Artist: Jap Kasai 
Album: OWN ℃ 
Format: Digital / Tape 
Cat.No: CHI028 
Master: Jap Kasai 
Artwork: Saphy Vong 
Release Date: 10th May 2021

Japanese folk, Juke and Footwork meet in a joyful, hook-filled union on Jap Kasai’s newest album, OWN ℃. Using the Japanese concept of 温故知新 (onko-chishin), meaning "developing new ideas based on study of the past," Jap Kasai finds a totally unique expression of Japanese Ondo and Minyo folk music infused with a hypnotic and exuberant modernity.

Jap Kasai has been experimenting with ancient folk styles since 2015. He later discovered Footwork and juke.

“They created a new groove by sampling old soul music. They use soulful voices effectively,” explains the Kyoto-based producer. “So, I decided to replace [the vocals] with Japanese Monyo folk songs, because it was said that Minyo was the soul music of the country where I was born. At first it was half a joke. But, I gradually felt the depth of Minyo.” 
The marriage of Minyo and footwork isn’t as strange as it might sound on paper. On OWN ℃, the rhythmic, distended vocal style of Minyo singers (often backed by Jap Kasai’s own vocals) and the skittish, loose architecture of footwork creates a compelling new style that honours both musical traditions. Tracks such as 酔鴨 yoi kamo build in a grooving, circular loop, driven onwards by a ramshackle undercurrent of complex beats.

“Juke is a relatively new rhythm, but somehow ancient,” says Jap Kasai. “And fast rhythms make you feel slow in a way. Curiously, I got the same feeling when listening to Japanese folk songs. It's often a mix of slow drum rhythms and fast, metallic rhythms. Voices are also used differently from the West. I found this very interesting.” 
The title OWN ℃ combines a number of his concerns as an artist. It is a nod to his grandmother, ヲウン or Woun. Also, as he explains, "OWN ℃ can be read as "Ondo" in Japanese. And also OWN ℃ means "own body temperature". It is important in coronavirus disasters. Therefore, a simple wordplay gets a strange meaning.”

Despite sampling music from the recent and distant past, OWN ℃ addresses some very timely concerns. “Now the division of labour is very advanced,” he says. “We often feel as if our mind and body have become separate by internet. There are positive aspects to these systems. But I also think it has become more difficult to empathize deeply with things and to feel raw realisation. We need to change our lifestyles based on a real sense of mind and body.” A jubilant, danceable record, OWN ℃ reminds us of our own warm materiality.  

About Jap Kasai:
Based in Kyoto, Daisuke Iijima has been making music since 2015. He runs the cassette label hoge tapes.

OWN ℃

酔鴨 Yoi Kamo

Jap Kasai - 酔鴨 Yoi Kamo

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Kero Kero Bonito - Lipslap
Lido - Money (Lindsay Lowend Remix)
Perfume - パーフェクトスター・パーフェクトスタイル
SOPHIE - SOPHIE EEEHHH-NOTHING MORE TO SAY
Ayu - Greatful Days (Para One Remix)
MEISHI SMILE - 放課後の約束 (☼ SUMMER BREEZE ☼  RMX.)
AVSS - iの数式 (imoutoid's Complex Funktion Remix)
In the blue shirt - djnewtown - 2005(in the blue shirt rework)
Blu-ra¥ - Blu-Ra¥'s K¥SS0F1if3
Avec Avec - Marmalade Boogie (Carpainter Remix)
Sengoku Nadeko (Hanazawa Kana) - Ren'ai Circulation (NOSLO Remix)
花澤香菜 - ほほ笑みモード(Dance The Night Away Remix)
K BoW - 宇多田ヒカル-Distance(KBoW Jersey remix)
三毛猫ホームレス - そばが食べたい Feat. 根本凪
Carpainter - Kimini Kimini

JACK LA live mix

A three-day residency program held at Double Deer Music, collaborating Mantra Vutura (INA), @similarobjects (PH) and @PARKGOLF (JPN).

Part of the Japan Foundation’s media art exchange program launched in 2016, Bordering Practice is a project that encourages interchange among the next generation of talent with a focus on technology-driven creativity and the electronic music scene that has witnessed exciting growth in Asia through collaborations between local artists. 

During fiscal 2018, Japanese, Filipino, and Indonesian artists took part in a residency in Jakarta where they produced work together, followed by a live performance tour to Jakarta.
At the residency in Jakarta, this creative process, unfolding through the digital tools that are so definitive of electronic music, realized a collective working style in which new expression born out of collaboration coexists alongside the individual approaches of the respective artists. The music tracks linking, at times fusing sounds embody the continuing conditions of each community as well as the culture of an Internet age that forms a single scene.

After residency production, a live performance was held at Jakarta produced by Double Deer Music. Featuring six musicians from Tokyo, Manila, and Jakarta, the performance presented sounds ranging from dance music like techno and house to pop that integrates elements of city music. The communities cultivated by each of the city’s cultures reunited and re-examine one another, creating a platform for the next generation of Asia pioneered at the intersection of the local and the global.

Midnight (feat. PARKGOLF & similarobjects)

Mantra Vutura - Midnight (feat. PARKGOLF & similarobjects)

1. Amber
2. Freeway
3. Dill
4. Tragedy
5. Tokyo Family Restaurant
Recorded Mixed, Mastered by Yui Kamijima (Tsubame Studio.)

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