![]() So I’m skipping the explainer track and dropping the needle, if you will, straight on the single. He is as well known, at this point, as he is well loved. Nujabes, né Seba Jun, is a cult favorite of lovers of both anime and luscious beats, having composed a good number of fan favorite tracks from the soundtrack to noted music freak and Big Jazz Boy Shinichirō Watanabe’s glorious Samurai Champloo, not to mention its theme song. ![]() ![]() Hiroto, (l.), with Nujabes, before the latter’s death. The founder of the Hydeout Productions label, Nujabes was the jazzy leading light of the Japanese hip hop scene before his death, at 36, in a 2010 traffic collision. The newly-deified god Uyama Hiroto (hereafter referred to merely as Uyama Hiroto or some derivative therefrom) is the friend and longtime collaborator (and maybe protégé, but I declined to ask, uh, Reddit to fact-check) of a fellow producer, the god Nujabes (hereafter referred to merely as Nujabes). Luckily, a cartoons and animation website is here to remedy this. There’s a generous breakdown of the album at The Music Ninja (?) and a nod at Hypebeast (…), but otherwise we’ve pretty much just got crickets. You probably wouldn’t know how badly you need to, though, because the Record Reviewing Industrial Complex, led, I guess, by a bunch of snobby folks with Pitchforks and also maybe the curmudgeonly wit of Robert Christgau, somehow failed almost entirely to notice its existence. ![]() Uyama Hiroto’s stupidly beautiful ‘Freeform Jazz.’ ![]()
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