{"title":"Shinichi Atobe","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShinichi Atobe is an electronic music producer based in Saitama, Japan. His first release was in 2001 and he disappeared from the music scene for 13 years until Miles Whittaker and Sean Canty tracked him down in 2014. They discovered that Atobe had other unreleased projects and convinced him to release his album on DDS. In 2016, he released another album on DDS. Daniel Jacques also managed to contact Atobe via email after several attempts in 2010, leading to a collaboration that resulted in the release of an EP on Jadac Recordings.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn addition to his own releases, Atobe's work has been remastered and repressed. He draws inspiration from artists such as Khotin, SW., Huerco S., Shed, DJ Python, Anthony Naples, Galcher Lustwerk, Maurizio, burger\/ink, Deepchord, Beta Librae, Kassem Mosse,GAS , Fluxion,Rod Modell ,Deepchord Presents: Echospace ,Monolake Move D,Vladislav Delay,and STL.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDiscover Shinichi Atobe's unique sound and explore his captivating electronic compositions today.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"love-of-plastic","title":"Love Of Plastic","description":"\u003cp\u003eEeeeeesh, Shinichi Atobe’s sixth album for DDS, another deployment of effortless and entirely inimitable club classics that connect the dots between effervescent dub house, deep techno and swirling beatdown, selected and compiled from a package of new productions sent from Japan with nothing but cryptic track titles for guidance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLove of Plastic - we talking aesthetic here pal? bit like comme de garçons' genius, subversive amplification of synthetics in perfume? Something like Mark Fell’s assertion that “House music is best when it does not aim to copy ‘real’ music”? Impossible to tell - and honestly part of the thrill is in not really fully grasping Atobe’s praxis. What we can say is that with every album there’s a shift - sometimes barely perceptible - in spirit and focus. On this one everything’s gone a bit heavier - bit deeper - once again refracted through Rashad Becker’s mastering prism. You really could be listening to music recorded decades, years or a few weeks ago - we’ll probably never know. But with the simplicity comes a kind of impenetrable code too. That fleeting diva vocal sample 4 minutes into 'Love of plastic 6’ - what’s it doing there? why does it work so well?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePerhaps the reason Shinichi’s music resonates with so many is the impregnable sense of optimism buried in his DNA - there’s a breeze of warm air that takes over whenever his music is played, a promise of better days, blue skies, tingling skin, sultry evenings - all that hammy stuff. But also, entirely undeniable. Play this one and tell us you don’t feel it?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Demdike Stare","offers":[{"title":"Black | LP","offer_id":50424306467147,"sku":"1150144","price":29.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/b7076394-4f43-4d34-9546-e965fd37a1e2_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726776831"},{"product_id":"butterfly-effect-5","title":"Butterfly Effect","description":"\u003cp\u003eThat killer Chain Reaction 12” was also a long time favourite of Demdike Stare, who had been trying to follow the trail and make contact with Atobe for many years before a lead from the Basic Channel office turned up an address in japan and - unbelievably - an album full of archival and new material. That material was compiled and released back in 2014 as Butterfly Effect.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd what a weird and brilliant album it is - deployed with a slow-churn opener that sounds like a syruppy Actress track, before working through a brilliantly sharp and tactile 9 minute Piano House roller that sounds like DJ Sprinkles at his most bittersweet, before diving headlong into a heady, Vainqueur inspired droneworld. It’s full of odd little signatures that gives the whole thing a timeless feel - like a sound bubble from another era.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DDS","offers":[{"title":"Black LPx2","offer_id":51183111045451,"sku":"2242251","price":32.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/Butterfly_Effect_8be8265d_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1738258445"},{"product_id":"heat-3","title":"Heat","description":"\u003cp\u003eHeat is a new double album from Shinichi Atobe for DDS. It follows on from last year’s “From The Heart, It’s A Start, A Work Of Art” set and continues a run of highly enigmatic, acclaimed and completely unparalleled productions that follow their own timeless logic. There’s no sonic fiction involved - this material really does just turn up on a CD sent by air mail from Japan to Manchester, sparse info, no messing, pure gold.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat’s that cover art about? prob something to do with the balmy material within. So Good, So Right, the 10 minute opener, will force you to forget about all the shite around you for a while. There are also several tracks called Heat; they’re all killer. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis music takes you elsewhere almost immediately; that fan on your desk is basically a summer breeze. In fact, this whole album is absurd; completely effortless; a classic. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DDS","offers":[{"title":"Black LPx2","offer_id":51183111799115,"sku":"2242249","price":32.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/unnamed_-_2025-01-30T155532.295_d6ed8fa2_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1738258471"},{"product_id":"yes-5","title":"Yes","description":"\u003cp\u003eIt’s odd working with an artist without ongoing dialogue; no context or an exchange of ideas. It’s all conjecture. Here's another CD of material in the post from Shinichi, two years more or less since the last one. No words except for the track titles. Oh, a photo this time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Yes’, positivity, hope. But the album starts with a dystopian vision; something like Dopplereffekt’s sound-chemistry experiments, a tense builder. Big optimistic chasms open up, the Piano House euphoria of the title track, beautiful sunset closer 'Ocean 1’. But there’s a noticeable change too. 'Lake 2’ is more fraught sci-fi, 'Lake 3’ a sort of percussive Chain Reaction monster, 'Loop 1’, on a Drexciyan tip. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt’s all coated in that weird - some people say infuriating - toppy production, witnessed this time in a more tempered and different formation courtesy of an amazing Rashad Becker master, all precise but loosely swung arrangements. Everything slow to unfurl but, also, everything in exactly the right place. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DDS","offers":[{"title":"Black LPx2","offer_id":51183174680907,"sku":"2242248","price":32.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/unnamed_-_2025-01-30T155345.878_ec9ce183_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1738260761"},{"product_id":"from-the-heart-its-a-start-a-work-of-art","title":"From The Heart, It's A Start, A Work Of Art","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe tracks here are effectively some of the Japanese producer’s earliest work, showcasing the sort of tender, feminine pressure that would bubble up on the Ship-Scope EP and later be revealed in his new productions, Butterfly Effect and World yet, for many reasons, would lay sunk in his archive for the next 17 years.  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe tracks taken from that acetate are labelled First Plate 1-3 and are quite remarkable, having taken on so much added weight over the years that the incidental crackle of surface noise imbues proceedings with an added dimension that’s hard to fathom. it basically sounds like a lost transmission making its way from Paul-Lincke-Ufer at the turn of the millennium to a new, completely changed world all these years later.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe patina of crackle lends a mist-on-bare skin feeling akin to summer garden parties at Berghain in the stepping First Plate 1, and gives a foggier sort of depth perception to the hydraulic, Maurizian heft of First Plate 2, but it’s the submerged euphoria of First Plate 3 that hits the hardest; a heady, bittersweet reminder of days gone by.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe other four tracks are crisply transferred from master tapes, relinquishing a sublime, impossible to categorise House variant that recalls everything from DJ Sprinkles to Ron Trent, yet with that weird, timeless production style that by now has become something of a signature for this most distinctive and hard to categorise producer. For our money, it ranks among the finest and most distinctive in the Chain Reaction \/ Shinichi canon.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DDS","offers":[{"title":"Black LPx2","offer_id":51183177597259,"sku":"2242247","price":32.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/unnamed_-_2025-01-30T153948.032_cfb24e09_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1738260862"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/collections\/test_eb478a39_thumbnail_4096_e53c1c01-c9a6-4450-8eec-4ada670c9c00.jpg?v=1726776810","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/fr\/collections\/shinichi-atobe.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}