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MH-069 Avec Avec - Plastic Soul Redux  Plastic Soul Redux is the Mush debut from Japanese producer Takuma Hosokawa under the name Avec Avec. Late in 2011, before signing with Mush, Avec Avec released the Plastic Soul EP as a free internet download. It included two of the four tracks on Plastic Soul Redux and a bootleg mix of a song from a Japanese game show. Now reworked into a proper release, Plastic Soul Redux drops the bootleg mix and adds two additional original tracks. Combining a love for the electro-funk leanings of much of 1980's pop with modern electronic production techniques, the EP is a blast of infectious hooks, fine-tuned synth work, sub rattling stab bass, and chopped drums that sounds like Cornelius being remixed by The Glitch Mob. Plastic Soul Redux, along with a smattering of remixes and compilation tracks completed during Takuma Hosokawa's first year as Avec Avec have already established the producer's unique voice. |
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| Kuzuha No Sunday stands as one of the best tracks from this fledgling movement, a stuttering beat-driven song reminiscent of Bibio or Cornelius that sounds like a perfect sunny Sunday. The sweetest part comes via that glitchy vocal sample, one of the most joyous sounds to come out of Japan this year. - The Guardian |
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| Avec Avec is the new moniker Takuma from Sugar’s Campaign goes under, a recent change coinciding with the release of his new Plastic Soul EP. Yet despite the name change, Takuma’s music remains virtually the same, bold-faced thumping beats sprinkled with sunny-day vibes. The highlight of Plastic Sould ends up being the same song that has been Takuma’s best in 2011 – the previously posted “Kuzuha No Sunday,” an absolute blast of glitchy joy filtered through a summer picnic. The two new tracks don’t slouch, though, and even show Avec Avec stepping into a few new directions as well. The title track plays like Cornelius making hip-hop beats, everything falling together just right (check the funky bass creeping in) and threaded by a glowing vocal sample. “Wind Scene (Takuma Remix),” though, finds him sticking his feet into two very different pools – this track messes around with dubstep and chiptune, Nintendo noises bleeping off against that familiar beat. Skrillex it ain’t, as Takuma opts for restraint instead of rave-inducing electro spasm. - Japan Times |
