This album is awesome, so I figured I’d point it out in case you haven’t already heard it. This release has been out for a while – it’s not new, but it’s worth mentioning.

[Just going on raw probabilities, chances are you wouldn’t like Fennesz’s music because he is not photographed in glossy magazines brandishing guns, has not been shot 6 times, and does not star in a crappy movie coming out in which he states, “they can’t lock me up for sellin’ records” (or at least I’m unaware if he is). Nor does he resemble Britney in all her retarded glory.]

So anyway, what do you get when Fennesz essentially remixes his phenomenal “Endless Summer” during a live performance? Well, you get this recording, which took place at Shibuya Nest on Feb 9th, 2003. What’s presented here is one ~45 min piece that meanders all over Endless Summer.

Surely the word “remix” conjures up some DJ Crapola’s cut and paste restructuring of some Depeche Mode song in Garage Band. I use “remix” here to mean the following: Fennesz approaches”Endless Summer” from a conceptually different angle. The final result differs enough to stand on its own two feet. In addition, the album artwork features more of Jon Wozencroft’s amazing photography found on most Touch releases.

Since I’m a very busy and important man, it’s easier for me to copy and paste a summary from forcedexposure.com:

Japanese-only release on the newly developing Headz imprint, in a striking digipak designed by Jon Wozencroft. “Four years after his first performance in Japan in 1999 with Mego, this album is a solo live recording of his latest show in Tokyo. This recording features the full show that took place on February 9, 2003 at Shibuya Nest in Tokyo including the encore, and has been praised by many as the greatest laptop live show in music history. This album is officially approved by the Touch label in the UK, which Fennesz is now signed to. Listen to this mind blowing historical document where you can actually feel a packed club being overwhelmed by Fennesz`s cutting edge and radical pop sensibilities. With his participation on David Sylvian`s album Blemish (Sylvian is featured on Fennesz`s album Venice in return), the amount of international attention that Fennesz is receiving seems to be growing exponentially.

His attention is not growing linearly, it’s growing exponentially!! I’m not sure if it is a “mind blowing historical document”, like, say, the Declaration of Independence or Howard Stern’s autobiography, but it’s a great record nevertheless.