Name: 夢のめがね by hamadahideaki
Duration: 3 min 53 s
Description: Songbird

https://www.rushhour.nl/record/vinyl/nde

First ever vinyl pressing of Haruomi Hosono's full album N.D.E. Featuring Goh Hotoda, Yasuhiko Terada, Yasuaki Shimizu, Bill Laswell & François Kevorkian. Big TIP!

Ever since his days as a pioneer of Japanese electronic music in the 1970s, Haruomi Hosono has constantly pushed forwards musically. The 1990s was a particularly fertile decade for the Yellow Magic Orchestra co-founder. Following two decades spent creating and releasing innovative electronic pop, imaginary sound worlds and inspirational ambient music, Hosono established the Daisyworld label to showcase cutting-edge ambient, techno and electronica, while also embarking on a wide range of often overlooked collaborative projects.

N.D.E. - , one of the headiest, psychedelic, evocative and gently mind-altering albums in Hosono’s vast discography, is one such project. It formed part of a run of albums that saw the Japanese producer embrace contemporaneous influences – think Spacetime Continuum style ambient techno, DJ Spooky-esque illbient, weighty ambient dub and the ‘ambient house’ antics of The Orb – in his own inimitable, far-sighted style.

He was ably assisted on N.D.E. by an undeniably impressive roll call of collaborators, most notably no-wave hero turned ambient explorer Bill Laswell (who Hosono subsequently worked with on joint album Interpieces Organisation), NYC DJ/producer Francois Kevorkian, and fellow Japanese ambient pioneer Yasuaki Shimizu.

With such a stellar cast-list, it’s perhaps unsurprising that N.D.E. has achieved cult status over the years, despite being near impossible to find outside of Hosono’s native Japan. Remarkably, it never received a full vinyl release, with only five of the set’s cuts appearing on an ultra-limited sampler. Now Rush Hour is putting the record straight, delivering a DJ-friendly, remastered version that spreads that album’s seven tracks across two slabs of vinyl.

N.D.E. remains an impressive, unearthly and otherworldly album. Its unique and distinctive sound makes use of multiple nods to Eastern musical culture – think Tabla rhythms, heady violin courtesy of guest musician Arun Bagal, and transcendental synth sounds – but also throbbing techno grooves, Pete Namlook style ambient electronics, spaced-out dub rhythms, bubbly melodies reminiscent of Warp Records Artificial Intelligence-era IDM output, trippy tribal drums, and immersive electronic dream-scapes that recall the greatest exponents of Japanese new-age ambient music.

Highlights are plentiful, from the Test Department-at-dawn brilliance of Bill Laswell co-production ‘Edge of the End’ and the sunrise-ready, dew-fresh dreaminess of ‘Aero’, to the surging ambient techno hedonism of ‘Strange Attractor’ – a near cult cut that remains a timeless slab of hallucinatory dancefloor excellence – and the slow-motion space-dub of Francois Kevorkian collaboration ‘Teaching of Sphinx’, whose oddly processed sounds and low-slung bass subtly reference the Orb’s earlier remix of YMO’s ‘Tong Poo’.

There’s also the impeccable, pleasingly experimental ‘Spinning Spirits’ – all addictive Indian rhythms, punishingly distorted bass, raw electronics and paranoid aural textures – and the sparkling bliss of ‘Heliotherapy’, a woozy chunk of sun-bright electronic hypnotism that encapsulates everything good about Hosono’s mid-90s productions.

Heliotherapy

from アルバム「イメージと出来事」(2014年/CD)

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Wallflower - Feverfew

2015 RECORD STORE DAY only Release
Especia 4th Vinyl「Primavera」

A
01.アバンチュールは銀色に(PellyColo Remix)
02.FOOLISH(12" Extended Ver)

B
01.きらめきシーサイド(12" Extended Ver)
02.海辺のサティ(va Bien Edit)

きらめきシーサイド(12" Extended Ver)

千紗子と純太 / 夢の海
Release: Jan. 20, 2017
Format: 12inch EP (with DL code)
Label: kongariongaku
No. KONG-017
¥2,000 + tax

track list
side A: "夢の海"
side B: "落花有意 流水无情(luò huā yǒu yì, liú shuǐ wú qíng)"

夢の海

シーサイド(幻のライブバージョン)

Second single from the debut album from Pet Shimmers 'Face Down In Meta'. Pre-order the tasty vinyl ere:
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“If Sparkle Motion needed a moody dance number about body positivity, Post-Dick Circle Fuck is it. Not everyone is totally stoked on themselves and Post-Dick Circle Fuck kinda says, “Let’s talk about that”. That’s until we realise what it’s really saying which is “Pet Shimmers, Sparkle Motion would like some bit-washed guitar slide finishing moves thrown into that talk”, duh, can’t you see into portals? Us: never doubt our commitment to Sparkle Motion.”

You should be famous too, for falling in love with you
It’s ok to feel like storms, I promise to be the calm before
Reborn inside a downpour, we are a miracle to bear…
Witness to
Witness to
Collapsed like ideas
Poor Tyson’s trachea 
What a sugar bowl
All full of circling ants
Doing a weird dance
In some dream about
The birthplace of clouds
Where life just turned around

What a sugar bowl
All full of circling ants
Doing a weird dance
In some dream about
The birthplace of clouds
Where life just turned around

Tyson

FOLK SONGS

夢のめがね

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Eades’ latests single “Same Guy” uses bollywood rhythms to tackle the foreboding of growing older. With a steady groove reminiscent of 90’s classic Loaded the band carry you through the track with sample-esque guitar riffs and and a pocketed percussion section, held together with their self produced lo-fi recording style.

“The song started out with a pair of riffs Dave had been working on inspired by Bollywood music in an attempt to force us down a different style sonically. Making us break away from a certain writing style that had become typical in the writing process of our first EP Then there was the chorus melody Dave brought forward and instantly I knew it was a keeper.”

Enjoy,
Eades

Same Guy

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