Good morning.
It’s Friday so we’re listening to something more upbeat. Today we’re listening to Daisuke Tanabe, a Japanese electronic music producer. Born in Hyōgo Prefecture and mostly raised in Chiba, he gathered influences jazz to electronica to hip-hop.1 Warp records exerted particularly strong creative gravity.2 He started putting out his own music in the late 2000s. We’re starting with his 2014 LP, Floating Underwater, which primarily uses a broken beat format, but the tracks dip in and out of jungle and drum ‘n’ bass. The album’s range and meticulous track design make it sound like a series of digital percussion studies. We’re also playing a recent record, A Trout in the Milk OST, a more traditional collaboration with sound designer Yosi Horikawa.
Floating Underwater - Daisuke Tanabe (40m, no vocals)
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A Trout in the Milk OST - Daisuke Tanabe & Yosi Horikawa (60m, no vocals)
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Have a really good weekend.
This is fun music! Like listening to sound-doodles or sound-cartoons. So much fun, in fact, that I will have to pause this for anything requiring full attention. Does interesting thing with constructed or imagined 'space' that I can hear even without use of headphones.