Dawn of the Final Hour by Kinoteki

Dawn of the Final Hour

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Self-proclaimed terminally-online New York-based artist Kinoteki's fourth studio album, "Dawn of the Final Hour", is a melting pot of the NYC producer's influences - melancholic anger within breakcore blast beats. Funky acid house basslines roam through sullied empty streets. FM synths and disjointed vocals fly high over footwork and Chicago house influenced bases. Experimenting in sound design, Kinoteki utilized AI-assisted sample generation through OpenAI Jukebox and other such technologies to manipulate various samples in creative ways. “The album name represents a final transmission. Dawn started off as a concept album for a final radio set during a DJ’s mental breakdown. The songs are structured and written to be club ready, tried my hardest to make "bangers" if you’d like to call them that. As I arranged them to form a narrative though, I realized it sounded more like a break-up album. I didn’t experience or go through anything like that while I made it, but I love the concept of them. They can be so dramatic over the littlest of reasons. That's exactly what I wanted.”… Expand

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