Club Hikari
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Club Hikari Records / HIKARI 003 / 2026

二つのリズムのあいだ - 夜

A Club Hikari record built around the atmosphere of 二つのリズムのあいだ - 夜 after dark.

The Story

01 / THE IDEA

二つのリズムのあいだ - 夜 began as a question rather than a plan: what does a place sound like once everyone has gone home? The first sketches were made without a tempo, only chords and a field recording, and everything that followed was an attempt to protect that first feeling.

02 / THE NIGHT & LOCATION

Streets still wet, shutters half down, the low hum of a city that never fully sleeps. The record keeps returning to that walk — neon smeared across the pavement, a taxi somewhere behind you, the light changing minute by minute.

03 / THE SOUND & PRODUCTION

Analog warmth over digital precision. Tape saturation, soft-clipped drums, long reverb tails allowed to run past the bar line. Nothing is quantised harder than it needs to be; the small timing errors are the point.

04 / THE MEMORY

In the end this is a memory record. It is not a documentary of a night, it is what the night became after a few months of remembering it — brighter in places, blurrier in others, and somewhere between memory and imagination.

Tracklist

cinematic downtempo electronica — Languages: English

The Visual World

Tokyo after dark

Tokyo backstreet at night with neon reflected in wet asphalt
Neon on wet asphalt
Narrow Tokyo alley lit by red lanterns with rain on the pavement
Lanterns in the alley, after the rain
Empty neon-lit city crossing before dawn
The crossing at 4am

Credits

Music
Guillaume
Production
Club Hikari Records
Mixing
Guillaume
Mastering
Hikari Mastering
Artwork
Club Hikari Studio
Photography
Club Hikari Studio
Creative Direction
Guillaume
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