Kashiwa Daisuke - April #07

This remix record of Kashiwa Daisuke's first LP April #02 is simply breathtaking. The record opens with a solo piano extracted from the song April #02 just as all these pieces are. You can pick each part of the 27 minute original in these remixes but they are also very distinctly detached from the original track. The whole thing is a standout but my absolute favourite track, and possibly fave track of all time is the Jean Michel remix which incorporates a sparse arrangement formt he beginning before the extreme lowends take hold and form the song into an onslaught of glitch and heavy beats - brilliant.

Boards of Canada - Music Has The Right To Children

Smootm ambient synths wind in and out, drift through the air an into your ears just as a feather would to your hands. The ambient and earthly sounds are accompanied by glitchy beats that maintain punchy rhythms and hop around electronic bliss.

This is the way to wind down and relax...

Kashiwa Daisuke - 5 Dec.

Gone are the modern classical and organic song structures of Program Music 1. So what comes next for a seemingly accomplished modern composer of reveered underground success? Daisuke has opted for the electronic side of the coin, and on this, his third full length he brings a contrast of sonic temptation for the music geek.

The album is, save from piano, an exhibition in electronic and glitch with heavy overtones and erratic beats. Often Daisuke weilds an assault of guitar solos - you'd think he'd spent his time away from the studio listening to nothing but Omar Rodriguez Lopez. Despite this his solos are harsh but well placed to display his craft as he balances out this beat laden almost glitch-core album with some beautiful pieces of manipulated piano-tronica sounding tracks.

Overall it is a departure from what we are familiar from Daisuke, but it marks a turning point for him and one that is well timed to bring him into a new phase of his already illustrious discography.