blue twenty-seven, by Check!!!

blue twenty-seven

by Check!!!

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	1.	2 da RDG 08:00
	2.	inoccent lie 06:21
	3.	check!!! 02:47
	4.	ENTER SONG 06:24
	5.	DON'T SAY 06:12
	6.	morning goodbye 02:18
	7.	inner of the sea 06:23

about

Back in 2015, when we guest curated SUPERNORMAL festival, one act we brought over consisted of three very cool residents of Tokyo, Japan, that collectively went by the name of Check!!!

Check!!! played a sort of improvised live techno gilded with spiralling fractals of Durutti Column guitar and built around a throbbing, almost aquatically funky electric bass.

An album was on the cards, but following an NTS Radio live session and the Supernormal appearance, the band - consisting of Blue Tapes mainstay Cherry, producer Tec (yes, the band name is a portmanteau), and sometime bassist Yan - dissipated.

Now, Cherry (aka Teruyuki Kurihara) has dug through the band’s archives to gift us with that long-awaited album! It’s a gentle, modest, but insistent work that combines lysergic acid house with tantalisingly hard-to-define washes of mood.

Sometimes I think it’s pop art techno, sometimes I think it’s just pop. Always, it is deeply blissful.

Should appeal to any fans of classic ambient, minimal house, the more meditative end of Krautrock or even old-school Factory Records heads.

Praise for blue twenty-seven:

“Featuring lo-fi grimy electronics and a flexibility regarding the groove, everything about blue twenty-seven has a DIY feeling to it. Techno, dance-rock, funk and a nod to 80s synth-pop all weave their way into the mix. Guitar work in particular lends a psychedelic air, helping to infuse the compositions with a carefree attitude, reminiscent of Can’s krautrock style at times.” - Beach Sloth

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released June 2, 2018

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For more than 10 years, Blue Tapes has curated a numbered series of releases emphasising different aspects of minimal music - from grime to gugak, American primitivism to Japanese ambient - presented with appropriately minimal and often abstract cyanotype artwork. ... more

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