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Dick El Demasiado Japan Tour

Japan tour of Dick El Demasiado, the godfather of digital cumbia. Dick El Demasiado, who has gained a huge following in the Japanese music scene with his truly unique sounds, is touring Japan for the first time to promote the Japanese compilation album "Sus Cumbias Lunaticas y Experimentales."
Sharing the night with him are Yuichi Kishino (with Space Ponch), who has performed with Dick in Paris, Oorutaichi of Urichipangoon, who provided a remix track to the album, DJ loco2kit, wizard DJ of dance tunes from the weirdest places in the world, Motallica, a duo of self-made instruments and drums, and yudayajazz, an amazing talent who improvises using video and music. A thrilling night not to be missed!



Dick El Demasiado Japan Tour official site

NOTICE for making reservation:

There are two different prices for advance reservation.
3500円 for booking via utakata records website
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3800円 for booking via SuperDeluxe website (this site)
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Artist information:

Dick El Demasiado

Born in the Netherlands. Made his name as a media artist in the Netherlands by producing TV/radio shows and founding an artist group called "Institute for Affordable Lunacy." Released first album "No Nos Dejamos Afeitar" in 2003. One of its songs, "La Cebolla" was included in "Coconut FM", an album compiled by Senor Coconut, and was introduced in its liner notes as "Lee Perry channeling with Tom Ze." Released "Pero Peinamos Gratis" in 2004, "Al Perdido Ganado" in 2005. Fourth album "Sin Pues Nada" was released in 2006, gaining wide-spread attention in Japan. Performed in Sonar Festival in Barcelona the same year. Released fifth album "Mi Tu" in 2008. An album compiled in Japan by utakata records is to be released in July 2009.

Space Ponch

Constance Towers, the precursor of Space Ponch, was formed by Yuichi Kishino, Mint Lee and Hibiki Tokiwa in 1984 and was joined by Kimitaka Matsumae of Oshirikajirimushi afterwards. They frequently performed at Nylon 100%. Since the band gradually shifted to vocal songs, they revived their earlier techno sound and changed the band's name to Space Ponch in the late 1990s. They released "The World Shopping with Space Ponch" from Toys Factory, the American edition of which was released through Jim O'Rourke's label within Drag City.

OORUTAICHI

Solo act of Taichi Moriguchi, who is involved in various units and sessions such as Urichinpangoon. In order to crystallize the many influences he received from artists such as the Doors and the Residents, he embarked on a musical career in 1999 with the cassette album “?”, which was improvised and multi-tracked by him alone using a 4-track MTR.
His free-wheeling melodic talent which had been developing in his unconsciousness and his improvisational non-linguistic singing were set off by the “pathos” of dancehall reggae. This led to a style that layered vocals on top of programmed tracks.
In 2007 he released album “Drifting my folklore.” Recently he has remixed songs of artists such as Shugo Tokumaru and UA (with Urichipangoon). His latest release is a mix CD called “Jurasy Human” from Honcho Sounds. He was opening act for Juana Molina during his US tour this spring and is currently continuing his quest for previously unheard-of, super-personal all-continental music.
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DJ loco2kit

DJ loco2kit offers grooves like no other by researching and introducing global "gray zones" of dance music. In addition to solo activities that include the production of original tracks and remixes, writing articles and creating quizzes, he pursues other music activities under the name of Mushi Music and through the unit "weekend backpack" with cherryboy function, DJ team "pet sounds" with Moji 8 Fresh and DJ diyz, as well as producing apparel brand "galaxxy" through design team "YumYumMummy!".

Motallica

A duo that consists of Satoshi Yashiro (self-made instruments) and Keiichi Nakano (drums, 2up). Their performances are improvised and done under various formats. They host events at HIGHTI in Yahiro, Sumida-ku, and have performed with various artists such as in the Yokohama Triennale 2008.

yudayajazz

Yudayajazz improvises using video and sound.