Independent record company for electronic music with experimental background. Est. 2021. Ambient, downtempo, electronica, IDM, ambient techno, dub techno.

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https://pform.thebase.in/
https://progressiveform.bandcamp.com/

T.B. (Japan)

Organizer of the party "otonoha" in Fukuoka, Japan.

Actively engaged in various activities such as domestic and international releases, providing background music, and remixing many artists under his real name Ozaki Koichi, the ambient/electronica side of his dance side T.B.

In 2021, I released my first vinyl work, "KEEP GOING E.P.", from his own label Otonoha Recordings.

In 2024, I released our vinyl work, "Transform E.P. 01", from with Tomoaki Nishmura label Transform Recordings.


https://soundcloud.com/ozaki-koichi-a-k-a-t-b
https://tbotonoha.bandcamp.com/

Singaporean music producer Fuzz Lee, who operates under the moniker elintseeker, began his musical journey as a drummer, but it was the guitar that ultimately became his voice. As his love for atmospheric soundscapes deepened, he moved away from the conventional frameworks of guitar and band music, entering a solitary realm of composition where he harmonises dissonance with resonance, blending hazy atmospheres, melody, and nostalgia. In this space, he weaves these elements together, crafting a sonic language that transcends genres.

Over the years, he has collaborated with a diverse range of artists and musicians, contributing to albums, art installations, video projects, and live performances. His work embodies a fluid dialogue between sound and form, capturing a continuous evolution in response to life itself.

Since 2011, his artistic journey has spanned continents, encompassing a diverse array of musical projects. He has released works through various labels, as well as independently. His 2012 debut, By The Sea, released by the UK-based Somehow Recordings, is an evocative ode to the ocean by his home—a delicate exploration of guitar ambient drone that captures the vastness and serenity of the sea.

His subsequent release, Geography of the Heart, issued in 2015 by the Japanese label PLOP/NATURE BLISS, stands as his most celebrated work. A reflection of his travels across Europe, the album intertwines geography and emotion, tracing a map of intimate experiences and landscapes. It was recognized by the influential American webzine Silent Ballet as one of the top albums of 2015.

Following this, PLOP/NATURE BLISS released Gerwalk Modes, an accidental album born from the remnants of improvisations, intended for a commissioned live performance.

From the ethereal drift of ambient drone to the textured layers of folk, electroacoustic, electronic, and neoclassical music, his work reflects a dynamic, ever-shifting landscape of expression and experience.

[By the sea] 5 track album released by Somehow Recordings UK, May 2012. Cat no: SR-33. http://www.somehowrecordings.co.uk. Digital version available on iTunes and Bandcamp.

[Shimmering of heated air EP] Free/pay-if-you-wish 6 track extended player digital format self-released on Bandcamp, August 2012. http://elintseeker.bandcamp.com.

[Geography Of The Heart] 12 track CD album on PLOP label, 10th June 2015. https://naturebliss.bandcamp.com/album/geography-of-the-heart-plop19

[Gerwalk Modes] 11 track CD album on the PLOP label, released 18th August 2017. 
https://naturebliss.bandcamp.com/album/new-gerwalk-modes-plop20

[Life Without Dreams] 8 track CD album on the PLOP label + limited lathe-cut vinyl, released 25th October 2024.
https://naturebliss.bandcamp.com/album/life-without-dreams-plop23

[Life Without Dreams : Remixes] 8 track digital remix album on the PLOP label, released 25th November 2024.

FLAU is a record label based in Tokyo, Japan.

general inquires: flau@flau.jp
press: press@flau.jp

Motohiro Nakashima/Kumi Takahara/Seigen Tokuzawa & Masaki Hayashi/Kazumichi Komatsu/FEM/Spring In A Small Town/The Future Eve feat. Robert Wyatt/Same Waves/Cicada/Madegg/Henning Schmiedt/CRYSTAL/Rayons/Nemui PJ (kidkanevil & noah)/Noah/Submerse/Radicalfashion/Stefan Jós/Cuushe/Rima Kato/Machinone/Ulises Conti/Danny Norbury/Sparrows/IKEBANA/Ensemble 0/Masayoshi Fujita/El Fog/Liz Christine/Twigs & Yarn/MayMay/Cokiyu/Jean-Philippe Collard-Neven/Kanazu Tomoyuki/The Boats/Kumisolo/Novisad/aus/Dale Berning/Part Timer/Colophon(Jefre-Cantu Ledesma)/Geskia/Orla Wren/Sylvain Chauveau

