16-BIT NOCTURNES, by Aaron Choulai

16-BIT NOCTURNES

by Aaron Choulai

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1.	Ore Yattenno Wa 01:06	buy track
2.	Your Scene 01:34	buy track
3.	Art For Art's Sake (feat. MNSR Frites) 01:48	buy track
4.	Who The Fuck Is That 01:13	buy track
5.	Simulation 00:57	buy track
6.	Spin-ulation 01:09	buy track
7.	Majide Sugu Bow 01:13	buy track
8.	Why Must It (feat. MANTRA) 02:57	buy track
9.	Things I Say 01:05	buy track
10.	Nothing Real (feat. MNSR Frites) 01:34	buy track
11.	Come Ready 01:03	buy track
12.	Twenty Eighteen 01:00	buy track
13.	Twenty Seventeen 01:13	buy track
14.	UMNR 01:12	buy track
15.	ODMA 01:49	buy track
16.	This Is Who We Are (feat. MANTRA) 03:08	buy track

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2021年1月1日、世界中の人と同時にMF DOOMが亡くなったことを知り、すぐに彼のアルバムを全部聴き返した。聴きながら、彼がもともといた世界は、僕が子供の頃にいた世界と同じだったということに気づいた。

僕の母はものすごくカッコイイ人だった。クールな母親が沢山いる中でも、一番クールだった。1980年代の子供時代に、パプアニューギニアにあった祖父の店の裏に住んでいる時も、シドニーで通っていた小学校へ車で送ってくれた時も、いつでも最高の音楽を流していた。母を通してKMD、Digable Planets、Gang Starr、Public Enemy、N.W.A.などを知って、それ以来ヒップホップは自分にとって故郷のような存在となった。

DOOMの初期のアルバムを聴いていると、その時代のビートメイキングの世界に引き込まれた。Stretch ArmstrongとBobbitoのラジオ番組を聴いたり、1989〜99年のヒット曲を調べたりして、その世界に深く入り込みながら自分の子供時代の事も思い返した。1月3日に、埃かぶっていたMPCを出して、ヒップホップの歴史を振り返りながら久しぶりに聴くビートメイキングのテクニックを練習し、自分の楽しみだけのために音楽を作り始めた。その音楽がこの16-BIT NOCTURNESです。

昨年、RAW DENSHIというアルバムをリリースして、それはかなり長い時間をかけ、多くの人が関わったプロジェクトだった。それとは対照的に、16-BIT NOCTURNESは僕が一人で、大体真夜中から明け方にかけて台所に座ってUFO、写真やマイク・タイソンのドキュメンタリーを観ながらビートメイキングをした。とても個人的で、大変満足なアルバムになりました。このメッセージでこのアルバムができるまでの経緯が少しでも伝われば嬉しいです。

On January 1st 2021, like many others, I woke up to the news of the passing of MF DOOM. Immediately I started to listen back through his albums and began reflecting on the world that he came from, which in many ways mirrored a world that I came from while growing up.

I had a very cool mother. In a room full of cool mothers, my mother was still the coolest. In the 80s, whether we lived in the back of my grandfather's shop in Port Moresby, or if she was driving me and my cousins to Paddington Public School in Sydney, she always played great music. I learned about KMD, Digable planets, Gang Starr, Public Enemy and N.W.A through her and since those times hiphop has always felt like home to me.

Listening to DOOM's early albums lead me down a nostalgic wormhole of beat making from that era. I started to go through old Stretch Armstrong and Bobbito radio shows, research the top 100 on the billboard charts from 1989-1999 and generally got obsessed with that world again for a few days while reflecting on my childhood. On January 3rd, I dusted off my old MPC and started to get busy practicing beat making techniques I was hearing all over again while revisiting the history of hip hop, while making music that was just for myself to enjoy. This is the music you hear on 16-BIT NOCTURNES.

Last year I released an album called RAW DENSHI. This album was a big project that took a lot of time and people to make it. In contrast 16-BIT NOCTURNES is just me, usually between midnight and sunrise at my kitchen table making beats while watching documentaries about UFOs, photography and Mike Tyson. It's a very personal album for me, one I'm very proud of. I hope this message gives a little context to how and why it was made.

A homage to Metal Fingers

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released July 3, 2021

All music made on MPC1000, SP-404SX and Numark Turntable
Mixed and Mastered by Aaron Choulai
Photo and design by Miyama McQueen-Tokita

Total playing time 24:09

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Aaron Choulai Tokyo, Japan

Aaron Choulai is a Tokyo based Jazz Pianist, Beat Maker and Composer.

He has worked with artists diverse as 5.l.A.C.K, Kojoe, Daichi Yamamoto, Senninsho, Jim Black, Ben Monder, Paul Grabowsky, Mantra, The Melbourne Symphony orchestra and The Australian Art Orchestra ... more

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