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Khraken
Ascent

Album JP 2017 on Gashadokuro label
Dance (Techno, Industrial, Acid, Noise)

Remixes from Khraken's 2016 DESCENT LP. In 2099, former American president Michael Sullivan assured voters that they would be the first society to land human life on Saturn successfully. The SAT201-EF44 crew began to enter Saturn's orbit on October 21st, 2100. Immediately following first contact with Saturn's moon Tethys the IBM RAD9200 system begins to transmit corrupted data. Two hours later the SAT201-EF44 was never seen again. Following the disaster, American citizens became disillusioned with the lack of answers that was provided from the failed space mission. Michael Sullivan stepped down from office and was proven in tribunal court to have withheld crucial information to the American public. It was at this point, the NASA space program entered a state of purgatory. Italy and Russia began to push forward with their initial test launches to Saturn. Information about the potential launches spread across the TELCOM4 system and American citizens demanded that their new president Anthony Carpenter reinstate the NASA mission to Saturn. Following rigorous testing programs, first Commander Richard Owens was commissioned to lead the SAT202-E532 mission on October 21st, 2111 to Saturn with four other astronauts. Their goal, to understand what went wrong with the 2099 SAT201-EF44 mission, and to assert America as the leader of contemporary space traveler. As the crew enters Saturn's atmosphere, the IBM RAD9200 begins to transmit corrupted data similar to the crash of 2009. Immediately following IBM RAD9200's warning signals, the secondary fuselage explodes destroying one of the two escape pods. As Richard Owens selfishly enters the remaining escape pod alone, he begins to comprehend that this is only the beginning of his....... ASCENT

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