“New Type 3001” is the title of recording artist Yasushi Miura’s third full-length album. I’m not sure if I’m getting this right, but the label would be called kp and the geographical origin is most definitely Japan. “New Type 3001” is 14 tracks long and starts of with “Focus” a dreamy four-four loop, which is soothing. The album continues with a dramatic tempo-shift in the too say the least, stressed out and aptly named “Business Report”. The tempo is furious and the beats are straight like one of Paris’s boulevards. Introducing some variation to the beats scheme in the beginning of “Pile”, then however the big stomping drum returns, as it keeps on doing throughout the album. The tracks have another feature in common, they all have to carry a lot of different musical ideas, so in a sense you get a lot more than the 14 tracks listed on the cover. This also gives “New Type 3001” a live set feeling, even though it’s somewhat sketchy. Did I mention that they’re all more or less directed towards the unsuspecting dance floor? “New Type 3001” is fast-paced mutated techno and not for the fainthearted. The cover-art and packaging is brilliant and apparently it is the artist himself that is responsible for the graphic design as well. In short: an interesting encounter.
electronic desert ≡ revisited + extended