes melodies, and repeated melody lines with the smell of Old School Trance. In response, they produced two tracks with using the cinematic scoring technique for emphasizing melody line while they keep hard driving techno sound. In the EP consisting two tracks, ‘Requiem’ and ‘Libera’, the sound of string instruments, choirs and orchestral percussions are harmonized with powerful, dark kick and bass and analog synthesizer sounds. It seems to indicate that their sound on Bagagee Viphex13’s album intro track ‘Nativity’ which was released last summer, was a prelude to this album.

The surreal cover artwork, which embodies Bernini’s angelic figure floating in the sky breaking through an abstract 3D object, is also the sound and artwork of this album, which combines tradition and modernity to express an transcending image.

Take a listen to the new EP below.