Publication: Mixmag (Print issue 2020)
Role: Writer, artist selector
Date: Jan 2020
Late in 2019, I was commissioned by Mixmag to spotlight one of the scene’s rising forces. I chose object blue. The Tokyo-born, London-based DJ and producer crafting textures that blur the line between techno and emotion.
This profile caught her at a turning point: touring Asia, soundtracking Vivienne Westwood’s SS20 show, marrying her partner, and — the very next day — releasing Figure Beside Me, her most personal work to date. An amalgamation of emotion: rugged techno meshed with delicate electronics, love reframed as sound design.
object blue likes her perfume like she likes her music: “weird and head-turning”.
“If I wasn’t making music, I’d be making perfumes,” she tells us. Her favourite is Bat by Zoologist. “It smells like really pure, intense mud. I was disgusted that it got discontinued” – but blue’s scent is not the only thing that’s changed this year.
