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Various artists: Disk Musik – A DD Records Compilation review | Safi Bugel's experimental album of the month
The 80s label released hundreds of oddball DIY recordings. Their final compilation, now repressed, jerks from folk to punk to ambient – with moments worthy of great kids’ TV
The opening track by trio Circadian Rhythm may as well be three songs in one, drifting haphazardly from stray humming vocals to wistful coda, by way of a tangle of clatter (toybox percussion, a phone ringing) in just five minutes. With their makeshift electronics, peppy melodies and janky tuning, Summer Initiation by Y Tabata and Egg by Young Hormones are so kitsch and fun they could be mistaken for music from a kids’ TV show, in the best way. In the latest edition of her Timbre of Guitars album series(Musicmine/Sublime Records), Tokyo-based classical guitarist Ayane Shino reinterprets the glitchy electronic music of the late Rei Harakami through her own medium.
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