Release : Ryo Murakami - Down The Sky (Incl Argy Remix)
Artist : Ryo Murakami
Album : Down The Sky (Incl Argy Remix)
Genre : Electronic
Source : Vinyl
Label : Poker Flat Recordings
URL : http://www.pokerflat-recordings.com
Date : 04-14-2008
Encoder : LAME 3.97 / -V2 --vbr-new
Quality : 191kbps 44100 kHz Joint Stereo
Tracks : 3
Time : 22:53 min
Size : 31.42 MB
A1 Down The Sky (Argy Remix) 6:54
A2 Down The Sky 7:00
B1 Coke 8:59
Tokyo's rising star Ryo Murakami has already put his diverse, electronic sound
on the map with the "Rise EP" on Dessous last year, and received great praise
for his track "My Soul", snapped up by Steve Bug for the Fabric mix series,
which was piled high with atmosphere and dark, club energy. His next 12"
includes two new tracks, the title cut being "Down The Sky", cooly influenced by
old school house but also more recent European forays into night music. Ryo
demonstrates a heavy aptitude for stripped down futurism, with staccato, jilted
beats, joined by layers of padded synth structures, looming somewhere between
light and darkness. The merits of carefully weighing out your ingredients,
leaving just the right level of detail; not too little, not too much, have
clearly been explored by Ryo here. More to the point though, it's a track that
could string out time and create so much room to groove! Poker Flat's young
Greek maestro, Argy, creates a stunning hi-tech remix of "Down The Sky",
complete with mesmeric dub influenced chord stabs and tripped out washes of
delay. Once again carrying on the vibe of the original, but twisting it into an
altogether different beast, Argy takes Ryo's warm synth stabs and shapes the
remix into a slow paced yet pumping club tool. Deceivingly constant, it simply
builds and builds, making a time stopping, truly hypnotic moment for the
dancefloor and for the mind. The B side, "Coke" (no questions asked) welcomes
another one of Ryo's extended journeys, this time a stronger, peak time groove
which never lets off, and builds around layers of spaced out, pitching fx.
Brain-tingling pitching synths heat things up, before laying down a super-funk
hook that melts on top of the beats irresistibly. Ryo then leads us head-first
into a series of spaced out, jacked-up movements, characterised by risquΘ,
feminine vocal snippets. Wild Pitch rejuvenated!
http://www.myspace.com/ryomurakami