Izu King Street, by Greeen Linez

Izu King Street

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1.	Chauffeur Driven 05:19	buy track
2.	Jewel of the City (feat. Yoshihiro Nakagawa) 05:04	buy track
3.	Dreams in the Mist (feat. Awa) 04:45	buy track
4.	Grafton Centre 04:57	buy track
5.	Windswept 06:14	buy track
6.	Landscape (feat. Awa) 04:34	buy track
7.	Intercontinental Zone (feat. Yoshihiro Nakagawa) 04:23	buy track
8.	Summer Somewhere 03:21	buy track
9.	Geography 06:32	buy track
10.	Dawn Escapes 05:56	buy track
11.	Ice Water Bay 04:37	buy track

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Izu King Street is the second album by Greeen Linez, following their popular and acclaimed debut Things That Fade - which itself was followed by two successful 12” EPs and extensive remix work. The remit for this album was simple: more melody, more complexity, more ambition and less sampling - taking the music both further out and further inward.

Moving on from the more straight-up dance-pop and BGM funk of their earlier work, this time Greeen Linez drew inspiration from artists such as Paul Hardcastle and Larry Heard, whose work straddles the boundaries between dance music, new-age/ambient and jazz - and most importantly, as was the aim for this album, creates a self-contained world in which the listener can lose themselves.

The duo also took much encouragement and motivation from the many like-minded artists whose paths they have crossed since their earlier releases, either through remix work or other collaborations: artists like Magic Touch, Sorcerer, Seahawks, Moon B, the idol group Especia (whose saxophonist Yoshihiro Nakagawa guests on two tracks on Izu King Street) and the Japanese producer and guitarist Awa (who once again collaborated on this album).

Izu King Street takes the listener on a journey through a fantasy realm of memories and dreams: from the neon-lit city streets and gleaming corporate spaces of the opening tracks, through the wistful dreamscapes at the album’s heart and on to the tropical heat-haze of the closing numbers. Rhythmically and sonically varied, but conceptually and atmospherically cohesive, and taking the established Greeen Linez sound to new and exciting places. Close your eyes, drift off and enjoy!

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released August 4, 2014

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Greeen Linez Tokyo, Japan

Greeen Linez is a collaboration between Chris Greenberg (Hong Kong in the 60s) & Matt Lyne (A Taut Line, Diskotopia co- founder). The project began in 2011 combining 90s dance music & R&B with 70s/80s jazz-funk and synthesizer-soundtrack influences. All this was filtered through the cocktail of city pop, fusion & supermarket muzak that Matt has been exposed to while living in Japan. ... more

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