Re: jap trad & dance

Dj Bizarre
Wed, 25 Feb 1998 15:22:02 PST


I wrote this song with a mad taiko drum intro. But I would exactly call
it traditional Japense. That trad. Japenese/dance doesn't sound like to
big of a genre.

~PEace Out~

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>At 07:09 PM 2/23/98 +0200, JUUSO PAASO wrote:
>> A customer at Kosmonaut Rekords, a shop were I work, asked for music
>>that combines traditional japanese music (instrumental, but singing's
>>ok too) and modern dance music. I thought over it and about all I
could
>>come up with was Dimitri From Tokio EP on Disorient, and it wasn't
that
>>japanese after all. Then there was a Asian Dub Foundation EP, I think,
>>that had something in that fashion, but that's not much. So could you
>>guys come up with something?
>
>
>I doubt you will find much. for something like that, don't bother with
>anything from Japan since
>there is such a wide gap between traditional Japanese music and modern
>music, which is specifically westernized. You'll have better luck
finding
>latin/Brazilian music from Japanese artists!
>
>And the "Asian Dub Foundation" is more of an Indian, not Japanese/east
>Asian origin.
>Anything that "Asian" from Britain really refers to the Indian
>subcontinent. But I totally
>dig what British Indians like Talvin Singh and the ADF are doing;
they're
>not doing the
>sound which that person is looking for but they are definitely into the
>spirit.
>
>The closest you'll find is one song, Photek's "Ni Ten Ichi Ryu" which
is a
>drum n bass tune which samples a Japanese taiko drum. It's not really
>Japanese music per se, nor is it really danceable, but it's an amazing
>piece of music.
>
>I've personally done (and am still doing) stuff which combines
>hip-hop/jungle/trip-hop/acid-jazz music with music from China, Japan
the
>Philippines and other Asian/Southeast Asian countries...but it can't be
>found in stores (yet?)
>
>Elson
>

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