WIMM RECORDINGS

1.Sax of Love 2.Assemblage Funk 3.Paris Tokyo Connection feat.Cuizinier (TTC) 4.Newjackswing out Sister 5.Bricolagin' (cut4) 6.Metalfunk Montage (cut.3)

7.LinnDrum Funk (1986) 8.After5 Collage(syncopation) 9.EASY COME, EASY GO（spy) 10.Drumfill Cyborg 11.Candy Girl 12.Sax of Love (outro)

The innovator of the Japanese electronics scene drops his new album!!

He also activates in the minimal house scene world-widely but with this album, he uses 80's soul and funk elements and stirs up with his technical cut-ups to produce splendid sweet break beats music. Hidenobu produces music from the 90's and have released his 1st album on NS-Com (1999), and his 2nd on Flyrec (2002). After that he left 2 albums on his own Elegantdisc label and lead the doemestic electronica/break beats scene from there. "Assemblage Funk" is his 5th album which we have all waited for. He swallows 80's soul, R&B, disco and even hard rock music and covers it with sour & tender melodies of the synthesizers. The break beats are made up of his cut-up techniques derived from his long career that gives the piece the original funk sound appealing enough to not only break beats fans but to Balearic disco house fans and ghetto beats manias! And what more to watch out is the party killer tune "Paris Tokyo Connection" featuring the great rapper of TTC, The Cuizinier!! The artwork drawings are written by NA2ME, who is a a spirited female artist.

1. India High People Around 2. Fish Making Food 3. Tonkinese Hop 4. Whale Vomit

5. Paper Ghost 6. Somnus 7. Orca 8. A Waste

9. Flamingo 10. Flat Top Afro 11. Near Pines 12. Kids

A rich combination of beats & melodies. 2nd album by duo project of Prefuse 73's collaborator Epstein aka Roberto Range and drummer Matt Crum!

Broken gears and stolen instruments - ROM takes these equipments and produces heart-vibrating melodies and crispy beats freely with a refreshing taste, After their more breakbeaty 1st album "ROM", Roberto has collaborated with Prefuse 73 and such and delivers this 2 nd full album.

This 2nd album entitled "Foot Signal" is a beautiful example of organizing a minimal band in a modern sense - Multi performances of acoustic and electronics including the laptops as a duo is perfectly accomplished here.

The beat approaches evolved from projects like Epstein and Boom&birds, the duo's musical roots; guitar sounds and a bit strange yet charming tones from the laptops chaining almost non-stop. The ensemble which is a mere adaptations of the "post-rock method" and the energetic flow of the instrumental beat music weaves into fresh, developing and creative sounds. You can also feel the warm psychedelia which you could hear on Prefuse 73's "Preparations / Interregnums". An outstanding album including the brilliant recording and mix by Jim O' Rourke's favorite pupil Jeremy Lemos (White/Light).

1. Go not happy day 2. Room full of spies 3. Pomfrites 4. Casio 5. No horse, no wife, no moustache

6. Blaupunkt 7. All your favourite super heroes 8. Paris in winter 9. Skylarks 10. Steer the woods 11. 43 Crash

*domestic release in Japan, licensed from Cookshop

On a very sunny Wednesday morning in January 1978, Jonathan Krisp was born. Not dissimilar to being raised by wolves, Jonathan was raised in the country outside the London city limits but close enough to hear the buzz and dirty frequency of the sprawl.

As he grew up, with an ear to the ground and an antenna to the skies, he discovered sounds and sampling and during the mid nineties his aerial tuned in to the mad rave scene and cyberpunk couture.

At this stage the breakdown and rearrangement of both visual and sonic elements that surrounded Mr Krisp’s environment were crucial to his joyness, and so mixing his love for ornithology, electroniky and wave forms he set forth to create music the way he wanted to hear it.

To try to describe his plight, Jonathan Krisp creates music in the way that Ray Mears makes his dinner; purposefully losing his way in a forest of elements, complex growth systems and organic vegetation that smells and appears in a plethora of bountiful glory. By discovering music and sounds, be it from car-boot sales, junk and charity shops from around the country or even from a nearby wood, then cutting, chopping and pasting these found elements Jonathan Krisp, humour-bound and triumphant, makes a huge and rather tasty meal of it all.

In his own words he once proclaimed he is “trying to impact an element of humour into what is, at times, repetitive cold electronic music made by balding, number crunching Moby-dicks in ethnic baggies”.

Jonathan Krisp cites his influences as natural history and ornithology, woodland walks and bizarre spontaneous rave scenes. Vintage spoken word recordings, field music from every nook and cranny and off-key decrepit technology are all nice and neatly packaged into a kaleidoscopic dance, disco and electronica formula leading us to conclude that Jonathan Krisp’s music is very gettable indeed, whether sellotaped to an armchair or pumping iron ‘til sunrise.

