Dokaka, is a one manned voice, no effect, no auto-tune, no edit, no sampling, DIY human synthesizer. Most will remember him as the Japanese beatboxer whose vocal only reinterpretations of Led Zeppelin, Slayer, the Rolling Stones, and many others gained cult status when his mp3’s went viral. The sensation was enough to attract the attention of Björk who incorporated his unusual skill into her 2004 Medúlla album. Now in 2009 Dokaka has recorded his first album of original material ‘HUMAN INTERFACE’ which is now available for the first time outside of Japan. The album includes 17 hours of vocal insanity multi-tracked into 88 muttered micro tracks.
| ALBUM PREVIEW |
| TRACKLISTING |
01 Introduction[Ketsu Gyunyu] 0:36
02 Ha Ta Gi La To 2:46
03 Future 0:15
04 Yours Is Mine 2:02
05 Childhood Jingle1 0:05
06 Vostok 0:43
07 Gentei 0:12
08 HOSHINOxTASHIRO 0:54
09 Childhood Jingle2 0:07
10 Dance Dance Dance 2:38
11 10Mins 0:07
12 Mancity 1:23
13 Dobu 0:06
14 Pico Pico 0:55
15 Mega Jingle 0:15
16 PRGonchiki 1:40
17 Machigauna Jingle 0:07
18 PRGonigokko 1:27
19 Sowa Sowa Jingle 0:14
20 Hi Score 1:30
21 Hop Step Junp 0:17
22 [INN]Yadoya[Welcome!] 0:29
23 Various Songs Ever Jingle 0:08
24 Neu Wave 2:40
25 Qestion 1 0:10
26 S.A.T.O 2:05
27 Dekitah 0:12
28 Where You Are 1:12
29 Your Docs Jingle 0:05
30 Shadowii 0:47
31 Tom 0:11
32 Deutsch(Sausage) 1:33
33 He Has Trapped Jingle 0:22
34 Himalayas 0:50
35 Childhood Jingle3 0:06
36 Sala 0:46
37 DKK Speaking Jingle 0:08
38 Lrlr 0:38
39 30Mins 0:15
40 Verb 1:19
41 Coffee Break 0:11
42 Ahaha(Lol) 0:09
43 Yamada 3:19
44 Half Time Declaration 0:25
45 Santimo 2:33
46 Special Time 4 U 0:09
47 Dreaming 0:19
48 Mother Nation 2:35
49 Out Of Code Jingle 0:09
50 Densha 0:24
51 Onaka Ippai Jingle 0:07
52 40Mins? [Unsure Jingle] 0:12
53 I Don't Know 1:35
54 Qestion 2 0:08
55 Fy08 Jingle 0:21
56 3% For Nothing 0:36
57 Sabaku 0:12
58 Kaitoku Jingle 0:08
59 I Was Neet 1:02
60 Grats 0:15
61 Lost In Galaxy 0:14
62 Stars Striking 0:10
63 Hayabiki 0:58
64 Childhood Jingle4 0:05
65 Tekoko 0:33
66 Daijobu 0:12
67 Beyond The Universe 1:02
68 Answer Now! 0:10
69 Obachan Jingle 0:29
70 Oil Selling 1:17
71 Populay Jingle 0:24
72 Bela 0:18
73 50Mins 0:12
74 Neko Shiritori 2:47
75 0011 0:19
76 Minato Kaze 2:26
77 Childhood Jingle5 0:15
78 Obara 1:46
79 Sekibun 0:17
80 Namae 0:49
81 Enc Jingle 0:28
82 Popopo Is Coming 0:55
83 An Ahtletic In USSR 0:48
84 Hurry Jingle 0:05
85 Kanda 0:47
86 Sotokasiko 0:07
87 Rest In Peace 3:10
88 Outro 0:30
| REVIEWS |
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| INPRESS |
"It's probably around the time of the earnest chugging groove of Sala, track 36 of Japanese lunatic Dokaka's 88 track debut album Human Interface (Dual Plover), that the first seeds that you may be losing touch with reality really begin to take hold. It's not necessariy its musicality, or it's R&B groove, something it shares with the one minute nineteen Verb four tracks on, it's that they're surrounded by some of the most curious and schitzo attempts at music that you've ever heard. This is sheer lunacy, the kind of crazy obsessive outsider genius that is all too rare. The music is fine, a myriad of genres, quite experimental, carefully structured, short sharp and punchy, with most tracks clocking in at just over a minute. There's a cartoony feel to Dokka's blend of rock, pop, r&b, torch ballads and bad 80's memories. But that may because he's created this whole damn thing with his voice. He's famous for his vocal only reinterpretations of Led Zeppelin, Slayer, and the Rolling Stones, though Bjork also enlisted his services for her own experiments with vocal music on her 2004 Medúlla album. Human Interface is his debut solo release and whilst sharing a similar manic weirdness with Mike Patton's Adult Themes for voice (Tzadik), he also delves into highly musical areas that are nothing short of jaw dropping. Perhaps this is the evolution of beatboxing, a one man barbers shop quartet attacked by a rubber lipped banshee. Once you normalise this kind of lunacy you're in trouble." - BobBakerFish
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| LE SON DU GRISLI |
"Sur un premier album (à rallonge) qu'il est plus sain d'écouter en plusieurs fois, Dokaka poursuit dans la chanson surtout pas comme les autres : reprenant hier des morceaux de Led Zeppelin ou des Rolling Stones ou répondant à l'invitation de Björk sur l'enregistrement de Medúlla, il fait exploser sur Human Interface tous les présupposés et tous les fondamentaux.
