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@rush2theunknown
“Yugawara EP”
out now on
@diskotopia
all tracks written and produced by
rush2theUnknown
A1 contains a sample of Mt Fuji and the Mime by
@wally_badarou_official
Mastered by
@dnbmastering
Poster design Tom Scholefield
Photographed by
@tokyotimes_lee
Typography by Yasunobu Yamashita
Record design
@cmyka.type
Art direction by rush2theUnknown
Made by humans for humans
With thanks to
@mandeshita @michiyohonda @atautline @bd1982 and all of the DJs around the world who have been supporting this EP
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Born from a journey out of Tokyo to the seaside town of Yugawara in the northeastern end of Izu Peninsula, the EP channels the energy, spirit and mathematically impossible coincidences that seem to come with each adventure the duo has in that part of Japan. Each morning the duo would leave their makeshift studio and wander across the hills of Yugawara. Be it a random encounter, a conversation or mental picture sparked by the visual scenery before them, new tracks came to life each day. As with their Diskotopia debut, each EP is a mix of the myriad influences the duo have accumulated since their teenage years living on outer ends of the Pacific Ocean.
From the technicolour aqua-jungle of “View From Fuua” which bursts with Logical Progression era Good Looking Records exo-planet optimism, through to the EPs closer, “Zuio-ji” a track that owes as much of a debt to the ancient Japanese court music of gagaku, as it does the 1960s soundtrack work of composer Toru Takemitsu and the jidaigeki infused breakbeat experiments of a mid 90s Rupert Parkes. Shades, tones and hues plucked from CD-ROM era “Visual Scenes” 80s CM Music and the techno-animism of synth-heavy anime soundtracks can be found on the EPs more VGM-leaning excursions “光のトンネル” and “夜明けの真鶴岬” whereas tracks like “Physical Reality” continue the question posed on their debut: What would a breakbeat tradition look and sound like, had it been forged a billion light years away?
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