Viennese sound-shaper Dorian Concept takes Tokyo composer Yuma Yamaguchi’s cinematic single “Concordia” and launches it into a new stratosphere of rhythmic complexity and textural sparkle. Where the original written for Odaiba’s vast beach-projection installation leaned on minimal piano motifs and swelling orchestral layers, this remix embraces organized chaos, folding Yamaguchi’s melodic DNA into Dorian Concept’s trademark swirl of laser-cut synth runs, off-kilter swing, and percussive micro-edits.
The track opens with the familiar, fast-phrased piano figure, but it quickly fractures into polyrhythmic pulses, revealing hidden harmonies beneath vocalist RANU’s breathy phrases. Dense yet airy, the arrangement feels like walking through moving light: glitches flicker, bass lines pirouette, and fragmented strings flare before dissolving. At the three-minute mark, Dorian Concept unleashes a virtuoso keyboard solo all slippery pitch bends and impossible arpeggios pushing the piece from meditative to euphoric without losing its emotional core.
Clocking in at just under five minutes, “Concordia (Dorian Concept Remix)” is a masterclass in global collaboration: Japanese neo-classical meets Austrian future-jazz, framed by an ethos of borderless creativity.
It’s both a standalone thrill and a tantalizing preview of the wider Concordia Remix Series, proving that when visionary composers trade ideas, the results can be nothing short of awe-inspiring.