2013 marks a decade of Y-3 and its pioneering sport-style aesthetic—a look that continues to meld the avant-garde genius of Yohji Yamamoto with the breakthrough innovation of adidas. adidas is pleased to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Y-3 with a compilation album in collaboration with Alex Prat aka Alex from Tokyo (Tokyo Black Star, World Famous NYC) and 14 innovative electronic music producers, with CD and vinyl sets specially packaged with artwork by PL Studio.

Y-3 presaged the contemporary obsession with designer athletic wear by being the first to blur the boundaries of style and sport. The music on this compilation achieves a similar balance, bringing together dance music icons as well as fresh faces from the world of underground house and disco.

The esteemed contributors include Frank Wiedemann, one half of acclaimed duo Âme and co-founder of Berlin-based label Innervisions. Eccentric and reclusive maven Maurice Fulton makes a rare appearance, along with legendarily diverse New York DJ Joaquin "Joe" Claussell of the famed Body & Soul parties as well as Chicago house pioneer Larry Heard. Rub-N-Tug are a boisterous New York duo, and here they slot next to Jules Etienne's collaboration with disco purist Daniel Wang, founder of Balihu Records Other artists on the compilation include Blackjoy, responsible for Parisian sci-fi disco, prolific Japanese producer Kaoru Inoue aka Chari Chari, Irish house heavyweight Mano Le tough, and Jiro Amimoto, who has produced the music at previous Y-3 runway shows. Discodromo, who heads up one of Berlin's top gay alternative parties Cocktail D'Amore, collaborates here with Italian Massimiliano Pagliara, a longtime resident at Frankfurt's Robert Johnson nightclub. Alex from Tokyo pulls double-duty, contributing a track from his and Isao Kumano's Tokyo Black Star project as well as mixing the CD version of the release. Rounding out the mix is anonymous Scottish producer Lord of the Isles and Quiet Village, featuring Matt "Radio Slave" Edwards.

The Y-3 compilation will be released in mid-September via the Y-3 website, retail stores, and social media outlets. The compilation will be available on CD with the tracks both mixed continuously or unmixed, along with 500 special-edition vinyl box sets and free digital downloads.

Tokyo Black Star - X (Y-3 10th Anniversary Compilation Album)

Artist: Tokyo Black Star
Title: TOKYO HOUSE UNDERGROUND: Together EP
Release Date: 05/23/2012 (beatport exclusive release 04/25/2012)
Label: Apt. International
Format: Digital

In reaction to the terrible disaster which shook the Tohoku region and Japan last March 11th 2011 and to its major crisis which followed and which is still going on today, Tokyo Black Star joins forces here on their latest "Together EP" with japanese top house label series "Tokyo House Underground" to deliver "Together" a pure soulful message house track dedicated to all the japanese people and people all around the world to unite to make the world a better and peaceful place. "New Jack City" takes you deep in the late night NYC-Tokyo underworld  and can be described as a typical Tokyo Black Star deep addictive analog synth meets Miles Davis spaced out electronic jam. Our long time friend Hideo Kobayashi provides here a very good big club remix of "Together". This is our message from Japan! Let's join hands and help Japan. 

http://www.beatport.com/#release/tokyo-house-underground-together-ep/894073


Tokyo Black Star - Together (Together EP / Apt. International)

Artist: Tokyo Black Star
Title: New Jack City (Together EP / Apt. International) 
TOKYO HOUSE UNDERGROUND: Together EP
Release Date: 05/23/2012 (beatport exclusive release 04/25/2012)

-Track List-
01. Together (Original Mix)
02. New Jack City (Original Mix)
03. Together (Hideo Kobayashi Remix)

In reaction to the terrible disaster which shook the Tohoku region and Japan last March 11th 2011 and to its major crisis which followed and which is still going on today, Tokyo Black Star joins forces here on their latest "Together EP" with japanese top house label series "Tokyo House Underground" to deliver "Together" a pure soulful message house track dedicated to all the japanese people and people all around the world to unite to make the world a better and peaceful place. "New Jack City" takes you deep in the late night NYC-Tokyo underworld  and can be described as a typical Tokyo Black Star deep addictive analog synth meets Miles Davis spaced out electronic jam. Our long time friend Hideo Kobayashi provides here a very good big club remix of "Together". This is our message from Japan! Let's join hands and help Japan. 

http://www.beatport.com/#release/tokyo-house-underground-together-ep/894073

Tokyo Black Star - New Jack City (Together EP / Apt. International)

Artist: Toby Tobias / Marcos Cabral / Tokyo Black Star
 Title: Paradise Lost EP   
Label: Let’s Play House Records
Release Date: 05 /14 /2012 
Format: 12" / Digital

-Track List-  
01. Paradise Lost  (Original Mix) 
 02. Paradise Lost  (MArcos Cabral Remix) 
03. Choc-Ice For 4 (Original Mix) 
04. Choc-Ice For 4 (Tokyo Black Star Remix) 

