Sync You

As the early days of acid house is currently being rediscovered and acclaimed again worldwide, there is this under the radar album that a label called Scien which also released the more famous Tokyo Offshore Project (a project of Frankie Valentine, Simon Lovejoy, Kiyoshi Miyaura). Considered to be a masterpiece and also viewed with awe from DJs alike due to its rarity and premium price in the 2nd hand market. This album, Sync You produced by Kino-Moderno, will finally get the worldwide attention that it deserves with a proper 2020 reissue treatment! In 1990, Kino-Moderno produced the original 6 track album as a soundtrack for a world's first, acid video programme called VIDEO DRUG2 produced by video director, Hiroyuki Nakano. Sync You's 30th anniversary reissue edition also includes 7 additional tracks as bonus tracks that was unearthed which includes alternative versions of original tracks and unreleased material.

The album KINO-MODERNO/SYNC YOU was originally released by PLAY DIS /ASK KODANSHA 1990, also Remix 12inch has been released by label called scien (remix by Frankie Valentine and Simon Lovejoy) ,which is known for their famous release "Tokyo Offshore Project".

This extraordinary acid house & techno music of Kino-Moderno that was originally created with the assistance of a powerful sound treatment of a 3D recording system called BMC that makes it sound so refreshingly retro-future but with an undoubtedly 2020 twist when listening to it. While incorporating a binaural recording technique via dummy head and given an improvised digital remix treatment via a classic synthesizer, Synclavia 2, you can enjoy these powerfully penetrating tracks that sought a 3D audio, trip-like feel throughout. Kino-Moderno additionally attempted to experiment with many new emerging, different recording ideas such as the groundbreaking use of rapping, poetry-reading and synthetic voicing. Their album was quite experimental at the time but at the same time, very danceable as well. In recent years, Kino-Moderno's reassessment in both Europe and in the US has been quite considerable and throughout the world, it has been acclaimed as an illusory masterpiece of an album that was on many peoples list of albums that they wanted reissued. It is most definitely, an acid house classic album that was released way too early during the beginnings of the Japanese club music scene but luckily, it will soon get a new lease of life with this reissue!

When recording SYNC YOU, place a dummy head microphone in an anechoic room with 16 speakers,
The localization was played back on the speakers while moving back and forth and left and right with a SSL custom-made 3D panpot. The method of mixing it with BMC and recording it was adopted.

As a result, when listening to this CD with headphones, the listener's own ears become the same as the ears of the dummy head, and 3D recorded music can be reproduced in the brain.
Listen to this CD with headphones and you will experience a strong 3D effect!