From Ethan Sent Wed, Sep 30th 1998, 16:06
From Ethan Sent Wed, Sep 30th 1998, 16:06
picked up a copy of this mysterious CD a while back at the excellent Poindexter Records in Durham, North Carolina - sadly no longer with us, having been recently sold to schoolkids. not so terrible, but poindexter had much better records, and it's another great local shop replaced by a chainstore. anyway, there's very little information on the package. it's in a clear CD case with a small piece of clear plastic with song titles and other words. the CD itself has printed on it a closeup photograph of piano keys & contains little printed information. what follows is a fairly accurate representation (spelling and capitalization) of how the text appears on the plastic: 1. DJ HATI-MONJI ; LOST FINGERS REPAIR 2. interlude prepaired by rnp 3. DJ VADIM ; EVOLUTION WITHIN tracks produced, arranged & mixed by dj vadim for jazz fudge delicacies 4. MASAAKI KITTA ; WHAT ABOUT!!!??! remixed by Masaaki Kitta 5. CAPPABLACK ; Solarizing Ruf Neck Piano solarized by cappablack 6. Hashim Bharoocha ; Untitled Prepaired Piano produced by Hashim Bharoocha props to forest 7. interlude -rnp blues WIRED by rnp 8. DJ VADIM ;MENTAL ROBBERY tracks produced, arranged & mixed by dj vadim for jazz fudge delicacies 9. DJ MISA MISA 1/2 of CAPPABLACK;PIANO INSTRUMENTAL produced by dj misa misa 1/2 of 1/2 of CAPPABLACK 10. MASAAKI KITTA ; UNITY produced by masaaki kitta 11. piano interlude 11 by Sight 12. everyday prepaired 13. piano interlude 13 by Sight 14. piano interlude 14 by Sight 15. untitled blues piano intro 16. piano interlude 16 by Sight 17. path for RUF NECK PIANO 'RUMBLE',THIRD PIANO BREAKS ALBUM by RNP and other PIANO BREAKERS with UNKNOWN PIANO OBJECTIVE path touching by rnp ruf neck piano repaired album 'repaired piano' touched by ruf neck piano with unknown piano objective design by akira yamamichi mastered by nagata kazunao at transonic studio piano field recording and home recording and mixed by nomorec subconscious piano props to prepaired piano breakers and battle weapon designer MARK B and DJ VADIM unknown project, dj noise, piano oracles cru, mazatalan piano factory cru. piano intuition touching by 3 sided.SOUNDS THE PIANO ON'EM MADE IN JAPAN RUF NECK PIANO'S REPAIRED PIANO most of the tracks are very spare, down-tempo hip hop piano/drum loops with minimal accompanying bass and effects. one or two have brief vocal samples - "yeah" goes the one I'm listening to right now. most tracks also have some sort of prepared piano element - the thump of a foot on a pedal; detuned strings; plucking and striking strings with unknown reverb piano objective. flutes appear briefly. excellent. if anybody knows anything else about this label(?) or artists (other than vadim) let me know. xxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxx.xxx