Discography Mirror (2009)ġ0.Minamo(MUSIC by TSUKINO SORA,DJ OKAWARI)Ġ4.Kaleidoscope feat. In short, it’s all gorgeous, and perfect study music. ![]() Many are simply instrumentals (more so on his first album) that merge traditional Japanese music and natural sounds with modern hip-hop/jazz processing. Unlike say, DJ Clazzi, who writes songs that other people sing and are held up by said singers, DJ Okawari’s music is more about the instrumental composition and mixing than it is about the voices that ornament those songs. If you have more than one line of text, enter the text into the separate lines. The hip-hop meets ambient music kind of scared me a bit, but my fears instantly disappeared as all the songs I’ve listened to so far are beautifully composed. Type the text you want to convert in the TEXT box. Thankfully, the album covers were beautifying some amazing music, music that I thought I didn’t think I’d like as much as I thought I would. All are designed by Japanese artist Marumiyan. The atmospherics and sound effects cause the listener to imagine the Transatlantic blimp/starship landing in. The opening few moments of Kaleidoscope transition perfectly from the band’s previous outing, The Whirlwind. ![]() But if I want to be entirely honest, what initially drew me to his music are the absolutely stunning album covers. Transatlantic, Kaleidoscope (Radiant/Metal Blade/Inside Out, 2014). Although it sounds really strange on paper, trust me, it totally works. He’s a Japanese Artist that captures Hip-hop, R&B, Electro-jazz styles under an overarching Ambient music style (the music genre revolutionized by Nujabes). The Ageing Young Rebel (featuring Ken Nordine)ĩ.I stumbled across DJ Okawari while I was skimming through some K-Indie (like Zitten) but don’t get confused, DJ Okawari isn’t Korean. In an alternate reality it might have become ‘Kaleidoscope’ but now, 20 years on, it’s a companion to the original album.†And while we’re stuck with our reality this companion is ideal for anyone wanting to peer into mirrors of possibilities.Ħ. As Kev puts it, “It’s not a new DJ Food album, it’s an old one that never was. Closing this trip into alternate possibilities is ‘Boo Hoo’, an early, shorter version of ‘The Sky At Night’ that gently carries the cinematic mood of the album back to now. Originally intended for the album, these tracks were instead reworked and cut up into an EP shortly after. At 13 minutes long, ‘Quadraplex (A Trip to the Galactic Centre)’ is the Companion’s meditative piece de resistance, pieced together from various takes of its separate composite tracks. ‘The Crow (Slow)’ stretches out the melodic theme of one of the most recognizable tracks in the DJ Food repertoire, extending it into a soothing soundscape that eventually dissolves into an alternate dub version. DJ Okawari Kaleidoscope Album Cover T-Shirt Black Orders placed before 10am will be sent to production on the same day Lightweight, slim fit unisex crew. ‘Stealth’ is an alternate version of the Gentle Cruelty remix of ‘The Ageing Young Rebel’ (also included on ‘Xen Cuts’) but with Nordine’s vocal replaced by a sombre voice mulling the disasters of morbid self-attention. The big-band-meets-easy-listening ‘Hip Operation’ was repurposed for the first version of Sukia’s ‘Feelin’ Free’ remix while the swirling funk of ‘A Strange Walk’ was an unreleased version of the same remix that eventually made it onto the ‘Xen Cuts’ bonus disc. Sonically, at least, DJ Food’s vision of the future wasn’t that far off and, as Kev remarked when they first released the mixes, some of these tracks “should have never been left in a drawer for two decades.â€Įlsewhere, the ‘Kaleidoscope Companion’ throws up plenty of “hey I know this!†moments. Opener ‘The Ents Go To War’, with its brooding arrangement and heavy drums, feels stunningly current, as does the hypnotizing dance between bassline and snare on ‘Skylark’ or the fidgety percussion and airy synthesizers of ‘Zoom Zoom’. They found more than they bargained for, compiling versions, alternate mixes and unreleased ideas into a series of mixes that have now been further refined into the ‘Kaleidoscope Companion’ and presented alongside the original album on quadruple vinyl. ![]() Twenty years later, amid the first national lockdown in England, Kev and PC decided to celebrate ‘Kaleidoscope’’s 20th Anniversary by digging through their personal archives for material from the original recording sessions. Now under the expert control of fellow Ninjas Kevin Foakes, aka Strictly Kev, and Patrick Carpenter, aka PC, the album broke with the past by reflecting a possible future of beats and pieces. Released in April 2000, ‘Kaleidoscope’ marked a new era for the DJ Food alias first conceived by label founders Coldcut. Dj Food - Kaleidoscope + Companion (Vinyl)
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