1000 Names
Cokiyu『Your Thorn Remixes』参加アーティスト、今回ご紹介するのは1000 Names。ビート界隈では珍しいブルガリア発のDJユニット。コズミック〜ウォンキー・ヒップホップを行き来する自由過ぎるビート・メイキングが話題となり、Project Mooncircle、Black Acre、Eklektikと人気レーベルを渡り歩いています。Cokiyuのリミックスでは珍しくシンプルなテクノ・サウンドを披露！
Cokiyu “Your Thorn Remixes” feat.artist:
1000 Names
Casio Blaster and 99 Mistakes are what make up the Sofia, Bulgaria based broken beat instrumental hip-hop group 1000 Names. They’ve been around for a minute, making connections through like-minded myspace producers and J Dilla disciples.
The original 1000names sound was hip hop based; samples and loops underpinned by possibly the wonkiest beats in the scene. Take classic tracks Melonball Bounce or Beauty Surrounds You –one a mash-up of a vintage Sprite advert, the other of the theme from Born Free. In both cases the tracks start with a conventional loop that’s thrown totally off when a huge beat comes in that seems to be hooked to another groove entirely and yet totally fits. This is known to cause two physiological effects in the listener – one a broad smile of pleasure and surprise, the other a potentially painful whiplash in the neck caused by interrupted headnod.
This was a direction that they refined and distilled over several years to reach culmination on 2009’s Toys Room Combat longplayer on Eklektik, but since last year something else has come into the mix: they’ve come under the influence of the synthesiser. Or, more specifically, the sound of early 80s electrodisco. You can see it in the song titles: Saturn Race, Paradise Rings, Marz on Marz, Roket Loop…
They’ve always had a sci-fi element to their sound and to their graphics, but now it seems like it’s out of control. Yep, there’s no doubt – it’s 2010, and, from a concrete Communist tower block somewhere in Sofia, 1000names are taking off.
