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LOVEPLAYDANCE - 8 Scenes From The Floor (REISSUE)

by Toshio Matsuura Group

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  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    Deluxe red & white coloured double vinyl album, compiling all the tracks from the original digital release.

    Includes unlimited streaming of LOVEPLAYDANCE - 8 Scenes From The Floor (REISSUE) via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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Change 07:39
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High Noon 07:20
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L.M. II 09:06
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Kitty Bey 06:31
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At Les 07:13

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Brownswood Recordings are proud to present the reissue of Toshio Matsuura’s 2018 cult classic LOVEPLAYDANCE, issued for the first time as a complete album on limited edition red and white double vinyl.

The project focuses on covers, presenting classics & influential tracks in a new context. This new edition includes a cover of the Rotary Connection’s classic "Black Gold of the Sun'' featuring Afro-Cuban singer Daymé Arocena and her prodigious Havana-based players, as well as the high energy re-lick of Byron Morris and Unity’s ‘Kitty Bey’, a classic from Gilles Peterson’s seminal afternoon session at Dingwalls in the 1990s; neither included on the original vinyl LP.

On ‘LOVEPLAYDANCE’, legendary Tokyo DJ and producer Toshio Matsuura charted a new direction by casting musical cornerstones in a fresh light. The TOSHIO MATSUURA GROUP features Tom Skinner (drummer for Smile, Sons of Kemet, amongst others) as its musical director, as well as some of the UK’s most exciting jazz-influenced musicians. Drawing on years of surveying and curating different corners of music, Matsuura deftly combined this talented pool of players into one singular, wide-ranging album. A co-founder of Japan’s United Future Organisation (aka U.F.O.), this record sees Matsuura reconnect with longstanding friend and collaborator Gilles Peterson. Releasing the album via Brownswood Recordings in the UK, it’s a continuation of a relationship which started as a bridge between London’s then-blossoming jazz scene and Tokyo’s new musical vanguard of the early ‘90s. This album continues that two-way dialogue between Japan and the UK.

The scope of the music reflects the breadth of Matsuura’s interests; It ranges from Bugges Wesseltoft’s Detroit-influenced, dancefloor-minded jazz, stretched out into a more meditative contemplation, to Flying Lotus’ LA-rooted, Brainfeeder beatmaking, translated from laptop-to-live, given a new, equally idiosyncratic lease of life. Elsewhere, Carl Craig’s iconic ‘At Les’ is taken in a looser direction, the overtones of euphoria cast in a different hue.

They’re touchpoints which hint at interests in the different, diffuse corners of electronic music, and how they connect to jazz and improvisation. Featuring an all star line up of some of the best players London has to offer, line up includes Tom Skinner, Nubya Garcia, Yazz Ahmed, Yussef Dayes and more.

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released March 22, 2024

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Toshio Matsuura Group London, UK

DJ and music curator and produce, original founding member of United Future Organization.
New project "Toshio Matsuura Group" gathered radical musicians from UK and album was released from Brownswood Recordings.

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