A demo and unfinished music preview from an album started on while living in Tokyo. Its an electronica musical dairy covering various topics of Japanese society and Far Eastern themes. The industrial soundscapes were recorded around Tokyo and Osaka plus various other parts of Japan. Its a mostly optimistic album celebrating Japan's hi-tech wonderland but does have its dark side. The title track is taken from a British documentary on the notion that Japan is the "Electronic Tribe".

 One of the tracks was featured on Japanese Television which filmed us developing the music and final product from samples recorded by TV celebrity Kenso Kato. Our piece was finally pressed to CD (to burn your own CDs was quite a new thing at the time)and then played on the most expensive CD player and sound system in Tokyo. 

The "conveniance store" image here of me was taken for WIRED Magazine at that time.

The Electronic Tribe - The Album (6 Track Preview)

While working for YAMAHA in Tokyo, I created various Ringtone synth remixes using their miniature SMAF mobile phone tech, which was basically a mini FM Synthesis (DX7)with a couple of lo-fi sample slots. It was more like an 8-bit sounding chip for mobile phones. It had very limited audio (and Soundcloud's compression won't help) but here's a remix of Kraftwerk's DENTAKU (電卓)

Kraftwerk "Dentaku" (Intelligentsia - Mobile Phone Mix)

Excerpts from music taken from the album ZONDERLAND - The Video Game soundtrack for "RPG MAKER" [RPGツクール] (Degica / Enterbrain, Japan)

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Needless Violence (RPG MAKER / RPGツクール) - music by INTELLIGENTSIA

Excerpts from music taken from the album ZONDERLAND - The Video Game soundtrack for "RPG MAKER"  [RPGツクール] (Degica / Enterbrain, Japan)

Music by INTELLIGENTSIA: http://intelligentsia-music.com
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Wanderer (RPG MAKER / RPGツクール) - music by INTELLIGENTSIA

One of the techno tracks for the Japanese "shoot 'em up" video game creator software "Shooting Tsukuuru 95" (Shooter Maker) , which was a homage to Kraftwerk (from one of their unreleased tracks around 1998).

Dinamo (Homage to Kraftwerk)

First Draft of a track that I wrote in 1990.
It's a mess but you get the picture. :-D
Part of the ELECTRONIC TRIBE album

Tokyorama (Really Rough Mix)

Testing live electronic drums for the COSMONAUT remix album.
Recording in SHIGA, Japan. 
Roland V-Drum work by Carl Boland (Box Garden)
Music production by MIRAI.


Boland Drums [Live Electronic Drum Test]

12 Experimental track demo using multiple Apple IOS synthesizers on the iPad & iPhone. 
Most of this music was written on trains, buses and planes across the UK, France and Japan.

FIGURE - GARAGEBAND - iMPC - iKAOSSILATOR - CUBASIS - SUNRIZER - FILTATRON - ANIMOOG - THUMBJAM - AURA - iMINI -iSEM - TABLETOP - RHYTHM - THOR...

Intelligentsia - IOS Synthesis Audio Demo

Intelligentsia Remix of Jean Michel Jarre's OXYGENE 10.

Recorded in ASCII Studio, Hatsudai, Tokyo, Japan. 1997-1998

NOTE: As this uses Jean Michel Jarre's original MIDI file you can hear in the ending fade out, Jarre's improvisation notation not used in the official final release version.

Jean Michel Jarre "Oxygene 10" - (Intelligentsia - Orchestral Remix)

Made in the UK around 1993 when we had the actual Street Fighter Arcade machine in our apartment. All the samples are taken from the sound board. At the end of the track you can hear us flipping through individual sounds in one go, and you can also hear me trying to emulate some game fight scenes with the samples (and Chun Li!) during the music. This track was later remixed, without the Street Fighter sounds and released as part of our soundtrack to the Japanese "3D FIGHTER MAKER" playstation game, which I (Mirai) was also a game character in. The game later had a European and a USA release (via AGETEC). So a few 100,000 copies were made. YATTA!

Bruce Lee sounds by : Ion Machine
Female vocals by: Riyuko

INTELLIGENTSIA - Made In Japan (Street Fighter Mix)

An audio journey into the weird, metaphysical and bizarre, with hints of Orchestral Classical Music, Electro Rock/Pop and Opera.