1. We Can Find Love 2. Ugly Day 3. I Bade Thee Farewell 4. Buckled 5. Micro Valley

6. When I Were Young 7. Lounged 8. Tread Water 9. A Break For Rain 10. Fiemly Rooted

*domestic release in Japan, licensed from Cookshop

Based in Brighton UK, a musician, DJ and producer, James Dean has created music under the moniker of Lost Idol for 5 years. He had released early works from pioneering independent label Pork Recordings, which released Fila Brazilia and so on. Now he has established his own record label Cookshop. He has sung himself and played all instruments except some samples of acoustic bass in his "Utters From A Cluttered Mind". He also naturally blended organic instruments and electronics. His sound is called ‘Beck remixed by DJ Shadow' or 'Beta Band-styled alternative folk'. His work is amazingly beautiful and deepness. It is a unique music journey. It changes from psychedelic pop to mid-night electronics. Inspired by Brian Wilson, Syd Barret, John Coltrane and more. It might sounds like The Beta Band, Beck, Four Tet, Nobody. It fuses the old and the new, instrumental and vocal, analogue and digital. Much of melodies make us feel melancholic beauty thru the whole album by various styles shown here.

*Comments from artist/media

Four Tet’s jazzy constructions, the more pastoral tack of The Memory Band, a number of Artificial Intelligence-era Warp artists, Brian Wilson and The Beatles. - Mojo Magazine

In case you ever wondered how an Elliott Smith record could’ve sounded like if it would've been released on Mo Wax during its heydays, here´s your answer. Be surprised. Be very surprised. - Lodown Magazine (Germany)

This is an LP of rebelliously complex records. Moseying around broken rhythms and some pretty emotionally charged melodies as it does, it is reminiscent of the atmospheric twinklings of the Cinematic Orchestra in places, and the mind-bending scuzzy sounds of Four Tet in others. Strange but beautiful. - Notion Magazine

This debut album from the Cookshop boss adds psychedelic folk to the usual Four Tet-ery for some quirky backpack beat-driven hip hop that is both cinematic and intimate. The vocal tracks work best, falling somewhere between Jim O’Rourke’s Eureka and a more programmed Beta Band. - Source

Wow - what a great listening experience and decent piece of production. Not too long, poppy, deep, fun, serious, vocal, instrumental and it doesn't sound like a ridiculous mess either! It's an amazing record! - DJ Food/Ninja Tune

1. Animal Attraction (ft. Zulu) 2. Gi Mi Di Break 3. Let it Billie (Remix, ft. Quality Diamond) 4. Wacko Macko is Backo (Edit) 5. Crazy Version (Edit) 6. New Year Riddim 7. Point Blank 8. DJ C It Dat (ft. Wayne&Wax, Dami D,and Wasp)

9. Ento 10. Come Back Version 11. Gone A Version 12. It Gets Worse (ft Pamelia Kurstin) 13. Hear=D+Beat 14. Nuttin Attall 15. Ransom the Senator (ft. Zulu) 16. Dehydrogenated (ft. Pamelia Kurstin)

Based in Boston, a solo project of Jake Trussell, DJ C. He originally had appeared from jungle scene. delicate programing and highly reggae-inspiring sound made him got much attention. His name has known as a member of Shockout led by Kid606. And after drastic change of his sound, now he finished his first album "Sonic Weapons"!
Dancehall, grime, hip-hop, jungle, mash-step... His original sound has come true, mixed with current beat trend!
The album includes songs from vinyl-only 3 singles since 2006, "Animal Attraction", "Ransom The Senator EP", "Seaga Face and PJ Body", which you feel more reggae taste than hard-core taste he used to emphasis on. The album also includes re-arrangement of his trademark irregular raga-jungle songs, known for such songs like "Let It Billie". Most of songs dramatically got more minimal and DJ C's unique beat approach got to be much clearer than ever.
"Sonic Weapons" suits all music fans who like grime, dub-step, jungle, and fans of digital dancehall like Modeselektor and Ghislain Poirier. Energetic and funky sound must capture wide-range music fans!
Mastering by Pole aka Stephen Betke. He made the album loud and clear. Artwork by David Last, a friends of DJ C and known for releases from DJ Olive's theAgriculture.

