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Reiha is an electronica/IDM EP with a heavy, spacious sound. Loads of gated reverb, delay, synth pads and electronic percussion permeate this almost abrasively lush album. The cover is a collage, with five illustrations representing the five tracks. 1. Serifu is a dense mix of synth pads, glockenspiel, and loose electronic drums under a heavy gated reverb. 2. Reiha, the title track, has a Vangelis / Blade Runner sound to it. Like Serifu it's dense and thick with compressed reverb. The second half is an extended loose breakdown of the first half's elements. 3. Xephon is an ensemble of various synths and drums all sequenced with a drum pad, and once again washed with a hand-controlled gated reverb. 4. Akihabara Time-Lapse features anime-esque voices counting up the hours of the day, days of the week, months of the year, and holdays in rapid & semi-random succession, against a loose jazz piano, and faux shamisen & asian woodwind. This is Renzu's only Japanesque track in Reiha. It served as the launch pad for his future albums, which are more visual & thematic, rather than abstract and synthy. 5. Leviathan exploits a very large electronic drum kit to Aphex Twin-like effect with, as usual, heavily compressed reverb with a tremolo effect. The second half drops a hip-hop bassline against 7ths chords. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.