The people here who follow my uploads (thank you all!) have surely noticed that I upload a lot of music from 2005–2009. I have said before that I have spent a lot of years gradually and steadily building up my collection. However, one reason I have a lot of music from that time frame is because I spent those years doing amateur-quality Japanese music journalism as a side-job. I sucked at it and I’m not proud of the quality of reviews I wrote and all, heh, but one nice perk is that it allowed me to get a lot of Japanese music for free. I got paid more in free albums than I got actual money for my work. I’m not complaining about that though; I would have just spent the money on the albums anyways, lol.
MARS by cargo is one of the albums I got under those circumstances, and in fact I remember it being one of the last albums I ever wrote a review for in that capacity. Cargo is a four-member electronica/house band who incorporates elements from the hip-hop genre. They started out around 2004 but it would be a few years before their debut album, Disc Odyssey, released in late 2006. That album brought cargo a lot of attention in the Japanese club scene and led to them collaborating with such artists as m-flo, Soul Source Production, Daishi Dance, and even Paris Match. By 2007 they were spending time at the top of the Oricon charts for club music.
Since the release of MARS cargo has released some more original music, but they have worked more on collaborations with other artists. I hope you all enjoy the album. If so, let me know and I will try to find some of their older work. I own their debut album but am not sure where it is in my stacks of CDs. But if you all enjoy MARS I will be happy to try and find it to upload.