Once again, the content is incredibly entertaining and fascinating, brimming with the artist’s signature persuasiveness. Enveloped in a raw, gritty edge and a bizarre, otherworldly sci-fi sense of the future, this cassette tape mix features the unique, imperfect sound and audio quality that only a cassette can offer—making for a truly alluring tape ...Read more (Original Japanese text by COMPUMA) release.
Compiled from rare records and tracks from private collections, this release exquisitely blends Soviet-style modernity, local traditions unique to the region, and the cheap synthesizer sounds that were emerging at the time, evoking a sense of nostalgia while painting a vision of the future unique to Central Asia. From Uzbek disco and Tajik synth-pop to little-known, psychedelic oddities, the album is packed with tracks you can only hear here. (Original Japanese text by COMPUMA)

"Digging Central Asia: Musical Archaeology Along the Silk Road," the superb mixtape gem by Tashkent, Uzbekistan-born music archaeologist/musician/producer Anvar Kalandarov — released via Death Is Not The End in collaboration with the Uzbek label Maqom Soul, and mixed into an imaginary psychedelic Silk Road journey using a wealth of material recorde ...Read more (Original Japanese text by COMPUMA)d across Central Asia between the 1970s and the early 1990s — has finally been pressed to vinyl LP. Folky yet full of warbling synthesizers, funky disco and rare-groove flavors slipping into downer jazz, a laid-back, timeless and melancholy sound world: 28:17 on the A-side, 27:22 on the B-side. Highly recommended. (Original Japanese text by COMPUMA)

BASIC CHANNELのパートナーMARK ERNESTUSのNDAGGA RHYTHM FORCEやOBADIAHに続いて、モーリッツも民族音楽とのコラヴォレーションへの取り組みに着手。中国、ロシア、イスラムの間に位置する中央アジアの多民族国家キルギス共和国の首都ビシュケクの民族音楽グループ。ビシュマルクで開かれたUNSOUND FESTIVALで披露したコラヴォレーションが発展し音源化。民族音楽的元の要素が強い曲と、エレクトロニックの色濃い曲の両方が素晴らしく、ポリフォニック、ポリリズム、音響とミキシング、エレクトロニクス、ダブ、STEIVE REICHなんかのミニマリズムが民族音楽と出会った新次元の実験音楽。推薦！ (サイトウ)

BASIC CHANNELのパートナーMARK ERNESTUSのNDAGGA RHYTHM FORCEやOBADIAHに続いて、モーリッツも民族音楽とのコラヴォレーションへの取り組みに着手。中国、ロシア、イスラムの間に位置する中央アジアの多民族国家キルギス共和国の首都ビシュケクの民族音楽グループ。ビシュマルクで開かれたUNSOUND FESTIVALで披露したコラヴォレーションが発展し音源化。民族音楽的元の要素が強い曲と、エレクトロニックの色濃い曲の両方が素晴らしく、ポリフォニック、ポリリズム、音響とミキシング、エレクトロニクス、ダブ、STEIVE REICHのミニマリズムが民族音楽と出会った新次元の実験音楽。凄すぎる！ (サイトウ)