Since the release of his debut works in 2011,RYOTA OPP has presented new creativity within the rise of a new worldwide generation of
Disco/ House culture and the Japanese Club scene.This time round he offers a richer musical expression,and challenges
notions of new balearic/electronic composition. Widening its value for contemporary listeners.
"Esoterica"s concept and theme combines historical movements of early club music and old primitive music. Inspired by
Eastern European art,but also reaching within various roots music,Asian,African,and South American. The artist's personal nostalgia and travel memories are embedded throughout,expressing the emotional richness that everyday dance music is often devoid of. Psychedelic,private,an unnamed journey,old but new,a snapshot intime. To colour this mind-movement,the first song features
Go Max Goda (aka Kaeko Kimura)known well in the Japanese underground scene,
playing synthesizer in various bands.Astringency,features Nicolas Jorio,guitarist of the French band La Chatte,creates sorrowful
but beautiful distortions before the albums climax.

【RYOTA OPP (Meda Fury / R&S)】
Ryota Arai a.k.a Ryota OPP is from Tokushima Prefecture in Japan. He started his career as a DJ and event organiser in 1999,
then moved to Tokyo to further pursue his musical journey,and to gain more experience.
Ryota has never sat still when it comes to working in music. From being a highly respected buyer for a record shop, remixing artists and producing his own tracks, being behind the decks at a club or on radio, he enjoys it all. He became a buyer in 2008
at the Coconuts Disk record shop in Ekoda, Tokyo,a favourite amongst collectors and DJ’s, he was trusted for his wide taste and multi-genre knowledge.
His first release was on a mix-cd called ‘Garakuta’, including many styles from afrobeat to new wave, cold funk or dub .
This widescreen approach made him a hit in the Japanese underground scene.
His first self-produced album was released in 2011 from his own label‘Future Life’.
In 2015 his first 12inch ‘Future Life EP’ was signed to the UK experimental-house label Meda Fury after a chance encounter with
the owner. Since then Meda Fury put his debut LP‘Pale Lux’out at the end of 2016.
The following year Ryota presented a soothing selection of Japanese classical music by Toru Takemistu, put together for The Vinyl Factory’s respected online magazine.
Also in 2017 he remixed a track for label mate Pletnev's ‘St. Bones EP’. Released by the Italian label ‘Les Temps Perdu’ it was played by domestic and foreign DJs.
In early 2018,he went on a European tour of Berlin,London and Paris.
He featured as a special guest African Acid Is The Future in Berlin - going down a storm with his multi-genre/bpm set.
Later he established the reissue label ‘Time Capsule’ with friends
in London. The first release came in September, curating a masterpiece album ‘Oasis’ from 1978
by Federico Mon Arduini aka Il Guardiano Del Faro - a pioneer of Italian electronic music.
Now in fall 2019 he is about to release his second album,challenging the definition of club music through composition,
whilst incorporating experimental and meditation/wellness sounds - it’s titled ‘Esoterica’.

Ryota OPP - Esoterica (Cassette Album) [clips]

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Delicate Records sheds it’s soft sensitive skin; evolving through a callous cross-Canadian melding of the minds. Dosis is Nap (Isla / Ambien Baby) and ZDBT (1800HaightStreet / Phost), an organically masterful combination; the partnership conjuring instinctive chantings of the deep with Naranja and it’s frisky B side dub. 
 
The title track is a drill in percussive practice, a repetition session for body release. With furious inhale, a grating of timbres and captivating clap-backs are sucked in through the senses, trickling down to the toes. Lured by swampy wubs of sub, amoebic roots in drums and primal hymns drenched out past the horizon. The essence of erosion seeps through on the flip; Nap’s imitable vocals finding a home in a hypnotic habitat, stretched duration and gorgeous frolic. A drop into dubby bliss; shrieking skritches and distortions fly rogue, yet discover curious harmony. 
 
An essential disc for freaky folk; head in the clouds and feet dug deep.


Dosis - Naranja
Cat: DR002
Format: 12”
Distributed by One Eye Witness
Artwork by Daisy Watson
Words by Katie Campbell
Preorder: now
Release date: 04.01.2021

Dosis - Naranja [DR002]

DC Promo Tracks #933: "Midnight Theater" by Ryota OPP is part of the release "Ashigakari Volume 1" on Ashigakari  @diskotopia  

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DC Promo Tracks #933: Ryota OPP "Midnight Theater"

Bochum Welt’s 2019 LP ‘Seafire’ and its accompanying remix album are two of the Central Processing Unit label’s most beloved releases. However, links between the two parties run far deeper than just those records.

You see, the tracks that Gianluigi Di Costanzo cut as Bochum Welt in the 1990s and 2000s are in the very DNA of the celebrated Sheffield imprint. Bochum Welt’s drops on labels like Rephlex made for some of the most celebrated electronic music releases of the era and went on to influence producers the world over - including many of those who have turned up on CPU since it launched in 2012.

