Invisible Cities - Vol 3 feat Tako (Magick Edit Allstars, Rotterdam)

emma jean

RBMA, Good Company, Cologne

Flitting like some kind of electronic butterfly effect from city to city, E-J has collected her own unqiue selection of 12" wax teleporters that are guaranteed to take any dancefloor to the further edges of the galaxy. Emma Jean has travelled the globe on a wave of deep sine vibes from New Zealand to Tokyo to Cologne. As well as taking a seven year helm on Slipstream, NZ's longest running radio show and nation-wide pit-stop for soulful techno fuel, the one they call Halogen Girl has also worked for Torema records and Sino in Tokyo, as well as scribing for NZ mags like Pulp and Real Groove. In 2004 E-J started www.good-company.org, a magazine and online resource for music, events, and all things good. E-J has been aboard the Academy ship since she was a participant at Sao Paulo in 2002, and as a team member has kept the cogs turning like one seamless mix. This session features special guest Tako. He's neither a crispy corn tortilla nor a small dish of octopus sashimi, but one of Rotterdam's most serious music aficionados and collectors, having begun his vinyl odyssey in '89 and nowadays famed for his masterful touch in sets of ancient disco, afrobeat, krautrock, arp-filled prog rock and all kinds of lush groovy stuff to make you shake your tush. He's most often found DJing with friends like Loud-E, I-F, Daniel Wang or Darshan Jesrani, and not just in Iceland, Belgium or the UK. He was also a special guest of the Disco Sessions crew on a tour of Japan, which must have caused some lingo or menu confusion; and has traveled to DJ with Italian legend Beppe Loda (not to mention dug through Beppe's private record warehouse). Tako has released a few disco re-edit 12"s under the name Magick Edit Allstars and was one of the first robot mixers of the acclaimed Internet radio station www.cbs.nu. Hey, Tako bello, thanks for the good times. And by the way, what is an 'octopussy'?