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First ever vinyl pressing of Haruomi Hosono’s full album N.D.E. Featuring Goh Hotoda, Yasuhiko Terada, Yasuaki Shimizu, Bill Laswell & Franois Kevorkian.
Ever since his days as a pioneer of Japanese electronic music in the 1970s, Haruomi Hosono has constantly pushed forwards musically. The 1990s was a particularly fertile decade for the Yellow Magic Orchestra co-founder. Following two decades spent creating and releasing innovative electronic pop, imaginary sound worlds and inspirational ambient music, Hosono established the Daisyworld label to showcase cutting-edge ambient, techno and electronica, while also embarking on a wide range of often overlooked collaborative projects. N.D.E. – one of the headiest, psychedelic, evocative and gently mind-altering albums in Hosonos vastdiscography, is one such project. It formed part of a run of albums that saw the Japanese producer embrace contemporaneous influences think Spacetime Continuum style ambient techno, DJ Spooky-esque illbient, weighty ambient dub and the ambient house antics of The Orb in his own inimitable, far-sighted style.
Highlights are plentiful, from the Test Department-at-dawn brilliance of Bill Laswell co-production Edge of the End and the sunrise-ready, dew-fresh dreaminess of Aero, to the surging ambient techno hedonism of Strange Attractor a near cult cut that remains a timeless slab of hallucinatory dancefloor excellence and the slow-motion space-dub of Francois Kevorkian collaboration Teaching of Sphinx, whose oddly processed sounds and low-slung bass subtly reference the Orbs earlier remix of YMOs Tong Poo.
Theres also the impeccable, pleasingly experimental Spinning Spirits all addictive Indian rhythms, punishingly distorted bass, raw electronics and paranoid aural textures and the sparkling bliss of Heliotherapy, a woozy chunk of sun-bright electronic hypnotism that encapsulates everything good about Hosonos mid-90s productions. N.D.E. remains an impressive, unearthly and otherworldly album. (via Bandcamp)
Label: Rush Hour
Series: Rush Hour Store Japan 10
Format:2x Vinyl, 12″, 33 RPM, Album, Reissue, Remastered
Country: Netherlands
Released: Jun 2023 / Original Release: Apr 26, 1995
Genre: Electronic
Style: Abstract, Ambient
File under: Japanese Electronic
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