House Once Upon A Time In Japan... Sound Of Vast is pleased to announce the release of a 2LP set of rare recordings by Hiroshi Matsui, one of the most important producers of Japanese house in the 90's, who participated in the "Once Upon A Time In Japan..." project and reissued his music at Studio Mule. 10 tracks including previously unreleased material from the first reissue! After epoch-making reissues such as "(Earth In) Blue" (2022) from Rush Hour and "Samba De Howa Howa" (2019) from Studio Mule, Japanese artist Hiroshi Matsui's album "A Hiroshi Matsui is a "professional musician" who has composed and arranged numerous commercial music/songs/pop songs since 1986 to the present. The songs on this album are dance music that he independently produced and released guerrilla-style in parallel with his activities as a professional musician.One of them, "Samba De Howa Howa", which was released in a limited press of 300 copies in 1992, was licensed to [King Street] and included in "Sounds Of Far East Dance Music - Compilation Vol 1" (1993), along with Soichi Underground house fans know that "Howa" was licensed to [King Street] and included in "Sounds Of Far East Dance Music - Compilation Vol 1" (1993), along with Soichi Terada's "Sun Shower" and other tracks. His releases became cult favorites in the second-hand market due to their content and rarity. The aforementioned reissue and "House Once Upon A Time In Japan..." (2015), supervised by Brawther & Alixkun, are also available. (2015), it was being revived on the contemporary floor. This album includes tracks that are being reissued for the first time, as well as previously unreleased treasures from his own "Want You! Records, and includes 10 tracks produced between 1991 and 2003.The album opens with "Crazy Love," a tear-jerking piano house anthem, and the breakbeat house banger "Call You Back," two tracks from the CD mini-album "Call You Back" released in 1991 on the major Japanese label Alfa Music, both of which are being reissued for the first time. The album opens with two songs that are being reissued for the first time. The first two tracks on this album, "Crazy Love" and the breakbeat house banger "Call You Back," are the first two tracks to be reissued. Little Bit Of Our Love" (1993) and "Super Love" (2003), featuring Japanese vocalist Suzi Kim, who also participated in "(Earth In) Blue" (1999), are full of euphoria reminiscent of the first golden age of house in the 1990s, while "Love Luv Rendez-vous" (1994) and "Dancing On Mars" (1994) are variants of early Chicago house.The now well-known anthem "Samba De Howa Howa" (1992) and the busy arrangement of the jacking acid house "Tsun-Ban-Tsun-Yeah" will drive even the current floor into a frenzy. The album closes with the long-awaited, previously unreleased "Love Me One More Time" (produced in 1993). While the songs on "A Love From Tokyo 1991-2003" clearly reference US house music of the same period, the melodic sense and compositional ability as a composer and arranger, which he has cultivated in his main job, are on display, and the album is full of individuality that sets it apart from the rest. It seems as if we have heard it somewhere before, but at the same time, it seems as if it is something completely new. In other words, this work is the source of a strange musical experience, as if looking back on a parallel past, and it is in this experience that we may find "love," which is the theme of his house works.
