Minimal Wave Records

Citit­rax pro­ud­ly pre­sents a high­ly anti­cipated 12” from An-i, the mus­ical monik­er for Berlin-based Korean American Doug Lee. Doug has been DJing and pro­duc­ing re­cords for two de­cades under vari­ous al­iases and col­labora­tions. The ‘Rabble’ EP will be the third re­lease for An-i, and the first one since Gutz in 2015. The re­turn of An-i has found him in even more braz­en ter­rito­ry than on pre­vi­ous re­leases. He moves bet­ween musical­ity and chaos while re­main­ing in­trigu­ing throug­hout – a tes­ta­ment to his uni­que­ness and in­tegr­ity. The op­en­er, ‘Rabble’, tonal­ly crude and menac­ing, bac­ked with a re­lentless primitive mac­hine rhy­thm and a psyc­hotic vocal parody­ing mob men­tal­ity, points at the ab­surd­ity of take-down cul­ture. ‘Rubble’ fol­lows, a mighty stripped-down in­strument­al dub. The flip, ‘Chapel Per­il­ous’, is a wan­der­ing spaced-out jour­ney into the psyc­he. It re­flects on loss and ul­timate­ly freedom from one’s ego ident­ity, mean­der­ing an un­cer­tain path that re­sults in a spiritu­al epi­phany. “When I am noth­ing, every­th­ing is me”…

An-i’s Rabble EP will be pre­ssed on 160-gram fluores­cent green vinyl and housed in a high gloss black and white sleeve featur­ing ink brush paint­ing by the art­ist. The re­lease date is July 15th, 2023. An-i will also per­form a rare live set that even­ing at the Minim­al Wave 18 Years Event in NYC. More info on that to fol­low. Pre-order Ani’s ‘Rabble’ EP here. Note: An-i cur­rent­ly has the fol­low­ing US dates avail­able for per­for­mances: 7/22, 7/28, 7/29, 8/4,8/5.