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Samurai Math Beats - Bogdan Raczynski (1999)

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Boku mo wakaran (1999), Samurai Math Beats (1999), Thinking of You (1999), Bogdan Raczynski

1999, a year in Bogdan Raczynski – his first bout of releases and an era that still defines his artistry. There’s so much to admire here, from boundlessly diverse sounds and glorious structural unpredictability to a fundamental sense that this is broad-thinking, uninhibited musicianship. The more academically sensitive listener may hear elements of Japaneseness as mere orientalism, but there’s more to it. In my ears Raczynski doesn’t just exploit Japanese aesthetics but lets his surroundings – he was living in Tokyo – inspire him. The cartoonish unreality that therefore abounds is certainly exoticist, othering, warped and often sexualised, but it also marks Raczynski out from so many of his era’s electronic peers. 

Pick(s): ‘boku mo wakaran 9’, ‘Why Why’, ‘Thinking of You Thinking of Me’

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Samurai Math Beats / Bogdan Raczinski (Rephlex, 1999)

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THE 100 GREATEST IDM TRACKS

29. BOGDAN RACZYNSKI ‘Samurai Math Beats’ (1999, Rephlex)

If anyone tries to tell you that IDM doesn’t have a sense of humour, point them in the direction of Bogdan Raczynski. Here was a producer who wasn’t afraid to shake things up a bit – when he performed live, for example, he’d just press play on his laptop and proceed to dance around the stage like a maniac inviting the audience onstage and launching whatever he could into the crowd. ‘Samurai Math Beats’ was maybe his finest moment, with psychotic vocals layered haphazardly over stuttering breaks that even Tom Jenkinson would find hard to come to grips with. It’s also worth mentioning that he penned an early mix of Bjork’s ‘Who Is It’ that still dwarfs the version that eventually made it to market.

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Bogdan Raczynski - "You Broke My Heart, Now You Must Play The Part When You Come Running Back For Me" (xanadu kudzu remix)

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♫ Bogdan Raczynski - Samourai Masu Bitsu ( Discogs : http://goo.gl/6cre0 )