{"id":297,"date":"2016-04-14T16:05:41","date_gmt":"2016-04-14T14:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ourlabelrecords.com\/wordpress\/?p=297"},"modified":"2017-04-19T22:18:53","modified_gmt":"2017-04-19T20:18:53","slug":"the-story-of-we-got-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ourlabelrecords.com\/?p=297","title":{"rendered":"The Story of … We Got One"},"content":{"rendered":"

In 2004 my dear friend Nicolas Colin had a special birthday present for me. He had told me about this amazing Japanes Funk-Band before, and in June he presented me 4 of their 7\u201c releases, which along with their albums where only released in Japan. Another dear friend of mine, Keb Darge, was playing a few of theirs already and in 2005 he played me a demo Osaka Monaurail<\/a> had sent him to London. I loved the new tracks. Fast forward to late 2006:<\/p>\n

\"OsakaMonaurail_liv_800w\"<\/a>Our Label Records had two first releases quickly sold out and a thing called Myspace was spreading on the internet. It was my chance to get in contact with Osaka Monaurail, because there was a song on that demo that I just loved and I wanted to make sure it would become the next Our Label 45. And Ryo Nakata, the bandleader, got back to me quite promptly and liked the idea of doing a 7\u201c release of the new album just released in Japan called \u201eReality For The People\u201c. He sent me a copy so I could choose. Once I knew which song I wanted, he told me about a little obstacle. Osaka Monaurail (who had been on tour in Europe for the first time in 2005) were looking for a European label to release their latest album outside of Japan. And in order for Our Label Records to get a license for a 45, that label would have to agree to not have that particular song as a single themselves, and\u00a0also agree to any another label to have ANY of the songs of that album (because usually, if you have a label, why would you do that?). Unfortunately, at that time, Our Label wasn\u2019t ready to handle a full album release, and Ryo also told me about a label that was already interested in the album. I knew I had to be quick, if I wanted my dream 45 to become reality.<\/p>\n

\"Ryo<\/a>So I packed a promo-cd and sent it to Duesseldorf to\u00a0another dear friend, Henry Storch, to have a listen and called him to tell him about the band, and we were lucky to have our businesspartners and buddies at Unique<\/a>. They liked the album and we got to release \u201eWe Got One (A Show)<\/a>\u201c on 7\u201c Vinyl<\/a> in 2007, the very same year I organized and realized a concert of this\u00a0international band for the first time in my then hometown Bremen. The then rather unknown Osaka Monaurail played a sold-out show at the Lagerhaus, Bremen, and I had my second dream come true.<\/p>\n

On a sidenote: Back in Bremen a year later they would play the longest show of their band history, with over two hours of funky and soulful music.<\/p>\n

Listen and I am sure you’ll agree that this tune HAD to be released on vinyl 45.<\/p>\n

You can still get one (or a DJ bundle) of the remaining few copies in Our Vinyl Shop<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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In 2004 my dear friend Nicolas Colin had a special birthday present for me. He had told me about this amazing Japanes Funk-Band before, and in June he presented me 4 of their 7\u201c releases, which along with their albums where only released in Japan. Another dear friend of mine, Keb Darge, was playing a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":353,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[181,8],"tags":[99,199,116,169,138,197,198],"class_list":["post-297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-the-story-of","tag-osaka-monaurail","tag-reality-for-the-people","tag-ryo-nakata","tag-story-of","tag-tokyo","tag-unique-records","tag-we-got-one"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ourlabelrecords.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/WeGotOne_Turntable.jpg?fit=500%2C330&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7rpNx-4N","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":331,"url":"https:\/\/ourlabelrecords.com\/?p=331","url_meta":{"origin":297,"position":0},"title":"Osaka Monaurail – Signed, Dealed, Delivered… \/ Supershine #9","author":"Tom","date":"14th November 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Japan's finest funk band release their new 45 on Our Label Records. 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