Horror and Sci-Fi Soundtracks - Audio Demo

A gentler subtle mix of CHIKAMICHI, written for the latest version of our website: http://intelligentsia.band

Chikamichi (subtle mix)

Excerpts from music taken from the album ZONDERLAND - The Video Game soundtrack for "RPG MAKER"  [RPGツクール] (Degica / Enterbrain, Japan)

Music by INTELLIGENTSIA: http://intelligentsia-music.com
100 more tracks and soundtracks here: earthacademy.org/intelligentsia/music

Like us on FACEBOOK: www.facebook.com/intelligentsia.band
Add us on TWITTER: twitter.com/IntelligentsiaM
Buy us on iTUNES: itunes.apple.com/gb/artist/intelligentsia/id150400990
Buy us on BANDCAMP: http://intelligentsia.bandcamp.com


Anchorage (RPG MAKER / RPGツクール) - music by INTELLIGENTSIA

Zonderland (RPG MAKER / RPGツクール) - music by INTELLIGENTSIA

Ludwig (RPG MAKER / RPGツクール) - music by INTELLIGENTSIA

INTELLIGENTSIA - BADLANDS EP
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BADLANDS EP - 04 Love Heroine (Vox Celestis Mix) [preview]

Multiple loops generated on the iPad app FIGURE 
(by Propellerhead software, Sweden.)


Intelligentsia - Propellerhead Figure [Demo]

Part of the electronic music soundtrack for the Japanese Video Game:
"Shooting Tsukuuru 95" (ASCII / ENTERBRAIN) and part of a live performance in Tokyo in the late 90's.

INTELLIGENTSIA - 2013「シューティングツクール９５」

http://intelligentsia-music.com
Intelligentsia (インテリゲンシィア)
MIRAI（未来）は、革新的でポジティブな未来思考の前衛アーチストを集結するため、新・未来派アーチスト音楽共同体インテリゲンシィアを結成。東京に拠点を移し、ゲーム、クラブミュージック、テレビ・ラジオのサウンドトラックを制作。日本や欧州で50回以上演奏、YAMAHAの着信音制作、日本初の携帯電話テクノライブ等幅広く活動。ボディードラムやGypsy Midiエクソスケルトン等最新音楽デバイスを使用。World Wide Kindアーチストプロジェクトの企画、ユリ・ゲラー等にデジタルコンテンツ提供。ロンドンに戻り宇宙オペラ”Civilizations”をリリース。未来派アーチストのレコードレーベルEarth Academy設立。

In Japan Intelligentsia have written soundtracks for Japanese video games (250,000 + sales), National TV and radio, CDroms, ringtones, Toys and club mixes. Released both nationally and in Europe & the USA. Their first Tokyo gig was in Cyberia, Roppongi, in the mid 90's, and they have performed at over 50 live events worldwide, including the Interactive Live Show tour with electronic music pioneer Susumu Hirasawa (P-Model), Yokohama Sports Stadium, Tocho Skyscraper, SEGA Joypolis, and in Kyoto with Christopher Currell (Michael Jackson). Their portfolio features the global artist project World Wide Kind, new music devices such as the Body-Drum, the Gypsy-Midi exo-skeleton, and digital content & music collaboration for celebrities Morley Robertson (J-Wave Radio / Harvard electronic music pundit), Uri Geller and Kenso Kato (Japanese TV & Multimedia personality). Gigs in Japan include: Big Cat (Osaka), Meilparque Hall (Tokyo), Kuretake Bunka Center (Kyoto), Club Asia, Yoyogi Koen, Shinjuku Loft, Zen, Rubber, Code, Mandala II, Seco Bar, Pangaea, Aladdin, and Bar Juke,

Frontman MIRAI ('Future Boy') has worked for Yamaha Music, ASCII, Enterbrain, Famitsu Magazine, J-Wave Radio, Nippon Hoso radio, ENIX, TV Saitama, Radio Tampa, Kaze Pinball, Arkaos VJ & Japanese Keyboard Magazine. He has been a video game character, had a Japanese political party named after him, and was the first person in Tokyo to perform a techno live gig using a mobile phone. He has made several appearances on Japanese TV and magazines as a studio musician, alien or Cyborg:

"Mirai is an astral being from outer space. He came to this planet in order to better balance out the four winds. He and Michael Jackson are two diametrical opposite forces for change. His instruments are the computer, MIDI gear, a special body suit that he designed by himself, vocoder, and his very presence. Mirai is very much against the constraining forces of monopoly in Earth's
economic system. He opposes the infringement upon personal freedom to reproduce musical material and software tools for creation, and endorses the use of commercial software that has been liberated from commerce. Mirai has been contacted by people riding UFO's in their Mystery Circle Parking Lots. He forgot to return the keys to one of their vehicles." 
- Morley Robertson (J-Wave Radio, Japan)

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