Name: RA Live - 08.06.17 Chee Shimizu at Brilliant Corners by Resident Advisor
Duration: 1 h 38 min 5 s
Description: The masterful Japanese digger Chee Shimizu showcased his singular taste in music during the June 2017 edition of RA Live at Brilliant Corners.

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

passing it clockwise is good luck,
anyone can join the joy of joint, just choose a time and post !

tracklist
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Passing it clockwise (23:10 - Flatic)

CHIDA自九十年初期成為東京地下House music界的先峰，除了DJ身份外，他也是一位德高重望的製作人，自2009年開始營運廠牌Ene Records。二十年的DJ的生涯，Chida既是面向世界，又是整個House和Techno新浪潮中的依然屹立不倒的人物。

 與Masters at Work、Strictly Rhythm和Nuyorican Soul等等傳奇音樂單位關係密切，多次同台演出，Chida都從中學習。在家鄉他以超過十二小時的馬拉松DJ set為人知悉。2009年開始營運個人廠牌Ene Records，為地下House music界注入新力量，分別有Prins Thomas、Eddie C、Man Power、Tiago、Lord of The Isles及日本本地音樂人如The Backwoods、Cos Mes和Sly Mongoose均在Ene Records旗下推出作品。

 他在ESP Institute千喚萬喚之下推出首張十二吋作品「Danca」後，他終於百忙之中製作更多個人作品，包括原創歌曲和不同的混音作品，都收歸於Ene Records旗下。

 在各DJ包括Eric “Dr Dunks” Duncan、The Idjut Boys、Lindstrom、Mak E、Justin Vandervolgan、 Andrew Weatherall、Soft Rocks、Discodromo等人都讚口不絕，Chida是名符其實DJ中的DJ。 在這個音樂製作地位高於DJ手藝的世代，單憑DJ身份就在國際舞台上大放異彩，Chida絕對是一個異數。

CHIDA has been a pioneer of the Tokyo underground house music scene from early 90s. Influential DJs playing around the world, he is also a very respected producer and run the label Ene Records since 2009. 
 
 Revered after more than 20 years as one of the most respected DJs in Tokyo, Chida is front and centre in the exciting new wave of House and Techno DJs who are now finding fame around the world.
 
 Learning his craft playing alongside legends like Masters at Work, and at Strictly Rhythm and Nuyorican Soul Label Parties, Chida is famed in his home country for his marathon sets which have been known to last well in excess of 12 hours.

 Since 2009 Chida has been running his label “Ene”, one of the most respected underground imprints amongst true house music aficionados, boasting a list of contributors including Prins Thomas, Eddie C, Man Power, Tiago, Lord of The Isles and homegrown Japanese talent such as The Backwoods, Cos Mes, and Sly Mongoose.
  
 Finally, after so much anticipation following his much sought after debut 12”, Danca, on ESP Institute, Chida is finally about to release more music, with originals and remixes due on both his own label, and several others in 2016.
 
 Respected and even, on occasion, name-dropped by such amazing DJs as Eric “Dr Dunks” Duncan, The Idjut Boys, Lindstrom, Mak E, Justin Vandervolgan, Andrew Weatherall , Soft Rocks, Discodromo and a whole load more, Chida is truly a DJ’s DJ.

 In this modern time where music production all too often takes precedence over true DJing craftsmanship, Chida remains that rarest of phenomena, a performer who has managed to carve out a global DJIng schedule purely from the merits of his sheer skill behind the decks.

MIX026 - Chida (東京)

Ari Balouzian – Comfort Or Freedom
Pool Boy – Closed for Renovations
Agosta – Don Alfio
Tracisgrey – Night Eyes
Leisure Centre – 食料品店
Wojciech Jagielski– Śniadanie Pod Palmą
Wichita LimeWire –  Be My BonziBUDDY
Lil Creepshow – Underwater Racetrack
Tracisgrey – Wet Night
Alina Baraz –  The Beginning
死夢Vanity – ソウルメイト
Desert Sand Feels Warm At Night – 第一次
DX-Digital – Magic Rose
Employee – Romantic Relax
Bahamadia – Interlude
swing slow - Voo Doo Surfer
Tibor Szemzo - Einstein-Express
Dick Hyman - I'm Glad There Is You (5ive bit)
Civilistjävel! – Untitled
Thomas Fehlmann – Wunschwechsler
Dentistry - bdw
Odopt - Orch Noise
Twin Peaks Angelo Badalamenti explains how he wrote Laura Palmer's Theme (piano)
Tonio Rubio – Dead Slow 

artwork by Hiroto Ise
instagram.com/iseneehihinee

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cosxmes 2022mix

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Mix For Zndry Zdolphe - Mixed By 5ive (cos/mes)

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Butter Mix #35 - Albrecht La'Brooy

artwork by Hiroto Ise
instagram.com/iseneehihinee

susan mazer & dallas smith – celestial cathedral
maurice deebank – silver fountain of paradise square
jean-michel jarre – ethnicolor ii
linkwood – outside in
kettenkarussell – drama
cloudface – bobok
rio padice – summer season
powder – untitled
lerosa – mode7
club no-no & svn – untitled
zsou – admiral byrd (samo dj remix)
mix mup – de balkons
lifted – silver
tim toh – tourist

Noise In My Head on NTS 04/08/15 w/ Powder

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

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RA Live - 08.06.17 Chee Shimizu at Brilliant Corners

Japanese DJ and producer Powder rightfully debuting and delivering a mix of mirth house and techno on a sunny day.

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Hailing via Ontario (CA), Brandon co-founded the famous "inivisible City" Record Shop in Toronto which has since then released some important re-issues on the self-owned label and generally become a haven for the local record-digging scene. 

Around 2016/ 2017, however, Brandon has parted with Invisible City and it certainly did not take him long to establish his own fantastic label "Séance Centre" which does not solely focus on the music  but instead situates its releases in their individual cultural and physical environments via visual modalities like photos and documentary but also word-based comunication such as interviews, essays or storytelling.

It was immediately clear to us that his approach fits perfectly with 5918mins. and so we are glad that Brandon has contributed this summer special full of goodness, seamlessly meandering between more experimental and pleasing sounds. Perfect for the current heat wave.

RA Live - 08.06.17 Chee Shimizu at Brilliant Corners

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