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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!

O______o : Seiho presents “Last Christmas (Seiho Witch Remix)” And Yeah It Is The Wham! Song

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Sometimes it really are the gifts that come out of nowhere that end up making the biggest impression on you. I made my list and checked it twice and I can assure you I didn’t ask for a witch house remix of Wham’s! “Last Christmas.” Yet down below you can hear just that, courtesy of INNIT-associate Seiho, who decided this was exactly what the world needed right now. His “witch remix” indulges in all the stereotypes associated with witch house music – slowed-to-a-crawl vocals (though also chipmunked takes on Wham’s! chorus pop up), general murkiness, drum machine throbbing. And really, the fact Seiho took this song and turned it into witch house, well, that’s the only hook I needed to hear this. Listen below.

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Seiho’s Beat Is Stranger EP

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Seiho is one of the many artists circling around the INNIT galaxy, an Osaka electronic music maker dabbling in the same future-leaning sounds artists like Madegg and Avec Avec (who appears in the band Sugar’s Campaign, also featuring Seiho). Yet Seiho isn’t just making music, he’s also trying to get it (and other artist’s sounds) out there. He recently started Day Tripper Records, an imprint prepping some exciting releases in the near future from various members of the INNIT community. He’s also not going lazy on his personal output – the first release on Day Tripper is the Mercury full-length and the Beat Is Stranger EP. The latter can be heard here, and is the one we will be focusing on today.

If the beauty of INNIT is the variety of sounds taking bloom, a disparate mix of noises reflecting all sorts of scenes around the world, Seiho steps in as the closest thing they have to a Skrillex. Which is to say, on Beat Is Stranger he takes a lot of cues from dubstep. Check the title track and the skittering “Under” for all the proof. Seiho isn’t just copping the latest Spin-approved trends though – he adds in strange dollops, like quick blasts of what sound like old jazz records and ripples in the surface that would make Madegg proud. Listen to it here.

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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