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Yasushi Miura ‘ryusei’-CDR in a nice digipack

/If I owned a club, which is more science-fiction than actual dream, I wonder what the dancefloor part would look like. When I see clubs in movies (I never go there, stop being unpolite) what I see is a flat round- or squared-shaped place where people show the latest fashion they bought on their grandparents’ money. My dancefloor would probably be some place that moves around randomly off-beat while slowly changing shape, lit by dim pulsating pastel-shaded flower-shaped lightbulbs (so no-one could actually see oneself properly, let alone see each other), with a pink fur floor and geysers of bubble-gum scented jelly popping here and there. And Miura’s ‘ryusei’ would be the perfect anti-dance music for this anti-dance floor: music that invites you to movement, not to dance, as someone says; music that’s always off-something –offbeat, offtune, offtherecord, offetc. A great moment: buy this one.

/www.simlog.tk or simlog_at_hot.pl

A few other records from Yasushi Miura-kp-CDRs-beautiful cardboard envelopes in color!

/Hey, I already told you about Mr Miura & his mutant techno! Good surprise: he’s got his own label and releases what he calls the ‘instant construction series’. Whether this means the records are mostly improvised and/or mixed realtime or not isn’t clear but what we get is another (a lot of anothers actually, since the last I had bears a reference number past 30) dose of Magic Mushroom Beat MusicTM -from Japan, but could as well’ve been from Venus; from, you know, the Psychedeliatronic Disco in SSub-BBass, capital of The Evercloudy Republic Of Greensmog, Venus. If any one of you still think Aphex is the only beat virtuoso around (he is a beat virtuoso, no doubt, but he’s not alone anymore) get a dip into Mr Miura’s rhythmish-mash that makes the word breakbeat sound like the most fantastic understatement you’ve ever heard and wonder at his marvellous sense of structure and exquisite taste for melody. Don’t miss Mr Miura, or your dancing bottom will regret it for the rest of its fat-cushioned life.

/karidome_at_mail.goo.ne.jp or http://karidome.hp.infoseek.co.jp

Y Camerau Cyflymder ‘cyfleoedd’-catchpenny-CDR-BW artwork

/Another rock-sung-in-Welsh-mixed-on-four-tracks-record-from catchpenny. Sounds again a bit like Joy Division (who can make any kind of rock without ‘sounding a bit like Joy Division?’) and is perhaps a little less good than the Y Prefateerwy ‘llong danfor’ was. Still this is worth every bit of your attention. Of course I’d love to have them singles on 7” vinyl but of course I know this became impossible for very small labels now that all independent vinyl manufacturers closed in the UK. Why don’t you try and release these singles as 3” CDRs next time?

/PO BOX 88, Mold CH7 4ZQ, CYMRU-WALES or mailto: catchpenny_at_aol.com

Y Dull Duckworth-Lewis ‘I’r glad dros y mannau du’-catchpenny-CDR-nice DVD type package with a map of Welch-speaking Wales

/8-bit techno dirty-and-mean-but-still-danceable with hardcore and experimental moments from Wales’ fine beathackers. And you know what? Minisoft Orifice LiveSpellCheck® knows the word ‘Wales’ and says ‘Cymru’ doesn’t exist. That’s what this record is all about.

/PO BOX 88, YR WYDDGRUG-CH7 4ZQ-CYMRU or mailto: catchpenny_at_aol.com