Every Japanese tech (or house) record I've heard sounds GREAT to me. Especially liking Segeke and Japanese Synchro-System.
So what do you think?
― the table is the table, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 04:37 (sixteen years ago) link
obvious/boring answer: ken ishii
less boring answers: yasushi miura
― Michael F Gill, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 04:42 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.discogs.com/release/507572
released around the same time as Panasonic's Vakio and about as extreme. ryoji ikeda's +/- came out a year later and took it a step further and that's the one most people remember, but the RIOU stuff still had one foot in the Detroit / Jeff Mills Waveform Transmissions Vol. 1 camp, not quite as cerebral.
sometimes I think it's weird he isn't mentioned as often as Ikeda / Panasonic / Pole etc. but the later full-lengths had some filler so I guess maybe people just heard the wrong ones, but To-To still sounds incredible
― Milton Parker, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 05:16 (sixteen years ago) link
Search: Karaokejack By Takkyu Ishino (great uptempo house + some electropop weirdness).
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 13:33 (sixteen years ago) link
in the broad sense
Denki Groove
they also have one of the best trance songs ive ever heard in the form of the 'Niji'(Go = Ten Forward Remix)
― splates, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 13:56 (sixteen years ago) link
destroy: Fumyia Tanaka? despite kickstarting a lot of interest in the genre out there
― blunt, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 15:13 (sixteen years ago) link
search this release tho
― blunt, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 15:34 (sixteen years ago) link
I actually like Tanaka, especially his Unknown Possibility records on Tresor. Sometimes I think my favorite hard techno producer is DJ Shufflemaster, so if you like Surgeon, I would most definitely take a listen to Shufflemaster's Geylang.
― Jena, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 15:50 (sixteen years ago) link
i dig me some surgeon. hmm.
― the table is the table, Thursday, 2 August 2007 01:18 (sixteen years ago) link
I think the stuff Susumu Yokota has released under his own name is considered "downtempo" or something, but Fallen Angel by Prism (aka Yokota) is a beautiful and smooth little house album.
― Tuomas, Thursday, 2 August 2007 09:19 (sixteen years ago) link
God yes, I picked Fallen Angel from my record shelf for the first time in years, and I'm listening to it now... I'd forgotten how good this is, the perfect midpoint between house melodism and stripped-down minimalism.
― Tuomas, Saturday, 22 September 2007 09:38 (sixteen years ago) link
start w/ ken ishii's "jelly tones"
― moonship journey to baja, Wednesday, 26 September 2007 16:27 (sixteen years ago) link
Not techno per se, but everything Hiroshi Watanabe produced is incredible (i.e. Kaito, 32 Project, Quadra, etc.)
― Mr. Goodman, Wednesday, 26 September 2007 17:04 (sixteen years ago) link
plz to recommend some japanese minimal techno from the 90s that sounds like sahko/plus 8/axis etc?
― 不合作的方式 (r1o natsume), Wednesday, 7 July 2010 22:58 (thirteen years ago) link
I guess Fumiya Tanaka is a pretty choice obvious choice, and was always too dry and aggressive for me to ever actually enjoy, but...
― Ce soir je dîne sur la soupe de tortue (EDB), Thursday, 8 July 2010 14:22 (thirteen years ago) link
Ebizoo - Raven. On R&S from 1996. Killer.
― mmmm, Friday, 9 July 2010 12:44 (thirteen years ago) link
thanks man this is awesome!
― 不合作的方式 (r1o natsume), Friday, 9 July 2010 14:53 (thirteen years ago) link
some really great suggestions ITT
let me just point out how incredible Denki Groove's VOXXX is. released in 2000 (which is kind of the year that techno stopped evolving), it's really a great look back at 25-some years of electronic music
― Estimate the percent chance that a whale has ever been to the moon? (frogbs), Friday, 23 March 2012 14:26 (twelve years ago) link
no, seriously, I'm looking for lots more of this stuff, any suggestions you guys?
― frogbs, Wednesday, 13 June 2012 19:16 (eleven years ago) link
New fumiya tanaka on perlon, 337
― coal, Wednesday, 13 June 2012 19:43 (eleven years ago) link
Try some of the Clubberia podcasts? http://www.clubberia.com/music/podcasts/ Not all home artists for sure..
― mmmm, Friday, 15 June 2012 15:25 (eleven years ago) link
it's not a particularly deep field
― the late great, Friday, 15 June 2012 15:27 (eleven years ago) link
here's some suggestions
akio milanpaak - anything you can find, he only did four EPs on torema in 1996 and a few remixes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVgj51eQoNY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCex1pDfJ9Q
rebus tape - rm6+ (reel musiq compilation)
v/a - sublime: the adolescencev/a - sublime: the infancyv/a - sublime: the rmxs
FLR (ken ishii) - easy filters
flare (ken ishii) - gripflare (ken ishii) - re:grip (remix album)
dj tasaka - loopa mix
takkyu ishino - mix up vol 1takkyu ishino - dj f400 (dj fumitoshi)
chester beatty - shot of lovechester beatty - bodyshower EP 1-4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPI47AUwmNE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kzj0sUSaH7c
― the late great, Friday, 15 June 2012 16:23 (eleven years ago) link
I have a number of Ishino solo albums, though not those two. Also I've had difficulty finding "re-grip". But I'll track down the rest - thanks
― frogbs, Friday, 15 June 2012 16:25 (eleven years ago) link
chester beatty is a god
― the late great, Friday, 15 June 2012 16:34 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32r63HKe56c
― Milton Parker, Friday, 15 June 2012 23:04 (eleven years ago) link
who is that? reminds me a lot of Koenig Cylinders.
