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MUSIQ 266LP
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Japanese veteran electronic music producer Kuniyuki Takahashi's fourth album on Mule Musiq, originally released in 2013 as a CD only, is finally available on vinyl. Features artists like Bugge Wesseltoft, Anne Clark, Henrik Schwarz, Fumio Itabashi, Sona Diabate, Tetsuro Kawashima, and Joyce Bowden. Feather World is a first class mixture of jazz, African, and soul in a modern electronic music. Edition of 500.
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MUSIQ 229EP
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Mule Musiq announce The Call Super Mixes, Call Super's remix package for our main artist Kuniyuki. In the works for some time, here are first class tunes.
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MFM 032LP
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The Japanese producer and DJ Kuniyuki Takahashi is the subject of Music From Memory's latest retrospective compilation with Early Tape Works (1986-1993). Composed of two volumes, the compilations gather together a selection of tracks from a tiny run of privately released tape only albums, highlighting a fascinating early period in Kuniyuki's musical output, one of which little is known. After discovering the world of nightclubs in Japan around 1986, and the seemingly boundless freedom expressed there through music as well as art, Kuniyuki became inspired to experiment with electronic music. Excited by the possibilities of new music technology, he would begin to gather together a number of, at that time, reasonably accessible and inexpensive local keyboards, drum computers, and recording equipment. This became for a way for Kuniyuki to explore music not as such made for nightclubs, but certainly inspired by them. Setting up a home studio in his hometown of Saporro, Kuniyuki would record extensively during this period with the equipment he had gathered together, equipment such as Roland's Juno60, TR-606, TB-303, Casio FZ-1, Korg 770, Boss DE-200, Foster A8, and a Yamaha MT44 track cassette recorder. Driven to develop a musical language derived as much by an exploration of music technology and a desire to create new sounds, Kuniyuki was also looking to evolve the possibilities of what he refers to as a "new Oriental sound". Early Tape Works )1986-1993) then brings together two albums of material which not only highlights the evolution of Kuniyuki's own work but also of Japanese electronic music as a whole.
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The Japanese producer and DJ Kuniyuki Takahashi is the subject of a retrospective compilation from Music From Memory titled Early Tape Works (1987-1993) Vol 1. Composed of two volumes, the compilations gather together a selection of tracks from a tiny run of privately released tape-only albums, highlighting a fascinating early period in Kuniyuki's musical output, one of which little is known about. After discovering the world of nightclubs in Japan around 1986, and the seemingly boundless freedom expressed there through music as well as art, Kuniyuki became inspired to experiment with electronic music. Excited by the possibilities of new music technology, he would begin to gather together a number of, at that time, reasonably accessible and inexpensive local keyboards, drum computers and recording equipment. This became for Kuniyuki a way in which to explore music not as such made for nightclubs, but certainly inspired by them. Setting up a home studio in his hometown of Saporro, Kuniyuki would record extensively during this period with the equipment he had gathered together, equipment such as Roland's Juno60, TR-606, TB-303, Casio FZ-1, Korg 770, Boss DE-200, Foster A8, and a Yamaha MT44 track cassette recorder. Driven to develop a musical language derived as much by an exploration of music technology as a desire to create new sounds, Kuniyuki was also looking to evolve the possibilities of what he refers to as a "new Oriental sound". Early Tape Works brings together two albums of material which not only highlights the evolution of Kuniyuki's own work but also of Japanese electronic music as a whole.
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MUSIQ 039CD
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Light as a feather and colorful as the autumn and spring, the new album from Kuniyuki Takahashi, sometimes known as Koss, is an affair of the heart. It spreads love while revealing that the man from Tokyo is one of the finest Japanese producers at the frontier of classic, jazz, house, ambient, and electronic songwriting. One thing all his artistic expressions have in common: they are loaded with tones and rhythms that filter and modulate human emotions without losing their natural source. He has released five full-length albums and countless EPs on Mule Musiq, progressing from an electronic producer to a musician that melts organic instruments with electronic sounds while showing his love for free-spirited rhythms and bittersweet melodies. He has also worked together with such one-of-a-kind artists like Innervisions jazz house icon Henrik Schwarz. As Koss, he's produced numerous albums and EPs, including a jazz-infiltrated ambient trip together with Minilogue boys Marcus Henriksson and Sebastian Mullaert. This album features guests like Bugge Wesseltoft, Anne Clark, and Henrik Schwarz -- just to name a few. The album opens with "Before Creation" -- a slow ambient intro enriched with sweet piano phrases, strings, and a clandestine, loop-driven rhythm. Then comes "Inner Groove," a composition in which Norway's terrific jazz pianist Bugge Wesseltoft jams to an airy rhythm arrangement that recall's Herbie Hancock's spiritual "Rain Dance." After that, Kuniyuki travels to Africa and drops an earthly rhythm for singer Sona Diabaté, who is from the West African Republic of Guinea. They hum soulfully together with a wild but noble African guitar melody. With the track "Shout" he uses electrifying percussion beats that dance around deep melancholic saxophone melodies played by Tetsuro Kawashima, one of Japan's most famous saxophone players. That's followed the guitar mojo ambient composition "The Big Wall," which functions like a little bridge that eases the listener before entering the second part of the album. This starts with the dancefloor bomb "The Session 2," which Kuniyuki produced with his long-time buddy Henrik Schwarz. A house track full of stirring jazz flute madness and Rhodes chords that have everything it takes to put a smile on the lips of dancers. Next is "Between Shadow and Lights," with legendary new wave spoken-word queen Anne Clarke, who chants with her incomparable and androgynous voice. Joyce Bowden also contributes her voice to the album. She hums to a folk-influenced rhythm track that waves goodbye to the listener.
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