*Comments from artist/media

Many of the sonic weapons contained in this album have been used by top DJs around the world to kill sound-systems and destroy dance-floors. Closely coveted, they're brought out from arsenals at special moments when heavy artillery is called for.
This is a warfare not of physical violence, but instead a sonic battle for dance-floor supremacy. These tracks present a combination of compositional-complexity and pure visceral energy that puts them in opposition to the vast conspiracy of the mundane. They draw from musical roots deep in the underground and radically join genres together into a sturdy trunk. The branches reach around the globe like tenticles slapping bootys and moving feet everywhere.
These sonic weapons are also for use as a defense in the war against dancing. This crackdown can be resisted. Use these tracks for good times and fun. The enemies of moving rhythmically will be defeated.
Long live the dance. Fight for your right to party. - DJ C

DJ C knows the bass ! Sonic Weapons is a perfect collection of digital ragga, post-jungle tracks and big riddims with a really distinctive and personal approach. It's heavy, bouncy and perfect party music. I play his tracks often in my DJ sets ! - GHISLAIN POIRER

Information about contributors on "Sonic Weapons"

Zulu:
Producer, engineer and reggae singer, Zulu is an estabished solo artist as well as collaborator with DJ C, Kool Keith, Aceyalone, and more. Currently based in Chicago, Zulu got his start as a producer of house and underground hip hop, but later returned to reggae, creating his own riddims from scratch and bringing a distinctly Panamanian perspective (his initial tracks were in both english and spanish, with a strong regaeton influence) but later focusing mainly on the Caribbean patois style and ruff dancehall delivery. Zulu's international combinations and timeless-yet-futuristic melodic sensibilities, in addition to his experience across genres of dance music make him a stande-out artist.

http://www.myspace.com/zulumusic

Quality Diamond:
Quality Diamond is a Jamaican vocalist who lives in Bristol, England and has been known to perform along-side such greats at Beenie Man and Capleton.

Wayne&Wax, Dami D and Wasp:
An ethnomusicologist by training, an MC/DJ/producer by calling, and a blogger by choice, Wayne&Wax's makes tracks, mashes, mixes, podcasts and all sorts of musical things. Dubbed "riddim professor" by the Boston Phoenix, Wayne&Wax recently completed a Ph.D. dissertation on the thirty-year interplay between hip-hop and reggae. While living in Jamaica during the first half of 2003, Wayne conducted dissertation research, recorded an album’s worth of songs, interviews, and soundscape samples, and initiated a series of digital music workshops in high schools and prisons in and around Kingston. The resulting album Boston Jerk is a classic. The beats are phat and the lyrics are brilliant. On top of all that, he teaches electronic music courses at Harvard Extension School and Brown University, and pens the stellar music blog. While in Jamaica Wayne recorded a number of tunes with the super-talented up-and-coming vocalists Dami D and Wasp. "A It Dat" was featured on Wayne's "Boston Jerk" album and the 12-inch single was released on Masht.

http://www.WayneAndWax.com

Pamelia Kurstin:
Pamelia Kurstin is the world's greatest theraminist. While most people view the theramin as an instrument for making eerie science fiction sound effects, or as a tool that can simulate pure stringed instrument-like tones, Pamelia can make it sound like everything from a grumbling electro bass to a layered symphony when she patches it through her looping pedals. She's even been known to drop some Thermin riffs over hip-hop and jungle beats. Kurstin is a theremin virtuoso who makes beautiful and amazing sounds with this earliest of electronic musical instruments. She has performed and recorded with the likes of Tortoise, Cibo Mato, Sean Lennon, David Burne, and Matthew Sweet, among many others. Kurstin has performed live the world over, from Manhattan's avant garde Tonic club, to Saturday Night Live, to world tours with bands like Air. Originally from Los Angeles, she spent many years living in New York City and now resides in Vienna Austria.

http://www.myspace.com/pameliakurstin

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MR COOPER is the alias of Paul Cooper residing in Brighton UK. Amongst Strangers is his debut album which took 3 whole years to accomplish.
The result is a blissful combination of skillful beats with melodic guitar loops that would definitely satisfy various music fans and I must say it's so melancholic for a hip hop and the beat is so tight for a post rock album. Not to mention it's both good for your ears and feet too.

1. opening 2. jumpic 3. sway 4. glacier

5. hermit crabs 6. je 7. and breathe 8. umberto

9. too late 10. into the clouds 11. lag 12. flake

13. rise and fall 14. move slow 15. mr. thankful 16. fix get

ROM, the self-titled debut from Roberto Lange and Matt Crum is a multi-state affair that played out between 2000 and 2005; a traveling continuous conversation that spans across emotional distances as much as it does state lines. This is a highly imaginative instrumental narrative crafted with a caring attentiveness and extremely tight production. Roberto Lange (Boom & Birds/Epstein) and Matt Crum (Feathers) split their time between Georgia and Florida, assembling the distinct compositions with both a sense of weekend-session urgency and the patience of a Sunday driver. ROM is full of haunting melodies and creative percussion, a weave that warms you with its familiarity and sense of invention. For fans of good music.