Milwaukee’s experimental underground rarely stays quiet for long, and shinji97 is the latest name adding fuel to the city’s already smoldering left-of-center scene. The producer’s new full-length, Shining Finger LP, is a sprawling exercise in restraint and rupture, the kind of record that rewards headphones and punishes anyone hoping for background noise.

Across the album, shinji97 threads glitchy percussion, warped melodic loops, and negative space into something that feels less like a traditional tracklist and more like a series of intercepted transmissions. There are moments that lean toward ambient hypnosis, and others that snap awake with jagged, blown-out textures, as if the tape got a little too close to the magnet. The production sits comfortably in the same lineage as Milwaukee’s growing crop of experimental beat-makers, but shinji97 is clearly less interested in fitting in than in seeing how far a loop can bend before it breaks.

Naming an experimental LP after a finishing move from Mobile Fighter G Gundam is exactly the kind of tongue-in-cheek flourish that makes this scene worth paying attention to. It signals the record’s ethos pretty efficiently: patient, precise, and then, when you least expect it, a knockout blow.

Stream Shining Finger LP in full below and let it rewire your afternoon.

https://shinji97.bandcamp.com/album/shining-finger-lp

Follow shinji97 on Bandcamp to keep tabs on future releases, and if you have not already, dig into Milwaukee’s broader experimental community, because records like this do not happen in a vacuum.