events:
julia holter / ólafur arnalds / julianna barwick / sharon van etten / grouper / james blackshaw / kira kira / deaf center / rachel grimes / masha qrella / pascal pinon / ryan francesconi & mirabai peart / otto a totland / erik k skodvin / rauelsson / dustin wong / safety scissors / tape (häpna) / serafina steer / florencia ruiz / grand salvo / aspidistrafly / caroline / federico durand / f.s.blumm / springintgut / the mistys / sophie hutchings / spartak / celer / en / rachael dadd / tomi lebrero / takuji aoyagi | 青柳拓次 (kama aina) / tenniscoats | テニスコーツ / tujiko noriko / 内橋和久 | kazuhisa uchihashi / トウヤマタケオ | takeo toyama / bun / fumitake tamura / saphhire slows / shuta hasunuma / gutevolk / squares on both sides / patten / ian hawgood / smile down upon us / pan am scan / the young group / mitä kuuluu / 大谷友介（オオヤユウスケ）/ 伊藤ゴロー |ito goro / mama!milk / 石橋英子 | eiko ishibashi / 阿部海太郎 | umitaro abe / organ-o-rounge / tatsuhiko asano / kyo ichinose / miki / predawn / mmm / 曽我大穂 (cinema dub monks) / 坂田学 / popoyans / 青葉市子 / 麓健一 / 扇谷一穂 / 王舟 / 青木隼人 | aoki hayato / sawako / trico! / miko / ikebana / rayons / minakumari / カラトユカリ | karato yukari / yok / rima kato / oh' yoko / 惑星のかぞえかた / voq / 小鳥美術館 | nagisa shima /

Independent record company based in Vienna.
For Spectrum Spools go here: https://soundcloud.com/spectrumspools

Keiichi Sugimoto is an international artist and composer from Japan. He plays in several sound projects such as FilFla, FourColor, Vegpher, Minamo and Fonica. His compositions have been released from record labels　throughout the world such as 12K (US), apestaartje (US), TOM LAB (Germany), and HEADZ (Japan). As FourColor, his album "Water Mirror" was chosen among the best electronica albums in the THE WIRE magazine (UK). He has also toured extensively in Europe, Asia, Australia, the United States, and Canada.
He has provided numerous tracks to films, visuals, plays, exhibitions, television, web commercials, and company videos. In 2004, FourColor provided the music for director Jun Miyazaki's "FRONTIER", appearing at the Cannes film festival. In addition, the film won the "Young Viewpoint" award during the director's week. In 2006 at the France Aix-en-Provence film festival, Keiichi Sugimoto won the original soundtrack prize, for his soundtrack of "Whirr", a film by German director Timo Katz. By 2007, these achievements had lead Sugimoto to be registered to the French film composers association (U.C.M.F).
In addition to his artist activities, in 1999 he established Cubic Music, a record label to release music and to organize events. Some of the artists he has released include World's End Girlfriend, Kyo Ichinose, piana, and No.9. He has also been active in inviting foreign labels and artists to perform in Japan, as well as organizing tours for international labels such as 12K, Hapna and TOM LAB.

// artist statement //
It is not too difficult to appreciate the melodies of the piano. We have all been familiar with for such a long time, and to notice it as "beautiful". But when you hold piano strings inside of a piano, wrapped around each other, it makes a dull, dim sound, and you realize a different appeal that is separated from the way it originally sounds. My music is a quest in search of these new, unique, and funny sounds underneath, that would attract listeners, not only to perceive beautiful sounds as beautiful, but by layering each of the sounds delicately, it would form original subtleness and textures. By composing them together precisely, they are transformed into "music": Harmonies and dis-harmonies, vagueness and clearness, digital and analog, necessity and accidents. My aim is to deal with these opposite factors on the same level to create a unique music.

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