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Today’s Featured Artist – INTERVIEW – 4ra 4ra

Tell us about:

Your latest single you have released:

4vatar is one of my first songs, but I’ve only performed it live. I set up the Unreleased Game for my fans, and they chose this track from my unreleased library. So here we are – it’s cyberpunk mid-tempo bass with loli vocals about being an avatar. 

Your favourite lyric in this song: 

Kavinsky – Nightcall.

Your favourite song that you have created that is an album track:

I don’t have released album yet so I guess it’s one of my singles and I like the most ‘Need For Drift’ song.

Your favourite song to play live:

Antagonist-chan, one of the most fierce and energic.

The song that was the longest to write and why?

Need For Drift because this song has been by far my biggest experiment ever. The entire timeline is gradually accelerating in tempo until it crashes and undergoes enormous changes. From synthwave to cyberphonk to techno to nightcore! It’s funny that it all started from my cover of the song ‘Tokyo Drift,’ where I drastically chopped vocals into nonsense. Additionally, I pitched and bent the melody with a phonk-sounding bell. I also, I wanted to capture the kind of retro-modern synthwave vibe found in Kavinsky’s ‘Nightcall’ in breakdowns. In the end I wanted my listeners to experience a dystopian cyberpunk atmosphere – ultimately, it’s a solid chaos, something like a drifting JPOP song on drugs in a car crash.  

Your most emotional track:

Definitely A.I. Dark Love, a single about a love tragedy between humans and artificial intelligence.

Dream collaboration:

Lucille Croft, Rezz, Lazerpunk, Matteo Tura… there are many.

Describe the feeling you get when you walk on stage to do a show:

A lot of adrenaline comes from the energy swap between you and your fans. It’s fabulous, and I love it!

The hardest track to play live:

I think it’s A.I. Dark Love because it’s more like a theatre performance than performing music.

Essential items you always take on tour with you?

I dunno what’s mean by essential items ‘coz I always take technology and make up.. Practicall, not a talisman gurl.

Describe your fans in three words:

Cyber Data Runners

A song by another artist or band you wish you had written:

IC3PEAK – Vampir

What we can look forward to from your band this year: 

I’m preparing my first EP which will be out this Autumn. 

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