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ako strips the sheen off IDM-adjacent beat production with tape compression and hardware constraints: lo-fi synth funk that sounds like it was already halfway to degradation before it hit the recorder. The MT-50 four-track sessions feel less like an aesthetic choice and more like honest documentation of what these cheap drum machines and Yamahas actually sounded like in a room, which is messier and better than any polished version could manage.