We don’t know who Heliofante is. What we do know is that this release talks about a dream. It is a dream about an elephant that dreams it can fly and describes how it feels during this, more than hour long, release.
Experiments with faulty hardware, reversed field recordings, hacked VSTs are on the technical list of many of the tracks that are resting somewhere in a disk drive waiting to see the light of day.
“Sundrops on the Ocean”, included on Torsion’s “Raindrops” (catalogue reference nr. [PS001]) gets remixed by artists from all over the world and from different electronic music genres.
There is not really a genre that can define the style of the tracks produced by Katsumoto since there is no genre, just a lot of imagination and a playful approach to every track, fusing what is not there to fuse, or so they say.
“This world… this universe is more vast and significant than anything we do at our jobs, in our pursuits of wealth, and in our zest for personal superiority above others. All of this is meaningless beyond
our own horizons.”
“Collected Items” is the fruit of this on-going collaboration between the two. With Alex’s propensity for broken beats and Fernando’s passion for smooth ambiences and glitch inserts, the resulting tracks take us into a journey to unknown places wide and open.