ARTIST...: EP-4
TITLE....: Lingua Franca EP
YEAR.....: 2012
LABEL....: Brutal Music
CAT.NO...: BRUT1203D
GENRE....: Disco
TIME.....: 09:23 min
SIZE.....: 21,5 MB
QUALITY..: 320kbps/44.1kHz/Full Stereo
ENCODER..: LAME
SOURCE...: WEB
RLS.DATE.: 2012/03/31
WEBSITE..: http://www.bagpak.net
TRACKLIST
01) (05:12) Coco
02) (04:11) 5-21
The third installment in our Brutal 500 series. After an e.p of personal favourites
from Dom Thomas and a splatter of new productions from DJ Cherrystones we present a
set of Japanese New Wave movements from the obscure band EP-4.
This essential Japanese mutant funk crew emerged in 1980 out of Club Modern in Kyoto,
mainly as a collaboration between Kaoru Sato and keyboardist/tape manipulator Banana
Kawashima. Sato was the driving force behind the group, having just recorded an album
under the name RNA Organism for Osaka's Vanity Records.
EP-4 offer a seamless mix of polyrhythmic arrangements that varyingly nods in the
direction of the 80's downtown NY via concise Liquid Liquid grooves or the
elaborately funky arrangements of Talking Heads. Building on a cool, nosweat-funk
danceability, the group explores areas of sonically drenched experimentation.
Skeletal grooves take on swelling layers of compressed and distorted guitar, synth,
and vocoder. The vocals are distinctly post-Can and desolate in a P.I.L-damaged
sense.
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