El-Quango - Lost Moments - Japan CD

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El-Quango

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EL-QUANGO, who has been active as a member of Shimokitazawa ZOO~SLITS and KING OF OPUS and started a new label "Search of MANY" last year, will release his latest mix "LOST MOMENTS. The DJ culture provides an atmosphere for a peaceful life. The mix is by EL QUANGO, who established a new label, Search of MANY, last summer, and has been active at his own pace since the early 1990s as a member of the Shimokitazawa Slits staff and KING OF OPUS, and his musicality oozes out of the mix. The mix is headed by Search. The mix is headed by the MC of Robo Air, who released the first 7" of "Search of MANY." In fact, the intro beat is a treasured soundtrack of the late Maziaretakahi RAW, who was also a friend of EL QUANGO before his death. Speaking of Maziarreta Kahi RAW, he is a member of the Smurfs, whose 2007 album was rediscovered and made a fresh impact by being released on LP in 2021 after 14 years of absence. We start with such a rare sound source of his. The one hour of breakbeats, electro, reggae, and downtempo grooves accompanied by dub basslines are moderately danceable, moderately relaxed, and not too heavy or too heavy, but not too light either. The right balance of these two elements creates a comfortable space. The middle part of the album includes the first release with Robo Space of the aforementioned "Search of MANY," a previously unreleased version of the song. Incidentally, the original track of this song is a "version" based on the work of Kiyoshi Hazemoto, who has been active in PC-8 and Interferon since the dawn of Japanese techno, and his actual project, Sigh Society. The 7-inch version was divided into two parts: the A-side, a rap song by Robo-Chu, and the B-side, an instrumental version. Here is an extended, previously unreleased long version of the song, which is built from elements of both. The mix ends with a melodica outro by Naka Tomizawa, a friend of the KING OF OPUS who has recently released guitar ambient music under his own name, also previously unreleased. The mix "returns" to its own pace, where off is turned on, and dubby reverberations intersect. It could be called a down-tempo mix that draws you into a personal chill-out in the post-Corona disaster, where life and work, everyday and extraordinary, relaxation and tension, and such highs and lows have become boundless. After listening to the song, you will probably find yourself ruminating over the lyrics of Robo Space - "What kind of day is today? (Yusuke Kawamura) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ I was struck by the freestyle at the beginning of the song, and then the new wavey part of me woke up completely, and I found that my memory and time had been DUBWISE. I was DUBWISE. A gem of a mix that will make you feel chilly, refreshed, and quietly pierced. KENKEN(KEN2D APECIAL/URBAN VOLCANO SOUNDS) The second track on the B-side of a dance music 12-inch, for example, is a flower hidden among the rocks of the record diggin'. But miraculously, these songs have universal appeal. The DUB feeling that runs through them I thought this mix, filled with a love of music that cannot be derived from the Subsqueak AI, should be preserved in a form! NOOLIO(Around Wicked Sound Maker)