Description
What’s happening in the streets? This right here, a celebrated engineer Yas Inoue and Dj Takaya Nagase come together in the studio and rework the hard to find Voltage Brothers rare groove jam “Happening In the Streets” from 1978 (produced by Eugene McDaniels) with a cleverly put together edit with crafty loops, filters, effects and sonically tweaking it to perfection. They’ve created a perfect dance floor masterpiece already championed by Louie Vega, Joe Claussell, Spinna, Mike Dunn, and Rich Medina. This choon has everyone in anticipation for it’s release.
Japanese sound engineer Yas Inoue, based in New York began his career in the world renowned Maw Studios in the late 90s and has engineered for producers such as Masters At Work, Patrick Adams, Leroy Burgess, and Randy Muller contributing to the creation of various New York house and disco hits.
Takaya Nagase, a New York based Japanese Dj started as an A&R for Japanese record label Soundmen On Wax. He learned and studied under the great David Mancuso of the Loft Party NYC and later held his own Joy parties along with other Loft members. Having had regular gigs at Club Shelter from 2006 to 2007 and at Club Output from 2017 until the closing in 2019, he built his dj chops and now currently djs at New York City’s top venues such as Le Bain, Good Room and Nowadays along with monthly shows on the famed Lot Radio in Brooklyn.
Together they are Domo Domo and with their first project on Vega Records they are on their way to becoming New York household names in the dance music industry. Big tip for the Jazz dance heads this one.
The ‘Domo Rework 7″ edit’ is topped and tailed with some DJ friendly filtering which works in the mix. On the B side is a DJ Tool that features just the filtered parts. Both mixes are only available on vinyl and are exclusive to this limited 7″. This perfectly accompanies the 12″ versions of this release and it is great fun mixing up all the different versions.
Little known fact – The Voltage Brothers ‘Happening In The Streets’ was sampled by C.V.O. (AKA Glenn Underground) on his track ‘City People’ that was released on Balance back in 1995 and these versions by Domo Domo gives a subtle nod to that too. Executive producer Louie Vega.
Notes: Record is brand new unplayed. The vinyl has been graded as VG+ because there are some surface marks/light scratches on the B side that have been made by the card sleeve. Photo supplied on request.
Tracklist:
A – Happening In The Streets (Domo Rework 7″ Edit) (4:20)
B – Happening In The Streets (DJ Tool) (3:28)
