Beat vacation
I’m thrilled to report that my new album, Beat vacation will be released on April 25th 2007 on Tokyo Fun Party.
Digiki - Beat vacation
FUN7306
Tokyo Fun Party
4/25/2007
01. Kraftpunk
02. Cease & Desist
03. Desktop Music
04. Paper Bits
05. Wikifi
06. Non Plus
07. Skip Skap
08. Pancaked Again
09. Song For Morizo
10. Beat Vacation
Available on CD
Amazon HMV Tower Records
Available as digital download (soon)
iTunes Beatport Napster eMusic Musicnet
Beat vacation is my proper first solo album (my previous release Kitchen was more of a collaboration thing - give it a try) and features close to zero guest (a few sampled friends here and there and that’s about it).
It is the first album I record in Tokyo and my first album on TFP and I’m proud of it. It was recorded in 2005-2006 and I think it stands on its own right and is still quite relevant today. The TFP press release says something like a catchy yet intelligent album, something you can dance to and play at home. Time will tell, but this is what classic albums are made of. I can’t say classic, but I am pretty confident that it will be regarded as a milestone in the Digiki sound.
If you know our party Juliana in Tokyo or if you know Polypunk, this album will maybe surprise you but will somehow feel complementary, an extension. This is just the beginning, the next album will be very different, but it was important for me to make an album like Beat vacation. I hope you’ll enjoy the result.
PS:
I’ll post a trailer for the album and information about Desktop music, the first single, soon. Watch this page !
In the meantime, listen to some songs off Beat vacation on Myspace.
April 13th, 2007 at 3:53 am
Tu sais toujours pas faire un noeud de cravate ??
Je taquine, c’est pas ça le plus important… j’ai hâte de le trouver en import à la fnac ! Héhéhé
April 13th, 2007 at 10:30 am
am so happy to hear it’s coming out! and love the cover!
April 14th, 2007 at 3:06 pm
Bravo pour la pochette, le style et la musique.
April 17th, 2007 at 12:01 am
merci
ca fait plaisir
April 25th, 2007 at 9:30 am
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June 28th, 2007 at 9:05 am
[...] I’m thrilled to report that my album, Beat vacation is now on sale on iTunes store worldwide and at colette in Paris. [...]
September 17th, 2007 at 12:58 pm
[...] It took me a long time to accept that I was, after all, a musician, and as I am preparing to enter a recording phase in late 2007 / 2008 I’m still not sure I am finally cool with it. I try my best though. I never played any instruments (you play the studio ! Brian Eno would say, maybe), I grew up in a city with great music and surounded by an amazing record collection (from Kraftwerk to afghan radio recording to jazz), later I went to meet and connect with impossibly talented musicians (you know who you are), and my experiments with sounds led me to achieve a collection of songs, an album and now, maybe, I am actually a peer, and people introduce me as a musician and I give interviews and talk about my music. Things could be worse, I know, people could actually write me as a DJ turned musician (I had to correct my friend Momus the last time he introduced me). I have never liked the term DJ (or maybe in a old school, radio way), and I have always been more interested in the way sounds are structured together than in sweaty dancefloors, despite the amazing and unexpected success my (non) DJing has been getting lately. [...]