As such, it makes sense that two of the most crucial EPs from Bochum Welt’s first wave are now being given new life by CPU. ‘Desktop Robotics’ and ‘Feelings On A Screen’ initially emerged in 1997 via Aphex Twin’s Rephlex imprint. Now, Di Costanzo has curated this special CPU release to celebrate both of those EPs making it to 25. This is a reissue with a twist, though. While ‘Desktop Robotics / Feelings On A Screen’ features many crucial cuts from the original pressings, the record also serves up other gems gathered from Bochum Welt’s original master tapes - all of which have never previously been released on vinyl.

The ‘Desktop Robotics’ cuts which make for the record’s first half are dreamy, impressionistic things. On this quartet, Bochum Welt plays painterly synth work off of idiosyncratic drum programming to illuminating effect. The opening title-track, for instance, blooms from a clattering, distorted beat into an icily beguiling electronic soundscape, a vibe which carries through to following number ‘HMT (202 Mix)’.

Things become more weightless on ‘Leafs Brought By The Wind’, a potent vignette where you can almost see the leaves falling amidst its reverb-drenched haze. We then get ethereal ‘Marylebone (Demo Version)’. Anyone who’s heard the iteration of ‘Marylebone’ which appeared on Bochum Welt’s 2017 LP ‘April’ will be pleasantly surprised by this alternate mix. Here the track pulls away from pretty post-minimalist piano composition to widescreen ambience - it’s so warm and intimate that it feels like peeking behind a curtain to observe an artist at work.

Things ramp up a notch with the tracks taken from in and around ‘Feelings On A Screen’. The title cut kicks off the record’s second half in limber fashion, its nimble percussion programming dancing around a pulsing bassline. Like A Tim’s mix of ‘Greenwich’ is still as much of a party-starter as it was on the original ‘Feelings On A Screen’ release, with the Djax-Up-Beats veteran setting buoyant rhythm work against a playful, eccentric lead-line. 

Between these tunes we are treated to one of the gems of the Bochum Welt discography. In 2007, Di Costanzo split an EP with Heinrich Mueller, an artist best known as Drexciya’s Gerald Donald. That record featured Mueller’s ‘Z Version’ of Bochum Welt’s ‘Saint’, and the track’s appearance here, with machine gun bass burbling alongside strange textures, joins the dots between Di Constanzo’s style and the pulsating machine-funk that Donald helped popularise. Things close out with ‘North’, a frostily beautiful ambience which makes for a fitting bookend to this album when taken alongside ‘Desktop Robotics’.

This 25th anniversary re-release of Bochum Welt’s ‘Desktop Robotics’ and ‘Feelings On A Screen’ EPs reminds us that, while time may have passed, the appeal of Bochum Welt’s electronic music remains as strong as ever.

RIYL: AFX, Mike Paradinas, Boards Of Canada, Mrs Jynx

Bochum Welt - Desktop Robotics & Feelings On A Screen (25th Anniversary Edition)

Cahl Sel "Every Moment " EP 

A1- Every Moment 
A2- Paranoia 
B1 -Routine 
B2 February

Every Moment EP

PREVIEW: Cahl Sel - Every Moment EP (REF019)

Hour 1: Alex Egan
01. Doof - Mantra [Mysticisms]

02. Oro Azul - Lemuria [Mood Hut]

03. Kouslin - Soup And Jam [Kouslin]

04. Effective Force - Diamond Bullet (Act 1 – Will To Power) [Transmigration]

05. Mortal - Mentor: Low Flying [Sunny Crypt]

06. DMX Krew - Escape To 92 [Hypercolour]

07. Mr. Ho - 000 Baby [Klasse Wrecks]

08. Alex Kassian - E2-E4 (Mad Professor’s Qantas Crazy Remix 2) [forthcoming on Test Pressing]

09. Pure Science - Ekeyz [Favorite Recordings]

10. Shinichi Atobe - Dub 6(six) [DDS]

11. Syclops - Pink Sarah NYC Is Back [Bubbletease Communications]

12. Labyrinthine - Integumento Labyrinthum [forthcoming on Utter]

13. Dopplereffekt - Programmable Organism [Curtis Electronix]

14. Theo Kottis - Lighthouse [Dekmantel]

15. Xray Xperiments - Techcore (Edit) [Blank Mind]

	

Hour 2: Nick Williams	

16. Silsila Dubs - Walk In The Light feat. Luther Vine [Silsila Dubs]

17. Ilo - Supernature [Nómada Records]

18. Der Strom - Dammerung [Industrial Lies]

19. The Holy Ghost Inc. - In The Groove Of The Ghost [Holy Ghost Inc.]

20. Pir - Lasis [Off Topic]

21. Shinichi Atobe - Ongaku 1 [DDS]

22. DJ Kolt - Vuguvuguu [Príncipe]

23. Dan Andrei - Oddity [a:rpia:r]

24. rrao - Ramanujan Prime [Worldwide Unlimited]

