- 2LP
Web
The Sound There
Acido Records
- Cat No: ACIDO 032
- 2023-10-29
90年代からリリースをしている日本のエレクトロニック・ミュージック、ユニークな才能、杉本卓也の初期未発表音源がDynamo Dreesen主宰の〈ACIDO RECORDS〉からアナログ・リリース。
Track List
Have you ever heard of the Eva ep by Web on Fat Cat Records.
A few years ago it was my introduction to Web.
I knew Fat Cat Records was interesting and diverse, they where known for releasing mainly experimental electronica and psychedelic folk music. The Eva ep by Web was Fat Cat’s start with their label mission from their record shop in central London in 1996.
This ep has it all for me! A fusion of jazzy, bouncy, cosmic balearic, warped synth techno.
It was re-issued in 2008.
Takuya Sugimoto aka Web while an art student in Osaka around 1993 began recording Detroit Techno, Chicago House, Electro and Electronica.
He was helped by Ken Inaoka of Syzygy records, one of the first independent techno record labels in Japan, by releasing his first productions. Takuya then continued to release under several aliases, such as COLOGNe, Dja-zz, Gana, Ura Ura and Sammansa.
While in Japan in 2019, on a 12 day Dresvn tour I was curious to know what had happened to Web.
I asked Saito of Newtone Records in Osaka if he knew anything of him?
Magically a month later Takuya sent me 16 unreleased tracks produced in 1994/95 stored on
dat cassettes and forgotten about until now.
Of those 16 tracks, eight became “the sound there” a double album soon to be released on acido records 2020.
A few years ago it was my introduction to Web.
I knew Fat Cat Records was interesting and diverse, they where known for releasing mainly experimental electronica and psychedelic folk music. The Eva ep by Web was Fat Cat’s start with their label mission from their record shop in central London in 1996.
This ep has it all for me! A fusion of jazzy, bouncy, cosmic balearic, warped synth techno.
It was re-issued in 2008.
Takuya Sugimoto aka Web while an art student in Osaka around 1993 began recording Detroit Techno, Chicago House, Electro and Electronica.
He was helped by Ken Inaoka of Syzygy records, one of the first independent techno record labels in Japan, by releasing his first productions. Takuya then continued to release under several aliases, such as COLOGNe, Dja-zz, Gana, Ura Ura and Sammansa.
While in Japan in 2019, on a 12 day Dresvn tour I was curious to know what had happened to Web.
I asked Saito of Newtone Records in Osaka if he knew anything of him?
Magically a month later Takuya sent me 16 unreleased tracks produced in 1994/95 stored on
dat cassettes and forgotten about until now.
Of those 16 tracks, eight became “the sound there” a double album soon to be released on acido records 2020.
1994年に日本最初のインディペンデント・テクノ・レーベル稲岡健主宰の〈SYZYGY RECORDS〉からデビュー、同レーベルよりDja-zz名義でリリースしたLPからセレクトした音源をWEB「EVA EP」として、イギリス・ブライトンの名店〈FATCAT RECORDS〉がこれをリリースするためにレーベルをスタートしています。99年には〈360° RECORDS〉のサブレーベル〈VIOLA〉からCOLOGNe名義、Matsu & Take主宰、イルリメやYabeMilkも所属したエレクトロをキーワードに大阪で芽生えた名レーベル〈SPOTLIGHT RECORDS〉からTakuya Sugimoto名義でもリリース。彼のファンだった〈ACIDO〉主宰のDYNAMO DREESENの熱意により、未発表だった音源からダブルパック、8曲をセレクトしアナログ・リリースが実現しました！デトロイト・テクノやエレクトロが輸入され、イギリスだと〈WARP〉や〈RISING HIGH〉が隆盛、〈REPHLEX〉、Aphex TwinやAutechreが登場、〈CLEAR〉等ニュースクールなエレクトロ/IDMも芽生えつつあった頃。イマジナリーなサウンドヴィジョン、複雑に組み込まれたユニークなリズム、打ち込みながら手弾き揺らぎや情熱も感じ取れるあるようなグルーヴ。ディーテールもじっくり魅力。日本産テクノ/IDMの失われていた魅惑の音源が20年以上の時を経て復刻。 (サイトウ)