Nonturn - Repetition

The city’s fragments repeat, overlap and resonate — a quietly grooving electronic landscape built only from field samples. Repeating Town is made entirely from field recordings captured in and around Koenji, Tokyo — traffic signals, footsteps, air conditioners, construction, passing cars, fragments of conversation. These are treated not as documentation but as sampling material: cut, repeated, layered and recomposed through a post-club editing sensibility. All eight tracks are built around 96 BPM, connecting the album back to Territory as a continuous listening. What matters here is not the use of non-instrumental sound in itself, but the grammar into which it is placed. Video: Each sound on the album was recorded together with real footage of the moment it was captured. A custom Ableton-to-video tool (A2MVE) reconstructs that footage from the structure of the session itself — which sounds are active, when, and how many at once. Nothing is generated; all images are real footage. An Ableton session edits the city.