stupot0607;3854705 said:
After a couple of listens, Really really impressive album... Second half of the album is better though.
i feel this may be a contender for album of the year so far.
Played this quite a lot now and have to agree that it's a contender for album of the year. I agree that the second half is better, I keep starting with Far Fowls and playing onwards…
Album of the Year thread will be upped on Wednesday as promised :tu
shenco;3854710 said:
Yo this shit is ill as fuck. Rest in peace to the man
Gotta agree, I think Uyama Hiroto did a great job in getting this album finished, I think he must have done a lot to the beats considering that he's heavily featured.
kingofharts;3877706 said:
I wonder why they aren't able to get these albums on Itunes. I'd love to actually show my appreciation by buying vs other means of securing. And that's even despite wanting the physical CD, but I'd settle for the digital. I wonder if they even know they have supporters in the US (nevermind, Youtube)?
Nomak was able to start getting his newer albums on there.
Tracks posted sound good though.
Next thought is, what the world happened to Uyama Hiroto? He dropped A Son of the Sun, which was incredible, then to my knowledge hasn't done anything else except work within compilations or help out on this album.
Hydeout seem like a really poorly organised company, firstly with Modal Soul, they were unable to print the CD's themselves as they were only doing Vinyl at the time… now they're able to print CD's but they barely ship enough. I'd settle for digital too, in ways. I bought Section 80 both digitally and physically, I have no problems with supporting an artist as much as I can… but given that he's dead now, seems like the money will just support those that he cared about most…
The real issue is that albums in Japan in CD format are £25 or $39, incredible amount of money when you add to it international shipping. I spent this much on an original Modal Soul, I really don't expect to have to pay so much for a CD being made now when the man is world famous on YouTube (I really can't see them not knowing this fact???) It's good to see that they're finally shipping globally with an English translated site.
A Son of the Sun was a great album, no doubt. I think he worked more heavily with Nujabes and is more likely to be one of the shy types that seem ominous with the label. He is still creating and is perhaps most heavily featured on this album over the likes of Modal Soul Classics I and II and Mellow Beats, Friends and Lovers, which is perhaps a good sign?
I hope to hear from him in the near future, but to me, there's so many nice producers out of Japan that I haven't really been longing for Uyama's follow up as much as I perhaps thought I would. Have you checked out my Japanese Joy mix tapes?
