CD Album

New Balearic House

Masanori Ikeda

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Release Date February 06, 2008
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Catalog No.DAKFLRC-57
JAN/ISBN 4948722343301
Product Type CD
Number of Discs 1

Description

[Machine Translation] The many works released by <readymade international>, which is led by Koyo Konishi, are pop works that seem to have been cut up from soundtrack recordings, and Mansfield and Masanori Ikeda, the creators of these works, have been idols of the lounge scene. However, the DJs that Masanori Ikeda performs at parties such as <Tokyo Balearic> and <Free Room> are very different from Mansfield's works, which have a strong image of jazz and lounge. However, this does not mean that there are no similarities between the current DJs and Mansfield's works of the past. A look at the transition of their activities reveals that there is a clear axis. Masanori Ikeda spent the entire 90s in London, which was the center of this music (club music) in the 90s, and produced fresh music that is too much to describe here. Masanori Ikeda may have gone through many changes as a producer and DJ, but at the root of it all, it is clear that he has been too strongly influenced by the "UK DJ culture. As a producer, Ikeda has been involved in rare grooves, lounge, breakbeats, and now progressive trance and balearic. All of these contexts originated in the UK and spread to other parts of the world. The official mix CD, which he describes as "a condensation of my DJ style over the last two years," features a selection of the progressive trance, electro house, and balearic music that he's been using heavily. There are no major hits, and many of the tracks may be "faceless," but Ikeda has his fingers and ears on the pulse of the music. However, Ikeda's fingers and ears are well acquainted with these tracks, and they have a live feel to them (naturally, this disc is a live mix). The bottom-heavy mix, which strips away the "cadence" of the high frequencies and emphasizes the low and mid-range frequencies, links together a number of faceless tracks in a lively manner. Incidentally, Masanori Ikeda calls this DJ style "soft trance. He finds popular value in "trance," and accepts that his own DJs are being rubbed up against it. He accepts it and is fine with it. Despite his long career, Masanori Ikeda's view of DJing is fresher than one might think. He closes the album with his own cover of William Pitt's "City Lights. Perhaps no explanation is needed.

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New Balearic House / 池田正典 Masanori Ikeda

小西康陽主宰<readymade international>から数々発表してきた作品は、サントラ盤をカットアップしたかのようなポップな作品であり、それを手掛けるMansfieldこと池田正典はラウンジ・シーンのアイドルでもあった。しかし、現在の池田正典が<東京バレアリック>、<FREE ROOM>等のパーティで披露するDJは、ジャズ~ラウンジのイメージが強いMansfield作品と大きく異なる。が、現在のDJとかつてのMansfield作品の間に、共通点がないというわけではない。活動の変遷を見つめてみると、そこにははっきりとした軸があることがわかる。池田正典は、90年代をまるまるロンドンで過ごしている。90年代のロンドンはこの音楽(クラブ・ミュージック)の中心地であり、ここではとても書ききれないぐらい、フレッシュな音楽を産み出してきた。池田正典は、プロデューサー、DJとして、数々の変遷を重ねてきたかもしれないが、その根っこでは、"UKのDJカルチャー"から強烈過ぎる影響を受けてきたのがわかる。プロデューサーとして池田が関わってきた--レアグルーブ、ラウンジ、ブレイクビーツ、そして現在のプログレッシブ・トランス~バレアリック。これらはすべて、UKから産まれて、世界各地に飛び火していったコンテクストなのだ。「ここ2年程のDJスタイルを凝縮させた」と話すオフィシャル・ミックスCDには、彼がヘビーに使い倒してきた--プログレッシブ・トランス、エレクトロ・ハウス、バレアリック・ミュージックから選りすぐった盤が並ぶ。メジャーな曲はなく、"フェイスレス"なトラックが多いかもしれない。が、池田の指と耳によく馴染んだ曲を揃えたことで、ライブ感豊かな(当然だが、本盤はライブ・ミックス)流れがよく出ている。高音域の"カド"の部分を削ぎ落とし、中低域を強調したボトム・ヘビーなミックスがフェイスレスなトラックの数々を生々しく連結する。ちなみに、このDJスタイルを池田正典は"ソフト・トランス"と呼ぶ。"トランス"に大衆的なバリューを見出し、自らのDJがそこで揉まれることを受け容れる。それをよしとする。長いキャリアを持つにも関わらず、池田正典のDJ観は、人が思う以上にフレッシュだ。なお、本作品の最後はWilliam Pitt「City Lights」を自らカバーし、締めくくられる。説明不要かも

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