This week sees the first release of a new record label, Advanced Public Listening Records, with the edition of a 4 LP 180g vinyl (and also in 2 CD format) , including two posters and 4 inserts with extensive liner notes by Ken Hidaka & Naohiro Ukawa (in Japanese and in English).
A Solid compilation of exclusive new music on the freshly formed Advanced Public Listening Records, Japan.
Advanced Public Listening Records is the new Japanese label established by Miho Mepo, a veteran of the Berlin music scene for the past 20 years. After recently coming back to Japan, she decided to start this new, highly conceptual label that symbolizes her unconventional musical vision, experience and network that she accrued while living in Europe. As she has stated, “This is my dedication to the musicians and music lovers everywhere. What the world needs now is pure energy and the essence of real music. Through our label, we strive to share with all, true music created out of miracles and magical moments. I have no doubt that these refined musical vibes will help us grasp the universal nature of true understanding and hopefully assist us in realizing that music has the ability to make us free.” To help launch it, Advanced Public Listening Records is proud to announce the release this compilation, On in out.
On in out assembles an incredible array of legendary figures in the electronic music world from different genres and categories whose sonic imprints has dazzled us innumerable times. She asked each artist to create original pieces that epitomized her axiom of “no rules, no ego, no pride but pure essence of real music”. She also wanted them to produce music that “touches one’s heart, shake our souls, make us feel emotions that we never knew we thought that we had deep inside.”
It is a great effort, far removed from any commercial pretensions, whose selection criteria focus solely on art and quality. In the first part of the compilation we find pieces closer to Ambient, cuts that leave beautiful musical passages. Guilty of this are such legendary names in these sonic artefacts as Thomas Fehlmann or the great Hans-Joachim Roedelius, whose Immer closes this first part of the compilation. But before moving on to the second part, it is worth mentioning that in the middle of this sonic oasis, three rhythmic tracks by Simon Pyke AKA Freeform, Thomas Brinkmann and Roman Flügel sneak in.
The second part arrives with a different premise, and the rhythmic pressure increases with the signature of artists who dominate different styles such as Tyree Cooper, Matthew Herbert, Daedelus or Ricardo Villalobos.
