DjSchofield
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Posted : May 24, 2012 01:49:32
Following on from my last post in the is this forum dead thread...
Here's a gem that arrived in the post for me yesterday. Geskia!'s latest album, which is released on Home Normal. (http://homenormal.tumblr.com/ )
It's a one disc album with a bonus disc of remixes undertaken by Japanese artists - some of whom I have heard of before, such as Pawn, Marihiko Hara (of the wonderful Twilight on Kitchen Label), Polar M, Aus and Hakobune.
It would probably be filed in the Electronic, Downtempo, Glitch, IDM, Ambient section of the record store. Certainly it's an immersive album of electronic ditties.
Last night I got through the first disc and half of the second disc. There's some great tracks on both, but I wouldn't forgo the Remixes disc - it's got some GOLD on there.
Tracklist:
‘323 Sayonara Memories’
01 Requiem For Genome
02 Sour Leaf
03 R.I.P
04 Colors
05 Answer Song
06 Montage
07 Teenage Landscape
08 Two Oranges
09 Clear Perspective
10 Boat of Boards
11 Walk In The Earth Lights
12 Timesleep
13 Poem From My Room
‘323 Sayonara Memories Remixed’
01 Walking In The Earth Lights (Moshimoss Reshape)
02 R.I.P (lycoriscoris Remix)
03 Walking In The Earth Lights (flica Remix)
04 R.I.P/Colors (fredricson Remix)
05 Timesleep (Pawn Remix)
06 Poem From My Room (Marihiko Hara Remix)
07 Two Oranges (wk[es] Remix)
08 Answer Song (The Anti-Hero Mix)Remix by Go-qualia
09 Requiem For Genome (aus Remix)
10 Two Oranges (Yui Onodera Remix)
11 Clear Perspective (Taishin Remix)
12 Two Oranges (polar M Remix)
13 Timesleep (hakobune Remix)
I was first made aware of Geskia! through a mutual friend of ours; Yasuhiko Fukuzono (Aus). I was instantly hooked on first listen to his wonderful debut on Yas’s Flau label, ‘Silent 77’. His real skill comes in melding electronic/hip-hop/breakbeat with a sense of the organic. At once his work is both beautifully minimal and yet also detailed and filled with imagination and melody.
It has now admittedly been a number of years since we first talked about working together. This has finally culminated in his latest album, ‘323 Sayonara Memories’. To celebrate the release we decided to make a bonus edition of the album featuring loads of Japanese friends and luminaries in the electronic / ambient scene here.
