Fujimine’s debut EP, "Threshold of Discomfort", is an audiovisual descent into the symbolic — a sonic ritual that explores the edges of violence, transformation, and identity.
Spanning eight experimental compositions, the record moves across a shifting terrain of fractured rhythms, ambient dread, ritual electronics, and post-industrial textures. Drawing from early IDM, power electronics, and dark ambient traditions, Fujimine constructs a sound language that is both hyper-structured and emotionally raw.
The title "Threshold of Discomfort" references a psychoacoustic term used to indicate sound pressure levels—but it also evokes a psychological state: the transformative tension of unease. This EP was born during a period of deep spiritual and emotional disorientation, where creation became a survival strategy. It reflects that threshold where chaos and order, discipline and freedom, danger and excitement converge. Here, discomfort and trauma are not wounds, but methods of transformation.
More than anything, "Threshold of Discomfort" is a tribute to club culture—not as escapism, but as a crucible of identity. The club is the space where this music was born, where rhythm becomes language, and the body an instrument of resistance. It is a site of memory, community, and becoming; a space where new visions are forged.
One track title, "Banality of Evil", directly references Hannah Arendt’s concept of violence as something systematized, normalized, and internalized—a force embedded in both personal and political realities. Fujimine uses sound not to depict violence, but to dissect it and dismantle its mechanisms. In "Ego Magick", Aleister Crowley’s idea of ritual as self-willed transformation is reimagined through loops and distortion—echoing the legacy of Coil and Genesis P-Orridge’s spiritualism.
Far from a celebration of destruction, this EP is a ritual of purification—a means of metabolizing violence, especially the kind experienced in the body and psyche as a woman.
This is not music for escape, but for entering deeper states of awareness.
All music mixed and produced by Fujimine
Mastered at TWS
Artwork by JS Aurelius
