“I had a feeling that I was going to like the album as soon as I heard the first song. I thoroughly enjoyed the CD and would definitely recommend it to others.”
by J. Smith

ABEL OKUGAWA
Dance Like A Speaker

Within the accompanying CD booklet of Abel Okugawa’s Dance Like A Speaker, you’ll find a figure walking the streets with a speaker for a head. Are they a physical manifestation of the beats running through the artist’s own mind, dark and cavernous, the subwoofer of the subconscious vibrating with rhythms that hypnotize and cause involuntary head nods? (more…)

Issue #20.51 :: 12/16/2008 - 12/22/2008
Bright lights, big beats from Nelson County

BY JOHN RUSCHER

Abel Okugawa’s Dance Like a Speaker doesn’t sound like a product of rural Virginia. Although Okugawa is the recording engineer at Nelson County’s Monkeyclaus Recording Studio, his ethereal samples and hip-hop-leaning rhythms seem more appropriate amidst the dizzying bright lights of New York than the rollicking foothills along Route 151. (more…)

All lovers of nice Downtempo, Indietronics and Leftfield HipHop inna Anticon.-style watch out as the Roseland-based producer Abel Okugawa recently released his new album “Dance Like A Speaker” via Avon Sound Recordings - a fifteen track longplayer jam-packed with foggy HipHop beats, dense, score’esque atmospheric instrumental tunes and a few vocal joints that’ll be highly appreciated for sure. Crisp production and excellent mastering are understood, nice booklet artwork with special printing techniques comes on top, so this one is recommended to music and art connaisseurs the same.

From : Nitestylez.de

Dance Like a Speaker

I have put together a 10 Minute Sampler MP3 of the album Dance Like a Speaker.

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There will be 200 Hand Printed, One-Of-A-Kind, Limited Edition CD Packages, available November 15th. The CD package includes a 12 Page Booklet featuring the original series of artworks by Corry Grider of NYC, and the most precious CD with 15 Tracks of Abel Okugawa’s latest music, all wrapped up in a Hand Screen Printed Cover Sleeve. The Cd is being finished now.

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