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HOT MIXXX Quarterly Report :: Q2 - 2017

Fourth episode of the monthly Angis Music Show for Universal Rhythms Radio with special guest from Tokyo, Kaoru Inoue aka Chari Chari (@kaoru324).

Samuele Pagliai(start - 56:22)
Kaoru Inoue(56:23 - end)

Universal Rhythms | Angis Music Show w/ Samuele Pagliai & Kaoru Inoue - June 4th, 2021

Kaoru Inoue is one of our first and most loyal supporters. But most of all he's a fantastic dj and producer. He runs the always fresh Seeds and Ground label and produces under the moniker Chari Chari. We are very happy to have him on board. His selection spans an arc from heavy percussions to soundcapes and back.
More about Kaoru -  https://soundcloud.com/kaoru324

LOODcast 45 ~ Kaoru Inoue

It's a great pleasure to welcome Japanese electronic music stronghold Kaoru Inoue (@kaoru324), also known as Chari Chari and founder of the Seeds And Ground label, to the mix series. Interview (excerpt) down below.

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MFM: Welcome on board of the series Kaoru. You're from Japan and are living in Tokyo. Do you find Tokyo, and Japan as whole, a positive place to be at as an artist?

KI: Tokyo is a fascinating city, full of crazy stimuli and exciting noise, but I don’t need it anymore as the years go by, especially after the pandemic. So now I feel like an outsider loving Tokyo and living a quiet life in its suburbs. I think it’s a positive place for artists in the sense that it’s still rich in nature and food, and the population is decreasing, despite having experienced the high economic growth and the high information society, but what we learned again after the pandemic is that government protection policies are fragile. 

MFM: Your musical output as a producer is quite large and rather versatile, from acoustic guitar sessions to more new age like soundscapes to broken beat and deep house. Where does this versatility come from? 

KI: I think it's because I've been deeply committed to music since my teens. From YMO to post-punk, ethnic, rare groove to deep house, I was already looking for and listening to music like a researcher from a young age. So I started DJing naturally as a way to mix and share my records, and my outputs could be a fusion of them. However, so to speak, I’ve been most influenced by the contextuality of House music, and when looking at everything from a bird’s eye view, I can say that my main interest is, in a word, in “Minimalism”.

MFM: Your music -regardless which moniker you use- sounds extremely organic, very earthly but also mystical and sacred. As if it was recorded far deep in nature amongst some indigenous tribe's ritual. Where does this signature sound come from, what are its origins?

KI: My early tunes were strongly influenced by the atmosphere of Bali & Java in Indonesia, where I used to visit in my twenties, and I think it still remains somewhere in me. I also have a cultural anthropological interest in folk or tribal music from all over the world, and I even am influenced by ecological ideas. (In recent years, I’ve been more into traditional & contemporary music from my own country than ever before.) I think that’s why it is.

MFM: Hence your own label's name Seeds And Ground too probably? 

KI: Indeed, and it’s a metaphor for sex and creation.

MFM: How about the instruments? There's guitar, lots and lots of percussion, marimba, field recordings, plenty chords too... Are you a trained musician and do you record all these parts yourself (with the real instruments)? 

KI: I had learnt to play piano as a child and taught myself to play guitar from the age of 13. However, after encountering DJ culture in my early twenties, I quit a band and didn’t play an instrument for a while. So I know a little more about harmony, chords and so on than the average DJ. I’ve also started to play the guitar again a little bit in a few projects since I started producing electronic music, but only in a very specific way. I’ve also recorded with many different musicians so far.

MFM: So, what can you tell about the mix you've made? Did you record it with a certain vibe or theme or purpose in mind?

KI: It’s a rethinking of “New Age”ish or “Obscure”ish music, past and present. Some Japanese music from the 80s and 90s has also been included with respect to Eiji & Norio who compiled “Heisei No Oto”. And two of my recent tracks as Chari Chari are also included.

MFM: By the way, by the look of your shirt you're a Jodorowsky fan? :)

KI: I look up to Jodorowsky as my mentor, especially after reading his autobiography. I got this shirt as a return from the Endless Poetry crowdfunding campaign.

MFM Mix 034: Kaoru Inoue

Following our good friend Lee Burridge past the sunset and well into the day as sandstorms whipped past us in the background we stood amongst friends and strangers (who are just friends we’ve yet to meet) and we danced and celebrated together, participating in the beauty of a shared moment that can only be held in our memories as a mere shadow of what we truly experienced… What an honor to be part of it all. A big thank you to everyone who helped make that moment happen.

Photo credit: Daniel Eiba
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Thugfucker - Robot Heart - Burning Man 2014

live on mixlr 18.09.14, the day Syro leaked.

Come On You Cunts Let's Have Some Aphex Classics

Live DJ mix at DOMMUNE - a live streaming station in Tokyo / this show was broadcast from Nerima Art Museum - for a special program celebrating the release of the concept album "Dedicated to the Island" by Kaoru Inoue.
https://www.dommune.com/streamings/2023/100901/

屋久島ベースの旅雑誌「Saunter Magazine」のために作られた、屋久島をテーマにしたオリジナル・アルバム「Dedicated to the Island」発売を記念してDOMMUNEにてストリーミング配信（練馬区立美術館より）された番組でのDJミックス。

