Through the magic of record hunting and looking for music on vinyl that other people enjoy I found Yoshies channel OTOTABI with Ogaway DJ Ogaway the channel has these great videos of Tokyo set to music from new interesting artists and also Yoshie reviews new and old music with such enthusiam.
Yoshie, posted a photo on instagram of a really great japanese dub record by Dry and Heavy – Full Contact, this isnt a very well known record and so I reached out to her to talk about the album as think its a modern classic in dub, we started talking about record hunting and I told her the story about how where I found it in Teuchtler Schallplattenhandlung which is located at Windmühlgasse 10, 1060 Vienna. This is the shop in the beautiful movie Before Sunrise, its an essential destination for any music lover, Vienna is a bit like Paris lots of moody moochers mooching about but full of wonderful people and places to see, I lived there for nearly a decade and put on events club nights there and Teuchtler was where I found some great music.
The band Dry and Heavy should be better known, They created their own Japanese dubfest, Echomaniacs. This has featured Adrian Sherwood, Andrew Weatherall, Dennis Bovell and 3 Head, and Dry & Heavy have played in concert with Lee Perry, Horace Andy, Jah Shaka and Mad Professor. The world of japanese dub is a rich and beautiful kingdom and Dry and Heavy made really heavy dusty beautiful dub up there with Mad Professor and King Tubby level echo and depth BAMMMM !
But I digress, Yoshie and I started to message each other about music, record shops we love including Teuchtler Schallplattenhandlung where I bought Dry and Heavy. The shop has been there for over 70 years and has every type of music imaginable and the staff are incredible and also keen supporters of the music scene of Vienna from experimental noise artists to afro groups and classical music of course.
we talked particulary about Boards of Canada and Aphex twin and other music which has that rare quality and comforting melancholy feel, after about a year I finally got round to sending her Haram Tapes first album. She very kindly and expertly interviewed Pete and I about our music and made a brilliant interview which is edited and translated into japanese. It is a real honour to have someone take that time and interest in our music. What I love about her channel is the indepth personal reviews of the music like this one of Autechre 「SIGN」
I wanted to know more about her background as a music fan and “digger” as her channel on youtube is full of great albums and new artists like Metropolitan Project whos Late night demos will be featured in a new mix with other ambient / electronic music artists Cruel Diagonals Ivy Barkakati and Sumatran Black
please watch our interview it was a lot of fun making it and it must have have taken ages to edit down as we talked a lot !!
I asked Yoshie a few questions over email as to her background and the artists she loves and record shopping ,shes so supportive of new underground artists (links below) and I really hope you will subscribe to her channel !
Hi Yoshie ! Please can you write a little background about yourself
>>> I live in Tokyo and I’m from Kyoto, the ancient capital.I work in video production as freelancer, TV director, making videos for companies, for events…I used to work for a music show and I did many interview with artists ; but this was very commercial music which earnt good money ( used for buying Vinyl !!) Or I make documentary videos for TV, so I like to interview people and get to know them. About music I’ve never made music and I’m just doing a little DJing . There were times when I didn’t listen to music at all ! Anyway I’m just a musc fan! I was in France in 2001 for 2 years, so I can imagine Europe a little bit.
Well I hope you get a chance to come back to Europe and would be great to dj together thats one of my favourite things to do is to do a dj set b2b with other djs and play records for like 4- 8 hours, in fact its probably the thing i miss most because of corona so many music fans cant do this and sharing vinyl / djing , the mix is not as important, its the choice and selection !
do you have any dj mixes online we can share ?
>>> I don’t have any mixes. Sorry. There are some people whove asked me about my mixies, so one day I will try to make one . I’m not good DJ I just select my favorite music.
I think thats the key thing for DJs selecting their favorite music , thats a DJ someone with passion, with a lot of business techno / instagramer djs these days everything is about image and thats so ugh yuck ! Plus the music a lot of the big DJS and even some underground djs seems to have just become lo grade tech house / buisness techno, anyway i dont want to bang on about this but your channel / attitude and enthusiams is so needed today !
What are your favourite clubs to go to in Tokyo ?
and how often do you go record hunting ?>>> Womb, Contact, VisionWomb was a cool club. I liked it before. Many famous techno djs came there from overseas, like Derrick May, Jeff Mils, Carl Craig, Richie Hawtin, Sven Vath, Joris Voorn… but now it’s becoming more EDM than techno –
Oh no ! EDM is the worst I’m sorry to hear that !
What has been your most amazing find in a record shop ? >>> LFO’s vinyls, EP “Tied Up” and Album “Advanced”
I rarely see LFO records Or Kraftwerk’s EP “Tour de France”, red label (I think it’s rare)I’m not a proper collector so I’m not sure which is rare or not. Just I wanted LFO’s vinyl, and when I found it, I was so excited!
Are there any shops you want to give a special mention to ? >>> I don’t have any in Tokyo. but I wanna introduce record shops in Kyoto on my channel. I don’t know very much about them yet but one day! Because I’m from Kyoto. I was Born and raised in Kyoto, its a beautiful city.
Brilliant, I think its great youre making these videos especially sharing the records you find,your enthusiam is something wonderful !
Any artists you want to mention here ?
>>> Haram Tapes,( thanks! ) Metropolitan Project, Timo Carlier, ATN soul & NoamleAll of them are the artists who cooperated with the interview on my channel. I like them very much! As a well-known artists I like, Four Tet, Carl Craig, Moritz Von Oswold, Telefon Tel Aviv, The Orb, Isolee… and many warp’s artists like Aphex Twin, Autechre, Two lone Swordsmen, Clark, Plaid, Flying Lotus, GAIKA… Japanese artists; Ken Ishii, Takkyu Ishino, DJ Krush, Boom Boom Satellites, U.F.O.
You love Warp artists a lot I noticed, I really like that you have an affection to this classic label , are there any other record labels you want to mention that have the same ethos of outstanding quality ? For me 4Ad is a label similar to Warp in that every release will be something special >>> I don’t know 4AD. I’ll check it out! I like Skam records, Ninja Tune, R&S…Off course Warp Records! Only famous labels, actually.
Thanks for taking the time to answer the questions Yoshie!
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