Newwave Project #2 vinyl

Mule Musiq regular Kuniyuki is undoubtedly one of the surest bets for delicate, considered deep house music from Japan, and he makes his first appearance on his home label for 2015 with the sumptuous tones of the Newwave Project #2. The title track is a patient stalker that lets the percussion shuffle in a skittish manner, while strings dangle nervously over head, and yet the whole experience is a soothing one. Musk turns in a remix of the track which heads into more obviously spaced out territory with some decidedly cosmic bleep tones, before Kuniyuki switches up his styles for "Newwave Project #4" with a track clearly fuelled on the heat and passion of early synth pop arpeggios and industrial experimentation.