Kai Tak – Designed In Heaven, Made In Hong Kong | Clear Checkerboard Hill Splatter 12" Vinyl

Kai Tak – Designed In Heaven, Made In Hong Kong | Clear Checkerboard Hill Splatter 12" Vinyl
Catalog #: ALC-121-LP-1 

“Part cultural elegy, part nocturnal electro-pop anthem—Kai Tak’s debut LP is both deeply personal and sharply post-punk.”

Named after the legendary decommissioned airport in Kowloon, Kai Tak’s Designed In Heaven, Made In Hong Kong takes flight as one of the 2024's most distinctive and culturally resonant releases. Out now on A La Carte Records, the album is pressed on a striking clear ‘Checkerboard Hill’ splatter 12” vinyl, a nod to the iconic hill near the airport that once served as a visual anchor for pilots—and now, metaphorically, for listeners navigating the blurred skyline of memory, identity, and alienating dislocation.

The sound? Post-punk industrial meets synth-laced dream-pop, but filtered through a global lens: fractured rhythms, icy melodies, and densely layered atmospheres that feel both grounded in place and transcendent of it. There’s a haunted beauty here, especially in tracks like “Sleepwalking” and “Midnight Pretender,” where yearning vocals drift like radio signals caught between towers.

Lyrically, the album is rich in cyberpunk-esque duality—diaspora and displacement, modernity and memory, romance and reality. Kai Tak doesn’t offer easy resolution. Instead, the project leans into the contradictions, creating music that feels like neon lights reflected on rain-soaked glass: shimmering, beautiful, impossible to hold.

✈️ Vinyl Details:

• Full-length LP on clear checkerboard hill splatter vinyl

• Artwork and packaging inspired by Hong Kong’s urban topography 

• Limited edition pressing with lyric insert and liner notes

• Released by A La Carte Records

For Fans Of:

• Lust For Youth

• Blanck Mass (ambient/post-industrial era)

• New Order

• HTRK

• Cold Cave
  

Final Word:

“Designed In Heaven, Made In Hong Kong is a rare album—culturally rich, sonically expansive, emotionally immersive. Kai Tak gives post-punk an international passport, mapping out beauty in dislocation. It’s not just a record; it’s a landing strip for memory, identity, and sound.”