- 7inch
- Recommended
- New Release
Hoshina Anniversary
Happen (Dolphins Remix)
R.i.O.
- Cat No: RIO20
- updated:2026-01-07
DOLPHINS remix! We've got the 7-inch EP released last year by HOSHINA ANNIVERSARY, the Tokyo talent who handles everything from bass to keys and has issued work on 〈SAFE TRIP〉 and 〈ESP INSTITUTE〉. Keyboards and vocal refrains coil around a spare rhythm machine — a leftfield machine-boogie oddity that slowly creeps into the listener's sense of time.
Track List
Limited Edition of 200 copies incl. Dolphins Remix (DALO, Benedikt Frey and Menqui).
Hot seducers. Two of them. On one 7inch. A/B Side business, hard to choose a fav, as both so fab. The A-Side is called "Happen". It comes from prolific Tokyo based DJ and producer Hoshina Anniversary. A simple drum machine groove, a manic melody, witching siren sounds, psychedelic voices, some soft chords, and soulful high-pitched singing, somewhere between Dam-Funk coolness and Ian Svenonius-The-Make-Up sixties pop longing. One for warm sexy nights under neon lights. Out there in psychic realms. The flip brings a Dolphins interpretation. Yes, that feverish trio behind R.i.O., consisting of Nadia D'Alò, Benedikt Frey and Menqui. Their freshly recorded version comes with haunting nonchalant singing, displaying the tunes core melody as a more prominent actor of the play. Michael-Mann-Pop-Nostalgia with a baroque touch, that waves dark-ish. Even some Jon Hassle feeling is in there. Hoshina Anniversary disclosed, that the original song is inspired by jazz musicians like Chet Baker, Miles Davis, Sonny Rollins, Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock, Jaco Pastorius and Keith Jarrett. None of them is directly stylistically audible. But their kind of blue is all over. On the A as well as on the B. Twice soul music for the free.
Hot seducers. Two of them. On one 7inch. A/B Side business, hard to choose a fav, as both so fab. The A-Side is called "Happen". It comes from prolific Tokyo based DJ and producer Hoshina Anniversary. A simple drum machine groove, a manic melody, witching siren sounds, psychedelic voices, some soft chords, and soulful high-pitched singing, somewhere between Dam-Funk coolness and Ian Svenonius-The-Make-Up sixties pop longing. One for warm sexy nights under neon lights. Out there in psychic realms. The flip brings a Dolphins interpretation. Yes, that feverish trio behind R.i.O., consisting of Nadia D'Alò, Benedikt Frey and Menqui. Their freshly recorded version comes with haunting nonchalant singing, displaying the tunes core melody as a more prominent actor of the play. Michael-Mann-Pop-Nostalgia with a baroque touch, that waves dark-ish. Even some Jon Hassle feeling is in there. Hoshina Anniversary disclosed, that the original song is inspired by jazz musicians like Chet Baker, Miles Davis, Sonny Rollins, Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock, Jaco Pastorius and Keith Jarrett. None of them is directly stylistically audible. But their kind of blue is all over. On the A as well as on the B. Twice soul music for the free.
A new release on 〈R.I.O.〉, the label gathering artists working at the frontier of today's alternative dance! Beyond the above, HOSHINA ANNIVERSARY is a Japanese artist who keeps putting out work through the world's most tasteful leftfield outlets, including 〈YOUTH〉 and
〈IMPATIENCE〉. "Happen (Club Mix)" (sample1) is a moody weird-boogie cut where psychedelic vocals pour down over the monotone pulse of a drum machine stripped of all excess. The A-side is superb, but so is the avant-pop arrangement by DOLPHINS — the synth-wave trio featuring BENEDIKT FREY — which brings the original's melodic parts and vocals to the fore. Limited pressing! (Original Japanese text by Akie)