Tracklist
禅 = Zen | 8:40 | ||
浮 = Fu | 5:23 | ||
浴 = Yoku | 6:19 | ||
聖 = Sei | 3:38 | ||
排 = Hai | 4:56 | ||
宙 = Chuu | 8:48 | ||
界 = Kai | 5:57 | ||
創 = Sou | 6:15 | ||
飛 = Hi | 7:37 | ||
快 = Kai | 8:54 | ||
三 = San | 7:58 |
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- Amann Und Partner*Cover
- Prüfer*Cover
- EbiWritten-By, Producer
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![]() | 禅 = Zen CD, Album | Space Teddy – ST 007 | Germany | 1994 | Germany — 1994 | ||||
![]() | Zen 2×LP, Album | Space Teddy – ST 007 | Germany | 1994 | Germany — 1994 | Recently Edited | |||
![]() | Zen LP, Green; LP, Red; All Media, Album | Space Teddy – ST 007 | Germany | 1994 | Germany — 1994 | Recently Edited | |||
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- Edited 3 months ago
referencing 禅 = Zen (CD, Album) ST 007
EBI-Zen-Optic Eye-Light Side Of The Sun-The Ambush LP...The greatest trance albums ever made.
R.I.P. 2 out of the 4..Susumu Yokota & Jake Stephenson 🙏
All from 1994, the best year in electronic history.
Great years surrounding then...But, 1994 was peak. - Edited 5 months ago
referencing 禅 = Zen (CD, Album) ST 007
Zen & Ten are bonafide classics form the Golden Era. Truly mesmerizing and immersive in equal measures. Susumu was clearly a highly sensitive soul. I would also seek out his Metronome Melody as Prism, same vibe leaning slightly more to the house side. Another classic. 94/95 was truly incredible time for this music...some of the albums and vinyl from then is the stuff of legend. HI is quite simply irresistible...truly heavenly acid and in my top ten of ALL time. - One of my absolute favorite albums from my favorite musical year of 1994. Like a lot of techno of the time, the sound and percussion palette is pretty raw and pretty similar throughout, but what a mastery of rhythm, spaciousness, composition and emotion. The acid melodies run the gamut, from the classic trance sparkle of "Kai", to the slow burning "Fu", to the softly contemplative "Sei", which I wish was an hour long instead of only four minutes. This album absolutely belongs next to other 90's classics from F.U.S.E., Black Dog, Biosphere and David Morley as a wonderful explosion of intelligent techno emotion. Fingers crossed for some kind of a reissue, because more people definitely deserve to hear this.
referencing Zen (2×LP, Album) ST 007
I must confess that I did not know this album, but I'm so glad i stumbled upon it, its wonderful on so many levels.
Its ambient nature permeates throughout this stunning LP. Each track is wonderfully produced, sounding very well spaced out, with incredible layering, and a psychedelic hypnotic vibe.
The acid lines used throughout the album are truly amazing, taking you on an incredible journey through techno worlds. The whole concept is so simple, yet so complex all at the same time, whilst also feeling very cohesive, yet different.
Its also quite a decent chunk of vinyl and the sound is lovely and warm with good volume and dynamics too.
Top notch and well ahead of its time.- Edited 8 years ago
referencing 禅 = Zen (CD, Album) ST 007
The sixth track, "Chuu", sounds very much in line with Biosphere's early techno productions. Japanese arctic techno? haha - Edited 9 years ago
referencing 禅 = Zen (CD, Album) ST 007
So simple and beautiful, one of my favorite records . referencing 禅 = Zen (CD, Album) ST 007
The purity of the sounds and the simplicity of the sequencing is what make this record so utterly beguiling. I could say no more than that and the review would be as complete as it needs be, however, i will go further. This album (and the accompanying HI e.p.) had a timeless quality which was immediately obvious in '94 and has certainly stood the test of time some 18 years later.
The sound is uncluttered - not sparse, just not filled by unnecessary noise. Every track is x0x based, predominantly 303 and 606; and there's some unmistakable 727 for good measure. It's as if the distractions of other instruments and technologies have been removed and it benefits massively from it. If one were to make music and deliberately limit what could be used as a source - 'this one will be just 2 drum machines, 2 synths, 1 effect and an analogue sequencer' - this is the sound you might end up with. Of course that doesn't give any credit to Susumu for the blissful emotions that are conjured up by these tracks, the musicality or the immense talent it takes to achieve so much with so little.
I can imagine the tunes going down a storm in any venue be it the Mixmaster Morris' Oscillate ambient nights in the '90s, The Orbit's main room, your front room or a big club night now. Nor would they sound out of place as output from the BBC Stereophonic workshop in it's heyday.
With the benefit hindsight i feel safe saying that it is a high-point in the production of techno; that's techno in it's older guise when it encompassed all the many sub-genres that have stemmed from it - ambient, minimalism, acid house, trance, loop-based, tribalism, etc, etc. These genres all existed before but were pretty much undefined. As such this could be regarded as a point of convergence and divergence - i can't think of another release that encapsulates so many genres so well, not across the breadth of the album but in each individual track on it.
I couldn't recommend this release highly enough, you should seek it out and i'm sure you'll find it outshines many of its contemporaries and those that have come after.
It would be seminal if it were more widely known.
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