Track ID
01. Kaoru Inoue - Nagareru
02. Kaoru Inoue - Tobitatsu
03. Kaoru Inoue - Mushikiki
04. Kaoru Inoue - The Basement Duet
05. CV & JAV - Stone Circle
06. Final Drop - Mimyo
07. Final Drop - Space Time Polyrhythm
08. Final Drop - Unsui-Kyo
09. Final Drop - A Thousand Years Old Three Dub
10. Kaoru Inoue - Hoshifuru
11. Kaoru Inoue - Tengaku ~ Kodama
12. Chari Chari - Of Mystic Dreams (Unreleased Drum Track)
13. Ryuichi Sakamoto - The 'Dreaming'
14. Petre Inspirescu - Lumiere
15. Patryk Zakrocki - Martian Landscapes
16. Petre Inspirescu - delir 1
17. D.K. - Echo Chamber
18. Steve Reich - Eight Lines (Howie B Remix)
19. Evergreen Club Contemporary Gamelan - Palace III

Live mix at Dommune 09.Oct.2023

Dam Funk live vinyl set with Sweater Funk at Monarch 2015

Dam-Funk Live at Monarch with Sweater Funk March 2015

Afrobeat legend and percussion pioneer Tony Allen sat down with Moses Boyd, one of the UK's finest young drummers to share knowledge, beats and techniques as part of our Gateways series with Guardian.

This project is brought to you in collaboration with the British Council. Our shared vision for Gateways Nigeria is to build cultural connections and create links between British and Nigerian artists.

Find out more about Gateways Nigeria here: https://boilerroom.tv/gateways-nigeria/

Tony Allen & Moses Boyd Masterclass Boiler Room x Guardian Gateways

"Los Angeles is a special place with a vast amount of multicultural influences hitting you from different angles at all times. This is reflected in the range of music we’ve adopted - from the booming bass instilled in us; from gangsta rap to the breezy classic soul that will always be a staple in southern California. All of this plus a desire to have the most banging and heavy track combines to create what is now known as the LA Beat Scene. The sound could only come from Los Angeles, where bass and medical marijuana run free." - @dj-nobody, @lowendtheory808

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LIVE FROM THE BOARD + CROWD MIC RECORDED MARCH 4TH 2017 FOR THE HYDRA LONDON

Avalon Emerson Live at Printworks London 2017

ARABIC BY NIGHT @ Red Light Radio 04-10-2017

KAORU INOUE -appears on Rainbow Disco Club three years in a row- made a new mix for RDC podcast.This mix contains his outstanding skills which he cultivated in his thirty years career.Its a bit different style of music he plays on 2Day of RDC, but still, it's nobody but KAORU INOUE.

RDC 018 - KAORU INOUE

静岡県沼津市に佇む禅寺、大中寺を舞台にしたカルチャーフェスティバル「MUSO Culture Festival 2021」各アーティストによる禅の世界を想起させるコンセプチュアルなMIXをお楽しみください。

MUSO Culture Festival 2021 is a culture festival held at Daichuji temple in Numazu City, Shizuoka, Japan. Sit back and enjoy the MIX that reminiscent Zen world.

for more info
www.muso-festival.com

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Kaoru Inoue (Seeds And Ground / Chari Chari)

DJ/音楽プロデューサー。高校時代から20代前半までパンク～ロックバンドでのギタリスト経験を経て、1989年にアシッドジャズの洗礼とともにDJカルチャーへ没入。Chari Chari、そしてKaoru Inoue名義での音楽制作やリミックスで数々の作品を残し、またクラブ、野外フェス問わず様々な現場でのDJ活動を通してオルタナティブなダンスミュージックの可能性を追求してきた。2003年より自主レーベル“Seeds And Ground”を“Crue-L”傘下に立ち上げ（2009年に独立）本名Kaoru Inoue名義でのダンス・ミュージックにフォーカスしたリリースを中心に現在に至る。一方、DJだけでは表現しきれない自身の豊かな音楽性はDSKこと小島大介とのミニマル・アコースティック・ギター・デュオAurora Acousticの作品・ライブ活動に記されている。2014年、12年ぶりにChari Chari名義を復活させ、ライブ・バンドとして再生、2016年に長尺曲のカップリング「Fading Away / Luna de Lobos」をアナログ・リリース。2018年にはポルトガルのレーベル“Groovement”より、ダンスの狂騒から離れ、よりエレクトロニック〜アンビエントなどにフォーカスしたKaoru Inoue名義でのアルバム『Em Paz』をリリースした。2020年にはChari Chari名義での新アルバム『We hear the last decades dreaming』をリリース。辺境愛に満ちたオーガニックなエレクトロニック・サウンドが話題を呼んでいる。

Kaoru Inoue is a DJ and a music producer who runs a label called ‘Seeds And Ground’. Since high school to early 20s, throughout the experience of being a gui-tarist in puck rock bands, in 1989 he first came across with acid jazz and that led him to dive into a DJ culture.
Under the names of Kaoru Inoue and Chari Chari, he has created many musical works and remixes, and has performed at various indoor clubs and outdoor festi-vals to pursue possibilities of dance music through DJing.
On the other hand, he has also formed a minimal acoustic guitar duo called ‘Auro-ra Acoustic’ with Daisuke Kojima aka ‘DSK’ in order to expand the range of his musicality.
In 2014, he revived his alias ‘Chari Chari’ as a live band, and in 2016, he released Chari Chari’s new EP ‘Fading Away / Luna de Lobos’ on vinyl. It was the first time for them to release in 14 years after the last release of 'Aurora EP', it gave rise to a huge buzz.
In 2018, he released an LP ‘Em Paz’ from a label ‘Groovement’ in Portugal. The LP is a celestial ambient album from the beginning to the end and it contributes a transformative and harmonious listening meditation to the audience.
Even after his 30-year career, his sound is still radical, yet universal that bright up the scene.

Website：http://www.seedsandground.com
Soundcloud：https://soundcloud.com/kaoru324
Bandcamp：https://seedsandground.bandcamp.com
Mixcloud：https://www.mixcloud.com/kaoruinoue
Instagram：https://www.mixcloud.com/kaoruinoue