COLUMNS TALKING ABOUT HYPERDUB UK Electronic Music New Phase | Ele-King

　In the 2021 Electronic Music, there were two of the two media that were comprehensively evaluated in multiple media, Aya's "IM Hole" and Lorain James's "Reflection", and also Tilza's "Colourgrade". Well, Space Africa's "HONEST LABOUR" was also evaluated in various places. Well, I think the albums of Aya and Lorain James were outstanding in various ways. These two are increasing their interests in the new development of bass music while attracting the flow of pioneers, such as Arca and Sophie in the 10s, and 21, Hyper Dub. There is also a high degree of attention as a new face of the most important label in UK electronic music in the century. Active Clubs living in London, Hayato Takahashi, former Krabbar living in Tokyo, and Tsutomu Noda talked through ZOOM.

■ Who is Aya?

Takahashi: I met Code 9 last week.

Noda: Why?

Takahashi: Venue called in Dalston, East London.Otomo (Ryohide) and Haino (Keiji) are doing well.

Noda: Yeah, I understand, famous in Japan.You're also out of PHEW's work.

Takahashi: Aya was opposed to Inga Copland's Shiname Rorina.

Noda: That's the best combination.

Takahashi: Inga Copland, especially Hype Williams, is an artist that symbolizes the second phase, Hyper Dub, which has begun to focus on a certain kind of dance music.

Noda: Yes, I was thinking of starting with the story of Hype Williams.Have you ever seen Takahashi's original picture of Rosco (Mark)?

Takahashi: I've seen it on a table (modern).

Noda: That abstract expression painting is like a postcard, but the original picture is extremely huge.

Takahashi: Wall painting.

Noda: When you stand in front of that original picture, you feel overwhelming.I saw the original picture in Dusseldorf in Germany, but I was overwhelmed so much that I couldn't move for a while.Hype Williams' live is still the best in the 21st century, but at that time, the live of Hype Williams was a jungle and bass music abstract painting.

Takahashi: I see.

Noda: Abstracted base music.The live at that time began with a spectacular electronic drone.There is a sub -base.If there was a word "drone dub", that was exactly the case.So when I first listened to Aya, I thought there was a continuation of Hype Williams here.You know, if you listen to the electronic drone at the beginning, with a loud system in a proper system, I think there is something close, and the voice that has been modified electronically.

Takahashi: Haha, that's right.For me, Hyper Williams is "Black is Beautiful" from .That image is strong for me.That's why it's a very weird pop music that emphasizes sampling.

Noda: That's right.It's a conceptual and meta electronica.In particular, Dean Blant runs on a strange and meta pop route that disguised the music itself, but at that time the live played with the sound of Japanese who could not speak.When you go there, Aya is a poet and a word.But the sound is too novel.By the way, where did Aya come from?

Takahashi: To explain your career, you are from Yorkshire in Northern England.There are so many young underground musicians who are studying music at college, Bristol's Batu and his label mate, which presides over Lorain James and label .Something is so.As with Aya, he studied music production at a music college and meets a teacher who was making a drumun base under the name of Tim Land, Landslide.Aya has learned about Arca and Holy Hardon from that person.

Noda: Well, learning Arca at university.I can't think of it in Japan (laughs).

Takahashi: (laughs) That was a university in Wales, and Aya went to Manchester from there.So he entered the bass and UK Garage scene, and he was with the Manchester and the people around him.So, there is a London's label in London, which was launched by the former editor -in -chief of "FACT MAGAZINE", but derived from a UK garage than a dubstep, but it is a function on the floor.It is a label to do.Aya was in such a community.He was still doing it under the loft name.

Noda: Did you attract attention since the loft name?

Takahashi: I was doing poetry performance, but the sound was the main in the release.By the way, I guess Double Clapperz's Sinta -kun is connected in Japan with Tom Rare and the surrounding bass music.

Noda: Sinta, wonderful.

Takahashi: Tom Rare is a very skillful director, and I'm doing a lot of new things.It was a so -called EDM -like thing, a cutting edge base music from London.As one of them, the loft was attracting attention.The loft was also released from Bristol's and was recognized as one of the new generations of underground base music.

Noda: The story is flying, but you're now making a separate volume of Brian Eno.From the 1960s to the 70's, art schools were amazing in the UK.It is true that an educational institution called Art School had influenced UK rock in the 70's, but it is surely a university now.

Takahashi: Well, art school is a university.During the Blair administration, the university was like a so -called old vocational school.As part of the university reorganization, I guess the art school so far has become a university.It looks like a so -called beautiful college.

Noda: I see.So I teach about Arca and teach how to use abreton.That's why an interesting electronic music comes out (laughs).It's like Brian Eno told me John Cage, Silence, and VU from a teacher in the art school era.

Takahashi: It may be similar.That's because Gold Smith University is from James Break.

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Noda: To put it back, Aya's "IM HOLE" was the most sharp work in the electronic music that appeared in 2021.

Takahashi: It was sharp.

Noda: And, not only bass music, but also drones and anxid houses are mixed more and more.The hybrid is exactly a UK, and it's usually, but it's abstracted, but it's clever and the dynamism of the rhythm is outstandingly cool.

Takahashi: My favorite song is the fourth song “DIS YACKY”.

Noda: Ah, I understand, that bass groan (laughs).I listen to the album and dance from that song.In the room.

Takahashi: Glime, dubstep and jungle are included in the base.How to make a song is completely different from other people.By the way, Aya is originally a drummer and has a very good rhythm.If you listen to it normally, it's the same speed as the Dubstep.However, the drum rolls with five consecutive rings behind, and the BPM is about 170 and the jungle is the same as the jungle.So, Aya is making the BPM170 with Ableton, but when listening to music normally, it can be heard with the mainstream BPM140 with dubstep and glime.In other words, it's polyhythm.Usually, if you get too stiff, it will look like IDM, or it will be shirako on the floor.But Aya is well -balanced, and doesn't sound like a sound geek at all.

