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Delivery Roomby various artists [The Leaf Label]

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Release date 4 May 2004
CD In Stock £3.00 buy || MP3 £3.00 buy

A full-length compilation album for the price of a CD single, Delivery Room follows on from 2002’s Lost For Words and the Osmosis sampler from 1999.

The release of the compilation coincides with the long-awaited launch of The Leaf Label’s new website ( www.theleaflabel.com ). Both CD and website follow ... [more]


Mind Editby Riow Arai

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Release date 27 October 2003
CD In Stock £5.00 buy || 2LP Limited Stock £2.00 buy || MP3 £7.00 buy
( play all tracks )

'For most techno/breakbeats producers, technology is just a substitute for writing a complicated composition, or a shelter from exposing their artless forms. But for Riow Arai, it is a playground for releasing his spirit. He has the talent to open a door to the future of music' Nobukazu Takemura

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Disturbance EPby Riow Arai

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Release date 29 September 2003
12" In Stock £1.25 buy

The Disturbance EP is Japanese producer Riow Arai's first ever release outside Japan. A 'Greatest Hits' package of sorts, the EP draws from Arai's extensive catalogue of twisted instrumental hiphop on the cult Japanese Soup-Disk label.

The five DJ friendly cuts include two re-edits of tracks from the forthcoming Mind Edit ... [more]



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RIOW ARAI signs to Leaf

17 June 2003

The Leaf Label has licensed japanese hip-hop producer Riow Arai's classic 'Mind Edit' album for worldwide release this autumn. The album was originally released by cult Japanese label Soup Disk, but it never made it very far from home. It's been a while coming, but Arai's squewed, crunchy instrumentals sound fresh as a daisy, and deserve to be heard!

Keep 'em peeled for more info, including a Riow Arai "best of" EP to precede the album....

... [read full article]


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