Hidetoshi Koizumi (Ultimae) will be performing for GOOD TIMING CLUB, an event hosted by Bar Bonobo this August 29 from 21:00 – 5:00. Bar Bonobo (2 Chome-23-4 Jingumae, Shibuya City, Tokyo 150-0001, Japan).
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Betelgeuse is a journey to the stars that has no beginning and no end.
A new album that consists of 1 track of over 42 minutes long by Hakobune that was recorded at Studio Tissue Box in Fukushima in January 2017.
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Fumiya Tanaka has been regarded as one of the legendary DJ/artists in Techno over 20 years. He has been doing numerous projects such as his private label Torema Records, Op.Disc, Sundance and his famous party ‘CHAOS‘ (in Tokyo and Osaka). Through his long running career, he has been successfully expressing the possibilities of music.
While he’s barely paused for breath in the last decade, it’s still been eight years since Fumiya Tanaka delivered his last album, Unknown 3. The epitome of long overdue, You Find The Key is his fourth album. Interestingly, it sees the 44 year-old, Japanese producer tweaking his now familiar bass-heavy minimal techno blueprint. Thrillingly, the bass lines are bolder and jauntier, and the beats jazzier, resulting in an altogether funkier take on the minimal techno style. Of course, there are still moments that recall his previous work – see the deep and dubby “Swallowed Memory” – but it’s those that take a sideways step towards funk-fuelled pastures (“Munich Uncertain“, “The Only Your Researching“) that stand out.
Dartriix is a sporadic but permanent collaborative project between two of Op.Disc‘s label heads, Fumiya Tanaka and Yoshihiro Hanno aka Radiq. After 6 years of absence, Dartriix finally makes their return with this intensive double pack LP Flying One Hand, which is a good surprise to us.
During recent years, Berlin-based Fumiya Tanaka has established himself as one of the most impressive figure in Europe’s minimal scene after successive releases from Perlon. His tireless DJ touring rewarded in the form of impassioned supports from audiences in Germany, UK, France, Italy and Romania. On the other hand, with a number of quality releases like Eastern Hemispheres EPs on Euro-Moroccan imprint Cosmo Records and highly acclaimed 2013 double pack Vida Noir on Op.Disc, Yoshihiro Hanno aka Radiq have made reputation as a master of carefully arranged, funk-infused minimal.
6 years of break seems fairly enough for them to re-mature perspectives on their collaboration project. Between Paris and Berlin, they exchange ideas and basis of tracks to elaborate their images on respective tracks. In consequence, those countless interchanges made this Flying One Hand album a deep yet intricate piece of work. Simply put, his album offers up an indivisibly-united ideas and techniques from two of most illustrious producers of Japan’s modern minimal music.