25. Persian - UK Apache Dubplate Mix [Existence Is Resistance]

26. Major Problems - Overdose (The Final Trip) [Nu Groove]

27. Rotor - Nexocis [Up-Roar]

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Phonica Records with Alex Egan & Nick Williams - 05 May 2024

Our next exclusive podcast comes from someone with a long and close relationship with Dekmantel: back in 2007 the mighty Aadvarck ('Varke', for his friends) headlined out first ever party. After 30 years on the decks and in the studio few do it better than this man, who has released on Skudge, Delsin, Rush Hour and together with Steven de Peven acquired quite a lot of attention with the Rednose Distrikt collective (which will see a very unique one-off come-back performance at Dekmantel Festival this summer). First and foremost he is a DJ though, as this mix - recorded during one of the final nights at Amsterdam's Trouw -  proves. 

Over the years, Aardvark has dabbled in jungle and breaks, trip hop and broken beat, but nowadays it is fierce house and techno that he lays down. This mix starts with some soul infused house sounds before energetically switching up through piano jams, spangled techno, rave and retro. Never staying in one place for long, it is a lithe affair that fluidly flips the mood with every other record and keeps you on your toes throughout. Filled with new records and old records, classics and overlooked gems, this is a whirlwind two hour ride that will help you fly through Monday on a real high.

Dekmantel Podcast 006 - Aardvarck

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The Tent (at the End of the Universe) returns to OpenLab, this month featuring a guest mix from Meda Fury label founder and Phonica Records Assistant Manager, Nick Williams. For more than 15 years, Nick has been regularly serving up new releases to some of the busiest international DJs, while also releasing exotic strains of house music from across the globe through Meda Fury. Unrestricted in his DJ sets, he explores a rich patchwork of sub-genres.

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Ahead of a couple of sets at Spirit of Eden Toby has kindly made us a mix which is loosely an extension of his Dub & Bleeps Oddities series. It really shows the breadth of his musical knowledge and mining skills as after the last 2 we were thinking surely you can’t have another 2 hours of unheard gems yet he delivers here in style. There are a couple of really fun oddball covers amongst some bassy deepness and a beautiful Bill Nelson track that we didn't know, to open with.  xxx

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If you’ve been to Phonica in the past 15+ years, you likely know Nick Williams—an integral figure behind the counter, sharing his deep and eclectic musical taste with everyone from global DJs to underground newcomers. As founder of Meda Fury Records, he’s championed soulful, leftfield sounds, discovering artists like DJ Seinfeld along the way. A seasoned DJ himself, Nick has played iconic clubs like Fabric and Corsica, known for genre-defying sets that span ambient, house, techno, post-punk, jungle, and beyond. His latest mix reflects this wide scope—layered, emotional, and full of unexpected gems.

Phonica Friends & Family Mix Series 24: Nick Williams

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Phonica Records with Soho & Nick Williams - 21st October 2017

Since the release of his debut works in 2011,RYOTA OPP has presented new creativity within the rise of a new worldwide generation of
Disco/ House culture and the Japanese Club scene.This time round he offers a richer musical expression,and challenges
notions of new balearic/electronic composition. Widening its value for contemporary listeners.
"Esoterica"s concept and theme combines historical movements of early club music and old primitive music. Inspired by
Eastern European art,but also reaching within various roots music,Asian,African,and South American. The artist's personal nostalgia and travel memories are embedded throughout,expressing the emotional richness that everyday dance music is often devoid of. Psychedelic,private,an unnamed journey,old but new,a snapshot intime. To colour this mind-movement,the first song features
Go Max Goda (aka Kaeko Kimura)known well in the Japanese underground scene,
playing synthesizer in various bands.Astringency,features Nicolas Jorio,guitarist of the French band La Chatte,creates sorrowful
but beautiful distortions before the albums climax.

esoterica

A1 Esoteric Feat Go Max Goda (aka Kaeko Kimura)[clip]

A2 Sanctuary [clip]

A3 Succession [clip]

A4 Scope [clip]

A5 White Birch [clip]

Contact and bookings:
nrowilliams@hotmail.com

Meda Fury is a new London based label, bringing new and established producers together from across the globe. 
House music is a broad artform - and over each release we will be exploring the infinite possibilities within this genre.  
Using the extended player as a story-telling canvas we hope to create a breeding ground and network for disparate artists from many different countries. 
Limited vinyl followed by digital download.

A1 Esoteric Feat Go Max Goda (aka Kaeko Kimura)[clip]

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