Sam Cooper On The Faders

This is some of the stuff I was playing when I lugged my records and bloody turntables to Japan for a couple of years, 10 years ago.

Detroit funk, jazz, techno, for getting rowdy in the jeep on the Gardiner Expressway driving to a warehouse downtown from the suburbs in 1995. That's GTA style boy.

Just riffing because playing records feeds my writing and vice-versa.

post punk to house, New York City, Theo Parrish, Detroit ...

"A surprising mixture of disco, indie dance, balearic vibes, and Big Daddy Kane?"

This is the first mix I've done for ENC recordings, my brother in law Takeshi Iwamoto, label head, and some heads out of Shinjuko, and East Nakano. The first track is the excellent Ciccada, by Takeshi and the Postman. Also watch for super pitched down Zung Zung dub, by Takeshi, and E-double 'Whu-chu-sayun' loop, by myself. Long live the ENC.

I've been wanting to do something textural and jazzy and gritty for a while, raw samples, nothing shiny and techy and over-produced, and I got down to it this afternoon and just when I started cooking my kids both woke up from naps and I had to abbreviate this mix because crying kids and wife asking for help equals no more recording. Anyway, this 40 minutes was going in the right direction so I'm putting it up. There's a bit of Theo Parrish tribute going on.