Hiroshi Watanabe & Víctor Santana & The force of Ki @ CR015

CHAVAL RECORDS 015: Ki

We are in front one of the most vital releases of Chaval Records discography. The new release of record label based in Carabanchel quarter faces a concept that we cannot see, but that gives us a lifetime. The force of Ki. That energy that emerges from the cosmos to breathe life to living beings, whether by air, land, water or the food we eat. Ki is therefore life.

Ki is the original power manifested since the creation of the universe, being our energy independent of time and space.

A new reference that hides in its back cover a monolith as representing the dawn of civilization. Wisdom loomed for the first time in our history with a simple form that nevertheless altered our brains and also introduced new knowledge that helped us surviving. One of those instructions, perhaps the most basic, is the use of tools. Knowledge, mystery and humanity. What comes to be the techno ultimately. The techno also gives us life.
If there is a society that knows the secrets and peculiarities of ki that is undoubtedly japanese people. Not for nothing, the international attraction of this new reference from the Madrid label has Japanese accent. It is the second time, since its founding in 2009, that Chaval Records features a Japanese among its grooves. If last year was the samurai Ken Ishii who accompanied Victor Santana in the EP Hyperborea, in this first reference of the year for Chaval Records is Hiroshi Watanabe the new protagonist of this new installment of our favorite label from Madrid.

Tracklist

1-Víctor Santana – Different Gates

Life is always opening doors. Victor Santana is testing new alternatives in this tracks This track that opens the release is openly house. A track full of ambivalent garage voices calling for both: war and love.

2-Víctor Santana – Manuela

A piano that sounds like a tribute from its early stages. The number 15 in the label’s discography is a very special release because one of his tracks is dedicated to the Victor Santana’s grandmother: Manuela. His shelter for many of the years of his life. The real motivator of the Dj and producer from Madrid. Orchestral arrangements for hemming a solemn track. All rise. Like his ki. Your ki.

3- Víctor Santana – She is my inspiration

«Music is my inspiration. Music is a language anyone and everyone can That understand. Music has no age. Music is energy «. Santana returns to move closer to the house in this track which talks about inspiration.

4-Víctor Santana – Different Gates (Hiroshi Watanabe remix)

In the first of two Watanabe remixes included in this new release, you can ou can hear some trance pulse that characterizes his discography. He decides to keep the strings from the original track in the background, but despite the changes, everything is still ringing in your site.

5-Víctor Santana – She is my inspiration (Hiroshi Watanabe remix)

Synthetic paths support this track that sounds so lysergic than previous remix, but with more intensity in their forms than the other. Some arrangements reminds some of the first tracks of Intelligence Dance Music.