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AOKI
takamasa Indigo Rose
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| reviewed on the milkfactory < http://www.themilkfactory.co.uk/reviews/atakamasa_indigorose.htm > |
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R2002-12-05
- AlbumVARIOUS'Forma 1. 02'(Progressive Form)
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| Progressive Form presents a selection of Japanese electronic artists including Tsuchiya Yasuyiku, Soundgaurehouse, Aoki Takamasa and #de.niro. The tracks steer towards all things glitchy, but there is something about this selection of pieces that raises the atmosphere beyond dull and overworked European dub deconstructions. Perhaps it has something to do with the fact that few cultures steep themselves in the contemplative arts like the Japanese, but where the more generic forms of European glitch tend towards a kind of drab, head-nodding pedantic stoner vibe, these tracks seem to be both more alert and more genuinely relaxed. Reference points from Europe relate primarily to the sandy, digitally degraded drum textures (Uwe Schmidt’s Pop Artificielle project, with its jerkily funked up, granular production style seems to have been a touchstone). Melodically and structurally the influence of The Yellow Magic Orchestra and its ex-members looms large over these recordings, as indeed it does over much recent Japanese electronic music. The grooves and melodies are usually artfully suggestive and incomplete; closure is spurned (when it comes to the artfully incomplete, Yasuyiku’s tracks are particularly sublime). The overall effect is relaxing and stimulating at the same time.AR |
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Aoki
Takamasa/Progressive
Form on Neural.it
< http://www.neural.it/rec/aokitakamasaindigorose.htm > |
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Yoshihiro
Hanno/9
Modules.+/Progressive Form on Neural.it
< http://www.neural.it/rec/yoshihirohanno9modules.htm > |
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Alessandro
Ludovico
Neural.it / daily updated news + reviews English content - http://www.neural.it/english/ Suoni Futuri Digitali - http://www.neural.it/projects/sfd/ |
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Jon
Freer's Reviews 8th March 2003.
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AOKI
Takamasa - Indigo Rose (Progressive Form)
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Cat
No: PFCD05. Promo.
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| AOKI Takamasa has always been one to push the boundaries when it comes to experimental electronica, and he continues to propel his sound further on this, his third long player. With the help of vocalist Noriko Tsujiko, AOKI has created an album of fewer abstracts and more listener friendly compositions. Dear People sees an under pressure crunched synth partner veiled breaks, tear-stained distraught vocals and a bass undercurrent. peopel is a up-beat visionary cut, with almost 2-stepped pattering percussion, icy keys and heavily adjusted vocals. Pipe Tale - Indigo Rose sees choir-like vocals emerge as the voice of reason over sedated keys and frantic beats. There's Not Much Left dangerously combines running splashed water and a tense electric pointing synth, as relaxed keys gaze in wonderment. Unique as per usual, this album from AOKI demands full attention throughout. |
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First
PROGRESSIVE FoRM review in Estonia!
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Erinevad
esitajad
"Progressive FOrM Presents: Forma 1.02" (Progressive FOrM) Kuulajasoralikku programmeeri-mist Jaapanist. |
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Progressive FOrM on jajekordne vaike elektroonikaleibel. Sedapuhku Jaapanist, kuid esmapilgul tundub, et sealsed progressorid puuavad oma Euroopa ja muuilma analooge iga-kulgselt jaljendada. Nemadki kum-mar-davad helieksperimentalistikat ja psuhhedeelilist, ent samas surmtosist elektroonikat ning sea-vad naili-selt oma tapselt maaratletud kon-tsept-siooniga loomele ahistavad raa-mid. Sellises standardses pakendis voib Progressive FOrMi suureparane muusika markamatuks jaada. Enneolematusega "Forma" ei ullata. Uutele motiividele eelistab see kogumik varsket lahenemist vanadele motetele. Traditsioonilise kolaga helimustrid on kokku pandud matemaatilise tapsuse ja jaapani-parase minimalismiga, tulemuseks on sujuv ning taiesti sundimatu muusika. Tegelikult ongi hingestatus ja heal tasemel produktsioon omamoodi uuendused, korvasobralikkuselt on Progressive FOrMi artistid igatahes nii monestki tuntumast arvutitega klobistajast peajagu ule. Plaadi parim on Aoki Takamasa "Dear People" - sensoramalik lugu lihtsa tausta ja malbe vokaatorihaalega. Sounguarehouse'i "Ah Eh Ee's" on lahedaid breike hakitud vokaalidega ning avalugu Tsuchiya Yasuyuki "Live For" segab ujedal foonil klaverisampleid ja tanavamu-ra rahutult porkleva rutmiga. Igava-maid ja tuhjemaid lugusid on sel ko-gumikul ka, siiski on "Forma" naol tegemist toesti hea elektroonika-kok-teiliga. 7 |
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wreck
thiS meSS on Radio 100 ｡ Amsterdam ｡ 99.3 FM
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Pyscho-audiographic
Deives #112: Wreck the Funless
+ Live webcast < www.desk.nl/~dfm/ > |
