Before Christmas Tokyo label Mule Musiq launched Studio Mule an experimental sub-label, providing a festive gift which we all had to wait a while to play with.

Their third offering is ‘Carnivale’, featuring Miyako Kouda. The saturated record is a revival of Japanese 80’s dance classic ‘Carnaval’, by Taeko Ohnuki, coming out all those years ago in 1980, on RCA records. The rehashing brings with it new rolling hats, which compliment the energy that only Studio Mule could bring with their in-depth knowledge of Japanese Nu-Wave and Nu-Disco.

The EP boasting dance and extended edits are the work of Kuniyuki Takahashi, the only regular fixture in the new Mule project, collaborators like Kouda come and go.

Distributed by Cologne label Kompakt, the dance edit plays homage to the original, with the dreamy extended edit on the flip providing a more club-friendly house version, according to Takahashi.

Buy: Vinyl

Words: Will