Masaaki Haga develops electronic music from the inside out, guided by an almost architectural rigor. Operating between Niigata, Tokyo, and India, he approaches each project as a self-contained system, overseeing every stage of production—from sound design to mastering—without shortcuts or delegation.
His live performances are built around a deliberately minimal setup: synthesizers and keyboards, nothing more. No loops, no playback, no fixed sequences. Every sound is generated in real time, shaped, altered, and dismantled on the spot. This method allows for long-form, evolving performances in which structure remains solid yet open to improvisation and controlled unpredictability.
Haga’s music moves fluidly between precise techno, IDM textures, ambient layers, and drum & bass tension, never settling into a fixed genre. Rhythms unfold like living mechanisms, while sound materials breathe, contract, and overlap with surgical precision.
On stage, the performance is not a sequence of tracks but a continuous passage—a gradual construction where each element finds its place within a coherent, dense, and immersive whole. A demanding, tightly wound, deeply physical form of electronic music, where the live set becomes a space of transformation rather than reproduction.
