LOW TENSION by MANABU NAGAYA & SOICHI TERADA

repress in plain sleeve Collaborative project by Manabu Nagay and Soichi Terada. Pressed Loud and Limited on a 180 gram vinyl 12" - Check!Utopia Records is the anticipated new label project by Alexander Bradley in collaboration with Soho record store Phonica, set to unearth a diverse range of music, from official re-releases and remastering of obscurities to contemporary and cutting edge club and home listening music. Touching on Jazz, Techno, House, Ambient, Disco and Boogie through to left-field Cosmic, Balearic Soul and Rock. The First release comes in the form of an essential ambient Japanese house track by Legendary producers Manabu Nagayama and Soichi Terada. This highly sought after version of Low Tension originally released on the 'La Ronde' EP on BPM Records Japan in 1991, has been remastered for single release for the first time. Also featured, a stripped back rework by cult Japanese producer Yukihiro Fukutomi and Bradley himself with an extended deep, dubby and melodic Utopian mix. The mythical deep house works of Japanese producers such as Nagayama and Terada have become online folklore with the latter's production for Nami Shimada entitled 'Sunshower' (featuring Larry Levan mix) a holy grail for house heads.