Tokyo Black Star-Blade Dancer EP

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1.	Tokyo Black Star-Blade Dancer (original unreleased version) 08:59	buy track
2.	Tokyo Black Star-Kagura 07:33	buy track
3.	Tokyo Black Star-Blade Dancer (new version) 08:06	buy track

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For the 6th release on his label world famous, Alex from Tokyo takes a trip back in time to bring new sounds to our ears. The unreleased original version of Tokyo Black Star’s cult classic track “Blade Dancer” finally sees the light of day! Tokyo Black Star, galactic samurai artist of the 21st century, came to life in the late 1990s, the combined forces of international DJ Alex from Tokyo and Tokyo-based sound engineer Isao Kumano. When Dixon and Âme launched Innervisions in 2005 to shake up the dance music world, they selected Tokyo Black Star’s debut Psyche Dance EP as the inaugural release, adding to it an epic edit of the title track by Dixon himself.

Along with the original “Blade Dancer,” Tokyo Black Star’s 2020 Blade Dancer EP unveils a 2015 reworking of the track (following analog equipment otaku Kenichi Takagi’s addition to the group). The EP also presents on vinyl for the first time the meditative dream-like ambient track “Kagura,” which appeared on Innervisions’ 2008 ambient CD compilation Muting The Noise 01. Blade Dancer EP features artwork by Berlin’s Ta-Trung and the sublime paintings of NYC-based Japanese painter Tomokazu Matsuyama, Tokyo Black Star’s longtime visual collaborator.

Okaeri nasai お帰りなさい (welcome back)!

ALEX FROM TOKYO

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released August 7, 2020

Tokyo Black Star – Blade Dancer EP (world famous 006)

A1. Blade Dancer (original unreleased version) (8:59)
B1. Kagura (7:33)
B2. Blade Dancer (new version) (8:06)

A1 and B1 Produced, Arranged & Mixed by Alex from Tokyo and Isao Kumano
B2 Re-interpreted by Alex from Tokyo, Isao Kumano and Kenichi Takagi for Tokyo Black Star productions
Mastering by Isao Kumano at PHONON studio

Artwork design by Ta-Trung
Original paintings by Tomokazu Matsuyama (all copyrights reserved)

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