Club
Maiden vinyl edition of a rare, sparkling gem of Japanese proto-techno electronica by the guy behind classics from Hiroshi Yoshimura, Motohiko Hamase, and Satsuma Shibano - eight gentle and rugged nuggets certain to find favour with fans of YMO electro by Ryuichi Sakamoto & Haruomi Hosono, thru to Tackhead, Drexiciya, and 7FO
At just over 40 years old, ’Club’ still presents a charmingly fresh vision of rhythm-driven synthetic delicacies that will be new to many ears. Practically impossible to find on its original CD edition of 1983 (although you could fork out £14k for the tape!), ‘Club’ has mostly endured with deep diggers as a ripped version, but now takes on a 2nd life with a scene ripened to its blends of feathered FM synths and lilting pulses puckered into oneiric waltzes or shimmering on air,. Along with a few standouts of craftier, ruder rhythm programming, it can be heard as a bridge between the precedents of Kraftwerk and YMO et al, their offshoots in Detroit’s Juan Atkins and the James Stinson x Gerald Donald axis, and a whole microcosm of Japanese electronica.
Bowing in with the petal-fall flutter of keys in ‘Entrance’, the album finds its groove with a genteel ‘Orientation’ reminding of Rimarimba from the same years, before finessing subtly ruder groves destined for best modern ‘floors, as with the snare-driven, Sakamoto-meets-Tackhead type beat on ‘Club A’, thru the sexy, dubbed-out sway of ‘Days Man’ and dreamy stride of ‘Schooling’. Throw in the tongue-tip frisson of bittersweet tone to ‘Club B’, a surefire prototype for Spencer Clark or Visible Cloaks on ‘Boy in Vision’, and the brooding turn toward more traditional tones synthesised in ‘Graduation’, and you have a real pearl from this deeply influential era.
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Crystal clear vinyl re-press. Heavy 350gsm Sleeve.
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Maiden vinyl edition of a rare, sparkling gem of Japanese proto-techno electronica by the guy behind classics from Hiroshi Yoshimura, Motohiko Hamase, and Satsuma Shibano - eight gentle and rugged nuggets certain to find favour with fans of YMO electro by Ryuichi Sakamoto & Haruomi Hosono, thru to Tackhead, Drexiciya, and 7FO
At just over 40 years old, ’Club’ still presents a charmingly fresh vision of rhythm-driven synthetic delicacies that will be new to many ears. Practically impossible to find on its original CD edition of 1983 (although you could fork out £14k for the tape!), ‘Club’ has mostly endured with deep diggers as a ripped version, but now takes on a 2nd life with a scene ripened to its blends of feathered FM synths and lilting pulses puckered into oneiric waltzes or shimmering on air,. Along with a few standouts of craftier, ruder rhythm programming, it can be heard as a bridge between the precedents of Kraftwerk and YMO et al, their offshoots in Detroit’s Juan Atkins and the James Stinson x Gerald Donald axis, and a whole microcosm of Japanese electronica.
Bowing in with the petal-fall flutter of keys in ‘Entrance’, the album finds its groove with a genteel ‘Orientation’ reminding of Rimarimba from the same years, before finessing subtly ruder groves destined for best modern ‘floors, as with the snare-driven, Sakamoto-meets-Tackhead type beat on ‘Club A’, thru the sexy, dubbed-out sway of ‘Days Man’ and dreamy stride of ‘Schooling’. Throw in the tongue-tip frisson of bittersweet tone to ‘Club B’, a surefire prototype for Spencer Clark or Visible Cloaks on ‘Boy in Vision’, and the brooding turn toward more traditional tones synthesised in ‘Graduation’, and you have a real pearl from this deeply influential era.