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october.18.2004 - #1282
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artist : VA
album : Hiiro
year : 2003
label : Saag Records
genre : Electronic
catalogue : SAAG002
url : http://www.saagrecords.com/
quality : CD lame VBR 3.90.3 --alt-preset standard
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01.Modir - Veronica 05:27
02.Taisuke Matsuo - Owlis 04:00
03.Kettel - Bruine Oogjes 03:56
04.Sabi - Plastic Stains 05:51
05.Yuzo Kako - Chain 05:57
06.Akar - Plqstt 2nd Edit 03:30
07.Purusha and Urkuma - A Few Snatches in Our Love 04:55
08.Toshiaki Ooi - Sun Runs Around the Pond 04:21
09.Ent - Hi! Sempai 06:42
10.Octopus Inc - Sleepy Has Meeting 03:31
11.Formatt - Glazed 04:10
12.Ghislain Poirier - Couvre-Feu 03:38
13.Opia - Eye for You 06:06
14.Julien Neto - Amenimo 05:58
14 tracks | 68:02 mins | 103,5 MB
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This is the second release by Saag, a small label from Japan. It's
their second compilation called Hiiro. The first very nice
compilation Anchor was reviewed here before, see Vital 360. What's
on this Hiiro compilation? - 68 minutes of music, 14 tracks from 14
different artists, some more and some less known. I'd suggest
checking the links-page at Saag's site for more info about the
artists. The compilation opens with a great track from Modir
(unknown to me), nice idm-tune with great voice samples. The second
track is from Taisuke Matsuo. He's doing the same very efficient
trick like in some tracks from his Observatory EP (see Vital 399).
In his track here called Owlis, Taisuke takes one sequence and
repeats it for some time until the potential is revealed. Maybe
that's how Goem would sound if they made idm music? :-) There are
more obvious idm tunes on Hiiro, from Kettel (also known from
labels like Kracfive and Neo Ouija), Sabi, Toshiaki Ooi, Akar, Opia
and others... Toshiaki Ooi has a nice rhythmic track, very
different from his tracks on the previous Anchor compilation and on
(now not functioning) Desk Elephant net label, but also very
appealing. In the meantime, Toshiaki participated to the Hydrogen
Dukebox label, and now has made a great fairytale idm track for
Hiiro. The contributions from Purusha & Urkuma and Ent are more
mixed up and twisted. There are other tracks from Octopus Inc,
Formatt, Ghislain Poirier, Yuzo Kako and Julien Neto. Formatt's
track is a slightly different (almost the same) version of his
Glazed track from the Connections EP (see Vital 393). Julien Neto
is a perfect closer, and Ghislain Poirier is not ambient-dub at
all. Ghislain's short track sounds more like broken
hip-hop/break-beat. There are many stand-out tracks on this
compilation that deserve close listening. Great release from Saag
with magical music that can be compared with the music that comes
from one of the leading labels for these kinds of musical
expression: Neo Ouija. New Magic. --http://www.staalplaat.com
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