Harmless sounds like the Happy Mondays doing a post-late-late night, early morning recording session in Ikebukuro. Taken from Molio Holi’s excellent full-length cassette Yopo, released in April 2021 on Everyday Ago, the track is all shakers, finger snaps, lazy tight bass, bongos, sixties-tinged psychedelic drones, blasted keys, and catchy call and response vocals with the most too-cool-for-school delivery this side of the Yamanote line. Secret Disco reworks the number to the 9'57" mark. With no additional production, the loping, 111 bpm ditty is extended for all its blissful worth.
credits
from Harmless Joking Edits,
track released August 18, 2022
Written, arranged, performed, recorded, mixed by Molio Holi
Remixed by Secret Disco
Mastered by Cristobal Urbina for See You Mastering
Soleil lunatique/Secret Disco, 2022
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