Considering the state of the world right now, you wouldn’t need to stretch your imagination too much to paint an accurate picture of what dystopia would look like. Immediately, your brain will want to shun the images, and you’ll find yourself wanting to go back to the happy, the calm and the ‘positive’. And it is this denial of the darkness, that allows the darkness to grow unrestricted. Perhaps, if we stopped denying the darkness and accepted it as a part of who we are, we’d be able to harness it into the beauty that it is innately capable of.
This short parable on darkness is inspired by the latest album by Watashi, titled Euthanasia Coaster, and released under Regenerate Music. Bringing influences from punk-rock, metal, Watashi’s music traverses around the magnetic fringes of Drum & Bass, Techno, Jungle and Ambient. Taking his penchant for the eerie and the atmospheric, he has taken his neoteric UK Underground material to labels like XCPT, Regenerate Music,…