“Funktown” is a concept album set in a fictional city.
In this town, everything is optimized.
Events are fully analyzable, waste is eliminated, and the world is quietly and continuously updated through logic and rationality.
This landscape might not be a story of the distant future.
We already live our lives pursuing efficiency and correctness.
Information is organized, decision-making has accelerated, and artificial intelligence is gradually beginning to take over human roles.
Yet, on the other hand, humans are incredibly emotional creatures.
Anonymous spaces overflow with anger and anxiety, and we are driven by inexplicable impulses and subtle discomforts.
The more we try to be rational, the more our emotions are suppressed, losing their outlet and manifesting in different ways.
Perhaps, in the world to come, humanity itself will gradually become something akin to a “bug” in the system.
Emotions are inefficient.
They are contradictory.
They are irrational, sometimes ugly, and difficult to comprehend.
Even so, I believe there are things that can only be born from within that very imperfection.
The moments that move our hearts.
The reasons we fall in love with someone.
An inexplicable sense of unease.
A rebellion against outdated rules.
The changes that grow from failure and hesitation.
The world is more interesting in its slightly distorted places than when it is perfectly tidy.
The ten tracks of “Funktown” depict these fluctuations, each from a different vantage point.
Losing one’s perspective.
Harboring contradictions.
Being drawn to speed.
The weakness of becoming a mere bystander.
A quiet melancholy.
The contours that emerge after something breaks.
Every single one is a story that begins with human imperfection.
This album is not a work intended to deny the future.
What is it that remains, unextinguished, beyond evolution and rationalization?
I have shaped that question into sound in the form of a fictional city.
If, after listening to the end,
you notice a slightly inexplicable emotion within yourself,
or a tiny dissonance in the world around you...
In that exact moment, this city connects with reality.
— maurice blue Producer / Bluepiece Lab.
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