Japanese Dj / producer Powder launches her own label with this excellent debut from 5ive - 5ive is one half of Cos / Mes and he also runs the Snaker label and collaborates with Samo DJ and Chida as Mascaras.
It even featured on Vinyl Factory's best of 2018 even though it didnt quite make it until the start of Jan 2019..
Here's VF's Gabriela with her review of this great EP: In Japan, the phrase ichigyo-zammai refers to the practise of concentrating on one act at a time. This singular focus is a mood that runs throughout 5ive’s first solo release – Planet Be EP, the inaugural release on Japanese producer and DJ Powder’s Thinnergrooves imprint. On the A-side, 5ive achieves this feeling in loopy fashion. ‘Planet B’ launches into tonking percussion and swirling synths, until slapping drum pads kick in like some electronic taiko drum from another dimension, depositing you safely back where you started. ‘Almost Heaven’ proceeds on a celestial tip, a coastal forest sunrise scene, laughing denizens wailing in the distance. Such is a sentiment continued on the flip in ‘Contrast’, at least that’s what you think… The journey from start to finish is so seamless you’ll hardly have noticed your destination has changed – starting on chirpy high, soon descending into a didgeridoo lair deep amidst an interplanetary netherworld. ‘Entropy’ continues with this emerald feel, a layered key hook woven into itself, and back again through a deep bass vocal, as an icy knife edge slits through the air. The result is a house EP so subtle in its shine that you’re not exactly sure what’s just happened. But that’s besides the point.
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