I agree with Elson, there's a couple good Japanese (ugh, the term "jap"
is so offensive ...) Latin recordings on Instinct.
Happy hunting,
dawn
> ----------
> From: Elson Trinidad[SMTP:elson@westworld.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 1998 7:35 PM
> To: juuso.paaso@dcbbs.nullnet.fi; acid-jazz@ucsd.edu
> Subject: Re: jap trad & dance
>
> 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
>