Noda: I see, surely.

Takahashi: I thought there was something like a certain kind of polarism and a certain queer identity.Is Quia Sound creating an unprecedented sound, pushing the border of the sound up to that point?So I wonder if the polishism can be considered as multiplexual of rhythm.By the way, Aya himself is a transway, and she has announced her gender recognition as a woman, so she doesn't mean that her own recognition is neither a male nor a woman.However, her way of life can be seen in such a queer.There are producers who feel such expressions from sound textures, but I feel that there are no people who are doing rhythm.

Noda: Quia Sound ... I see, that's the first time I heard, but it's interesting.Because the house comes from gay culture, and after all, the sound is poured in that culture, so the recent electronic dance music is a queer when you notice it.But I guess there's a unique glue and a texture coming from its context.

Takahashi: Speaking of the 10s, is very popular in the queer scene.

■ The influence of Sophie was applied

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Noda: Is Aya hooked up by Hyper Dub?　

Takahashi: This was said on Instagram that Steve Goodman (Code 9) was impressed by the loft live and came out of Hyper Dub.First, Poetry Reading and poetry performance were amazing.And that sound texture.

Noda: According to Hyper Dub's material, Aya is also criticized for queer culture.I am also interested in that, but being a queer but also critical to quia culture means that it is "wrong to evaluate it because it is LGBTQ", right?

Takahashi: That's right.In other words, I'm skeptical of the words pointed there, rather than criticizing the queer culture itself."The sound of LGBT is like this, what is required of LGBT artists?"

Noda: Conversely, does that mean that gender awareness is very mature?

Takahashi: You may be able to do that.That's why, but rather than putting a queer identity in the lyrics all over the entire surface, the daily things that I feel, for example, I'm from York and I'm doing music via Manchester.I express that kind of thing in good language play.So, it's always interesting to be more than just criticism of the discourse surrounding Quia and LGBT.

Noda: In other words, you want you to evaluate it beyond the gender.

Takahashi: Of course.Aya is an artist who has a strong influence from Sophie.

Noda: I think again, but Sophie is really big.

Takahashi: When you first came out, you didn't even know who was doing it.But what is completely different from the Breal is the media, and before Sophie gives her face, she's an album "Oil of every Pearl's Un-Insides", she is interviewed.I hid and changed my voice.

Noda: That's exactly what Aya is doing.

Takahashi: Yes.I've been doing it on the radio all the time.I think it's the influence of Sophie.This album contains a song called "The ONLY SOLUTION I HAVE FOUND I have to Simply Jump Higher" that she made a few days after Sophie died.The acknowledgment of the book I bought, "To Sophie for every Full Moon Forever, to Sophie, to Sophie".Post Sophie is a good break.Arca pursuing Sound Mutant and , which sought innovation on the floor, are also very influential, but the hyperpop that Sophie did seems more important.Aya and Lorain James are both under the influence of Sophie.

Noda: That's right, Lorain.

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Takahashi: The DJ that I was impressed last year was a tribute set to Sophie that Lorain James did in .That is wonderful.Not only Sophie's songs, but also the cover, it seems that everyone's Sophie statue is coming up.In the sense of introducing artists belonging to the LGBT community, is also working hard.I have come out of quia artists and marginal identities.Angel-Ho in South Africa.

Noda: By the way, how was Aya's live?

Takahashi: I've watched it twice, but what I did last year's live house was on the stage wearing a black hoodie, and my body performance was amazing.The person himself is also a skateboard, and the motor nerves are very good.

Noda: It's a bit of a foul that the motor nerves are good (laughs).

Takahashi: What should I say?But Aya is not like that.No matter how serious she is, Aya does not forget to communicate with her customers.

Noda: The people in the northern part have always been afraid of London's expensive place.

Takahashi: Yes (laughs).I can't say it well, but it's a very British humor.So I can't imagine it from the album, but it's very friendly.When the song progresses slowly, it takes off the hoodie and dances in a very cool costume.On that day, Manchester's Ice Boy Violet, who is also participating in the album, also appeared on the stage on the MC.Ice Boy's gender pro -nown is "THEY/THEM", and he acknowledges that he is neither a man or a woman.

Noda: Huh ... (deeply sighs), if it's not a corona right now, I guess I could see it in Japan.I'm enviable.Let's talk about Lorain James.She didn't find , but when Rorein appeared on a pirate radio, she said that she had to sign a contract, and she said that Hyper Dub had a contract.I read the story.

Takahashi: Certainly.Loraine is a producer who has a very strong trust from the same generation.TSVI and TSVI and She are a flat mate in Lollain James, who operates , a London producer called Object Blue.Everyone is a very skillful and influential creator.It's interesting to have such a London community.

Noda: That's an interesting story.I don't know at all from Japan.

Takahashi: Object Blue is one of his native languages, and is a person who should be featured in the Japanese speaker in "ELE-KING".Recently, I wrote a review in the jet set.She declared that she was a lesbian, and she used to call her on Twitter as a techno feminist.

Noda: Hey, that's also interesting.

Takahashi: There is one thing that Lorain James comes out of such a community.It's more like a friend than a so -called organization.

Noda: I heard that London's redevelopment and prices rise and that Bohemian artists can't live, so I thought something new would be born anymore.That's not the case.

Takahashi: That's not true.Certainly, the border is not as free as before due to the influence of Brexit, but is there an international feeling in the music scene?TSVI is an Italian.A lot of people are gathering from Europe.There is an atmosphere like Berlin.