London-based “Loud Ambient” duo Floating World Pictures conclude their 2-part series for dublab with a 2hr mix from Raimund Wong, drawing extensively from the lineage of electroacoustic and early sampling-based music from Japan.

Featuring some of the country’s earliest musique concréte pieces from 1950s up to recordings from this decade, it is an exploration of active/passive listening music that, through utilising the manipulation of recorded sound, discusses and dissects how we interact with our surroundings and the wider cultural sphere.

The selection is augmented by exclusive new cassette 4-track pieces by Rai made using field recordings from Japan made by Akihide Monna, and tape loops generated in free improvisations.  FWP is Chestnutt (Snapped Ankles) & graphic/sound artist Raimund Wong; they are joined by Alabaster DePlume, Danalogue (The Comet is Coming), members of Southbank Gamelan Players and Bo Ningen amongst others on their debut album released in May on Friendly Recordings.

TRACKLIST:
Interlude 1: tape piece w/ Akihide Monna recordings
Takehisa Kosugi  Catch Wave
Akifumi Nakajima   Sans Titre-6 (Water 1990)
Susumu Yokota   I Am Flying
Aube   Hymn
Haruomi Hosono   Asatsuyu
Mkwaju Ensemble   Lemore
Toru Takemitsu   Vocalism Ai
Sugai Ken   Suzunarikibushi
Interlude 2: tape piece w/ Kohhei Matsuda, Betamax & Clive Bell loops and Monna recordings
Inoyamaland   Candy (alt.)
Toru Takemitsu   Water Music
Hiroki Sasajima and Eisuke Yanagisawa   East Awazaki
Yoshio Ojima   Esplanade(LIVE)
Oscilation Circuit   Circling Air
Eitetsu Hayashi   バクオン (Roar)
Ryuichi Sakamoto   The ‘Dreaming’
Joji Yuasa   Music for the Main Pavilion of the Okinawa Oceanic Expo
Akira Ito   Essence of Beauty
Toshimaru Nakamura, Tomoyoshi Date, Ken Ikeda   Balcony II
Mamoru Fujieda   The Art of Fugue: Version II
Haruomi Hosono   3.6.9
Makoto Moroi   Shōsanke
Interlude 3:  Rai Wong and Kohhei Matsuda improvisation on A Record of Living Beings 9/3/22
Yoshio Ojima   #02 (Airy Walks)
Aube and Zbigniew Karkowski   Mutation
FUJI||||||||||TA   Kōmori 1

Toshiro Mayuzumi   Campanology For Electronic Music