also, any excuse to post this, but this is more along the lines of what i'm looking for
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeLiUstn2jE
― frogbs, Wednesday, 20 June 2012 14:41 (eleven years ago) link
Not sure it's what you're after, but the NHK'Koyxen LP is pretty good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTL1Vz06Eeg
― oppet, Wednesday, 20 June 2012 16:18 (eleven years ago) link
damn oppet that track is incredible
― frogbs, Thursday, 21 June 2012 01:10 (eleven years ago) link
Milan Paak fuck yeah
― X-101, Thursday, 21 June 2012 15:38 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLTqhUHjyH8
AKA Fumiya Tanaka & Akio Yamamoto
― X-101, Thursday, 21 June 2012 17:23 (eleven years ago) link
I do like some of this here, but i guess i'm looking more for technopop type stuff, maybe this isn't exactly the right thread
― frogbs, Thursday, 21 June 2012 19:10 (eleven years ago) link
You would think the Japanese would/should dominate techno (and electronic music), to paraphrase a Gary Busey movie quote, 'they got half the records and all the synths.'
― earlnash, Thursday, 21 June 2012 23:41 (eleven years ago) link
oh i don't know about that, aren't most synths and drum machines from other places?
― the late great, Friday, 22 June 2012 00:13 (eleven years ago) link
this is a really broad topic that I really have no idea how to begin to interact with although I want to since I'm balls deep into japanese electronic music haha
here's a list of nerd/hard/break/whatevercore acts I'd like to either hear more from or hear from again at all that I was going to post on another forum but I guess I'm not allowed to talk on there anymore.
にしかわっちサイケアウツ (they have different members now and go by サイケアウツG)Custom Mummycuevoxhydropumpmirrorball infernono. 305Princess Army Wedding CombatraverroseSound IemitsuJiNG*da*LaWtengaold t+pazoc-type (and any of his pseudonyms)zenNext TribewarstKilling Scumold m1dyDJイオMISSILE CHEWBACCAiserobinOVEN TOAST JAMsHimaULALA/LoveScreamTerrorHTTPdongCa5dust.c / miiiみみみGinger does 'em allJohnny XXXgigandecteast breaks in thousandLimited tossumioDJ天
seconding takkyu ishino and chester beatty by a lot
suggesting ExT, Love Beer Trax, Beauty:Burst, Roamers Audio, Speedking, 999, and transonic for labels to look into
yep
― nohighs, Sunday, 24 June 2012 20:29 (eleven years ago) link
you NEED this frogbs
http://www.amazon.de/Reel-Musiq-Compilation-Various-Artists/dp/B000065E5V
― the late great, Thursday, 30 August 2012 09:15 (eleven years ago) link
sounds cool but I can't front that much
― frogbs, Tuesday, 4 September 2012 19:43 (eleven years ago) link
leo leo
― the late great, Tuesday, 4 September 2012 19:45 (eleven years ago) link
some people still know what that means, right?
i, do not
― frogbs, Tuesday, 4 September 2012 20:54 (eleven years ago) link
turtle power
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 4 September 2012 21:02 (eleven years ago) link
it means click here
― the late great, Tuesday, 4 September 2012 21:02 (eleven years ago) link
wow i forgot i started this thread so long ago!
― for reasons of sass (the table is the table), Tuesday, 4 September 2012 21:07 (eleven years ago) link
come and get it, it will blow your mind, no joke
― the late great, Tuesday, 4 September 2012 21:26 (eleven years ago) link
i bought the boogiepop phantom soundtrack in high school bc i was sort of obsessed with the theme song from the show. it totally does not include the theme song. it is two discs of completely haunted gorgeous mid-'90s techno? (the soundtrack came out in 2002 so idk.) i've never met anyone who's also heard this record. it's out of print but available for $3 from a third-party seller at amazon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lp04SWQpfok
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QY9TAeXi4B0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lz8dQto6aHo
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Wednesday, 20 April 2016 00:20 (seven years ago) link
i nearly started a thread for the album itself but then discovered this one :D
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Wednesday, 20 April 2016 00:22 (seven years ago) link
S.O.N.S on Shibuya One Night Stand is the deep techno tits. TIP!
― lute bro (brimstead), Wednesday, 20 April 2016 00:33 (seven years ago) link
https://m.soundcloud.com/s-o-n-s/sons-tribute-to-the-truth
― lute bro (brimstead), Wednesday, 20 April 2016 00:34 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xB128DsroVI
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Wednesday, 20 April 2016 00:36 (seven years ago) link