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 (5 years ago) Permalink
obvious/boring answer: ken ishii
less boring answers: yasushi miura
― Michael F Gill, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 04:42 (5 years ago) Permalink
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 (5 years ago) Permalink
Search: Karaokejack By Takkyu Ishino (great uptempo house + some electropop weirdness).
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 13:33 (5 years ago) Permalink
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 (5 years ago) Permalink
destroy: Fumyia Tanaka? despite kickstarting a lot of interest in the genre out there
― blunt, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 15:13 (5 years ago) Permalink
search this release tho
― blunt, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 15:34 (5 years ago) Permalink
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 (5 years ago) Permalink
i dig me some surgeon. hmm.
― the table is the table, Thursday, 2 August 2007 01:18 (5 years ago) Permalink
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 (5 years ago) Permalink
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 (5 years ago) Permalink
start w/ ken ishii's "jelly tones"
― moonship journey to baja, Wednesday, 26 September 2007 16:27 (5 years ago) Permalink
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 (5 years ago) Permalink
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 (2 years ago) Permalink
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 (2 years ago) Permalink
Ebizoo - Raven. On R&S from 1996. Killer.
― mmmm, Friday, 9 July 2010 12:44 (2 years ago) Permalink
thanks man this is awesome!
― 不合作的方式 (r1o natsume), Friday, 9 July 2010 14:53 (2 years ago) Permalink
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 (1 year ago) Permalink
no, seriously, I'm looking for lots more of this stuff, any suggestions you guys?
― frogbs, Wednesday, 13 June 2012 19:16 (1 year ago) Permalink
New fumiya tanaka on perlon, 337
― coal, Wednesday, 13 June 2012 19:43 (1 year ago) Permalink
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 (1 year ago) Permalink
it's not a particularly deep field
― the late great, Friday, 15 June 2012 15:27 (1 year ago) Permalink
here's some suggestions
akio milanpaak - anything you can find, he only did four EPs on torema in 1996 and a few remixes
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
― the late great, Friday, 15 June 2012 16:23 (1 year ago) Permalink
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 (1 year ago) Permalink
chester beatty is a god
― the late great, Friday, 15 June 2012 16:34 (1 year ago) Permalink
― Milton Parker, Friday, 15 June 2012 23:04 (1 year ago) Permalink
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
― frogbs, Wednesday, 20 June 2012 14:41 (11 months ago) Permalink
Not sure it's what you're after, but the NHK'Koyxen LP is pretty good
― oppet, Wednesday, 20 June 2012 16:18 (11 months ago) Permalink
damn oppet that track is incredible
― frogbs, Thursday, 21 June 2012 01:10 (11 months ago) Permalink
Milan Paak fuck yeah
― X-101, Thursday, 21 June 2012 15:38 (11 months ago) Permalink
AKA Fumiya Tanaka & Akio Yamamoto
― X-101, Thursday, 21 June 2012 17:23 (11 months ago) Permalink
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 (11 months ago) Permalink
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 (11 months ago) Permalink
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 (11 months ago) Permalink
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 (11 months ago) Permalink
you NEED this frogbs
http://www.amazon.de/Reel-Musiq-Compilation-Various-Artists/dp/B000065E5V
― the late great, Thursday, 30 August 2012 09:15 (9 months ago) Permalink
sounds cool but I can't front that much
― frogbs, Tuesday, 4 September 2012 19:43 (9 months ago) Permalink
leo leo
― the late great, Tuesday, 4 September 2012 19:45 (9 months ago) Permalink
some people still know what that means, right?
i, do not
― frogbs, Tuesday, 4 September 2012 20:54 (9 months ago) Permalink
turtle power
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 4 September 2012 21:02 (9 months ago) Permalink
it means click here
― the late great, Tuesday, 4 September 2012 21:02 (9 months ago) Permalink
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 (9 months ago) Permalink
come and get it, it will blow your mind, no joke
― the late great, Tuesday, 4 September 2012 21:26 (9 months ago) Permalink