Superpitcher – Sketch Of Japan
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Superpitcher – Sketch Of Japan
Holdrons Arcade
135A Rye Lane
Unit 11 Holdrons Arcade
London SE15 4ST
United Kingdom
Label: Mule Musiq – MULE MUSIQ 242
Format: Vinyl, 12", 33 ⅓ RPM / 45 RPM
Country: Germany
Released: Jul 19, 2019
Genre: Electronic
Style: Deep House, Leftfield
Part of Mule Musiq’s 15th anniversary year, when the label released twelve 12" records with friends and artists, each with collectable artwork by Stefan Marx. Superpitcher’s contribution is a tale of two sides. Maki is a tribute to the legendary Japanese folk singer Maki Asakawa, with lyrics by Superpitcher, translated into Japanese and read by Miyako Koda of Dip In The Pool. It is a long, slow burn at around 115 bpm, with a haunting female vocal, a kick drum driving it along a drugged-out, dark journey and a sitar adding an eerie shimmer on top.
Mishima on the flip is a trademark Superpitcher melancholic house tune, sounding like updated, percussive early-90s New York house. Superpitcher has always liked a long track, and he keeps to that tradition here, though at 8:17 the B-side is almost modest. It works as a deep house transition in a set, but it is the A-side that earns the EP its place.
