MLYT Japanese Club Jazz Madness

August 11, 2010 1:26 PM

Mid-week pick-me-up, straight outta Japan: Soil & "Pimp" Sessions, live in 2009 at the annual North Sea Jazz Festival. If those live clips are a bit noisy, check out Pop Korn, My Foolish Heart~Crazy on Earth~, and My Foolish Heart ~Foolish in Mind~. And for a cool-down, try Welsh producer Doc Daneeka's bassy slowed down house version of Pop Korn (image source: Fotos+Mono, from the Chilean artist Relleno De Mono).

Soil & "Pimp" Sessions on Discogs, MySpace, and 5-track sampler on SoundCloud, plus SC more search hits.

Doc Daneeka, who took his name from a character in the novel Catch-22 by Joseph Heller, on Discogs, MySpace and SoundCloud.

posted by filthy light thief (6 comments total)

Ha! Love these guys! Met them last year, great fun, serious energy, awesome jazz.
posted by R.Stornoway at 1:36 PM on August 11, 2010

You might like Breakestra if you dig Soil & Pimp. I know I do.
posted by Keith Talent at 2:15 PM on August 11, 2010

From what I've heard, Breakestra to be more of a funk group who plays a lot of amazing live breaks (see: Live Mix Pt. 1, which is a about 40 minutes of one funky break after another).
posted by filthy light thief at 3:52 PM on August 11, 2010

Soil & “Pimp” Sessions is excellent, thank you!
posted by vkxmai at 6:48 PM on August 11, 2010

They also did music from the anime Michiko to Hatchin, which has an excellent soundtrack throughout...
posted by chrisgregory at 5:30 AM on August 12, 2010 [1 favorite]

They also did music from the anime Michiko to Hatchin

Interesting, I thought Pop Korn sounded similar to some Yoko Kanno / Seatbelts tracks from Cowboy Bebop - crazy upbeat jazz that could match well to a frantic scene.
posted by filthy light thief at 8:44 AM on August 12, 2010