Guest Chroneus Posted November 11, 2002 Share Posted November 11, 2002 Joujouka - New Asian Artist: Joujouka Title: New Asian Label: Radiosonic Date: 2002 Track listing: 01. Intro 02. E-Wire 03. Image (Feat Akitomo) 04. New Asians (Feat Burtonlewis) 05. Relax (Feat Native) 06. Let The Wave Flow (Inst Version) 07. All The Angels (Feat In Essence) 08. The World (Feat Tychoon Tosh) 09. You Wanna Tease Me (Feat Tim Healy) 10. X-Rock 11. Don't Think Fell ! (Feat Asano) Review: First of all I want to say it is not the kind of music that I used to listen, this cd contains more experimental freestyle themes, a lot of electronic guitar samples and vocals. Design and the cover successfully suite to music. First track is called in Japanese, I don't know what it seems,it fast accelerate to the end. Next track faster with fat bassline and guitar tunes. Track 3 - outstanding saxophonic play, guitar and voice in Japanese. New Asians with oft-recurring voice "new asians". Track 5 is remix on well known songs - Relax! Don't do it...When you wanna come....... Awfully!! Track 6 cames through waves, sometimes cutting low frequences and a whistle like in the end of Shpongle DMT. Track 7 All The Angels - the most beautiful songs which I ever listen since. Cheezy and sweet :-)) Track 8 electrifyed voice with downtempo tunes. 9 goes with progressive sound. X-Rock rocks me as well. 11 Metallic track like ones in Shiva Space Japan. Nice album, expected from dj Tsuyoshi. Rate 8/10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemmiwinks Posted April 9, 2003 Share Posted April 9, 2003 "First track is called in Japanese..." ROFL!! "Intro" is a Japanese word now?? I do agree that the cover fits the music though. I mean, this could very easily be a manga soundtrack CD!! Actually, when I first listened to it, that was the feeling I had. anyways... this is no psy... only track that sounds remotrly like psy is E-wire which has a dark-industrial feeling to it (BPMs around 120, yet harsh sounding and very hypnotic) me likey very much!! An excelent party-starter IMO. Now for the rest... well, Image sounds like Chemical Brothers and New Asians sounds like... Dr. Dre & Snoop Doggy Dogg!!! (I could almost hear "Yeah and you don't quit/ Cause it's 187 and the undercover cop), or the remake of Cypress Hill (I ain't going out like that), anyway it sounded pretty cool, reminded me of my gangsta rap days and I guess this is the first time any psy artist does anything remotely like rap. The remix from Frankie Goes to Hollywood's Relax d still others are just plain awfull, so is some clubby-salsa track Let the Wave Flow. All the Angels is very down-tempo and sweet, reminded me of Massive Attck, so did The World. You Wanna Tease Me sounds like some experimenta alternative. X-rock sounds again like some cheezy dance song (female sample going "I'm hot for you"), but joujouka took care of it so it sounds pretty interesting in the end. Don't think feel sounds like a Joujouka reinterpretation of the popular James bond theme!!! All in all very varied album, which sounds like Joujouka having fun with well-known genres and doing interesting remixes, albeit not psy at all. 8/10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemmiwinks Posted April 10, 2003 Share Posted April 10, 2003 oops, "The remix from Frankie Goes to Hollywood's Relax d still others are just plain awfull, so is some clubby-salsa track Let the Wave Flow." was supposed to read "The remix from Frankie Goes to Hollywood's Relax is just plain awfull, so is the track Let the Wave Flow" which has a clubby-salsa feeling". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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