Global Rhythm Records 003 / Released 1995 / produced by JayPee, OTTI DJ and Dj Venus, BoomBoomClub.

Ecstatic Tribal Acid House, Cosmic Folk Joint ! 

Tribal Vagabonds EP - grr003, 1995

Various Artists: Polyphonic Cosmos: A Beginners Guide To Japan In The 80s (1981 - 86)

Compiled by JD Twitch • Cease & Desist / C&D002

Side 1

1 World Standard - ばら二曲 Baranikyoku (Fellini&Rota) - 3.34 (1985)
2 Masumi Hara - Your Dream - 2.45 (1984)
3 Normal Brain - M.U.S.I.C. - 4.16  (1981)
4 Hiroyuki Namba - Who Done It? (part 2) - 4.04 (1983)

Side 2

1 Yasuaki Shimizu - Crow - 4.46 (1981)
2 Hiroyuki Namba - Tropical Exposition - 3.29 (1982)
3 Imitation - Exotic Dance - 6.02 (1982)
4 Pecker - Sha La La - 3.21 (1983)

Side 3

1 EP-4 - dB - 5.12 (1984)
2 Earthling - You Go Natural - 4.27 (1981)
3 Masumi Hara - Camera - 5.22  (1982)

Side 4

1 Geinoh Yamashirogumi - Rinne Kohkyogaku Meikei - 5.06 (1986)
2 D - Day - Ki Ra-I - 4.16 (1986)
3 Ryuichi Sakamoto - A Wongga Dance Song - 6.18 (1985)

Ever since he made his first trip to Japan to DJ, Optimo Music founder JD Twitch has been bewitched by Japanese music, and particularly the vibrant, imaginative, and often far-sighted sounds which emerged from the island nation during the 1980s. Now he’s put years of digging in Japanese record shops to good use on Polyphonic Cosmos, the latest release on his compilation-focused Cease & Desist imprint.

Subtitled ‘A Beginners Guide to Japan In The ‘80s’, the collection offers a personal selection of Japanese gems recorded and released between 1981 and ’86 – a period when advances in recording and musical technology offered the nation’s artists and producers a whole new tool kit to employ. When combined with the unique musical culture of Japan, where local traditions are frequently fused with Western styles to create timeless, off-kilter aural fusions, this embrace of locally pioneered music technology had spectacular, often unusual results.

Eight years in the making, Polyphonic Cosmos provides an endlessly entertaining musical snapshot of Japanese music of the early-to-mid ‘80s with all of the open-minded eclecticism and sonic twists that you would expect from the Glasgow-based DJ.

Compare and contrast, for example, the gently breezy, morning-fresh folk-plus-electronics bliss of ‘ばら二曲 Baranikyoku (Fellini&Rota)’ by World Standard – the most familiar alias of long-serving musician/producer Sohichiro Suzuki – and the hallucinatory, slow-motion tribal rhythms, post-punk rhythms and tape delay-laden electronics of Imitation’s ‘Exotic Dance’. Or, for that matter, the tipsy mid-‘80s electronic reggae of Pecker’s ‘Sha La La’, the grungy but melodic post-punk strut of ‘You Go On Natural’ by Earthling (a track Twitch accurately describes as “sheer unrelenting groove”), and the unearthly, swirling sonics, new age instrumentation and flotation tank vocals of prolific (and seemingly mysterious) act Geinoh Yamashirogumi’s ‘Rimme Kohkyogaku Meiki’.

It’s a credit to JD Twitch’s curatorial skills that the quality never dips, and sonic surprises lurk around every corner. Consider for a moment the hard to describe, far-sighted audio immersion of D-Day’s ‘Ki-Ra’ – all languid post-pop guitar, enveloping chords, spoken word vocals, shuffling 808 beats and marimba melodies – and the two contributions from video games soundtrack specialist (and driving instrumental synth-pop specialist) Hiroyuki Namba.

The collection naturally includes some selections that have long been favourites in Twitch’s DJ sets – see Masumi Hara’s ‘Your Dream’ – as well as a handful of tracks from artists who may be more recognisable to those with only rudimentary knowledge of Japanese musical culture. The great Yasuaki Shimizu, whose work as Mariah has become far better known in recent years thanks to reissues of some of his most magical albums, is represented via ‘The Crow’, a picturesque chunk of horizontal, hard-to-define jazz-not-jazz smokiness, while the collection fittingly concludes with a sublimely funky, oddball electronic workout from Yellow Magic Orchestra legend Ryuichi Sakamoto (the frankly incredible ‘Wongga Dance Song’).

Cease & Desist 002 - Various: Polyphonic Cosmos: Sonic Innovations In Japan (1980 - 86) OUT NOW!

💖Tam Tam live at PleasureMaxx (24.02.2) 💖

Get excited for this weekend with a closing set captured at the @pleasuremaxxx & @pda.berlin collaboration held in the mighty @c0smicslop.
2 hours of sensual record selection by @tamtam_pda. DJ & Founder of the underground party Public Display of Affection. 

Public Display of Affection is a queer-friendly party with its roots in Berlin and its soul somewhere on every dance floor. 
Designed for a new kind of positive hedonism to manifest & be motivated through community-focused amor, PDA is known for its libido-raising disco adjacent sounds. Sonically inspired by the origins of Disco, EBM, NewBeat & Proto House, PDA is a home for acceptance and sexiness in all forms. 

Their next Public Display of Affection will be held on 30.03.24

H.A.N.D. MIX 055 : Tam Tam

A unique take on deconstructed club / ambient music, the intimate and immersive sounds on ‘Sequenced Ceramics’  were made using seven purpose-built ceramic vessels, played using a custom made sequencer and mechanical beaters. The album is released as a limited edition ceramic vessel, each one unique, and glazed with a download code. This ceramic is also an instrument, its shape based on one of the seven ceramics used on the album.

Sequence 7

Between Stations: 23rd April '25

BD & TBC - C 006 Side 1 (Discoteca Cosmic, Lazise (Vr) (Tape Recording) 1980

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Brooklyn Funk Essentials • DJ set • LeMellotron.com

“Chocolate Candy” 12" by Terry Crawford on RCA Canada, 1982

Camp cosmic 2017, 1 year that I've been waiting for it...So nice to see everyone, meet & hear new artists, share our passion, have a blast, be inspired...4 incredible days...See you in 2018 or before I hope ! The year can now begin for me...

Recorded at Camp Cosmic, saturday 8:30 pm , Leipzig, 2017.

Camp Cosmic 2017

Guillaume Des Bois @ Camp Cosmic 2017 - Space Travel (29.07.17)

Special guest mix on the second hour from our good friend @milloskaiser from Selvagem !

Broadcasted and recorded at Le Mellotron on June 4 th 2018 

Artwork by Amber Davenport

Bayetë - Rhythm Through The Night #010 w/ Millos Kaiser

Recorded live from Cocktail D'Amore's winter garden on October 6th 2019.

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