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INNIT It Great: INNIT Puts Out New Compilation, Avec Avec To Release EP On Mush Records, Life Swell

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INNIT, the Osaka party/collective, will hold their one-year anniversary event on February 11 (as someone who went to the last one, I urge all Osaka-based readers to go, c’mon!), and in advance of that they have released an EP featuring tracks from the artists set to perform at the special show. The collection – available for hearing here – highlights the diversity present within INNIT, the music jumping from the jazzy haze of Madegg’s “Aqueduct” to the technicolor mudstomp of MFP’s “Dig It Now” to the soulful “Winter Again” by And Vice Versa. Alongside tracks from the likes of Magical Mistakes and Seiho sits a special appearance from Daisuke Tanabe, who will play the next INNIT show and deliver a special lecture (!). Check the whole thing out below.

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Also on the new INNIT EP is Avec Avec, leading the whole shebang off with his “Plastic Soul.” He’s also got some other news worth celebrating – he will be putting out an EP on California imprint Mush Records, who have put out stuff by some pretty heavy hitters.

Oh, and don’t forget Seiho started a label that will release music from other INNIT mainstays…good times!

A Great Introduction To INNIT, Featuring Madegg, MFP And So Many More

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Osaka-based event night INNIT is a name you will be hearing a lot more about in the more future, but for now the good folks behind the most forward thinking electronic music in the Kansai region (if not possibly Japan) have offered up a good introduction to what the INNIT sound is. In advance of the November 12 INNIT party at Osaka’s Nuooh, they’ve posted songs from the various artists constituting the INNIT roster. Ranging from the space jam that is Kyoto’s Madegg to the thumpin’ beats of Osaka’s own MFP. What this compilation reveals is how varied the INNIT crew sounds, making blanket descriptions of their music pointless because there isn’t a way to cover them completely. The twinkling glow of Leggysalad’s “Girls’ Afternoon Appointments” sounds very little like the chilly strangeness of Seiho’s “I Don’t Wanna Be Lonely” which in turn isn’t all that similar to Magical Mistake’s appropriately pretty “Really Pretty Rainy Day.” We’ve highlighted two below, but listen to all of them here.

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New Electronic Music Roundup: Mad Egg, Emerald Four And Magical Mistakes

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So much stuff worth yackin’ about, had to compile them all into one post!

– Mad Egg “White Lie”

Kyoto wonder-kid just keeps releasing new music…it is getting to the point where I seriously wonder what he does during the day besides get lost in his little sonic universe. “White Lie” comes off as a very unhurried track from the youngster, less like falling into a wormhole and more like being an astronaut hopelessly floating in space while feeling the oxygen pack empty out. This would be ambient dust if not for the random clanks popping up. Yet, “White Lie” is surprisingly calming. Listen below.

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– Emerald Four “曖昧な魂”

Keeping up with the space theme…this feels like being on an abandoned space station drifting into the weirdest parts of the cosmos. Fellow Kyoto artist Emerald Four crafts a strange, nearly five-minute journey through minimal glowing spiced up with random noises that could have been pulled from a boss fight in Earthbound.

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– Magical Mistakes Remixes Kuhn’s “We’re Gonna Make It”

Magical Mistakes is another artist associated with Kansai’s Innit crowd (same as Mad Egg), and assuming I can keep my work focus up you should be reading a bit more about him in the near future around these parts. For now, get a taste of what this dude does oh so well via his remix of Kuhn’s “We’re Gonna Make It.” You can download the EP his mix appears on…also features the original if, ya know, you need a reference point…right over here.