Published
Tue, May 24, 2011, 09:00
- The two-disc charity compilation features new tracks from Donato Dozzy, Donnacha Costello, Cobblestone Jazz and more.
Mindgames, the team behind Japan's Labyrinth festival, have curated a charity compilation called Composure: Ambient Techno for Japan.
The album features two discs of "experimental techno" and "deep ambient" by many of the mountainside festival's past performers, such as Donato Dozzy, Peter Van Hoesen, Donnacha Costello and DeepChord (who appear separately as Rod Modell and CV313). All of the tracks are previously unreleased, and aside from two edits by Sandwell District's Function and Mike Parker, have been commissioned specifically for this album. Proceeds will go to Smiles & Dreams: The Tohoku Kids Project, a program aimed at giving both immediate and long term support to children who lost their parents in the earthquake. "We know that our contribution will be a modest one," say the curators, "but we also feel it is important to express our concern for everyone affected, and music is the avenue of expression that we as a group have chosen."
Composure is a team effort between Mindgames and Disk Union, the Tokyo record shop, who will release the album on their in-house label, Music 4 Your Legs.
Tracklist
CD1: Living with Aftershocks
01. Eavesdropper - Combining Forms
02. Peter Van Hoesen - Heliotrope
03. Sandwell District - Readymade A (Function Labyrinth Edit)
04. Mike Parker - Light & Dark Part 4 (The Labyrinth Edit)
05. Alex Smoke - Miyako
06. Minilogue - Ease
07. Koss - Kokoro
CD2: The Process of Rebuilding
01. Donato Dozzy - S.T.
02. Rod Modell - Coffee, Stars and Gravity
03. Jonah Sharp & Fred P - Substance
04. Donnacha Costello - Rebuild
05. E.R.P. - Paper Dove
06. Cobblestone Jazz - Mana
07. CV313 - As the Light Closes In...
08. Steve Good - Mercury
Music 4 Your Legs will release Composure: Ambient Techno for Japan digitally in June, with a physical release to follow in July.