Japanese Electronic Music

I'm no Japanophile, but there's just something so unique about a lot of Japanese electronic music, and I am just never able to find enough of it.

Post sum trax plz.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8VZ_JCNWsQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dq9b2whMqc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oc8lNDxC4kM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8kcE1aRtYg

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNYa5ahoGkU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=td1dVnPfj7w&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_DF4Jm9MUU&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1tv6W4OaV0

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7GG5llNUIo

RIP. His album "Human is Music" with a member of Tenniscoats and a member of Maher Shalal Hash Baz under the name Cacoy is really worth checking out.

Here's a loud recording of one of its tracks

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aW0engYYDQQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9ADoCanZXY

shit, apparently Rei Harakami died too this summer.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjl6ry-KZ38

Can't find any hyu videos on youtube but his two albums on Childisc are 10/10

Cornelius produced this album released earlier this year, probably not what you're after but it's quite impressive

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSLK9CCzTo8

Gorgeous sounds from YS..

There appears to be a rather large Yellow Magic Orchestra sized hole in this thread -

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

  On 11/8/2011 at 5:17 PM, magdog said:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8mJ9UYNU3o

Love Ken Ishii, first thing I thought of when I read the thread title

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6maVVFs0As

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wphdgZyQz4k

World's End Girlfriend is quite interesting, saw him open for Mono years and years ago. His disography is kinda overwhelming, but I liked Dream's End Come True a lot, so it's probably a good starting point.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3JjTBvI-OQ

One of my favorites!

The Lang album is really amazing. Not really anything different or fresh, but it's still spot on.

  On 11/8/2011 at 11:48 PM, Ceqn said:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3JjTBvI-OQ

 

One of my favorites!

 

 

 

The Lang album is really amazing. Not really anything different or fresh, but it's still spot on.

+1

Aus is so so good

Also +1 to Nobukazu Takemura.

Also has no one mentioned DJ Krush?

This is a pretty good recent one:

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if you want to find out where Katamari music was invented

http://www.discogs.com/Hyu-Random-Walkers-Delight/release/224912

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This release is a perfect example of an album that will never in a million years get the attention it deserves. An unfortunate circumstance for a talented artist like Hyu, and certainly unfortunate for anyone else who falls into the same boat. Random Walker's Delight is a ridiculous blast from start to finish, where technical sound expertise meets a dizzying array of pop-electronica, experimental ambience and glitchy IDM, just to name a few. And yet, it manages to sound nothing like these things. It understands it's reference points and completely disregards them and their standard conventions, something that is admirable in many Japanese musicians. Hyu's previous album hinted at these qualities, but it wasnt until this album that they were executed perfectly, with unbelievable results. So while the rest of the electronic world is hung up on ridiculous trends, self actualized irony, and a false understanding of what they think is innovative, truly great and unique artists like Hyu will get routinely ignored.

Some great posts here. I had no idea that Joseph Nothing was Japanese, but it definitely does make sense that he would be.

Checking out Hyu immediately.

  On 11/9/2011 at 5:47 AM, Lascaille said:

http://forum.watmm.c...6-japanese-idm/

I did a search, and the topic didn't come up.

it's generated some good stuff so far anyway.

Just adding that for anyone interested. Wasn't a fuck-you-this-thread-already-exists-post.

  On 11/8/2011 at 9:13 AM, ganus said:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dq9b2whMqc

Thanks for posting this, I ordered the CD off amazon immediately after hearing it (and about 5 other tracks from the same album).

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Its been a long time since Ive listened to this album, I'll have to try and find it.

  On 11/8/2011 at 5:00 PM, futuregirlfriend said:

 

shit, apparently Rei Harakami died too this summer.

 

Yeah, I only just found out a few weeks ago and now it was last year.. It´s creepy when you can pretty much almost remember too what you were doing exactly that day when someone dies..

A favourite of mine by him:

Also, how can this thread go so far without mentioning the soundtracks of anime? ;)

(Maybe it already has, I haven´t read it all yet..

One of my absolute favourites would have to be the Death Note soundtrack, written by Yoshihisa Hirano and Hideki Taniuchi.

Not all of it is electronic, but there are some really great electronic ones on it. (Though this soundtrack is a bit like electronica fused post-rock with some dramatic orchestral pieces mixed in.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ve4BQYIV6M

And of course, Ryuichi Sakamoto and his yellow magic orchestra cannot go unmentioned either. He realeased a pretty cool ambient album recently, out of noise... Recently... Jeez no it was what, 2009?

That guy is overdue another sharing of his geniuosity!

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