Album Notes

**************** ALL SHINJUKU ZULU / K.I.A. RELEASES: -ALSO @ iTUNES... -ANY-PLAYER MP3 ALBUM FROM CDBABY.COM (see left side this page) -SINGLE MP3s at AMAZON.COM (cut/paste link): http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0010X5BT6/ref=dm_sp_adp -MORE SHINJUKU ZULU/K.I.A. CDS/MP3s BELOW LEFT... **************** DISCOGRAPHY (MP3s at iTunes, CDbaby.com): By Shinjuku Zulu: -Kiss the Honey, Honey 7-track EP feat. \"Kiss the Honey\", \"SXYLV\" -Various Chimeras 19-track CD feat.\"Shanghai Masai\",\"Da Riddim Griffin\" -Various Chimeras Instrumentals feat. instrumental versions of above -Shinjuku Zulu 14-track CD feat. \"That Groove\", \"Segue\" By K.I.A.: -Sonorous Susurrus 22-track CD. feat. \"Nevermine\", \"Be My DJ\", \"Dubmarine\" -Adieu, Shinjuku Zulu 15-track CD feat. \"Mrs. Major Tom\", \"Eyeah\", \"Allelujah\" By K.I.A. & Shinjuku Zulu -DXLR8 -Downtempo Best Of ,13-tracks feat. \"Broken\", (dubstep), \"Scarborough Fair (A True Dub of Mine), \"Allelujah\" -------------------------------------------------------- IF YOU LIKE \"MAKE ME SHAKE\" (electo+pop+dance+rap) by Shinjuku Zulu: -check out: \"Kiss the Honey, Honey\" and \"That Groove\" by Shinjuku Zulu, and \"Feel It\" and \"Housin\' Down the Burn\" by K.I.A. ---------------------------------------------------------- IF YOU LIKE \"WE DO SUPERSONIC\" (dance + ragga rapping) by Shinjuku Zulu: - check out \"SXYLV\" and \"That Groove\" by Shinjuku Zulu, and \"E-yeah\" and \"Rashomon\" by K.I.A. ---------------------------------------------------------- IF YOU LIKE \"SCARBOROUGH FAIR (A TRUE DUB OF MINE)\" (chillout/ambient): - check out: \"Yedayed\" by Shinjuku Zulu, and \"Allelujah\" and \"Dubmarine\" by K.I.A. ---------------------------------------------------------- THE XENOPHILE WILDSTYLE... \"Various Chimeras\" by Shinjuku Zulu: Steam-era electronica, current pop, 1920\'s dub, post-hip hop, and electro-disco-cheerleader-cabaret describe some of the tracks on Shinjuku Zulu\'s second release \"Various Chimeras\". Over it\'s nineteen tracks the album features twelve different guest vocalists (from rappers to reggae toasters, from r\'n\'b to ragtime singers) in a multi-era pop electronic mash-up. Songs to note are \"Da Riddim Griffin\" (with vocals by actress Caryn Green, MC Shankhini, and the Tokyo GoGo! Cheergirl Team), \"Dirty Liar\" (like the Chemical Brothers meet O Brother), \"Make Me Shake\" (poptronica a la Fergie), the haunting \"Coal Coal Black\" (dub meets blues), and \"Scarborough Fair (A True Dub of Mine)\" (imagine Simon & Garfunkel as done by the Mad Professor). See also by the same artist the CDs \"Shinjuku Zulu\" by Shinjuku Zulu; and \"Sonorous Susurrus\" and \"Adieu Shinjuku Zulu\" by K.I.A. Shinjuku Zulu press descriptions: \"...high tech boom cut with voodoo...the most casually efficient encapsulation of culture clash we\'ve ever heard...\'Shanghai Masai\' is stark skittering electronic hip hop [that segues from] M.I.A. to Prince...\" -TORONTO STAR\'s Anti-Hit List \"The best new music outside the mainstream\" \"...create[s] three-headed songs by grafting cultures onto collaged beasts that growl with different tongues...\"Be My Woman Be My Man\" comes replete with DFA grooves and Herbert snorts...\"We Do Supersonic\" and \"Dirty Liar\" will have your dance floor moving...\"Rainbowbeau\" sees Larissa Gomes bouncing her voice off soft clouds of picazzo strings...my favorite is \"Make Me Shake\" [with] sentences that say so incredibly much with so little...as devastating as anything else this year...often surprising, mostly pleasing, and at a few moments (Make Me Shake, Da Riddim Griffin, and Coal Coal Black) fantastic.\" COKEMACHINEGLOW \"...especially ambitious trans-continental mash-ups...melds components elegantly into compositions that sound surprisingly natural...great moments, like when \"Make Me Shake\" leaps from synth-shamisen-encrusted grime-pop to reggae to