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Dream Chimney exclusive 'Mix of the Week' #57 is from Chee Shimizu. 
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Mix of the Week #57: Chee Shimizu - Zwakala

Chee San (Tokyo) on his tour through Europe and host Rick
« In the act of love, there is a form of life and a kind of slow death »
Recorded live at NOSE JOB on Thursday 15-06-2016
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CHEE SHIMIZU & RICK SHIVER at NOSE JOB (15-06-2017)

The masterful Japanese digger Chee Shimizu showcased his singular taste in music during the June 2017 edition of RA Live at Brilliant Corners.

RA Live

RA Live - 08.06.17 Chee Shimizu at Brilliant Corners

► Closing out a lovely evening overlooking Shibuya was Tokyo's finest – Chee Shimizu. Out to Lighthouse Records for having us and Dommune for helping make this From The Counter happen!
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Chee Shimizu Boiler Room Tokyo DJ Set

Nicoll's Ballad

Make yourself comfortable and sink into these sounds from the depths of Chee Shimizu's record collection. The Japanese collector brought the full listening bar experience to East London as we partnered with Asahi to take over East London's Brilliant Corners.

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RA Live - 06.11.19 - Chee Shimizu, Brilliant Corners

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Tale Of Us cover the full spectrum of Afterlife sounds, from stirring, sunrise epics and eyes-down techno to more inward-looking moments, individually expressing a collective vision. Crystalline melodies and emotive oscillations connect each work and form the strands which Tale Of Us weave into a momentous Voyage. From the opening tones of the label founders’ own track ‘Alone’, every turn flows further into the Realm Of Consciousness, an unbounded dimension which ends in light.

Tale Of Us - Alone

Doves / MPH

XD EP

Dead End

10.01 Lost In Synth

"Pillowland" 

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Pillowland

They Eat The Young

Listen here to the exclusive GROOVE-Premiere of @sepehr-a s' track „Crown Jewel", released digitaly and on vinyl on the 11th of December 

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Crown Jewel

Sepehr - Crown Jewel

In the 2000’s Chee Shimizu helmed an untouchable Tokyo DJ collective called Discossession alongside Dr Nishimura (House music buyer for Cisco Records at the time). Balancing out this unit were a young Scotsman-abroad named Jonny Nash (who’d later form Sombrero Galaxy [ESP001] and Gaussian Curve as well as the Melody As Truth imprint), and the late guitar virtuoso and tattoo artist Zecky. Formidable DJs and multi-talents on the Tokyo scene, Discossession released two EPs on Kenji Takimi’s Crue-L imprint and various mixes individually on www.lovefingers.org, all holding well-deserved eternal cult status. Chee’s 'Denshi Meisou' [2006] and 'Follow My Dream' [2007] for Lovefingers as well as his legendary “listening sessions” at HiFi lounge SHeLTeR in the Tokyo suburb of Hachioji, laid foundation for what would become known to his followers as “Organic Music” or “Obscure Sound”, the former extending as the name of his record shop and the latter as the title of his 2013 book. 'Obscure Sound' chronicled his tastes in detail and has since become a sort of diggers bible for peers and younger generations.

At the ESP Institute’s inception in 2009, Shimizu contributed two tracks to Lovefingers’ 'Concentration Vol 1' compilation as apéritifs to a later release. “Later” eventually became “forever” and the mythical piano track (appearing only as a demo on 'Golden Age' and 'Dekmantel 061') is still, to this day, not ready for formal release. Skip a dozen years, musical interests and major life changes, and Chee has now unveiled something quite special in accordance with his Obscure Sound — rather than making new out of old rope, he presents a collaboration with Tokyo guitarist miku-mari a.k.a. Takahiro Matsumura. The artists frequently collaborate at the experimental audio/visual event, 'Sacrifice', held irregularly at Tokyo’s ForestLimit, and in 2018 when Chee was invited to DJ at Japan’s only Ambient festival 'Camp Off-Tone', he and miku-mari endeavored to expand these works into a 2-hour improvised performance. Chee collaged various percussion samples and personal field recordings utilizing four CDJs, supplementing with live windchimes and Andean chajchas, while miku-mari coupled a guitar-controlled synthesizer, 'Sound Tube' software (developed by Japanese Ambient composer Hiroshi Yoshimura) and more live elements such as Tibetan bells and pyramid crystals. Rehearsals for this performance were held prior to the festival at ForestLimit, recorded as multi-tracks and edited into these two cerebral Reconstructions.

[ESP030] Reconstructions

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[ESP030] CHEE SHIMIZU + MIKU-MARI - A - Reconstruction 1 - SNIPPET

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