Blog - Behind the titles

Title #1

1. Ich bin...
The track's German lyrics translate to "Sorry, I'm late", that's because it took him 3 years to come up with a new album.

2. TBeisa
He used a TB-303 to make something like an Okinawan music style called "eisa", which sounds both fast and slow.

5. abuku no hito
Before he used to make 10-minute tracks, but he ends up not listening to those, so now he tries to wrap it up in 5 minutes.

6. XTHC
He imaged a Russian robot factory. Doesn't the track name look kind of like Russian too?

7. Spelling Monkey
He saw an episode of South Park where there was a drumming monkey toy which played a 4-beat. This song is a 4-beat and it sounds monkey-ish, and since there's no lyrics to make a title from, that was it.

8. Aoi Neon
On the way to his parents' home on the shinkansen (bullet train), he saw a neon factory with the name "Aoi Neon" ("blue neon"). That home's dog's name is Aoi. He wrote this song in Berlin and from his window in the cold gray city he saw a blue neon. Once when he went back to home for a funeral, at a meeting he received a business card with the name "Aoi Funeral". Around the same time, he got some work to write a song for a commercial, and the promotion company was "Aoi Promotion". With so many "aoi" connections he thought of changing his name.

9. Twilights
A track he made with Tanaka Fumiya after the data loss, but without really planning to include it on this album.

10. Mongol Kangaroo
He wrote this song not in Mongolia but in Berlin, but he imagined a Mongol rock band. In a place with dry ground and tall mountains seen in the distance, without having ever heard the Beatles or Rolling Stones, these Mongols learned how to play instruments by themselves and they decide to play "rock", not like rock in the western world but just rock. He says he likes 70's punk.

11. The Rising Suns
He says it was difficult to decide where to fit it in the album. Every year he plays at the Rising Sun festival in Hokkaidō. Two years before he made a demo of this song and played it there at dawn, and thought that this is the only name for it.

12. Go Sun
When he was in high school, he listened to a band called Hoburakin, in which no one seemed to be able to play an instrument, their songs were about 1-minute long and they just said stupid stuff, he thought it was pretty cool that they could make a band without being able to play. They had a song called "Go Sun" from which he sampled a bit for this one.

Title #2

4. The Gate
One of the few songs from which a bit of the data remained.

5. Fujiyama
Pays tribute to a record shop of the same name in Sangenjaya, to which he's been going to for 20 years. The shop sells only independant releases, and is run by an old man who looks like an hermit. This guy also helped for the Hoburakin sample on "Go Sun".

9. Electronic Cock Sucker
The oldest song. 80's electro are his roots.

10. Jack it!
Another song with the TB-303.

11. I Love You
Samples OGINOME Yōko's "Dancing Hero", but what made it a pain to clear the rights is that "Dancing Hero" is a cover of a foreign song.

12. The Rising Suns (Discotheque)
He prefers this one. Disco funk.

Title #3

1. Nu
Sakura petals falling in a geometric way and becoming one thing.

2. Mentoth
Made in Berlin, it's the most deep. The TB-303 on the left and right speak together.

5. abuku no shiro
He did drums, bass and vocals. He says playing bass feels good, but he doesn't have enough energy to play drums continuously.

6. The Rising Suns (nonero uno)
"No.1" in Italian. This was the first take, that he made for his own DJ sets.

Well that's about it! Sorry that this isn't complete. I didn't care so much for the rest. :)