OTOTABI with Ogaway :

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!

Winter Haram Tapes mix

with tracks from https://fill-lexrecords.bandcamp.com/. lex or – orc alex the boss of this valencia based label that I wrote about here

Camomile Dawn – Pete Sumatran Black’s Lofi House project https://camomiledawn.bandcamp.com

a track called Misuse by Textbeak https://textbeak.bandcamp.com. hopefully it will be a haram tapes text beak colab, Mike sent me the Original to use but i think it sounds best in its original form

a New Track by old favorite and Colaborator with Zarkoff Yas Le Chocolat Noir he of the ever excellent Disco Panonia radio show and Croatian dark lord

https://lechocolatnoir.bandcamp.com/

his track Bridge over I br on the She Lost Kontrol records label aus Berlin

she lost kontrol records

and at the top of the mix are two new discoveries through the magic / shit of twtter and covid / plague rave anti business techno fervour residual energy boss from Toronto https://no-wonder.bandcamp.com/. and acid specialist https://wtchcrft.bandcamp.com. wtchcrft from NY creating his own c19 acid vacines

two young producers who oscilate wildly Residual Energy Boss using analog gear and setting the machines to breathe

Valencia – the arteries, venas, Rutas, d – e – s- t- r – 0 – y

As I sit and write this in Malaga spain in the middle of a second wave of the Pandemic thinking about an era of clubbing seems so other worldly, the concept of attending a club or a concert or both seems so far away like a distant memory and so alien, to join with other people wand dance and to make physical movements in time with the music. That fact, this depressing fact that we have to maintain our distance is sometimes overwhelming, so with looking backward and remebering all the good times ,its with a mind set on the fact that new good times, times of group BLACK CELEBRATION, shall happen again.

My friend Manuel Dolp ( find his cosmic mixes on bordello a parigi ) took a break from partying in ilegal covid rave dens in galleries and lofts and came to stay in Malaga and escape the cold of Vienna, whilst on the beach he told me about something I never knew about Spain,we all know the Balearic story, the ibiza fou,r the same history of how the UK gave the world the gift of the RAve or the culture of staying up all night dancing to repitive beats …. this is a sketchy narative …as we know that like in Italy with Cosmic ( Baldelli / Loda) there was a huge messianic club scene that spawned its own sound and its own customs and generations of rave babies (more on the generation who are inspired by this era of experimentation in tomorows post on Valencia based FILL Lex Records) ..to focus on the early years and not the Makina sound and the degradation of the quality of the music ) , writers ( Carlos Aimeur “Destroy. El corazón del hombre es un abismo”) , DJs , muscians , promoters whose only purpose in life was the eternal dance, La Ruta , the CV-500, the road that connects many clubs and with the E15 and A7 that stretches all along the coast of Spain was the focus for the youth to seek the discos of Valencia and Barcelona much like in the UK had the M25 Orbital road system and the network of warehouses and roads spreding into the commuter belt and farm land with convoys of cars ferrying out to all night raves

Spain’s coastal road network saw ravers driving and partying for the entiriety of the weekend thereby leading to the name la Ruta Destroy , with over ten different clubs condensed into one area the road became synomous with excess and thrills but thanks to Media exposure and the sensationalism (that which fuelled but also damaged the scene ) and police control (Corcuera Law that allowed express searches caused many to flee and many prison terms )

This era like all eras and scenes eventually died..but for over ten years from the early 80s these huge clubs and concert venues like Spook , Puzzle, Barraca , Chocolate N.O.D brought people together from disparate groups to dance to the gothic sounds in the early 80s to new Belgium beats, Kraftwerk , Grauzone, Severed heads , the NEU DEuTsche welle ,

all of these import records gained the nickname fresh cod the new fresh tasty beautiful wax hence the name BACAlAO to describe new fresh music ( Lets imagine you’re under a dictatorship one day and the next a new democracy ,morals are changing , society is opening up and there are these new rhythmic sounds and northern european cold electronics are coming to visit you spelling a future , all powered by a new party drug that made you feel warm and open to new emotions and kept you dancing all night Meskalina or mesk , MDA and caffeine were the actual ingredients MDA precursor to MDMA well why what else is there in life ? DJs Like Fran Lenaers and Rafa Pastor took these joy discs and were some of the first djs to beat mix and create the non stop beat doing away with flamenco and rumba and ushering in the electronic , EBM , Industrial , NDw if it was rhythmic it was on the deck and you can hypnotize and create pure ecstacy, this attitude similar to Baldellis and other italian djs in Rimini, this attitude and DJ culture that was way ahead of most discos in the UK …

La fiesta y nada mas …for many groups this late night all night life was a shock to them, concerts by groups like Killing Joke started at 2 am with a second session at 7am ! or later with people off their heads on meskaline “”Groups like Killing Joke or Play Dead played in halls with a thousand people up to their eyebrows in mescaline, who sang their songs as if they were anthems” the essential book on all of the characters and protangists can be found here apparently and I cant wait to devour it ….Luis Costa’s Book Bacalao! details the whole story as much as can be recoreded from shady memories, including the myth of Bez coming to Valencia after hearing about the mysterious green capsules of Mescaline…more on the legacy left by this time period manana…

Now Its Dark Radio/ DARK TUNES

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Robert ( Darktunes ) und Sirius der DJs mit eine grosseartig kollection, eine dj par mit stil klass und gesmakt so weit

DARK TUNES AUS WIEN

ok thats my german… Robert the dj with great collection , a dj with style class and taste so broad, with Sirius they beguile the wieners, they educate support numerous charities inc Aids hilfe

MAN OF KULTURE

Robert immer der nette typ mit viel interest in neu kunst und alt kunst populaire, disco und house experten mit intergral Kenntnisse, viel mal er hat mir unterstützt mit Haram Tapes und Everybodys Darling der disco klub aus wien

ROBERT THE DJ / JOHANN THE DJ darktunes / sirius / or SIrius & DaRkTunEs

Robert always the nice guy with much interest in new art and old art populaire, disco and house experts with integral knowledge, many times he supported me with Haram Tapes and Everybodys Darling the disco club from Vienna and Robert and Johann’s ( Sirius ) many night clubs and gigs and events nourish Vienna , without them the place would collapse in brutal mediocrity EINSTURZENDE ALT BAU UND GRANTING MENSCH DAS IST WIEN , wien ist TOT from Vienna Decay To Vanity Decay, records to club nights

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