Indigo Jam Unit have collaborated with Common!!! ( i realized i spelt...indigo jazz unit on my personal post..HM.too lazy to go back and change that)
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Label: Basis Records/Rambling Records
Released: February 2009
re:Common marks the third release in as many months from Osaka-based indigo jam unit, and this time they have embarked on a slightly different project, providing live instrument remixes of tracks made famous by hip-hop artist Common.
The album consists of seven tracks taken from different stages in the rapper's career. The opening track, Communism, simply features drum backing from Takehiro "Shimi" Shimizu, though from then on the full band add their backing to the tracks. The collaboration works well throughout resulting in a superb jazzy hip-hop album, with indigo jam unit proving more than capable of naturally moulding their club jazz sound to the hip-hop beats of Common.
The album can roughly be divided into two halves: a predominantly jazzy side and a predominantly hip-hop side. The former groups consists of Dooinit, Come Close, I Used To Love H.E.R. and a fantastic extended instrumental version of Be, with Communism, The Light and I Got A Right Ta comprising the latter.
A great project that shows another side to this already prolific band's repertoire, and one that, given the right exposure, could well raise their profile outside Japan.
Labels: common, indigo jam unit, Jazz
1 Beyond The Sunshine (Live Drum Mix Featuring Peter Erskine)
2 Verao No Ar (Da Lata Remix)
3 Rise Me Up(Yukihiro Fukutomi Remix)
4 Keep It Movin' (Domu Remix)
5 Sweet Way (Dj Kawasaki Remix)
6 Believe Again(Kyoto Jazz Massive Peaktime Edit)
7 Arpegio In The Forest (Interlude Mix)
8 Waltz For Jason(Full Nine Yardes Reedit)
9 Crescent Moon (Interlude Mix)
10 The Room (Calm Remix)
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Labels: acid jazz, hajime yoshizawa, Jazz, kyoto jazz music
I am so happy to finally get hold of all his albums!! it took me a long long while and now here's one of them to start with!
"Soulful electronic madness from Hajime Yoshizawa´s project Cosmic Village, all produced under an even deeper sound!! If you know his work with Kyoto Jazz Massive, you'll know that Hajime's groove is already pretty expansive, with bits of Nu Jazz, Broken Beats, brazilian, Latin, Fusion, and soulful House all percolating together wonderfully!! The sound is also expanded even more strongly, but not in that "aggressive" remix album sort of mode, where all the producers are fighting to outdo each other. Instead, the vibe here is very cohesive and almost collaborative, very much in support of the strength of Yoshizawa!!"
Hajime Yoshizawa - Cosmic Village [2007]
01. Translucent
02. Mirage
03. You Can See The Light
04. Gravity
05. Violets
06. Full Load
07. Starseed
08. Mid Day Moon
09. Perfect Emotion
10. Astral Circulation
11. Spiral I
12. Biophonics
13. Earthrise
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Labels: hajime yoshizawa, Jazz
Alright so the video didnt work....BUT the album is!
DJ Nozawa - Memory of the Future
Release: 2007
Label: Mori Production Japan
Genre: broken beat / nu jazz
TRACKLIST
01 Memory Of The Future (feat. Shing02) Album Mix
02 To Breathe
03 靉 Ai
04 I Like It
05 楸 Autumn Oak
06 Children Of Light
07 Asking Why Extended Album Mix
08 藍 Ao
09 Asking Why Extended JazzGuitar Club Mix
10 Royal Milk Slow Stream
11 Piapercus
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Labels: club mix, DJ NOZAWA, Ghibli, Jazz, miz, SHING02
alright, If anyone has remembered watching the movies of "My neighbour Totoro" or "Laputa: Castle in the Sky"....well you're in for a surprise. They were all from Studio Ghibli, and this album is a remix of some of the most popular songs that Studio Ghibli has put into their movies!
Tracklist
01. sal - Later that summer (Spirited Away)
02. sal feat. Agape of Isosceles/TWIN. - I'll go (Laputa; Castle in the Sky)
03. DJ DAVI - Asiana and San taka (Princess Mononoke)
04. DJ Ryu - Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind)
05. D. Locke - The way the wind (My Neighbor Totoro)
06. KGO - Ocean city (Kiki's Delivery Service)
07. sal - TERU Song (Tales from Earthsea)
08. nack - NAUSHIKAREKUIEMU (Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind)
09. sal - Marco and Gina (Porco Rosso)
10. Morphil - Merry-go-round of Life (Howl's Moving Castle)
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Labels: crossover, Ghibli, Hip Hop, Jazz, jazzy, Kiki, Laputa, lounge, Porco Rosso, Princess Mononoke, R n B, reggae, Spirited Away, Totoro