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Time's Running In (The Remixes)

A Seafarer's Map to the Overworld (Bluetech Remix)

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The Polish Ambassador - A Seafarer's Map To The Overworld (Bluetech Remix)

Bust Free 8

But I Do

O Yinne!

Yinne Te Yelle Be

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‘Where is Agartha? What is the specific region in which it lies? Along what road, through what civilizations, must one walk in order to reach it?.’ Saint-Yves d’Alveydre in 1886

Agartha, the debut full-length album by Japanese producer Wata Igarashi, is a mysterious, divine thing. Named for the mythical secret kingdom, understood as a complex maze of underground tunnels, perhaps designed by Martians who colonised the Earth tens of thousands of years ago, it’s a similarly mystical, perhaps even cosmic trip – but this time, exploring an inner, deeply personal cosmos. Beautifully detailed and bustling with rich incident, it takes Igarashi’s music to new places, which still retaining his unique sonic imprimatur; in this respect, it’s perfectly at home with Kompakt, a label that’s always encouraged artists to make the visionary music they need to create, to take risks and make sideways steps into uncharted territory.

An eloquent producer and DJ, Igarashi has been releasing techno for eleven years now, appearing on such imprints as The Bunker NY, Delsin, Midgar, and Time To Express; he has also self-released his productions via his WIP net label. Throughout, Igarashi has consistently explored his unique approach to techno and electronic music, one that’s eloquent and poised, even when it shifts into more psychedelic terrain; he’s a master at balancing the sensual and the functional, and he has an unerring ear for the right texture, the right tone, at the right time. He brings all of this into Agartha, his most thorough-going expression of self to date.

For Agartha, Igarashi had a strong concept he wanted to explore. Visualising specific scenes from an imaginary film based on the titular secret kingdom, he created soundtracks for those scenes, spending time during the pandemic in his studio, working away carefully at the ten tracks here. Given his background in creating music for television and advertisements, Igarashi is well-placed to explore the marriage of the sonic and the visual in such intimate ways, but freed from commercial concerns, he let his imagination run riot. He also drew on a rich palette of musical influences – techno is in there, of course, but you can also hear the smoky, improvised jazz of the likes of Miles Davis (to whom the album’s title is an indirect nod), and the minimalism and systems music of Steve Reich.

The latter is particularly pronounced on the gorgeous, beatless drift of “Floating Against Time”, where an arpeggiated sequence lingers, lovingly, around your ears for nine blissful minutes, coasting across swooning drones and waves of ambient noise. “Ceremony Of The Dead”, originally composed as part of a Sony 360 Reality Audio spatial sound concert, is a deep pass into systems composition, with various patterns overlaid and interlocking, before a wordless vocal rises from the depths, a gorgeous counterpoint to the swarming textures that gather across the track. On the other hand, tracks like “Burning” and “Subterranean Life” nudge toward Fourth World territory, painting deluxe dreamscapes of uncertain provenance; the title cut is an abstract drift-world, Igarashi painting an alien tableau dotted by shape-shifting creatures.

Agartha’s conceptual framework means that everything on the album sits perfectly together; listening to it in one sitting is a dizzying, lush experience. Its imaginings of inner landscapes recall, in some respects, the nautical, aqueous mythologies of the Drexciyan universe, though from different perspectives. But the result is Igarashi’s own creation, a deluxe, enchanting trip through the visionary Agartha of this unique producer’s cinematic mind’s-eye.

Agartha

Wata Igarashi - Searching

Recorded live at the Asheville Movement Collective weekly Friday Night Dance on June 7, 2024.

This mix was created with a deep reverence to the Blue Ridge, Smokey Mountains of North Carolina and the music and culture that has been birthed and cultivated there over time.

With awareness that the folk songs of the ancestors in Ireland and Scotland inspired new music such as bluegrass to be cultivated in these very Appalachian Mountains.

I wanted to include this music in the dance set in gratitude. This set is full of electronic versions the originals and remixes of more modern hip hop and house. This remixed series of songs was blended with my personal prayers to these lands. 

My dad played the banjo and I have always been inspired by Appalachian bluegrass and the twang of banjo picking.

I now release this set, as not only was it one of my personal favorite mixes, though also now, at a time when the devastating floods due to Hurricane Helene have affected the entire Asheville and North Carolina communities. This set goes out as a prayer to all those affected as support and healing. 

I didn't post this earlier as there were a couple of DJ imperfections that I didn't like as an artist, so please excuse a couple of messy parts. Hopefully, you won't notice, or perhaps it's not too bad so you can ignore it and enjoy it anyway.

Honoring the musicians and producers I included such as Human Experience, Rising Appalachia, Tropo, and a remix of Petey Pablo's Raise Up.

Appalachian Awe :: Ecstatic Dance :: Asheville Movement Collective :: June 7, 2024 :: Levi Banner

Kidayu

La vie c'est bon

Our Kind of Movement

Kashmir

DJ TreasureTailor Playlist 025 One World Bonn Global Corona Beats 2 June 2020

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The Ridge

nok nok with Evan Hatfield - The Ridge

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DJ TreasureTailor Playlist 025 One World Bonn Global Corona Beats 2 June 2020

Michael Schatzschneider aka DJ TreasureTailor

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