New Madegg: “Safe Rena”

Being prolific does not equal being good, but Kyoto’s Madegg makes it easy to think the two are simultaneous. Despite scaling back on how much music he uploads into the wild…a couple years back, you could hardly go a day without seeing a new song courtesy of the young producer in your SoundCloud feed…he’s still creating more new music than most artists in Japan. “Safe Rena” will appear on his forthcoming new album…which follows up a full-length that appeared last year, which followed up a full-length that came out the year before that…and is a lovely preview of what to expect from Madegg’s next album. The first half of the song is pure build, a series of windy electronics racing around one another, the overall feel akin to a Dustin Wong composition. Then the track blooms in the second half, a marching beat changing the vibe completely without ever swallowing everything up in aggressiveness. It’s restrained but still powerful. Listen below.