Takeshi Records daily downloads – Day 1 ‘Kaman Leung’

We are having a daily mp3 giveaway courtesy of the lovely people at Takeshi Records over the next 3 days.

I first got in touch with Dopement, who runs Takeshi records, sometime in October last year when I stumbled across the label’s soundcloud page and found the Samon Kawamura remix of O.C.’s ‘Time’s Up’ rather nice. We spoke on myspace for a while, but with my move back to the UK in the new year and everything else I kinda lost track of the label until I bumped back into Dopement over on twitter this week. He dropped me a line with tracks from the label’s last few releases and we decided to let 3 of these out for you to enjoy over the next few days as a way to discover the label and also enjoy some rather fresh instrumental hip hop from the likes of Kaman Leung, Samon Kawamura and the rather well known Dabrye.

First up is Kaman Leung, with a track called ‘Await’ taken from the album ‘Lacrimal’ released in the spring of 09 by Takeshi records. I vaguely remembered the man’s name from somewhere but it wasn’t until I checked the press release that I realised where that was. Kaman, a Swedish/Chinese producer, had a track featured on Krush’s legendary ‘Code 4109′ mix back in 99. Since then he’s been busy doing his own thing, and this latest album showcases his own, rather intriguing production style with dubby, melancholic instrumentals that have more than a hint of originality. Below is some words on the man written by Amar Patel from Straight No Chaser:

To date, Kaman Leung, Swedish/Chinese but residing in Oslo, has had minimal output: a track selected for Krush’s ‘Code 4109’ mix from 1999, an acclaimed EP out on Swedish label ‘A PMS Plan’ and a few 12s on his own imprint Lacerated Recordings. His sound is very outer-dimensional and moody, in a Krush state of mind, but slightly more dubwise with gritty and industrial sound glitches beckoning you in. The beats definitely drop but it’s the simplicity and subtlety that warms you from the most austere of places (track three especially). Sure, the likes of Dabrye and Prefuse are doing it like this, and with even more warped tempos, in the ‘06 but Kaman has that all-important word – vibe. There’s been a few years of turmoil in getting this out but it deserves to be heard. Music for beat heads who like to bed in with an unknown being.

We can get down with that last part of the quote, and we hope you will too. Check Kaman Leung’s ‘Await’ below, stream it or download it and stay tuned for Day 2 tomorrow featuring Samon Kawamura’s remix of O.C’s ‘Time’s Up’ and then Day 3 which will feature Dabrye’s remix of Vast Aire and MF Doom’s ‘Supafriendz’.

You can buy Takeshi Records releases via the links on their myspace page and you should also be able to find them in all decent physical and digital shops. And you can also check Takeshi Recs on Samurai FM with a regular show on the station.

Till then 音楽聞いて下さい！

Download Kaman Leung – Await (right click and save as)

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2. more downloads over at Trick’s blog

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This entry was posted on Thursday, August 20th, 2009 at 10:05 am. It is filed under Downloads, News and tagged with Japan, Kaman Leung, Takeshi records. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.