Japanese electronic music- Logic Systems, YMO etc

[thepigjockey]

Don't know much about Japanese electronica, any tips?

I just heard a Logic System track on a skweee radio show. Pretty good, quite old afaik. The Dj called it 'proto-skweee'

Also, which YMO stuff is best?

Anything else?

The Japanese stuff I've already heard is mostly guitar-based and psychedelic e.g. AMT, OOIOO, Kawabata Makoto's solo stuff etc etc

[KuffDam]

I'd like to know more but don't much either.

Ken Ishii - Innerelements is great and also very old.. not as old as YMO though

[ivan]

Saboten, and his tracks on the OST for I.K.U.
especially "pollution" yarr.. thats some good shit.

i´d like to know more as well.

iku is an japanese cyborg/porn btw.

[sniffio]

DJ Klock, who just commited suicide in London this year, is good.
I have his album called "sensation".
Very Japanese in a way. Well, in many ways.

He said he doesn't care about other musicians.
He had a wife and a baby son.

RIP DJ Klock.

Great! you can listen to most of the songs from the album here.
http://www.revirth.com/ja/discography/cd/sensation.php

[sniffio]

this is all done using the software "Hatune Miku".
All the sound including the vocals has been generated by the software.
Yamaha's Vocaloid technology has been adapted into this software.
You can let the computer voice sing.





Fly me to the moon (I doubt the English is good enough for you to understand)

[thepigjockey]

Originally Posted by sniffio

this is all done using the software "Hatune Miku".
All the sound including the vocals has been generated by the software.
Yamaha's Vocaloid technology has been adapted into this software.
You can let the computer voice sing.





Fly me to the moon (I doubt the English is good enough for you to understand)

That's..er... ummm..

[sniffio]

Originally Posted by thepigjockey

That's..er... ummm..

yes, i know...ummm

[Yer_Maw]

Polysix

[thepigjockey]

Heehe...but liking the DJ Klock stuff. I used to like DJ Krush loads, he still making music? And I loved that Ken Ishii album kuffdam mentioned, wonderful. Is there any other new Japanese stuff anyone?

[FiST]

Originally Posted by Yer_Maw

Polysix

werd. their version of the knack's 'my sharona' is amazing.

[tsr_robban]

i recommend all first 5 ymo albums, some sooper tracks on every one.
but specially solid state survivor, yellow magic orchestra(self titled) annnnnd technodelic...

[KuffDam]

I think that vid is awful

[tsr_robban]

what!?!?!? its sooper!a good kind of cheese.

[KuffDam]

I almost got into it.. but it kept doing a good job of pushing me away

I have heard good YMO stuff though.

[tsr_robban]

just stay away from all remixes, they are awful.

[les diamond]

sketch show is good, they are the other two dudes from y.m.o. besides ryuichi sakamoto, they do kind of a pop thing thats real laid back

[Frankie]

Go Hiyama!


And I think he has a brother Jin Hiyama, both make pretty sweet technoes.



I saw Ryuichi Sakamoto at the Decibel Fest 2 years ago, and his video/audio shit was sooooooooooo awesome.


I was retarded (more so than usual) for like 2 months afterwards.

[thepigjockey]

Originally Posted by Yer_Maw

Polysix

I think this is Polysics. Not sure about the music but the video is a bit special:

[thepigjockey]

Originally Posted by les diamond

sketch show is good, they are the other two dudes from y.m.o. besides ryuichi sakamoto, they do kind of a pop thing thats real laid back

Good tip...

[namshub]

beat this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFVoLz88hiU

the coolest song ever!

[namshub]

I always loved japo music from ymo to co-fusion, christine 23 onna, pizzicato 5 and polysics.... sum very cool stuff, try and check out bogulta - typical mental boredoms'esque band with electronics - vgood!

[penciLneck]

I quite like Rei Harakami.

[penciLneck]

and Susumu Yokota

[KuffDam]

Originally Posted by thepigjockey

And I loved that Ken Ishii album kuffdam mentioned, wonderful

definitely a big highlight of the early-mid nineties for me that... I know MDK and Spandex rinsed it too.

[penciLneck]

I also like Riow Arai, although he seems to have teamed up with a rapper called nongenetic now, his earlier albums like 'Circuit’72' and 'Mind Edit' were good.

http://www.soup-disk.com/fullcatalog.html

he's also done some work with Tujiko Noriko, here's a video of hers:

[V Knid esq]

I really really like De De Mouse - www.myspace.com/dedemouse www.dedemouse.com/

and the b-side to this Haruki Matsuo record is v nice too http://hardwax.com/54939/

[penciLneck]

just watched a couple of de de mouse videos on youtube. far out.

If you are into glitchy herbertesque (reminds me a little of 'around the house') electronica, the aforementioned Tujiko Noriko did an album with Aoki Takamasa called 28, which is entirely non-offensive.

[dom_90]

Originally Posted by thepigjockey

I think this is Polysics. Not sure about the music but the video is a bit special:

This video is a song about Rock, Paper, Scissors!

[dom_90]

This is some Japanese hip hop.

[thepigjockey]

'snot electronic, but...

http://www.japrocksampler.com/