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JP Noir
BPF Records (Japan)
In all my years of doing this (three, since you asked), I’ve never heard a CD that sounds like this: it honestly sounds like it’s been beamed from the future to the right-now, giving us an insight into what the world dances to in the distant future. The press release makes a good point as well: take psytrance, which started out (and generally still flourishes) in lush open spaces and areas full of organic beauty. Stick it in the middle of Tokyo’s vast sprawl, among the skyscrapers and bustling neon, and see what it does. The result is utterly magical. Charm’s Dynamo Theory kicks off and it’s tasty as hell -- a pounding bit of techno really, it’s dark and it’s enormous fun at the same time. And when it drops after the beak… Raa! KURO’s Dracula2000 is coarse, deeper and somehow gathers fluidity as it goes along… made by man or machine? Inclusion from Clade utterly rinses: totally different, phuture stuff. It’s not hard as nails, it’s not dark and angr y. What it is, is tight and intricate pounding minimal fullon techno psy hybrid mutant tech-jazz. Yamabikaya’s Bingo has a tinge of Finland to it, but through a bladerunner blender, and the brooding and impending Paradox from Yamabikaya & DJ Bin has some of the best tension I’ve ever heard in a track. Clutch’s Set is clattering, alien house, with four most certainly to the floor and a breakdown that’s a staggering mess of ping pong and reggae horns. Clutch teams up with Aze on Azeton, which is really damn cute -- a percussive progressive backbone with tons of Japanese samples -- snatches of radio, phone conversations, dialogue. It’s like selecting bits of the city’s cacophony and slotting them into a track. Finally Sativa’s Clean Machine is pretty much my tune of the week, incredibly clever progressive psy: the escalation over the first few minutes is genius, and the suggestions of melody work a treat. So whichever way you look at it, JP Noir is a masterpiece. It straddles progr essive and darker moods, there’s plenty of global influence and, like I said, it seriously sounds like it’s come back in time from the future. Y’ain’t heard nothing like this before, trust me. This, folks, is the next great leap forward in trance.
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... 2004 
