Tanaka, Clive Y Su Orquesta

***NOW AVAILABLE ON CD!!! "Jet Set Siempre # 1 is a collaboration between Hokkaido, Japan's CLIVE TANAKA and another equally elusive group called Su Orquesta. As Get Off The Coast pointed out in the Best of Tapes post, Jet Set has two personalities, each with four songs: For Dance and For Romance. Dance is a series of finely crafted smooth vocoded pop pleas for affection and devotion, while Romance, though composed of clean airy instrumental mid-tempo jams, is a sort of pastoral departure from its bumping counterpart. The theme that unites both sides is a sort of very delicate yet restrained sense of intimacy, no doubt a side effect of hikikomori, of which Tanaka in fact suffers. Vocals on Jet Set are almost exclusively processed through vocoder; it's only in 'Neu Chicago' where Tanaka let's his guard down and we get a glimpse of what we can only assume is his voice. --Ric Leichtung, International Tapes . CD version features two bonus tracks! Imported from Japan.