Shuta Hasunuma is a sharp electronica artist from Japan with a gift for three-dimensional production. He's about to release the whimsically titled Pop Ooga Plus, his third full-length LP; like his first two albums, it's full of delicately woven glitches and pops that seem almost tangible, as though they're tumbling out of the speakers. Pop Ooga Plus is a mostly instrumental album.
-NPR National Public Radio (2009)
Shuta Hasunuma’s Pop Ooga is a gorgeously agitated record, meandering between obtuse rhythmic punctuation and gentle oscillation. The Tokyo-based multi-instrumentalist/composer has in the past been inspired by the rapid, continuous growth of bamboo, and likewise creates a landscape that sounds alive and kinetic. Hasunuma’s cheerful melodies are lively and elegant, built with a bright pop simplicity and supported by a complex architecture of bells and glitches.
-Other Music (2009)
The title of Hasunuma's second album is quite clearly a playful reference to Radiohead's OK Computer and, by contrast, is much more comfortable and reconciled in its depiction of contemporary life. While not averse to abrasive touches, such as the scraping undertow of the title track and the extreme tweaking of "Sunny Day in Saginomiya", light always prevails over dissonance and despondency, as the Vitamin D enriched shafts of "Saginomiya" suggest.
Acoustic instruments such as guitar and piano intertwine in a friendly sort of way with inventive electronics. The notion posted of an unproblematic, hand in hand marriage between the pastoral and the urban may be a fictional one but here, it's a fertile and rewarding fiction nonetheless.
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Almost Tomorrow is the third full length collaboration album from Section 27 Netlabel founders Tam Ferrans and Andrew Paterson, under their Nonima & theAudiologist guise. This time around the sound is more melodic, and has a definite feeling of a complete and more mature sound than heard on the previous LP's "Dystopian Battle Hymns" and "Ceremony After Amputation". If you are familiar with their individual projects you may even be in for a slight surprise, as the tracks are not as beat driven like before, but are more atmospheric and sound, well... "bigger". In its 75 minutes, Almost Tomorrow takes you on a trip from the digital rain-soaked cavernous scraping in "Thoughtograph", the ethereal beat jittering of "The Colour of Rain", intercepted transmissions from unknown places in "Com-Intercept", "Ganzfeld"s huge yet strangely insect-like beats until everything you knew comes crashing around you in "Almost Tomorrow". Burning pianos, glitched out soundscapes and intricately programmed beatplay, this may well be their best work to date. Consider it the soundtrack to a rainy overcast day, but with just that glimmer of sunshine peeking from the clouds. "Almost Tomorrow" wears its heart on its sleeve.
Hi Shuta, come and listen to my new music, the soundtrack for the film “Lugar de Encuentro” directed by Edgar Doll. I hope you like it See you un abrazo de Chile Leo
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