A new chapter in the compilation series "ISOS five seasons" curated by the Tokyo-based rave crew Minna-no-Kimochi is set to arrive. The second installment, “秋 Autumn” will be released on December 1 via the crew’s own label Mizuha 罔象, exclusively on Bandcamp and Nina Protocol.
Structured as a five-part cycle—春 Spring / 夏 Summer / 長夏 Long Summer / 秋 Autumn / 冬 Winter—the series gathers artists across generations and genres, tracing an alternative lineage of rave culture.
Emerging abruptly in the early 2020s during Tokyo’s pandemic shutdown, Minna-no-Kimochi did not originate from the heart of the nightlife districts, but rather from bedrooms, suburban outdoor raves, and practices spanning ambient experiments to deconstructed club sounds. Their trajectory represents not only a form of survival in the post-pandemic cultural landscape, but also a signpost toward new pathways for the future of club and rave culture.
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From Saijo of Minna no Kimochi:
In this season of cold and darkness that comes and goes, what we discover are aspects of the world that did not appear under the direct summer light. Under the slanted light, finer contrasts emerge and shadows change shape. Heat is caged into the soil, the fruit and the body. The latent heat causes a reorganization of order, generating a process of decomposition and recombination rather than visible growth.
In the rhythmic swell of the conflicting heat and cold, the outlines of things illuminated by the slanting rays sometimes reveal marvelous appearances. The wrinkles of bark, the whiteness of breath, the shimmering threads of a spider's web will be visible to the eye. Light does not work in brightness. Sometimes you may have to go willingly into the darkness to find a light with a particular spark. As we move towards winter, we may also become aware of the presence of a light within us that has a certain power.
The rhythms of cold and warmth are in the midst of extreme compression, and the qualities specific to autumn seem to be lost. The season now passes in an instant, like a leaf falling from a branch. Its time is gradually becoming denser and more compacted to the point of invisibility. This, however, is a sign of the intensification of the original autumnal movement of potential reorganization of order. The leaping, intermittent rhythms will offer those who listen and dance to them the still inexhaustible blessings of autumn, making a new environment and pointing a new way forward.
“Now from out the dark / Into yet a darker path/ I must enter: / Shine upon me from afar, / Moon on the mountain crest.” —Izumi Shikibu
Rhythm is king on the latest from Max Jaffe—juddering clips and clicks topped alternating with haunting melodic passages. Bandcamp New & Notable Nov 26, 2025
