Third I Vision

about

You can call it downtempo, trip hop or headz, but it really is a way of hearing music that expresses the experiences and attitudes of many inner city kids or even better: of two guys outta Mannheim. From their first chat on during a party where they were both djing. Torsten Martens (Monophonic) and Tobias Schirmann (Whizcutz) discovered their common preferences for head-nodding beats, floating strings, deep bass lines, and warm-sounding key instruments. Soon after that, they decided to start a joint project apart from their solo activities, and now they present their first album as Third I Vision: "Somewhere There's Music". With "Somewhere There's Music" Monophonic and Whizcutz present a perfect accoustic companion for different kinds of moods. It sends you on a time-travelling journey into the past: back in time when 12"-vinyls from labels such as Mo' Wax, A Cup Of Tea, Pussyfoot or Ultimate Dilemma filled the crates of your local record dealers. The time where the variety of such a sound was categorized into "lounge". A decade where trip hop was downbeat and downbeat was headz (or the other way round!?). But an indication for a still active community in Japan is that the lp was already domestically released through the Tokyo-based label Argus. Additionally, a specail remix was offered by the beatmaniacs Boom Boom Satelites, and you can tell by the reviews what magic the sound still owns in the land of the rising sun: this kind of macic that is covered by the team’s sophi