S/D: Japanese Techno

obvious/boring answer: ken ishii

less boring answers: yasushi miura

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

Search: Karaokejack By Takkyu Ishino (great uptempo house + some electropop weirdness).

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)

destroy: Fumyia Tanaka? despite kickstarting a lot of interest in the genre out there

search this release tho

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.

i dig me some surgeon. hmm.

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.

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.

start w/ ken ishii's "jelly tones"

Not techno per se, but everything Hiroshi Watanabe produced is incredible (i.e. Kaito, 32 Project, Quadra, etc.)

plz to recommend some japanese minimal techno from the 90s that sounds like sahko/plus 8/axis etc?

I guess Fumiya Tanaka is a pretty choice obvious choice, and was always too dry and aggressive for me to ever actually enjoy, but...

Ebizoo - Raven. On R&S from 1996. Killer.

thanks man this is awesome!

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

no, seriously, I'm looking for lots more of this stuff, any suggestions you guys?

New fumiya tanaka on perlon, 337

Try some of the Clubberia podcasts? http://www.clubberia.com/music/podcasts/ Not all home artists for sure..

it's not a particularly deep field

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 adolescence
v/a - sublime: the infancy
v/a - sublime: the rmxs

FLR (ken ishii) - easy filters

flare (ken ishii) - grip
flare (ken ishii) - re:grip (remix album)

dj tasaka - loopa mix

takkyu ishino - mix up vol 1
takkyu ishino - dj f400 (dj fumitoshi)

chester beatty - shot of love
chester beatty - bodyshower EP 1-4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPI47AUwmNE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kzj0sUSaH7c

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

chester beatty is a god

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32r63HKe56c

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

Not sure it's what you're after, but the NHK'Koyxen LP is pretty good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTL1Vz06Eeg

damn oppet that track is incredible

Milan Paak fuck yeah

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLTqhUHjyH8

AKA Fumiya Tanaka & Akio Yamamoto

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

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.'

oh i don't know about that, aren't most synths and drum machines from other places?

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 Mummy
cuevox
hydropump
mirrorball inferno
no. 305
Princess Army Wedding Combat
raverrose
Sound Iemitsu
JiNG*da*LaW
tenga
old t+pazo
c-type (and any of his pseudonyms)
zen
Next Tribe
warst
Killing Scum
old m1dy
DJイオ
MISSILE CHEWBACCA
iserobin
OVEN TOAST JAM
sHimaU
LALA/LoveScreamTerror
HTTP
dong
Ca5
dust.c / miii
みみみ
Ginger does 'em all
Johnny XXX
gigandect
east breaks in thousand
Limited toss
umio
DJ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

you NEED this frogbs

http://www.amazon.de/Reel-Musiq-Compilation-Various-Artists/dp/B000065E5V

sounds cool but I can't front that much

leo leo

some people still know what that means, right?

i, do not

turtle power

it means click here

wow i forgot i started this thread so long ago!

come and get it, it will blow your mind, no joke

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

i nearly started a thread for the album itself but then discovered this one :D

S.O.N.S on Shibuya One Night Stand is the deep techno tits. TIP!

https://m.soundcloud.com/s-o-n-s/sons-tribute-to-the-truth

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xB128DsroVI