TAKEN BY TREES / DREAMS (INSTRUMENTAL) / SECRETLY CANADIAN
The dub is Peaking Lights covering the Everly Brothers. The instrumental is Hawaiian Hi-life, Secret Circuit`s tropical Psychedelia simplified. Gary Lucas and Wild Rumpus` surf obsession tamed. “Ticketty-Boo” gone Gospel.

Taken By Trees on Soundcloud

SCOTT FRASER / LIFE OF SILENCE (TIMOTHY FAIRPLAY`S FALL OF SHAME) / BIRD SCARER
Swirling slo mo Techno gets a Peter hook bass-line and becomes a Technique-era New Order sun-bleached, Ku-ed out, sea and cloudless sky blues.

Scott Fraser on Soundcloud

MICHAEL OZONE / PERFECT SYSTEMS / ESP INSTITUTE
As if Hector Zazou & Bony Biyake, or Indambinigi`s “Zimba” were remixed by Mark Kamins for play by Tony Humphries at Zanzibar.

ESP Institute on Soundcloud

HAUSCHKA / PING (VAINQUEUR REMIX) / FAT CAT
An elegant study in how to speed while standing, or sitting, absolutely still. Travelling without moving, the World flashes past. Even a broken clock tells the right time twice a day.

Fat Cat Records on Soundcloud

SANDRO PERRI / LOVE & LIGHT (TOM CROOSE MIX) / PHONICA
Sandro perri caught in Tom Croose`s heat haze. Kinda like Jose Gonzales covering The Truths “Open Our Eyes”. Glissandro 70 renouncing Animal Collective and instead summoning Arthur Russell`s angel.

Phonica Records on Soundcloud

HARDAGE FEATURING MICHAEL FRANTI / ENOUGH FOR ALL OF US (DENIZ KURTEL MIX) / VIBE ME
Fucked clocks ticking out of time. Midnight streets empty save surveillance. A revolution driven underground for fear of being televised. Disposable heroes partake in a different drug of a different nation, time wasted in its lonely release. A cell of defiance, resistance is needed. Don`t feel what they want you to feel.

Vibe Me Records on Soundcloud

JESSIE WARE / RUNNING / PMR
Sade`s obsessive love. Falling for the wrong guy. Led by big Townhouse drums, but funkier than Phil. 100 BPM Soul as if made by 90s Italian Jazz session players. Tameka Starr`s heart dragged in circles, sleepless, exhausted. The forest fire guitar solo from Mag`s Prout`s “Dreaming Stop”. A doomed, melancholic, destructive seduction. I`m not sure if that which does not kill us makes us stronger. Some people will always be vulnerable. Saints and martyrs. The surrender to promise and lies a form of faith.

Jessie Ware on Soundcloud

A selection of tracks from these releases can be heard on my radio show, The Remedy, every saturday - local FM (8 - 9 PM Japanese Time) - Midday in the UK (1 PM in Europe) - on Karuizawa FM - to stream you need to click on web radio - then chose the first option - インタ-ネトdeラジオ - the shows are archived on Samurai.FM the following week here and you can find the Facebook page here.