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RAVENATION

by MUTRON

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RAVENATION 07:24
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This track was born during the preparation stage for the release party of 'suggested function EP#3' by Gondayama aka CHERRYBOY FUNCTION.
I can only thank Mr Nagata of TRANSONIC RECORDS (EX : ExT Recordings) for organising and booking this party.

If I think about it, the aforementioned release party was held in October 2014, so it was about nine years ago. I occasionally used some of it in my DJ sets, but the nine years it took to get it released may have been a little too long. However, the timing of the release may not be so bad, considering the fact that rave-like tracks are nowadays seen here and there.

I made my debut in 2002 as part of the electroclash boom, and I often think about my roots.
One of them is games music, which I've gone as far as to do under the name W2X as Chiptune, but as far as this track is concerned, I think I had the following background.

My first exposure to a bit of rave music was a feature on a club called Juliana Tokyo (I couldn't embed it here, so you'll have to look at the link : youtube.com/clip/Ugkxkmy65ESs_KpFl_MYeq29M8OhFWCV8_5X?si=v4U7gF54lM_waFmB ) that was on TV.
There, women in body-conscious one-piece dresses danced so closely together that they looked as if they were going to fall off the stands in the audience, while waving fluffy fans above their heads. The atmosphere was like an extension of a disco, and the music played there included rave music.
You may have heard the iconic track Can't Undo This! by Maximizor, aka Yasuhiko Hoshino.
As I was underage at the time, I couldn't go to clubs and had to rely on Japanese music label avex trax and BEAT UK (a late night music TV programme aired on Fuji TV in Japan) to listen to this kind of music.

Rave was a music movement that took place in the UK from the late 1980s to the early 1990s, and rave music refers to the music played at these events and parties. I later found out about these movements from books and other sources, and I think that in order to make it commercially successful, the Japanese version of it evolved in its own unique way, arranged very much for the Japanese.

Thus, I grew up influenced by the superficial parts of the music without knowing the authentic rave culture. This track was born out of the process of digging deeper to understand the real rave culture later on. It may sound very funny and strange to you all. I think this track is a good representation of the aforementioned national tendency to adapt foreign cultures to suit our own needs.

Also, I have a playlist of rave tracks (including some that sound like rave tracks) that I listen to a lot on Spotify if you want to listen to them.

open.spotify.com/playlist/21iVFSyPiTnsgzSQy0DiBW?si=48a5e8ba86f04293

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released December 19, 2023

© 2023 Yasuyuki Hirata
℗ 2023 CODONA

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