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CMU Approved
Approved: Daisuke Tanabe
By Andy Malt | Published on Monday 26 April 2010
Japanese producer Daisuke Tanabe has been honing his unique style since his teens, releasing his debut EP, ‘Gas’, in 2006. The release came to the attention of Giles Peterson who asked Tanabe to submit two remixes for one of his fledgling Brownswood Recordings label’s early releases, Elan Mehler’s ‘Scheme For Thought’. More remix work and two limited edition EPs followed, before his debut album, ‘Before I Forget’, was released via Circulations in January this year.
Taking influence from jazz, folk and dub, amongst other genres, Tanabe creates tracks built out of intricately created loops, which dance around and take on a life of their own. The result sits somewhere between Orla Wren and Mr Scruff. I have heard it said that Daisuke Tanabe DJ sets are something which need to be seen to be believed, which is bad news for all of us, as I’ve just discovered that he returned to Japan yesterday following a European tour. Sorry about that.