En humand beatbox pas comme les autres non plus, le Japonais overdubbe à loisir (et même souvent plus que de raison) et fabrique une musique délirante influencée par toutes sortes de variétés (pop, hip hop, soul, funk, génériques télé, intermèdes) dont l'efficacité trouve sa force dans le caractère ludique de ses expérimentations. Tour à tour incongru, fou, naïf ou excessif, Dokaka relativise ses anecdotes instrumentales avec une fureur contagieuse et enivrante. En DJ de bouche et sans disque aucun, il met à chaque fois le feu à ses plagiats plus ou moins volontaires et sa folie suffit à faire qu'on le recommande."
TRANSLATION:[On the first album (extending) it is healthier to stream several times, continues Dokaka especially in the song like no other: yesterday containing pieces of Led Zeppelin or the Rolling Stones and at the invitation of Björk about saving Medúlla, he blew on Human Interface all assumptions and all the fundamentals.
In humand beatbox like no other not, the Japanese overdubbe leisurely (and often more than necessary) and makes a delirious music influenced by all sorts of varieties (pop, hip hop, soul, funk, TV themes, interludes) whose effectiveness is its strength in the playfulness of his experiments. Alternately incongruous, crazy, naive or excessive Dokaka relativize his anecdotes with instrumental fury contagious and intoxicating. In DJ mouth without any disk, it starts every time the fire to his plagiarism more or less voluntary, and his madness is enough to recommend it.]
| ROCK A ROLLA |
| A DECOUVRIR ABSOLUMENT |
"Dokaka est un artiste vocal japonais absolument époustouflant !
Pas d’effets, pas d’auto-tune, pas de sampling, pas d’edit… Dokaka est un synthétiseur humain totalement Do It Yourself !
Beatboxer culte déjà repéré par le passé pour ses reprises incroyables de Led Zeppelin, Slayer ou des Rolling Stones qui ont envahi le net sur l’ensemble des réseaux sociaux bien connus de tous. C’est de cette façon d’ailleurs qu’il avait été repéré par Bjork qui l’a immédiatement sollicité pour son album Medulla
Human Interface, le tout premier album de Dokaka, est sorti sur le label d’un autre hurluberlu génial. Dual Plover est en effet le label de l’australien Lucas Abela qui, sous le pseudonyme de Justice Yeldham, délivre des performance live d’une intensité inouïe au cours desquelles il joue de la « vitre amplifiée », terminant généralement son show la bouche et le visage en sang au fur et à mesure que la vitre en question s’est effritée.
Le style de Dokaka est unique et s’éloigne relativement de l’école des beatboxers du hip hop notamment parce qu’il enregistre ses vocalises en multi-piste, superposant parfois jusqu’à 20 pistes de voix et de borborygmes comme autant d’instruments.
Tout a commencé pour lui lorsqu’enfant il accompagnait les musiques de ses programmes TV préférés par un chant inarticulé tenant plus du bourdonnement guttural que du chant proprement dit. Dés l’âge de 6 ans, il avait déjà la démarche d’enregistrer ses efforts vocaux sur un petit magnétophone à cassette. Plus tard, adolescent, il joue de la batterie dans un groupe de rock et c’est lorsque le bassiste fait faux-bond pour un concert et qu’il le remplace haut la main en vocalisant ses parties de basse tout en assurant son poste de batteur que tout a réellement commencé. Encouragé par le chanteur du groupe époustouflé par ce qu’il venait d’entendre et de vivre, Dokaka entrevoit la possibilité de faire de son talent un projet artistique à part entière et se lance.
Human Interface est loin d’être un long catalogue démonstratif du potentiel et de la technique de Dokaka ce qui aurait pu vite tourner à l’indigeste et à l’ennui… La musicalité est clairement au rendez-vous tout comme l’humour et les clins d’œil multiples dans les directions les plus diverses dont bien sur ses héros d’enfance et de la TV… Un album incontournable dans le genre, revigorant et réussi de bout en bout !"
TRANSLATION:[Dokaka is a Japanese voice artist absolutely amazing!
No effects, no auto-tune, no sampling, no edit ... Dokaka synthesizer is a fully human Do It Yourself!
Beatboxer worship already identified in the past for its incredible times of Led Zeppelin, Slayer or the Rolling Stones stormed the net on all social networks are well known to all. In this way, moreover, he had been spotted by Bjork, who immediately asked for her album Medulla
Human Interface, the first Dokaka album is released on another scatterbrained genius. Dual Plover is indeed the label of the Australian Lucas Abela, who under the pseudonym of Justice Yeldham, delivers a live performance of extraordinary intensity in which he plays the "glass amplified, usually ending his mouth and show the the bloody face gradually as the glass in question has eroded.
Dokaka style is unique and relatively away from the school of hip hop beatboxers particularly because it captures their vocalizations in multi-track layering sometimes up to 20 tracks voice and rumbling as instruments .
It all started for him lorsqu'enfant he accompanied the music of his favorite TV shows with a song taking more than inarticulate guttural buzzing that the song itself. At the age of 6 years, he had the step up its efforts to record voice on a small cassette. Later as a teenager he played drums in a rock band and it was when the bassist is false leap to a concert and he replaces handily in vocalizing his bass parts while ensuring its position drummer that everything has really started. Encouraged by the singer of the group amazed by what he had heard and live Dokaka sees an opportunity to make his talent an art project in itself and starts.
Human Interface is far from a long list of potential demonstration and technical Dokaka which could quickly turn the stodgy and boring ... The musicianship is clearly to go along with humor and winks in multiple directions including the most varied of course his childhood heroes and TV ... An essential album in the genre, invigorating and successful end to end!]