When the people at the Berlin-based Samurai Horo label asked Yu Asaeda to contribute to a compilation they were putting out, they got more than they¡¯d bargained for.
¡°I must have sent them about 20 or 30 tracks in total,¡± says the Tokyo-based producer. ¡°And then they were like, ¡®Do you want to do an album?¡¯ ¡±
Working under his Ena moniker, Asaeda has spent the past eight years crafting a singular brand of bass music. Whether they¡¯re operating at the tempo of dubstep ¡ª as on last year¡¯s fine ¡°Bilateral¡± album ¡ª or the more rapid pulse of drum ¡®n¡¯ bass, his tracks retain a fractured, twitching energy, like they¡¯ve just been roused from a fever dream.
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