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jason on 09/30/2010 at 12:30PM
Hiiragi Fukuda: My Turntable Is Slow
Get in the zone with My Turntable Is Slow, the second psychedelic folk-pop album from Tokyo-based guitarist & songwriter Hiiraki Fukuda. A member of Holy Mountain recording artist Doronco Gumo, Hiiraki Fukuda's solo debut Oya Wa Touhoku, Oto Kumori (Fuyusouri Music Publishing) featured former members of Les Rallizes Denudes and Maher Shalal Hash Baz.
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A limited-run cassette version is now available from Belgium's Sloow Tapes, but Hiiragi is also looking for a label to reissue it on vinyl. Got any leads? You can contact him thru his FMA artist profile. We have a CD-R of My Turntable Is Slow in the new bin here at WFMU, where we're currently experiencing some bizarrely tropical weather that's seeping into our programming. "You should take an umbrella with you," a short drippy marimba piece, made a perfect start to DJ Trouble's show this morning. My favorite track might be "Down a Dirt Road", but the whole album has a sweet atmospheric groove...dig in to My Turntable Is Slow, and hopefully soon we'll be able to hear it on a real turntable! |
jason on 12/11/2009 at 09:10AM
Phlow, Quarta330, and Maltine Records
Our friends at Phlow Magazine are compiling an advent-calendar's worth of Creative Commons charts from some of the world's most attuned netlabel listeners. This includes people like Michael Gregoire of Bloc Sonic (who just released their 25th NetBloc - congrats!), Phlow's esteemed staff members, and other creative commons music freaks. I'm working on my own list right now, honored to be involved in this very cool project. When all's said & done, Phlow's compiling another "Best of Netlabels Compilation: Netlabels at their Finest Hour" (here's the most recent one). And in the meantime, I've been enjoying hearing everyone's daily mixtapes.
I'm also discovering some new forces in the vast Creative Commons music world, like Masakuyi of the Music Forest blog. His best-of 2009 tipped me off to this 2-song digital 12'' single by Quarta330, a free Creative Commons release on Japan's Maltine Records. enjoy:
Maltine Records is a very cool sounding netlabel specializing in electronic sounds, hip-hop, mashups, house and dubstep. We're just starting to delve in to their catalog of nearly 50 releases -- if anyone is familiar and has some recommendations, please share!
Hailing from Tokyo, Toru Koda a.k.a. Quarta330 has a couple actual physical 12''s out on Kode9's world-renowned Hyperdub label, and a remix on a Warp Records digital comp. He's one of the 3 people behind the Tokyo-based chiptune collective Lo-Bit Playground, and he's collaborated with the likes of Flying Lotus. After the jump, enjoy a video of Quarta330 live at the 2006 Blip Festival in NY.
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