Sho Fukamachi Online

Since the discussion has turned to matters of VELFARRE, I thought it appropriate to upload the “VELFARRE snow club mix” of TRF’s classic “Winter Grooves”.

This was the heyday of not only TRF but VELFARRE itself. They would have been good times. Would have been nice to be there, in the Tokyo winter of Feb ‘95.

This mix was only available with the Maxi CD Single of Masquerade, another brilliant song off their masterpiece “dAnce to positive” album. Over 10 years later, it’s still an absolute classic, and hasn’t aged a bit. I have bought maybe 5 copies of this album over the years, losing and scratching one and replacing it with another. I have first prints of all the singles. It is pure genius and I still listen regularly.

Anyway, download the song here.

UPDATE: I mean jesus, just look at some of these tracks – they’re all from dAnce to positive:

2 ＳＥＥ　ＴＨＥ　ＳＫＹ
3 ｍａｓｑｕｅｒａｄｅ！

5 ＣＲＡＺＹ　ＧＯＮＮＡ　ＣＲＡＺＹ
6 ＤＥＳＴＩＮＹ　ＴＯ　ＬＯＶＥ

11 ＥＮＧＡＧＥＤ

12 ＯＶＥＲＮＩＧＨＴ　ＳＥＮＳＡＴＩＯＮ
13 ＯＶＥＲＮＩＧＨＴ　ＰＩＡＮＯ　ＤＲＥＡＭ

14 Boy Meets Girl
15 samui yoru dakara

All these absolute classics on one album; who could deny that dAnce to positive is one of the best albums of the 1990s – if not all time?

This album was trf’s Faces Places. There is no filler, every single track is brilliant. From beginning to end it blows you away. I doubt it can ever be beaten, ever, by any dance act anywhere in the world.

If you can’t tell by now, I love this album almost without equal; it sits proudly in my top 5 or maybe even top 3 albums of all time in terms of signficance; it is fantastic. For reference the other two albums in the top 3 are probably globe’s Faces Places and Pop Will Eat Itself’s 1990 album The PWEI Cure For Sanity. If it had to be top five, you could add They Might Be Giant’s Lincoln and “animation soundtracks i heard in 1996 onwards” to that list – oh and the rest of globe’s albums, hahaha ..

Listening to it now, it can still take me back. I’m sitting in my parent’s car, it’s winter in Adelaide, listening to ENGAGED as I drive Chloe and her little sister home. Or I’m driving to work at a service station listening to FUNKY M, waiting for the cool drums breakdown. Every song a memory. I can map out my whole life according to the songs I was listening to at the time. Right up to the present. Just one man has been responsible for about 70% of the songs that actually matter to me.

TK was 36 years old when he made this album. Jesus fucking Christ.

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