3rd release from Steppin' Ahead.
Chew-Z's album "Strange Fiction" in stores now.
we uploaded some tunes from album.
http://www.myspace.com/steppinahead
http://www.myspace.com/bikeboybeats
iTunes store, Beatport and Juno records UK...soon.
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BIKEBOY has received high recognition among electronica fans and now he relaunches himself as Chew-Z with crazy dupstep beat!
The third release on Steppin' Ahead is a full-length album by Chew-Z.He has released works on underground electronica label Magic Book and Clay, but his talent fully flourished after coming across with dubstep. As he has been deeply into "music on dark side" such as King Crimson, Soft Machine, psychedelic and free jazz, his tracks are very unique and against norm. Being a mania of science fiction stories, his beats are mysterious but you sure can find sybaritic aspect of partying. It can be described as "insanity blasts silently." With this release, the audience will finally see the whole picture of this genius producer.
Track 1 immediately takes listeners to spacey world. Crazy geometric loops in Track 2 and 7 are nothing but dope. for Track 03 and 11Chew-Z has done really interesting spatial processing as if they soundin a closed chamber. Track 5 and 8 bring listeners to an unknown spaceof sound. The sound of Track 6 and 9 to which a Hip-Hop artist KK joined as a co-producer have phat sound. Track 10 is a highlight of this album; in the song turbulent sound of organ ascends higher and higher as if it reaches Miles Davis and SUN RA who are smiling in the heaven. Nothing is wasted here and you will see unique development ofdubstep in Japan.
01. Sleep 02. Vice 03. 2 Spaces
04. Magic Number 05. Taitan
06. Stoop Steppers 07. Tron
08. Taitan Version 09. Sky
10. The Sun Machine is Coming Down 11. Time
[Chew-Z Biography]
With influences by numerous kinds of music include abstract hip-hop,underground hip-hop, electronica, post rock, progressive rock, German techno, psyche and free jazz, he started to produce under the name "BIKEBOY". In 2005, he released his first album "A Fragmentary Passageof Life" on CLAY which won extremely good reaction with its unique sense of beauty. He then started to do collaborative works as well and joined compilation albums released on electronica/post rock labelssuch as Communedisc, Clay and Magicbook as "mills" which is a ambient post rock band. Currently he performs at parties such as scuba, BSN!, Nakameguro Dub. The artists he co-performed include Goth-Trad,?K?O, DJ Ken One, DJ Quietstorm and Nomad. In 2009, he released an album titled "Strange Fiction" which fully features dubstep sound. At the same time, he changed his name to Chew-Z and made his second debut.
