Jaipongan is a traditional performing art that matured in western Java, developed out of Chinese opera — one of the defining features of Asian performing-arts music, which unfolds here through gamelan playing. These are performances by CAMPAKA WARJA, a group centered on Idjah Hadidjah, the leading singer of Java's Sundanese people, the birthplace o ...Read more (Original Japanese text by Saito)f Jaipongan. First off, the originals here are magnificent — the most essential Jaipongan I've ever heard. Sides A and B feature the group's performances, recorded in 2007 at JUGALA Studio in Bandung. Sides C and D are made up of remixes by contemporary electronic and experimental artists, supervised by Kai Riedl, curator of MOOGFEST, the festival that carries on Bob Moog's spirit in celebration of the Moog synthesizer and experimental electronic music. It's a thrill to hear how cutting-edge electronic artists take on gamelan. (Original Japanese text by Saito)