{"title":"Becker and Mukai","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"spirit-only","title":"Spirit Only","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe mighty Becker \u0026amp; Mukai return with a tidal wave of sonic highways with new album Spirit Only, this time travelling outside of their East London studio bunker to Japanese mountains, with pit stops in Mali and Trinidad \u0026amp; Tobago. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eExperimenting between balearic, indie dance, psychedelic, folk and electronica, Spirit Only is a complete body of work, confident and unashamed.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"SAS Recordings","offers":[{"title":"Black LP","offer_id":50446906229067,"sku":"2200380","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/test_836ed313_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727065811"},{"product_id":"eyes","title":"Eyes","description":"\u003cp\u003eSusumu Mukai, originally from Kanagawa, Japan, has been involved in diverse projects such as Zongamin, Stalactite and Off World as producer and multi-instrumentalist. Mukai is also a member of bands including Fimber Bravo, Vanishing Twin and Floating Points. Jean-Gabriel Becker, originally from Paris, France, has been writing music under various names and in numerous projects, from Jeanga And George and Economy Wolf to Lux Prima to name only a few. He also composes extensively for films and television under his own name. The sessions for \u003ci\u003eEyes\u003c\/i\u003e, their first EP together, unfolded as a musical dialogue between the duo - open-ended, discovering the sounds as they revealed themselves in an organic way. Although some influences can be heard, from acidhouse to krautrock, to jazz and psychedelia, the otherness of \u003ci\u003eEyes EP\u003c\/i\u003e refuses to be categorised easily.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"SAS Recordings","offers":[{"title":"12\"","offer_id":50471508115787,"sku":"1020124","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/3180ca85-b9ff-4c13-b941-5d2ecb4eb355_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727405042"},{"product_id":"time-very-near-remixes","title":"Time Very Near: Remixes","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 2019, Parisian cinema composer Jean-Gabriel Becker and Japanese composer and multi- instrumentalist Susumu Mukai embarked on the making of an album that was ultimately going to become\u003ci\u003e Time Very Near\u003c\/i\u003e. The album was finally released to great acclaim in April 2020 through the strangest time in history for its singularity and originality.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrompted by a few unsolicited offers for remixes, Becker and Mukai saw an occasion to invite their community of musician and producer friends to re-invent, deconstruct and rebuild the songs on \u003ci\u003eTime Very Near.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJoe Goddard (Hot Chip), who, from his studio next door, had witnessed the birth of the project from day one, was kind enough to unleash his killer beats on Spice War. Old friend Jas Shaw (Simian Mobile Disco) transformed the tropical sounds of Dark Fields Of The Republic into a dance-floor ready techno workout.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLong-time collaborator and friend Sasa Crnobrnja (In Flagranti, Mytron and Ofofo, Auf Togo) took Time Very Near on a trip to Jamaica. Label mate AMA\/\/MIZU stripped Tout Azimuth down to its core to rebuild it with his unique production skills. Dreems delivered a sweltering 19 minute version of \u003ci\u003eDark Fields Of The Republic\u003c\/i\u003e and a shorter version more suited for a vinyl listen. And finally Becker and Mukai chose to don their alternative monikers (Zongamin and Lux Prima) to re-interpret the duo’s own compositions.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLike the original album, this remix project gathers sounds and inspiration from an ever-expanding palette of influences, assembled into something amorphously intangible that’s simultaneously refreshing and sharp, meandering and cosmic, futuristic but timelessly vintage and manages to expand where the original album left off.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"SAS Recordings","offers":[{"title":"Black | LP","offer_id":50473796501835,"sku":"1103922","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/2c53dc86-fbde-4e7e-80d9-77a42667dade_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727430989"},{"product_id":"time-very-near","title":"Time Very Near","description":"\u003cp\u003eDebut album from super-project feat. members of Floating Points live band, Zongamin, Vanishing Twin, Lux Prima, JeanGa And George. Parisian cinema composer Jean-Gabriel Becker is best known for idiosyncratic soundscapes, has worked alongside Massive Attack on acclaimed film soundtracks and recorded with John Foxx. Susumu Mukai, originally from Osaka, Japan, is one of London’s most sought after musicians, whose list of collaborators includes Floating Points, Vanishing Twin, Alexis Taylor and Fimber Bravo. Together they’ve created fresh new music that floats effortlessly above traditional genre delineation, with a dubbed-out and experimental melange of modern acid house, post punk, global grooves and clattering beats. Becker and Mukai began when the pair held jams in an underground studio \/ den in Shoreditch around 2017. Beginning as exploratory and spontaneous, these improv sessions evolved as the duo found their own blend, which came to combine Tunisian saxophones and West- African shakers with FM synthesisers and Eventide harmonizers. Their first recordings were unveiled in 2018 on the artfully unusual and vivacious \u003ci\u003eEyes\u003c\/i\u003e EP, which gained support from Love Vinyl, who included it in their best-of-year list, NTS, who played it on repeat, and Andrew Weatherall and JD Twitch(Optimo),who provided further rotation. Released earlier this year, a collaborative EP of space-disco-meets-experimental-electronics called \u003ci\u003eAuf Togo meets Becker and Mukai \u003c\/i\u003emoved in a dance orientated direction, and was championed by Dublab in California and Sonar Kollektiv in Berlin, amongst others. Still not complying to genres,\u003ci\u003eTime Very Near\u003c\/i\u003e is their tentacular new album, which gathers sounds and inspiration from an ever-expanding palette of influences, assembled into something amorphously intangible that’s simultaneously refreshing and sharp, meandering and cosmic, futuristic but timelessly vintage.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"SAS Recordings","offers":[{"title":"Black | LP","offer_id":50478553530699,"sku":"1087787","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/d60203a1-0f49-4127-876c-994619828428_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727485866"}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/fr\/collections\/becker-and-mukai.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}