From Shinji Arakis room in downtown Tokyo you can see cars, people and neonlights. Theres where he records his incredible compositions, surrounded by records and recording gear. Sometimes, it seems like the siren you can hear in a song wasnt recorded on purpose, but it has come in through the window while he was recording a vocal track.
The most respected voices of the country of the Rising Sun have already showed their respect for this promising youngster, one of the very best representatives of a new generation of Japanese sound geniuses who mix without any kind of prejudice pop, hip-hop beatz, dance music and the urban feeling of such an impersonal, claustrophobic city as Tokyo.
ANOTHER DOGs music is sometimes nocturnal and smoky, always dark, sexual and unsettling. He takes advantage of the tricks of dub, trip-hop and breakbeat to create a new sensation which joins frenzy and relax: its not easy to dance to this record, and you can bet its not an easy listening one, but theres something in it which makes it perversely attractive, seducttive and even elegant.
His broad influences range from LE MANS trip-hop flirtations to the classic French pop of France Gall or Katerine, krautrock, OASIS, THE VERVE, TRICKY, PORTISHEAD, St CHRISTOPHER or even WU TANG CLAN. As his idol Ben Watt, from EVERYTHING BUT THE GIRL, ANOTHER DOG loves pop, guitars and moving melodies, but his choice for future and technology proves too well that his dark, dangerous intensity can affect the listener as deeply as the most tender of the melodies.
These are his first three songs, recreated with the help of FLOORSCIENCE, another upcoming nippon project: a small advance of the greatness of what is yet to come, a tasty collectors item only available in a limited edition white coloured ten incher which is already provoking astonished reactions all over the place, in Europe and the USA. All the looks are turned towards his forthcoming records, and we can definitely advance his new songs are incredibly good.