Londoner Toby Tobias has had a rather productive year so far and it's with great pleasure that Let's Play House can claim him as its newest roster member. The Paradise Lost EP finds the man doing what he's done best since coming out in the early aughts: dropping deep and frothy house with a steely underbelly. The title track begins with a muddy synth line upon which ambient, meandering melodies are layered, all led by a distant voice singing nonsense. Like a snake-charmer, he lures you in slowly and subtly until a thick, heavy bass pops out of nowhere and keeps you bobbing along until it fades away. Marcos Cabral's remix cuts to the chase: the Brooklyn-based producer quickly injects the song with a hefty dose of adrenaline, speeding up the feel with a snappier 4/4 snare while also removing most of the vocals to yield an overhauled version that sounds like a carved-out, ghostly re-rendering of the original. The flip kicks off with "Choc-Ice for 4"—a funkier affair that prominently features a fat disco-y bass line offset by cold, precise synth stabs and a keyboard riff that sounds like it might've been used in an easy listening song. The tribal vocals Tobias sprinkles into the jam give it an off-kilter weirdness that keeps it interesting. Tokyo Black Star finishes up the release with a helter-skelter and chaotic take on "Choc-Ice." Dissonant, disturbing, and druggy, it most definitely lives up to its name—if the Akiba in question were from Ridley Scott's Blade Runner and the song came on while Rick Deckard was roaming the misty, disorienting alleyways of Tokyo.

http://www.phonicarecords.com/product/view/106756

Toby Tobias - Choc-Ice For 4 / Tokyo Black Star Lost in Akiba Dub (Let's Play House)

Tokyo Black Star Feat. Yurai ‎– Rainbow (Rainbow Et Fantastique Voyage EP)

Label: Deeply Rooted House – DRH007
Format: Vinyl, 12" 
Country: US
Released: Aug 2005

Tracklist 
A Rainbow 		
B Fantastique Voyage 


Tokyo Black Star feat. Yurai - Rainbow (Deeply Rooted House)

Tokyo Blackstar - Black Star (Beyond The Future EP)

Label: Sonar Kollektiv – SK083, Innervisions – INNERVISIONS04
Format: Vinyl, 12"
Country: Germany
Released: Dec 2005

Tracklist 
A Black Ships		
B Deep Sea


Tokyo Black Star - Black Star feat. Rich Medina (Sonar Kollektiv / Innervisions)

Tokyo Blackstar - Violent Rush (Psyche Dance EP)

Label: Sonar Kollektiv / Innervisions 
Format: Vinyl, 12"
Country: Germany
Released: 2005

Tracklist 
Blade Dancer (Dixon Edit) 		
Blade Dancer (Beatless Version) 		
Violent Rush 

Tokyo Black Star - Violent Rush (Sonar Kollektiv / Innervisions)

Tokyo Blackstar - Game Over (Bit Commander EP)

Label: Innervisions – INNERVISIONS19, Innervisions – IV19
Format: Vinyl, 12"
Country: Germany
Released: Dec 2008

Tracklist 
Game Over  		
Sepiaphone		
Game Over (Loco Dice 5am At The Tsukiji Market Rmx)



Tokyo Black Star - Game Over (Innervisions)

Tokyo Blackstar - Caballero (Caballero EP)

Label: Innervisions – IV25
Format: Vinyl, 12"
Country: Germany
Released: Dec 2009 

Tracklist 
Caballero (Single Version) 
Caballero (Radio Slave's Innervsion Remix) 

Tokyo Blackstar - Caballero (Innervisions)

Tokyo Blackstar - Black Box (The Slam Jam EP)

Label: Reincarnation – R 013 
Format: Vinyl, 12"
Country: Netherlands 
Released: Sep 2011 

Tracklist 
Sotto Marino
Black Box


Arno E. Matthieu - Heritage / Tokyo Black Star Remix (Clima records)

Bing Ji Ling - Home / Tokyo Black Star Remix (Home EP)

Label: Lovemonk – LMNK 37 
Format: Vinyl, 12" 
Country: Spain
Released: Feb 2009

Tracklist 
Home (Tokyo Black Star Remix)
Home
Home (The Phenomenal Handclap Band Remix)
Home (Blackjoy Dub) 		



Mezza Luna vs Felix Cage - Blizzard / Tokyo Black Star Dub (Electronical Reeds)

Psyche ‎– Neurotic Behavior / TBS Version (PE 20 Remixes)

Label: Planet E
Format: MP3, EP
Country: US
Released: Dec 2011

Tracklist 
Neurotic Behavior (TBS Version)
Neurotic Behavior

Psyche - Neurotic Behaviour / TBS Re-Interpretation Version (Planet E)

For the 6th release on his label world famous, Alex from Tokyo takes a trip back in time to bring new sounds to our ears. The unreleased original version of Tokyo Black Star’s cult classic track “Blade Dancer” finally sees the light of day! Tokyo Black Star, galactic samurai artist of the 21st century, came to life in the late 1990s, the combined forces of international DJ Alex from Tokyo and Tokyo-based sound engineer Isao Kumano. When Dixon and Âme launched Innervisions in 2005 to shake up the dance music world, they selected Tokyo Black Star’s debut Psyche Dance EP as the inaugural release, adding to it an epic edit of the title track by Dixon himself. 

