Slow Children Playing

[Machine Translation] -Five Deez's real 1st album, "Slow Children Playing" - The debut album "KOOL" featuring Nujabes<Hydeout> remix of "Lattitude", which was sold out immediately in Japan, and featuring shing02. Five Deez's debut album "KOOL MOTOR", which included a remix of "Lattitude" by Nujabes<Hydeout> and featured shing02, has gone down in underground history. Since then, "Kool Motor" has been introduced as the first album in the Five Deez discography, but in fact, there was a real first album that brought the sound of Five Deez's fresh growth to fruition in the process leading up to "Kool Motor. Titled "Slow Children Playing" (note the American road sign), the album is a true testament to the time when the members of Five Deez met on the streets of Cincinnati and enjoyed making music to become hip-hop artists. It is as surely documented as an authentic photograph. The album is a fantastic example of the two main characters of the band: Pase Rock, who would later collaborate with nujabes on a number of albums, combining his rare, resonant voice with a versatile flow; and Fat Jon, who is conscious and sees philosophy as an important factor in his life, and whose fantastic beats are a perfect example of how to make the most out of your time in Cincinnati. It's a fascinating look at how kids from one city who aspire to be rap stars develop their own unique style. What kind of hip-hop loving kids were the Five Deez who created "Koolmotor"? This is what really excites us. Slow Children Playing is the result of their early impulses, and it is filled with the "charm that only an artist's early work can have" that many people can easily relate to.

-Five Deezの本当の1st album、"Slow Children Playing"-★日本盤のみのアナログが即売り切れだった"Lattitude"のNujabes<Hydeout>リミックスを収録し、shing02を迎えたデビューアルバム『KOOL MOTOR』がアンダーグラウンド史に残る名盤として刻まれたFive Deez。それ以降、Five Deezのディスコグラフィーはこの「Kool Motor」が1stアルバムとして紹介され続けることになるが、実はこの「Kool Motor」に至る過程のFive Deezが瑞々しい成長過程のサウンドを結実させた本当の1stアルバムが存在していた。Slow Children Playing(アメリカの道路標識でこの子供が遊んでいるので注意)というタイトルを冠したこの作品は、まさにFive Deezのメンバーがシンシナティーの街で出会い、ヒップホップアーティストを目指して音楽を楽しんでいる時間が時代を伝えるオーセンティックな写真のように確実に記録されている。その類い希な格ある響きの声とバーサタイルなフロウを兼ね備え、後に数々の作品をnujabesと共作することになるPase Rock、そしてコンシャスな性格で哲学を人生の重要なファクターととらえるFat Jonの幻想的なビート。ある街でラップスターを目指したキッズが自分たちだけのスタイルを築き上げる過程のとても興味深い作品です。あの「Koolmotor」を作り上げたFive Deezとはいったいどんなヒップホップ好きなキッズだったのか?こういうところに僕達は本当にわくわくさせられる。そして彼らの初期衝動が作り上げたこのSlow Children Playingは多くの人にとって親しみを感じやすい"あるアーティストが初期に作り上げたものにしか宿らない魅力"が充ち満ちています。