WAR GAME (feat. DJ SHUN) Front Cover

WAR GAME (feat. DJ SHUN)

nanorunamonai & YAMAAN

  • WAR GAME (feat. DJ SHUN) Front Cover

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Release Date: 2026/08/08

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Beyond the HIGH SCORE, someone's life disappears.
Faster. More efficiently.

YAMAAN's production brings together nostalgic 8-bit electronics and a heavy, ominous contemporary beat.
Across it, nanorunamonai's lyricism, shifting flow, and wide range of vocal characters move at full speed.

"WAR GAME" depicts the distortion of an age in which war is remotely controlled and processed as though it were a video game.

With the push of a button on a controller, fire is unleashed somewhere in the world.
Beyond the screen are not targets, but soldiers, families, and lives that were supposed to have a tomorrow.

DJ SHUN's scratches cut rhythmically through the spaces between words and beats, echoing like fragments of broken communication.
Toward the end, those fragments begin to invade the song's landscape like noise leaking out of the game screen and into reality.

The cover artwork was created by Chilean artist mariapepinos.
The soldier is rendered in particles of light, visualizing the unsettling sensation of a human life being reduced to a game character or a piece of targeting data.

Reality or game?
Who is controlling it, and who is being targeted?

In the end, the crosshairs turn toward
the one watching the screen.

Artist Profile

  • nanorunamonai

    Nanorunamonai (TempleATS / ORIGAMI) Rapper and spoken-word artist. His voice is deep and carries many shades, at times so close it feels as though he is speaking directly into your ear, and at others so distant it seems as if it might disappear somewhere beyond reach. His poetry gives language to feelings that many people know but cannot quite put into words, flowing with rhythm and melody. It becomes meaning, image, and music, crossing boundaries and traveling wherever it may go. In 2003, he released the self-titled album [ORIGAMI] as part of the duo ORIGAMI with Sibitt. With a distinctive lyrical world and singular flow, they established a style unlike any other and gained a broad following that extended far beyond hip-hop. After the second album [NOOZMI~Tsukiwonakushitaousama~], Nanorunamonai released his first solo album [melhentrips] in 2005. The album received critical acclaim, including a HIPHOP Disc Award from the music magazine REMIX. While actively appearing at outdoor festivals such as Yamauto, otonotani, and Fuji Rock Festival 2008, he also contributed guest performances to numerous works by other artists. In 2013, he released his second solo album, [Lips of Akasha]. In 2023, he released the album [Water Moon] under the name Nanorunamonai × YAMAAN. On September 25, 2026, Nanorunamonai × YAMAAN released [Neminemu Fruit]. And still, the poems continue to be woven and new songs continue to emerge, as he walks through that still-unnamed place somewhere between words and sound.

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  • YAMAAN

    YAMAAN 降神や多彩なアーティストが在籍するクルーTemple ATSのメンバーとして活動を開始。アンビエント的な感覚を機軸にハウスやヒップホップなどを行き来しながら音楽や映像作品を制作してきた。 近年は’20年に道程RECORDSから『幻想区域EP』を発表。’21年にはアンビエントとメンフィスラップにインスパイアされたCHIYORIとの共作「Mystic High」、’2３年にはなのるなもないとの共作「水月」をリリース。

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