Corruption’s Noises

Corruption is nearing 2,000 tracks on the murky, rangy SoundCloud page that the Japanese producer maintains. In between vocaloid weirdness and even weirder video-game tomfoolery is a brief swath of X-Files-eligible moodiness, a cycling patch of cybernetic cicada sound design titled “magical WASTE.” The stamina represented by the Corruption account remains equal parts inspiring and mysterious. Every day or so, often multiple times a day, come bits of left-field sound that don’t so much collectively form a tapestry as accumulate into an ever larger sense of majestic disarray. It’s a true old-school internet marvel.