Along with the original “Blade Dancer,” Tokyo Black Star’s 2020 Blade Dancer EP unveils a 2015 reworking of the track (following analog equipment otaku Kenichi Takagi’s addition to the group). The EP also presents on vinyl for the first time the meditative dream-like ambient track “Kagura,” which appeared on Innervisions’ 2008 ambient CD compilation Muting The Noise 01. Blade Dancer EP features artwork by Berlin’s Ta-Trung and the sublime paintings of NYC-based Japanese painter Tomokazu Matsuyama, Tokyo Black Star’s longtime visual collaborator.

Tokyo Black Star – Blade Dancer EP (world famous)

world famousレーベル第6回目のリリースとして、Alex from Tokyoは時間をさかのぼり新しいサウンドを紹介します。 Tokyo Black Starのカルトクラシック「Blade Dancer」の未公開のオリジナルバージョンがついに日の目を見ます！

21世紀の銀河系サムライアーティストであるTokyo Black Starは、1990年代後半にインタナショナルDJ Alex from Tokyoと東京に拠点を置くサウンドエンジニア熊野功によって結成されました。

2005年にDixonとÂmeがダンスミュージックの世界を揺るがすInnervisionsレーベルを立ち上げ、彼等はTokyo Black Starのデビュー「Psyche Dance EP」を最初のリリースとして選択し、Dixon自身による「Blade Dancer」の壮大なエディットヴァージョンが収録されました。

「Blade Dancer」のオリジナルヴァージョンと共に、今回のTokyo Black Star 「Blade dancer EP」では、2015年にアナログ機器オタクの高木健一が正式にメンバーに加わって
新たにリワークされたnew versionを発表。このEPでは、Innervisionsの2008年のアンビエントCDコンピレーション「Muting The Noise 01」に登場した、瞑想的な夢のようなアンビエントトラック「Kagura」も初めてアナログ盤でリリースされます。

そしてNYCに拠点を置く日本の画家、松山智和（Tokyo Black Starの長年のビジュアルコラボレーター）の崇高な絵画をフューチャしたベルリンのTa-Trungによる素晴らしいアートワークになります。

Okaeri nasai お帰りなさい (welcome back)!

B2. Tokyo Black Star - Blade Dancer (new version)

B1. Tokyo Black Star - Kagura

A1. Tokyo Black Star - Blade Dancer (original unreleased version)

It is Spring day and I am turning 40 today, I feel good about it, growing up is great, I am priviledged to be doing I love in my life, I have such a great family and friends all around the world,  and I would like to share with you this unreleased Tokyo Black Star track called "Sakura Tree" we made a couple of years ago to celebrate the cherry blossom season!

Tokyo Black Star: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Tokyo-Black-Star/409611095740658?ref=hl

Alex From Tokyo: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Alex-From-Tokyo/440236945999739?ref=hl


Tokyo Black Star - Sakura Tree (Unreleased)

Led by New York and Tokyo-based international french DJ Alex from Tokyo and Tokyo-based producer and engineer Isao Kumano, Tokyo Black Star are truly 21st century galactic funk artists. As their ship has advanced through the galaxy, meeting fellow travelers along the way, Tokyo Black Star have absorbed and translated influences from around the solar system and beyond.

They have released so far 5 EPs on the hi-profile Innervisions label in Berlin, 2 releases on the Italian taste makers' Slam Jam label Reincarnation, "Rainbow/Fantastique Voyage EP" on Dj Deep's deeply rooted house music records label, and various remixes wordwide including recently Kuniyuki "Birds" (mule musiq), nublu orchestra "Sketches of NY" (nublu), Bing Ji ling "Home" (Lovemonk), Master H and Greg Oreck "Coffee is ecstasy" (komplex de deep), Arno E Matthieu "Heritage" (clima records), Filipson+Lindblad "Reflections" (mood music), Wagon Cookin "Come into the light" (om records) and Mezza Luna vs Felix Cage new EP "Blizzard" (electronical reeds) in January 2011. Tokyo Black Star released in April 2009 their full length debut album "Black Ships" (Innervisions) on CD collaborating with the NYC based japanese painter Tomokazu Matsuyama. "Black Ships" can be described at once as a nonfiction travel diary, and at the same time as a supreme fiction of traveling through the world of imagination. Tokyo Black Star remixed in 2011 Carl Craig's Psyche masterpiece "Neurotic Behavior" for the 20th anniversary of the Planet E label. In May 2012 they released their latest "Together EP" on the japanese label Apt. International and their remix of the new Toby Tobias single "Choc Ice for 4" on the NYC label Let's Play House.

Tokyo Black star performs live too and has played live with machines for the release of the album in Japan and in Europe at Panorama Bar in Berlin and at the Robot 02 festival in Bologna, Italy.

Alex and Isao started in summer 2010 a new "revolutionary" audio brand called phonon (www.phonon-inc.com).

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