My friend Angela found all these slide shows made by some person on YouTube who calls himself The New Yamato, each one featuring awesome pics of Japan and some kick-ass Nujabes tracks. Gizmodo also used this track for his Akiba cell phone orgy video.
FYI...Nujabes is a Japanese DJ/hip hop producer who used to make music for the hypnotic Samurai Champloo manga series, and to date has two jazzy, hip-hoppy, AWESOME albums featuring artists like Shing02 and Five Deez. He frequently samples Miles Davis and Yusef Lateef, which makes him even cooler. I'm a big fan.
very nice track and great blog.
do you happen to know who the mc's are?
i'm actually heading to tokyo in a couple months for a bit of research and i was wondering if you could tell me about the underground hip hop scene there, you know, who should i check out, which clubs to go to etc.
cheers,
skunk.
Posted by: skunk | February 10, 2007 at 11:19 AM
I was linked to the robbed by scary white men but clicked on this being the hip hop head I am, its completely off the hook. I'll be searching on Nujabes.
Posted by: Greg | February 11, 2007 at 02:52 AM
Wow this is truly an amazing musician. marked as favorite!!
Posted by: Plinan | February 11, 2007 at 06:57 PM
a friend of a friend of your sibling sent me the link to this blog because i'm a big fan of nujabes...
feather is probably my favorite song =)
if you haven't seen this Youtube clip before, it also features a nujabes track - Music is Mine, and the underlying concept is pretty damn cool
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtzdxseO-gs&eurl=
Posted by: Ohn | February 13, 2007 at 04:40 AM
You mean he made the music for the Samurai Champloo ANIME series. Manga typically doesn't have music.
Posted by: Dusty | February 17, 2007 at 11:08 PM