Tokyo-based Frogman Records was set up as an independent and experimental techno/electronic label in 1993. At a time when Japanese artists were starting make waves in clubs all over the world, Frogman was instrumental and also one of the initial catalysts for the west's burgeoning interest in the new electronic sounds emerging from the far east. Since then Frogman have gone on to provide music for TV adverts, internet radio programs, game soundtracks, mobile phone jingles, as well as releasing more than 20 CDs and 40 vinyl releases worldwide. The Frogman imprint now has an roster of musicians from Japan, Russia, Germany, Sweden, America and the UK who all continue to make it one of the most innovative independent labels working in Japan today.
U.S.B.
USB, which stands for United Sounds of Blue, is the new diffusion label from the Frogman stables. The USB imprint was started in order to release more eclectic and esoteric music from artists who don't fit into the rigid confines of techno, but opt instead to produce deep, spiritual house, tech-house, nu jazz and futuristic techno soul. USB is very much about drawing from a wide range of electro-acoustic influences like electronica, jazz and funk and twisting them into a compelling showcase that glides effortlessly through genres, but without sounding like a contrived mish mash of styles and flavours. USB is essentially about releasing music that has depth, emotion and originality. It's less about four-to-the-floor kickdrums and more about laid-back bars and chilled, intimate nightclubs. United Sounds of Blue is the soundtrack to our everyday lives.
Sounds Like
FROGMAN + U.S.B. on iTMS: Click Click >>>
Hakan Lidbo
KAGAMI
HITOSHI OHISHI
QUADRA (a.k.a. Hiroshi Watanabe)
BROTHERS IN RAW
ULTRA-TAKKYU VS MIJK-O-ZILLA
Susumu Yokota
MEXICO
Hirofumi Goto
HULOT
V.A. U.S.B 2 -tech housing-
iTMSでのアルバム購入特典アリ！
1:ボーナス・トラック MEXICO / Origin -full version
2:Digital Booklet
* wil be available on iTMS Europe, USA, Australia/NZ very soon!
Double CD ALBUM
FINE: The Best of Frogman /V.A.
NOW ON SALE!!!
Disc 1 :
Rare and Classic Hits
01.Kagami / Y (Ken Ishii Remix)
02.Mexico / Park Avenue (Throughpass at Estudio Camp Nou)
03.The Black Dog / Yama (Take 1)
04.Maho / Our Song (Overrocket 030507 Remix)
05.Quadra / Diffusion Of Light
06.Hitoshi Ohishi / SHOVE IT
07.Parts of Console / Cell (P.O.C. 2007 Remix)
08.Ultra Takkyu VS Mijk-O-Zilla / Liquid (Mijk Van Dijk 2007 Remix)
09.Hakan Lidbo / Field Work (Thomas Schumacher Remix)
10.Susumu Yokota / Extension
11.Hulot feat. Tavito Nanao / Stairway (Video Edit)
12.C.T. Scan / Cold Sleep (The Door Into Summer)
Disc 2 :
Megamix by TAICHI MASTER
01.Ryo Arai / Everest
Hirofumi Goto / Deep Gravity
02.Mexico / Origin
03.Quadra / The MEN Come From A Beats
04.Hirofumi Goto / Medium Blue
05.Susumu Yokota / Left Arm
06.Yin & Yan / Field Magic
07.Andrei Zueff / Space Disco (Susumu Yokota Remix)
08.Stockholm Decadence / Panic Button (Hitoshi Ohishi Remix)
09.Stockholm Decadence / Premixed
Kagami / Konya no TOKYO Disco
10.Ultra Takkyu VS Mijk-O-Zilla / Liquid
Transmission09 / Rainbow Man
11.Brothers in Raw / Slapshot!
Hir / Irregular Cube
12.Brothers in Raw / Cocoro Kara
13.Chisa / Untitled track 10 ("Brain Child")
14.The Anazaworld / Scarlet Meidland
15.The Anazaworld / Girl Friend
Ikki / Pollyanna
16.Kagami / Disco Filter
17.The Anazaworld / Telstar Man (URAL 13 Diktators remix)
18.TA-1 & DJ Tasaka / Sounds Of The City
Kagami / Tokyo Disco Music All Night Long
19.Kagami / Tiger Track
20.Kaori-sun & Kagami-sun / Sunset People
Kagami / Machicago
21.outro
Taichi Master / Eternal Dreams
僕がはじめて買ったテクノCDは、偶然僕の本名と同じだったKAGAMIのリペアードシーケンサーでした。それからずっとテクノと自分をどうやってコミットしていくかを考えて実践して生きてきました。今日The Best of Frogman買ってきて聴いてます。泣けました。もう冬眠してしまうということですが、テクノの情熱は確実に僕らみたいな若い世代に伝わっていると思います。ありがとうございました。これからは、僕ら頑張りますよ！
