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Acronymic globetrotter trio Head wear are the mixed efforts of, to be able, Japan’s Haruomi Hosono, Germany’s Uwe Schmidt (a.k.a. Atom Center), and New York’s Tetsu Inoue. The group’s on-again/off-again collaborations need to day created two CD-only produces, each combining components of ambient, techno, electro, jazz, pop, lounge, and exotica. Sometimes demanding and constantly interesting, both albums quantity among all three performers’ finest latest releases, each effectively fusing Hosono’s mastery of offbeat pop with Schmidt’s bizarre rhythmic frameworks and Inoue’s elegant, appealing digital acousmatics. The group’s self-titled debut premiered on Schmidt’s Rather Interesting label in 1995. A visionary and easy electronic fusion having a greatly improvisational experience, the Compact disc was reissued by Hosono’s Tokyo-based Daisyworld imprint in 1996, as well as the success from the disk in Japan resulted in a follow-up, DSP Vacation, documented and released in 1998. DSP Vacation demonstrated a deeper concern for accessibility-probably powered as much from the popularity from the 1st disk in Japan as by each performers growing desire for porting abstract digital audio experiments right into a pop framework-although that’s barely a criticism; the disk reaches least its predecessor’s equivalent.