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About this episode

The twelfth episode of the emit podcast series features Seiichiro Itoyama, a Japanese artist based in Europe working at the fringe of contemporary techno.

The mix builds through tension and restraint, moving between textural passages, broken-beat detours, and stretches of melodic ambience. It pulls from Berlin's reduced, late-2000s lineage and the heavier Birmingham tradition, but never settles into either — restraint keeps giving way to weight, and back again. The energy stays coiled rather than explosive, favoring depth over any obvious peak-time payoff, which makes the moments it does hit harder land properly.

It's a long one, and it suits where we are right now — deep in a July heatwave, the kind of night where the heat doesn't break and nobody's in a rush to sleep. This is a set for that stretch of night: patient, physical, built to hold attention over the long run rather than chase an immediate high.