DESCRIPTION:
Various ‎ Hub Opus Tokyo
Label - op.disc
Country - Japan
Released - 22.09.2009
http://www.discogs.com/Various-Hub-Opus-Tokyo/release/1878580

Hub Opus Tokyo, a double-CD compilation bearing ample samplings of its distinctive techno. Yes, the label's style is in one sense minimal—many cuts are stripped-back to skeletal beat structures and bass lines, and fragments of melodies, electronic noises, and samples—yet the label's artists still manage to spin endlessly inventive and captivating variations on the theme. Some of the contributors—Radiq, Dublee, Ditch, Aoki Takamasa, Takuya Morita, Ryo Murakami, and Dartriix, for example—have released previously on the label while others are newcomers. Intensifying the groove factor, some of the twenty-one tracks (most in the seven-minute range) sprinkle jazz spice over strutting minimal grooves, and dress up the material with percussive touches, claps, synths, electric piano noodling, and voice samples and edits.