Mars89 is known for his uncompromising electronic music and has become one of the most distinctive and exciting figures in Tokyo’s underground club scene. His work weaves together the seediness of early industrial music, the mutant strain of Bristol bass, and the unsettling, distorted aesthetics found in the films of Kubrick, Lynch, and Cronenberg. From floor-igniting tracks to ambient works that evoke collapse and transformation, his practice is defined by the ability to stitch together layers of contrasting energy into a single, coherent world.

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As a DJ, Mars89 generates a sense of fetishistic euphoria and bodily release through cross-genre selections anchored by meticulous spatial arrangement and textural contrast. With sub-pressure, subtle rhythmic mutations, and a finely tuned balance of rawness and sensuality, the audience becomes enveloped by sound and guided toward a form of psychic liberation. Embedded within this approach is the DIY ethos of sound-system culture and an attitude of quiet resistance, underpinned by a clear understanding of the politics of sound.

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Under the live-focused alias Temple Ov Subsonic Youth, sound is treated as a ritualistic and intensely physical force. Analog instability, urban noise, and heavy low frequencies intertwine to create an acoustic environment that transforms the entire floor. Rhythmic structures are often dismantled; sound emerges not as form but as force. Dense layers of sample collage invite chaos, which amplifies with a ritualistic intensity.

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These two aspects are not oppositional but complementary, illuminating different angles of the same creative axis. The design of liberation in his DJ practice and the rituality explored through his live alias form a dynamic interplay in which he excavates the primordial role of music as a transformative force for communities and perception—ultimately reexamining the very function of club music.

Mars89’s multifaceted activities—spanning club culture, fashion, art, and activism—operate at the forefront of contemporary nightlife while simultaneously using sonic expression to reconsider urban structures and social dynamics. His work constitutes an ongoing, multilayered inquiry into how sound can be a medium through which the world might be reconfigured.