Ashing Camellia is the kind of split album that happens when two artists who genuinely respect each other's craft decide to tear each other's songs apart and rebuild them from the ground up. Aoi Sakamoto takes Camellia's "Xronièr" and reframes it as the sinister 'BEH!
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ND Y0U' Remix, while "epitaxy" gets a blisteringly specific '184BPM' treatment that tells you exactly what velocity you're signing up for. It's remix culture at its most gleefully destructive. Camellia returns the favor with devastating precision.
The 'OVERDESTRUCTION' Remix of "Fractured Heaven" is aptly named, stripping the original to its core and reconstructing it as something even more overwhelming, and the 'EXTRALOAD' take on "Fractured Angel" pushes the sequel energy even further.
But the real wildcard is Aoi Sakamoto's 'FFS' Remix of "Full Flavor Ondo," which takes an ondo-style festival track and sends it through a blender of breakcore and electronic maximalism. The album culminates in "Hoshi no Tsubaki (Ashing Camellia)," subtitled as "Fractured Angel 2," a collaborative centerpiece that represents both artists meeting in the middle of their respective extremes.
The inclusion of a Special Interview as the closer is a nice personal touch, pulling back the curtain on the creative partnership. For fans tracking the ongoing Aoi Sakamoto collaboration saga of 2025, this one with Camellia might be the crown jewel.