We've had so much music invade our iTunes library recently that absorbing it alone has been a considerable challenge. Whilst you can expect some more detailed posts in the coming week on our choice picks from the influx, we thought we'd do a quick(ish) run down on a handful of tracks we've had on repeat. We'd suggest you press play on the following: 1. Bullion - It's All In Sound Having established himself via the 'Pet Sounds: In The Key Of Dee' mixtape which put The Beach Boys ' seminal LP head to [...]
A decade ago, the groundbreaking documentary on Jacques Derrida, Derrida , was released around the world to celebrate to elusive philosopher. Ryuichi Sakamoto composed 29 short pieces inspired by Derrida the fill the soundtrack to the documentary. The tracks, simply called "jd" ( J acques D errida) and followed by a number, range from warm, minimalist piano trills (as in "Jd017") to haunting soundscapes ("Jd022") to chilling electronic echoes of a distopian present and future ("Jd029"). "Jd017" , "Jd022" , and "Jd029" . The range of [...]
Japanese musician/composer Ryuichi Sakamoto ( who is a member of Yellow Magic Orchestra and has scored many films) is curating and performing at the next six days of performances at The Stone starting TONIGHT (4/24) . Tonight it's just Sakamoto. On Wednesday (4/25) he'll be joined by Stone director John Zorn and Mayo Yamaguchi . On Thursday (4/26) by Aya Nishina , on Friday (4/27) by Taylor Deupree , on Saturday (4/28) by Otomo Yoshihide , and on Sunday (4/29) [...]
Una nueva compilación, A Victim Of Stars 1982-2012 , celebra treinta años del trabajo solista de David Sylvian , quien guía a Wyndham Wallace de The Quietus a través de lo más destacado. Extraordinariamente, ya son tres décadas desde que David Sylvian lanzó su primer sencillo solista, el doble 'Bamboo Houses' / 'Bamboo Music' , una colaboración con la Yellow Magic Orchestra de Ryuichi Sakamoto. El antiguo frontman de Japan – la banda que formó con su hermano Steve Jansen junto con Mick Karn, Richard Barbieri y Rob Dean [...]
Después de que Japan se separó en el punto más álgido de su carrera por allá de 1981, la carrera de David Sylvian ha dado giros sumamente inesperados para todos, pasando por colaboraciones con artistas de la talla de Ryuichi Sakamoto, Robert Fripp, Holger Czukay (de Can), Otomo Yoshihide y Toshimaru Nakimura, Keith Rowe y John Tilbury (de AMM), y siempre manteniendo sus producciones con una calidad impecable. Esta no es la primera colección de canciones de "el hombre más encantador del mundo" (según The Sun), pero sin duda es la primera enfocada a "una nueva [...]
It seems that everyone is loving Yellow Magic Orchestra at the moment. I've been trying to figure out why there's such an explosion of YMO related tunes floating around recently, but all I can settle on is that Japanese tunes are in vogue as the next, relatively untapped source of rare grooves and beats due to language differences. Italo and Euro beats are naturally more comfortable to mine through, but Japanese music history has been seemingly left untouched. Regardless, here's some tunes from solo ventures from Haruomi Hosono and Ryuichi Sakamoto (both of YMO) if you haven't stumbled [...]
Mondays, are always crazy days. A lot of people dropping new tracks. While everyone is releasing new stuff, i keep stumbling on this remix from the Canadian producer Preston Chin aka Robotaki . I don't know what other people think about it But i think i'm not alone on this one. I've copied the little description he has on his soundcloud about this track (read below). Uff, done .... another one i wanted to share a long time ago..... Some old easy listening using samples from a movie soundtrack scored by Ryuichi Sakamoto. It's a genre [...]
Found this tune on the delectable http://yingyangs.blogspot.com/ a while back and thought I'd share. Ryuichi (a man from Japan) and David (a man from the pop group Japan) on the benefits of living in houses made of panda food. http://www.feelmybicep.com/and y/public_html/JAMES1/Bamboo-Ho uses.mp3 RYUICHI SAKAMOTO & DAVID SYLVAN | BAMBOO HOUSES
Download: ESSO "Son of SAMO" EP Harlem rhymesayer ESSO has come together with The DJBooth to bring listeners his latest street release, the Son of SAMO EP. The project features eight original tracks from the up-and-coming emcee, including previously-leaked, reader-approved joints "Ready" and "F*ck It All." ESSO flies solo throughout Son of SAMO, which features beats by Ryuichi Sakamoto, Jonathan Stein, Mike Mef, The Therapeuticz and VHVL.
A short collection of Unpopular Organic Beats I was meant to post last year but never got around to. ____________________ Post 'Remain In Light' era Talking Heads inspired UK Afro-Pop. MP3: Luna Twist - African Time Deliciously fractured hard-J-Pop collaboration between Sakamoto (of Yellow Magic Orchestra) and diva Kisaragi. MP3: Koharu Kisaragi & Ryuichi Sakamoto - Neo-Plant Tough proto-industrial Fad Gadget track, this time with more sugar. MP3: [...]
We Are the Works in Progress, Blonde Redhead's compilation to benefit Japan's recovery from the March 2011 tsunami and aftermath, has plenty of big names. Among them are Terry Riley, Deerhunter, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Interpol, and The Knife's Karin Dreijer Andersson. Another is Four Tet, who leads off the compilation with "Moma". Kieran Hebden (Four Tet) unveiled it today via Soundcloud, which you can stream above
Sure, Occupy Wall Street is the hot social topic right now, so it makes sense politically-conscious musicians are putting out benefit albums to support the movement. But it wasn't all that long ago that a massive tsunami battered Japan, and they're still recovering. Blonde Redhead hasn't forgotten the disaster; in fact, the New York City alt-rock outfit has put together a new benefit compilation to aid in the recovery efforts. Curated by Blonde Readhead's Japanese born frontwoman, Kazu Makino, We are the Works in Progress features exclusive tracks from Four Tet, [...]
The forthcoming double-disc album Flumina is a team-up between two titans of arted-up ambient music: Christian Fennesz, from Austria, and Ryuici Sakamoto, from Japan. For the album, Sakamato recorded 24 different improvisational piano pieces in 24 different keys, and then sent them to Fennesz, who reworked them with his usual evocative-reverb style. Below, grab "0318," the album's opening track. Read More...
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Following an impressive performance at Los Angeles' King King venue Cougar Microbes caught up with Little People for an improvised q&a. Over the past month or so we've been shooting emails back and forth to complete the interview. Check back here tomorrow for a Little People remix exclusive available here for you. Cougar Microbes: What [...]
You thought we had gone away, but no, that time is not yet. We still have some goodies for you, this instalment leading the way with some rarities from our own collection. Following on with Virginia Astley we've once again done a special mastering job from a quality vinyl rips where possible, although we start with two cassette originals. Pleasantly Surprised was a Scottish cassette label which put out compilations of some of the best music of the day, largely based on the aesthetic of 4AD. State Of Affairs was released in 1984 and had some [...]
You thought we had gone away, but no, that time is not yet. We still have some goodies for you, this instalment leading the way with some rarities from our own collection. Following on with Virginia Astley we've once again done a special mastering job from a quality vinyl rips where possible, although we start with two cassette originals. Pleasantly Surprised was a Scottish cassette label which put out compilations of some of the best music of the day, largely based on the aesthetic of 4AD. State Of Affairs was released in 1984 and had some [...]
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