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On It Ain't the Same, Minneapolis singer-songwriter Jack Klatt offers hope that love and joy can still overcome the darkness of a world turned upside down. Jaku finishes as it began, with an expression of contradictory impulses, of solemn tranquility offset against the frenetic pace of modern emotional turmoil. Certainly, there is something very explicitly Japanese in the notion of tranquility as Krush applies it to hip-hop, and it is this notion that Krush explores on Jaku. The Greatest Alternative Singles of the '80s: The 10 Best Electronic Albums of The album begins with "Still Island", which features a prominent shakuhachi part by Shuuzan Morita the shakuhachi is a traditional Japanese flute with a hoarse and melancholic sound. DJ Krush Jaku Label:

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The vast majority of American hip-hop couldn't be further removed from the notion of tranquility. The album concludes with "Song 2", a sparse and solemn drone with demented toy keyboard sounds and faint flutes in the distance. An ktush tour of the earlys hip-hop showcase Wild Style inspired Hideaki Ishii to enter the world of hip-hop.

There is also a slight hint of the manic, monolithic grandeur of Japan's Kodo drummers'. The album's climactic track, "Beyond Raging Waves", features Shinishi Kinoshita on the tsugaru-jamisen the tsugaru-jamisen is a variant of Japan's traditional three-stringed guitar, the taut twang of which has become almost synonymous with Japanese traditional music to Western ears.

Delicious Lips, Delicious Text: DJ Krush Jaku Label: There are two guest MCs on the album, both stalwarts of the Definitive Jux label. The 10 Best Electronic Albums of Composer Mario Diaz de Leon uses traditional classical instruments in combination with experimental electronics on his latest album Cycle and Reveal featuring four recent works. After an accident that could have ended his career, folk blues artist Charlie Parr recovered and recorded an album comprised largely of older tunes.

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It marks a particular moment in the musician's life and his belief that songs never die. Underrated American treasure Jude Johnstone presents refreshingly spare, uncluttered grownup ballads on her latest, Living Room. Revisiting our best electronic albums fromwe find these records have stood the test of time. Hear it in full now.

Considering that DJ Krush is representin' for the dm nation by way of his native land of Japan, it is interesting to reflect on the unique cross-cultural currents that define his work. The Greatest Alternative Singles of the '80s: The album begins with "Still Island", which features a prominent shakuhachi part by Shuuzan Morita the shakuhachi is a traditional Japanese flute with a hoarse and melancholic sound. He formed the Krush Posse inand although the group only lasted five years, they quickly established themselves as one of the best only?

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Mrush finishes as it began, with an expression of contradictory impulses, of solemn tranquility offset against the frenetic pace of modern emotional turmoil. Krush released his first solo album Krush inand has continued to record, release and tour relentlessly since then, at a staggering rate of just about one album every year for a decade.

Certainly, there is something very explicitly Japanese in the notion of tranquility as Krush applies it to hip-hop, and it is this notion that Krush explores on Jaku. This expanded edition from Cherry Red Records makes the case for hearing it free of the baggage of that alt rock era.

This album is merely an indicator that Krush has mastered, as few before him have, the subtle art of true cultural assimilation through the prism of electronic music. It's a singular preoccupation in Krush's career, and it makes him one of the more interesting DJs on the planet. Doug Clifford and Stu Cook look back on the bright-burning Creedence Clearwater Revival Woodstock set from Augustand talk about the decision to get off the road after 25 years as Creedence Clearwater Revival.

The instrumentation is oriental but the effect is starkly occidental: I don't want to make too much of the fact, to try and convince you that this album is in any way indicative of any larger cultural miasma. Even Krush's closest Stateside kin -- artists such as DJ Shadow, RJD2 and DJ Spooky, who have made careers out of bending and shaping hip-hop and electronic music in general into unfamiliar and exotic shapes -- rarely approach the notion of tranquility.

The use of Japanese instrumentation has become a large facet of Krush's aesthetic approach. Prolific singer-songwriter Wallis Bird tackles inequality and a world in crisis with her compelling, freewheeling new album, Woman.

It is only here that we can finally see the shape of Krush's massive cross-cultural exchange at work, as the symbolism of Japan -- ancient and parochial -- is juxtaposed against the threat and opportunity of Western musical expression. On It Ain't the Same, Minneapolis singer-songwriter Jack Klatt offers hope that love and joy can still overcome the darkness of a world turned upside down. Kruwh collaborations are good, but Aesop Rock comes off as the definite winner.

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The long, sustained tones of the shakuhachi are ej against the track's tense orchestral flourishes with a few spry breakbeats running underneath.