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!

Fevered Fiction – Inside the PARADOX Southampton / October 1998

Inside the Paradox

 

I’m a big fan of rave recollections and short stories, I’m currently reading and will be reviewing State Of Bass by Martin James

https://velocitypress.uk/product/state-of-bass/. buy direct from the publisher

Its an excellent tome on the developement of Hardcore To Jungle and Drum and Bass and all of the nodes and stems that shoot off from the greatest british export

 

Ive also been inspired by Joe Europe whos writing some feverish tales here

 

 

so heres some fever dream stream of conciousness fluff from the back of my mind and an attempt at thinking in the flow of Det, Skibba, Stevie Hyper D or IC3  ( def not moose or shabba , lol bone man ) If those names mean nothing to you,  you’re dead , fam, you probably wore Dunlops, d e a d .

In 2 deep, the speckled dove is not having the effect I want , feeling wavy but my breath is escaping me, not fusing with me, Brockie is spinning ,Ic3 is chatting , his bark louder hey Hey Hey, hur, hur,hur Muhahahaha ,

I’m feeling not so steady, steady are you ready, what’s going on , that’s the PARa para , para paradox , something is changing in me my stomach flips I want to puke but it fades … then …feeling good, feeling great but soon you know that its going to fade , but then it starts to all fit , the waves calm a little, I’m over the hill and far away, the feet feel lighter and now im stepping, steppin, DJ Die Autumn cuts in ,98 2 99  and we feel FINE ,

 

 

 

yeah yeah what’s this new old sound, hey you coming thru with the new sound , it’s a stepper, it’s a roller it’s a Bristol rockers 2 rockers , sound of the Autumn streets , light dappling thru trees, still a warm breeze , and I’m turning through the pages of my life , I’m after new Kreps, addict for sneakers used to have a beeper ,   not a care about a council tax bill, steady on this grade pill , mersh nah … we will see , never put pen to paper on the dotted line , pay in cash or get on tick , flip a brick a week , the plug come deliver, up southern corridor and m4 / m25 , one above, lieutenant before county lines burners were not even a thing then , nokia Erickson, don’t be bait , don’t talk bait on the phone , you got that ting yeah…… , more dub rush come save me , just 4 u ,   soon about to come crushing down like it always does someone chat bare rubbish , 1 year later the prick in a lowered escort he’ll turn witness, informer, end up in fuengirola cleaning swimming pools ,greased down curtains and Lizzie Duke sovvies n chain , (bonkerz not ruffneck n chain) but he’s alright jack , he wont catch more than 2 years inside whilst trouble trouble trouble you bring , TROUBLE ON VINYL

 

 

 

cos away goes trouble…..Scorpio……. rising ….. ….. DOWN THE DRAIN …..

 

 

 

Im doing rates, ticks , half an oz vaccum pack for 100 , 10 for £50, g of peng rerock for 50 , they say its look like fishscale , but its repress , but not as stepped on as u might find , the scouse plug is legit , people lap it up , half the bar snorting my Charlie …unggggg , covered like a portion of chips , ungggh ,

 

…. now they say bits , doing bits, of this and that bits of what ? fucking fart gak selling off fucking snap chat , but back to my chat , don’t watch that , mates are on my watch, we control camellia , yeah yeah camellia house ground floor you know you get more for your score we do the henry at 4s not 3.5 , we are generous to a fault , we are independent , but back to the front to the front to the back wall to wall all the creatures great and small yeah Sharkey BONKERSZZZ was he a bone man ? The SPLIT BETWEEN HaRDCORE and Jungle that old chesnut   THOSE THAT Wanted to feel like they were in a fucking toytown and with one colour rocking to the bass , get pasty faced and sucking on a fucking dummy …that lyric though sharkey .. gold, wall to wll all the creatures great and small , we’re martians from Mars comin g to kick your arse ………So whats coming through now as we get thru til 2 …its another war head about to blow up

 

 

 

fuck 2…. these raves close so early.  2 am …. its a joke ,  Soton is missing the whole UKAY is missing on those relaxed laws .. whats that sonar beam calling thru yeah it’s the Ed Rush and Optical those crazy bald heads its Funktion the remix , is it gonna get pulled up , yep yep dj brooooocccckieeeeee inside , so we get to hear that intro again I look around me as we are sent onto the cold face of uncharted planets and its just us all the stepper in the place no one fighting noone bogging each other out , but that feeling grows and grows the 2 , the number, the regulation , I’m a stepper not a sleeper, I don’t want to stop stepping, change up rearrange my brain , don’t think i’ll feel the same , every weekend do the same , fuck a narrow lane , this feelin cant contain or complain, for that matter , deal with the matter , deal with it proper !   Skibba and IC3 ,HEY HEY , hosting and sending , sending us through , I see Anil the promoter screwing at the venue manager , who’s trying to shut SHIT DOWN, fuck your license, there’s still 600 people here no officers can take us but Anil aint no pussy claart , he’s  waving his hand across the night , across the floor the rAvers are still gagging for more ,he wants his customers going home happy talking about this ONE for years …. AND they will , we do , we cant forget it or get close to all those dreams

 

and we will we do we keep harking back to those days , those tape packs now fly through the air , youtube comments, fat bad cunts on fart gak in basements, medium size halls trying to relive the dream , sad ? No , AWOL  A way of life  that lives on , I was there , I bought the tape pack,and the panels rattled  , planet v becomes the sound of the new era , we get lighter , the pads soothe as the tents get bigger the lazers strafe the air the smoke gets thicker and bam those stabs get through and that riff hits you every time HEY HEY HEY HEY HEY , WHA U GONNA DO, , WHA U GONNA DO, , WHA U GONNA DO are you down with Lemon D , have you heard the champion sound and have you still got nasty habits ? did you party at the Startford rex , bone men , maybe you made a helter skelter of your life maybe serotonin got all burnt out , you didn’t know about 5htp , running down the corridors of your life , every Tuesday Wednesday feeling like hollow hollow man , chasing some fucking SKET who ordered vodka lemon but only liked garage … and didn’t like to ping …different tastes were coming … things never stay the same … it gets moodier … you don’t feel like a junglist soldier , junglists are you reeeeeeeaaddyyy ? Yes certainly they are… here to report to the floor for duty we are now ready for take off…

 

 

 

, but you are apart , girl gets to you says why you always with your crew they don’t support you , smoking too much , sniffin Charlie , all the people in the party getting edgy , someone wants to cook up , in your kitchen things are getting too sketchy too bait ,  and u get para ,think you want to change it up , breakbeats still come and things turn to the Marine Parade , that’s ll good but something is missing … you fall in and out with Bad Company …..

 

 

 

 

Bad Company, the crazy bald head scene, less girls, more man dem but skinnier and more prone to start,  you start to feel itchy, Plaistow 1999 … the rain hits hard on the ‘crete , you walk through Saturday hammers crowds and make trips to paddington via Hayes TOX is everywhere hes out to B O M B,  now is the time of drawing back , now is the time of Iceberg and Mosch, Wookie and Sundayz, cartoon characters on shady lanes, phone keeps ringing,  things aint been the same since …..has it come 2 this,  Original Pirate Materials kool Fm  and  something else turns your head… the twisiting and turning through the canals and the serotonin levels are burnt out….battle over