Christophe McKeon <c.mckeon@rcn.com> wrote:
quoted 1 line is there any thing else of interest coming out of Japan which any body has noticed?>is there any thing else of interest coming out of Japan which any body has noticed?
The Soup Disk label releases interesting permutations
of hip hop. In particular, I find Riow Arai's recent album
_Mind Edit_ (and the accompanying 12" EP _Mind Syndicate_)
to be especially genre-expanding, with very fresh
production; in other words, _Source_ and _Rap Pages_
readers will be baffled and declare it not hip hop
at all.
So Takahashi's new album on Carpark, _NuBus_,
is outstanding--sounds like a brilliant update of the 60s/70s
academic electronic composer approach. Atau's
_Biorhythm_ (soon coming on Caipirinha) has similarities
to the Takahashi LP, but also has some danceable
rhythms among the exploratory, hospital ER sounds.
An artist by the name of Hiromi (I may be way off) put out
some great, fucked-up d&b/electro/hip hop-like tracks on Worm
Interface in 99.
Bisk is simply godhead.
Japan's producing an impressive amount of great electronic
musicians. The abovementioned merely scratches the surface of its
riches.
Dave Segal
Managing Editor/Alternative Press
Reviews/BPM/Reissue Redux
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