Across The Block Party, by DJ PIN

Across The Block Party

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Basic Function から新たにミックステープのライン bMx Tapesが発足。第一弾は沖縄在住・DJ PINの「Across the Block Party」。現存するヒップホップDJの中で「実験」という言葉が最も似合うのはこの人以外にいないのではないか??
沖縄言葉で「ガチマヤー」という、日本語でいうところの「食いしん坊」と似た様な意味を持つ単語があるのだが、例えるならPINは道端に落っこちてる食べられそうな物レベルでも、ピンと来れば何でもとりあえず味見してみるくらいの「音ガチマヤー」。バトル系ターンテーブリストの技法を昇華させ、ビートものからフリー、ラガ→アブストラクトと自由に飛び回る世界観、なんとなく60-70年代の電子音楽やミュージックコンクレートすら想起させる。レーベルオーナーは、少し前に一柳慧さんの「東京1969」を拝聴する機会があり、 PINのミックスが1発録りであるにもかかわらずその時代にオープンリールテープを切り貼り編集しながら作られたたテープコラージュ作品とも通じる何かを感じている。
実はそんな前置きすらもどうでもよく、ただ単に最高にヘッドバンギングできるミックスに仕上がってるのでめちゃめちゃみんなに聴いてほしいです!
ジャケのイラストは台湾在住・独特にデフォルメされた人物&その他をカラフルに表現する周依(Chou YI)、デザインは夏の大△やソロでも活動しつつ最近はヒップな漬け酒専門店のBOTANYを運営する川口貴大。

Basic Function has launched a new mixtape line, bMx Tapes. The first release is Across The Block Party by Okinawa-based DJ PIN. Of all the hip-hop DJs in existence, who fits the word 'experiment' better than PIN?
There is an Okinawan word 'gachimaya', which has a similar meaning to the Japanese word 'kuishinbo' (greedy eater), and PIN is the kind of 'sound gachimaya' who will taste anything that strikes his fancy, even if it looks like something he could eat off the street.
The style of PIN is a sublimation of the techniques of battle-oriented turntablists, and it jumps freely from beats to free-music, ragga to abstract, and even reminds us of the electronic music and music concretes of the 60s and 70s.
The label owner had the opportunity to listen to Toshi Ichiyanagi's "Tokyo 1969" recently, and although PIN's mix was a one-shot recording, there is something about it that connects to the tape collages made by cutting and pasting open-reel tapes in that era.
To tell the truth, I don't even care about that preamble. It's just a great headbanging mix, so I want everyone to listen to it!
The cover illustration is by Chou YI, who lives in Taiwan and colorfully expresses uniquely deformed people & other things. The design is by Takahiro Kawaguchi, who runs Botany, a hip pickled sake specialty shop, while working as a solo artist and a member of The Great △.

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released September 26, 2022

Cover Art by 周依(Chou YI)
Design by Takahiro Kawaguchi
Mastered by Makoto Oshiro

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