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"Indigo
Rose" on Progressive Form
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| < http://homepage.mac.com/p_form
> On this very interesting Japanese label that makes abstract progressive music funky. Extended composition based on beats and rhythms found in the scraps of glitches and discarded musics. Electronica is electronic signals in search of a blueprint, a cardiogram, a raison d'etre. Despite a kind of hypnotic randomness, the sounds gather a kind of logic because our bio-electrical systems find this essential to being. AT tests these relationships between integrated systems. With vocals/vocorder by Noriko Tsujiko (who sounds like a tender siren made of polyethelene and sound bites). |
| "Forma 1.02" on Progressive Form |
| < http://homepage.mac.com/p_form
> Great compilation of mostly Japanese musicians working with the latest technology and sound palette. Includes: Hanno [aka Multiphonic Ensemble], Eater, eutro, 30506, #de.niro, Sounguarehouseﾉ Intense listening interspersed with lilting ambiences that allow delicious speculationﾉ Just as I was beginning glitch-based terror and obsession had run aground. Highly recommended. |
| "9 Modules. +" on Progressive Form |
| < http://homepage.mac.com/p_form
> YH has released material on Sub Rosa as well. Moving beyond traditional beats-oriented musics to produce the first dance music for another solar system. No romance, no realities, no traditional song structure, no traditional instrumentation, but somehow the sounds sooth and melt across your synapses. Think of it as modern furniture you don't realize is furniture until you sit in it and then you just want to lounge in it forever. |
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album:
yoshihiro hanno
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9 modules.+
(progressive form) we get minimal electronic music here, packed in a minimal sleeve, with minimal track titles. it's all sequenced - and quite funky - structured in a typical dance music fashion. micro-grooves, very much working in the background, ideal as a backdrop for imaginative thinking, yoshihiro hanno keeps his music very unspecified and anonymous. yet, sometimes a few chords stand out that leads my imagination into that deeper mood. especially tracks 4, '2h.io_2p', and 6 capture my interest; small, tiny grooves with needles of nanotechnology fucking up my laptop speakers. yoshihiro hanno is a prolific and truly multi-creative composer, with background as releasing material as multiphonic ensemble, creating on his own label cirque and being a member in ryuichi sakamoto's group hoon. this album was conceived in paris, berlin, and tokyo and reflects his musical and personal experiences from last year. altogether, the result is chilling but maybe though a bit... anonymous. |
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reviewed
by jonas andersson
< http://www.absorb.org/reviews/a_hanno.html > |
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Belgradeyard
Sound System < http://www.belgradeyard.co.yu
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a few recommends
for this week: |
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Boomkat
ALBUM OF THE WEEK!
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Boomkat is a Pelicanneck
Online Music Store |
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AOKI
TAKAMASA
< http://www.boomkat.com/item.cfm?merchID=9832 > // Indigo Rose // Progressive Form // CD // 11.99 euro |
| We`ve been championing this label for some time now, and this cd has never strayed more than six inches from our cd player over the last eight weeks. Recent progressive form has been good, with the stringent minimal innovations of Yoshihiro Hanno on the last cd finding blessed counterpoint in the lush life panoramas of the last, awesome vinyl offering from Eater. Those of you smart enough to pick up or check the "Forma 1.02"-ompilation will already be prepared for what is Aoki`s third and best album for the label so far. Representing the central talent of the Japanese electronic scene 2003, Aoki spreads out much further from his two part "Silicom" series. Of course there`s still times when the mighty Autechre are never too far away from proceedings, but the overall surprise here is the siginificant broadening of palette and mood. Laid bare from word go, "Cover Your Ears" begins with a challenging sonic decimation, beginning spring water clear and gradually wreaking devastation in a totally original fashion. "Dear People" is a vocodered moment which reminds us fondly of the Little Computer People, heartfelt and genuinely affecting. ﾎHope� and "Photons from my window" are the kind of tracks which tell you exactly why Aoki`s sooncome shows with Arovane in japan will be so special, a command of moonlight melodies and tuffest rhythms, spooked by a line of processing which makes this piece really knife-edge stuff. "Capital E" is perhaps the closest in style to the highpoints of "Silicom 2" shredded "EP7" styles, while Aoki is joined by Mego starlet Tsujiko Noriko on angelic voice for the title cut, which I`m sure would find favour with the cut and paste bunch. Check it out at big volume and just feel the air passing and the nerves jangling, you`ll know how good this is. Top notch |