Tool Box ‎– Doraemonton

Doraemonton is just average techno but this release had my hopes up for something different but it was just the same old cooler than cool Kazumi techno sound. I fell into buying this record from seeing the picture of the Doraemon on the sleeve and titling the tracks with Doraemon like terms. When I listened to the record I was hoping for at least one Doraemon sample or reference but there were no samples of anything Doraemon on this record. Both tracks just sound like some of the first few great Kazumi records but this time more watered down with average no thrills techno sounds making this release DJ filler. Dokodemo-doa is more like Dekodemo-boring! It is a looped disco string sound getting filtered with 2 bleepy synth stabs over each bar for the entire track and a not so great break down/build up. Takekoputa has this heard it before African marimba percussive loop that does not do anything but loop over and over again.

I guess the people at Kazumi (or Toolbox) wanted to make a dedication (or trick people into to buying this record) by releasing this record at the same time as the new Doraemon cartoon with its new voice actors premiered in Japan. Sumo wrestlers on Kazumi record sleeves are not cool anymore now that Kazumi are part of Pornostarmusic? They tricked me and kind of let me down by putting Doraemon on the sleeve and calling the record Doraemonton as it was a lame trick. I know the other people who bought this record only for the cover hoping for something interesting but got nothing new. I hope there is better stuff from Tool box and Kazumi in the future!