Global Acid EP

Akio Nagase joins Especial with an EP of global acid tracks.  Centred around his heritage Osaka based Nagase infuses his sounds with a mixture of dub and ethno-dance wrapped in 303 infused mid-tempo 4/4 grooves.  

Making music for over 20 years as well as running his Makedub parties Nagase has released for Sound Channel, Darker Than Wax and cult Japanese digital label Chillmountain.  It is here on the latter that the connection was made and his tracks unearthed.  

Rearranged re-edited and remixed especially for vinyl release, Jurassic Shanghai Acid starts fusing sound effects dialogue and samples atop squelching acid beats.  Following is Mongol 303, as Khöömii throat singing and acid vibrations loop and flow across the Altai Mountains down to Steppe Plains – Madrugada Eterna.

Okinawa Yunta crosses the South China Sea to home, perfectly mixing unique folk song from Taketomi Island, reconstructed with Nagase’s gentle wiggling acid accompaniment.  The incessant repetitive groove an Acid mantra flowing through consciousness to move mind and body.   

The bpm’s rise for the close.  Saigon Acid mixes tradition and Acid House for a fun 3AM basement jam, where Dan Nhi meets 808 and Nagase presents his ethno-acid love in.