• CD


Alias

  • Cat No: SABI013
  • updated:2026-07-04

Format

CD 2200 JPY

[Back in Stock] DJ/producer Mamazu (HOLE AND HOLLAND/SABI), who has garnered high praise both domestically and internationally, has released his new album *Alias*, featuring collaborations with artists such as Daoud Popal (Geometric Patterns), Kaoru Inoue, Reo Matsumoto, Sancho Meditation Teahouse, Rafael Aragon, Tinnen, and others. The CD version—featuring tracks not included on the vinyl release—has arrived!

It includes collaborations with local and international artists such as Daoud Popal (Geometric Patterns), Kaoru Inoue, Reo Matsumoto, Mountaintop Meditation Tea House, Rafael Aragon, and Tinnen, as well as world music, folklore, psychedelic, dub, and exotica,


The result is a gem of a 7-track album that shows the progression and expansion of Mamazu's musical world, combining the essence of fascinating glocal music such as world music, folklore, psychedelic, dub, exotica and new age with the sounds and grooves of techno, house, bass and electric music rooted in a floor-sensitivity.

The folkloric and psychedelic jungle-like sound world of birdsong, quena echoes, and chants is developed into a bottom pulsating mid-tribal groove that immerses the listener completely in the "sound". Hats off to "Wagahigh," which immerses the listener completely in the "sound.
The percussive dance groove of "Petrichor" is a perfect balance of organic and electric, with mysterious chants and flutes, while "En" has a driving percussive groove with chants and marimba refrains that rhythmically move around the track. The driving percussive groove of "En" rhythmically moves the audience with chants, marimba refrains, and other sounds and grooves that transcend the boundaries between house and techno and make the floor dance with excitement.

"Yayayama," featuring a geometric patterned Daoud Popal, is another charming track with exotic vocals and whistling over a mid-tempo percussive groove.

"Day by day," a tribal groove with indigenous voices, minimalist synth refrains, and warm black duduk, is another track that is full of drive, followed by the organic "Kaoru Inoue" featuring Kaoru Inoue, a genius whom Mamazu respects and sympathizes with. The dubwise sense of Reo Matsumoto's hand-pan opens the show, followed by the dubwise sensibility of the dub of the mountaintop meditation teahouse, Onomatope," a collaboration with the trippy sound/sense of Brussels ally Rafael Aragon, who has also worked on Mamazu's RMX, is also packed with a full range of collaborations.

The album is a collection of Mamazu's global and local crossover sounds and grooves, which continue to expand and deepen.
Text by Naoki Nishida a.k.a Out Of Control (Jazzy Sport) (Original Japanese text by Saito)

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