A paradox arises from the prospect that pop music is highly formulaic and innovative. Pop music follows a predictable structure, with catchy hooks, repetitive choruses, and simple lyrics. Nevertheless, pop music constantly pushes the boundaries of what is musically and lyrically possible, incorporating new sounds, styles, and themes into its repertoire.
This constant innovation keeps electronic avant-pop artist Space-Ta's full-length debut album, Flight of the White Rekusasu, fresh, exciting, and relevant in an ever-changing cultural landscape.
Flight of the White Rekusasu
Space-Ta’s ability to create a kaleidoscope of feelings through music is one of the most powerful and enduring qualities an artist can acquire, allowing their listeners to connect on a deep and emotional level and much like a mixtape — providing a soundtrack to their lives.
To call Space-Ta, an “experimental” artist in the realm of local pop would be like calling a way-finder an outcast from its own tribe. Incorporating genre-blurring soundscapes with intricate beats and retro-futurist production, Space-Ta’s 8-track record album Flight of the White Rekusasu starts and ends with unconventional, pushing and pulling of a cacophony of textures stitched together by mercurial production of melodies and sound.
On the album, the track "Down You Go" with its trip-hop and garage beats, is a spiral fantasy for a small glimpse of Space-Ta beautifully crafted, cosmic world. ''Kaninong Kama To," on the other hand, sits alongside guitar music, traditional bagpipes, and comedic accents, nodding to the roots of OPM.
"Fuck With The Base" embraces the unconventional but resounding ease between the metal glitches and voice distortions. There are moments like this scattered all throughout Flight of the White Rekusasu. Space-Ta deftly captures the dreamy glow of desire to transport its listeners to the music. Such balance as it transitions to "Headbanging at the lobby of the..."
Even in the album’s darker hues, there’s the sense that Flight of the White Rekusasu, with these transformative tracks, represents a cosmic shift in the local pop industry. Space-Ta artistry is the sound of the future, and we are ready for it.
