I’ve made exceptions for them because I already knew they were top notch!Īnywho, now let’s move on to some of the things I picked up in my searches! It bares mentioning that most of the tracks for the previous two artists date well past my predetermined search range. All of which can be listened to in some for via Yokota’s Soundcloud and probably via your music streaming platform of choice! There’s also an upcoming compilation on the way via Sound of Vast, titled Ultimate Yokota 1991 – 2019. 2016’s Do It Again and Again and I Know You Like It earlier this year. Following a few appearances on Sounds of the Far East, Yokota’s put out two albums on Far East Recording. The most digestible way to give them a listen is through Rush Hour’s 2015 re-issue of his tracks from the early 90’s, Sounds of the Far East.Īnother essential listen that I was already aware of is Terada’s labelmate, Shinichiro Yokota. The Ape Escape soundtracks carry an obvious jungle influence (which fits right in with the musical makeup of the PSX generation) but Terada’s house tracks are truly exceptional. Which, coincidentally enough, also ties back into games!Īlthough most might know of him through his work on the soundtracks for Ape Escape and Ape Escape 3, producer Soichi Terada has been making tracks since the late 80’s and releasing them through his own label, Far East Recording. So with that in mind, I started looking for stuff inside that slice of time that I could share here but there’re a few key examples that I was already aware of that I’ll talk about first. I could have bought a bunch of vinyl, CDs and whatnot which would’ve likely given me a clearer picture as to what sorts of sounds were popping off around the time but that’s not so easily shareable as a single YouTube video would be. Second, I needed to find stuff that’s actually accessible for most people. From here, I figured the next logical step was to delve into the sound of Japanese house producers from that era, which is the actual subject we’ll be exploring this Cycle!īut in order to narrow the field of search results I’d have to sift through to get to what I was looking for, I decided to set a few limits.įirst, nothing past 2003 (the release of ChainDive) and nothing before 1999 (arbitrarily chosen year). So, I wanted to hear a similar sound to this track that had enthralled me but I couldn’t quite find what I was looking for among the composer’s discography. Movin’ On from ChainDive -Arrangements-, Self-released, 2017. Galaxy 2 Galaxy from POLYPHONET COMMENDATORE (with Junya Nakano), Self-released, 2016 The uplifting piano, shimmering synth and enchanting melodies of this track are the sole catalyst that drew me to this obscure PS2 game. There’s a house track that plays as soon as you’re given control of the main character that’s unlike anything else on ChainDive’s soundtrack. The game’s kinda cool albeit a bit funky to control but that’s obviously not the reason why I’m telling you about it! I don’t know much about the story because my Japanese is still pretty poor but the gameplay in ChainDive involves your seemingly nameless protagonist, who appears to be a magical cyber-warrior, zipping around a war-torn cityscape swinging from floating nodes with an energy chain while fighting giant insects (or maybe they’re demons?) by freezing them with your dual-bladed weapon and then crashing into them using your chain. I’ve also been playing a little bit of it, y’know, for research! It never released outside of Japan but it did make it’s way outside of the country via demo discs for Official PlayStation Magazine, which is where I first heard about it. It’s a rather unique action platformer that came out on the PS2 in 2003. This time, we’re gonna go on a journey through an entirely arbitrary period of time inspired by… the PlayStation 2!įorgive me for getting descriptive about a video game for this music feature but I want to tell you about a game called ChainDive. So, for the next couple of Cycles (by which I mean this one and the next one) I’m gonna switch things up by mostly focusing on names that are brand new to me! ![]() An exhilarating one but still not as frequent as I’d like it to be. ![]() In the process of compiling the Cycles, occasionally I’ll learn about a different style of electronic music, new artists and labels to keep an eye on or trends in music history but those are a rarity. New Cycles are released on the 9th, 18th and 27th of every month.Įvery so often I am whelmed with the feeling that my musical knowledge is fairly shallow or, at the very least, not nearly as deep as I’d like to be. ![]() The Nonary Cycle is a recurring roundup featuring recent listens, sonic tangents and other aural musings and fascinations.
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