aokisan!  brings me back to kyoto, 1999!  good to hear something fresh from my old friend.  

so dark and funky! crystal clear production as well

Electronica [japanese avant-garde]

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re-platform - AOKI takamasa remix  :  Yoshihiro HANNO 
A1 : BUN/Fumitake Tamura
Getaway : Spacek
Keep Out A Bad Company : Alex Van Heerden, Magnus Johansson
Inner 01 : SND
Riding the Void : Atom™
841(feat. AOKI takamasa) : PsysEx
Strom : Atom™
Club : Moritz Von Oswald Trio
Romeo : RADIQ
Wall : ditch
Clara Ghavami (Extended Mix) : Luciano, nsi
Clouded Visions (Dan Farserelli & Archie Hamilton Remix) : Mariano Mateljan
For You (Original Mix) : ESHU
Bright Star (Sunset Mix) : Ben Watt, Stimming, Julia Biel
Smiling Papers : Cabanne
Myrtle Avenue (Original Mix) : Floating Points
Keep Going (Original Mix) : Cabanne
Electric Garden (Original Mix) : Juan Atkins, Moritz Von Oswald
Stop (Imperialist Pop) : Atom™
Timemorf : Ricardo Villalobos
Ravelle (Original Mix) : Alexander Skancke
La Duquesa (Original Mix) : DJ Koze
Phase Out (Original Mix) : Atom M, Tobias Freund

QubeTV >> www.ustream.tv/channel/qube-tv/videos

DJmix _ QubeTV _ 27th August 2013, 21:00~23:00

Single from the upcoming album "Edge Of Non Compliance"

Back in 2009, Italian DJ and producer Luca Mortellaro - better known simply as Lucy - established the Stroboscopic Artefacts label. And over the last 14 years, the imprint has nurtured a reputation for its line-blurring electronic abstraction and dancefloor experimentation, releasing influential material by artists like Speedy J, Kangding Ray, Donato Dozzy, Paula Temple, Rrose, Ben Klock, Wanton Witch, and of course Lucy themselves. Naturally following the label's ten year threshold, the pandemic pause and Mortellaro's subsequent artistic re-evaluation, OTHER FACTS emerges as a fresh entity, fully unplugged from Stroboscopic Artefacts' dancefloor mainframe, with its gaze pointed on widescreen cinematic sound design and audio-visual art.

To inaugurate the label comes the sophomore album from masked, anonymous artist Roots In Heaven, following their acclaimed 2017 opus "Petites Madeleines". That debut took its conceptual cues from Proust's seven-volume masterpiece "À la recherche du temps perdu", and while "Edge of Non Compliance" has no such literary focus, it's no less layered or philosophically rigorous. In fact it's the ideal vehicle to launch OTHER FACTS: an album that's rich, suggestive and delicately textured, that proposes a visual accompaniment without overstating its motivation.

Edge Of Non Compliance

Roots In Heaven - Feed Your Head

9beats lands on Cosmic Wave Records with a four track EP representative of his analog approach to deep, sci-fi sounding techno. The Katan EP masterfully weaves through space like textures, driving bass groves and syncopated percussion, inspired by recent scientific studies into black holes and parallel universes. 

Find the full read here: www.minimalcollective.digital/editorial/premiere-9beats-quantum-fluctuations-valentino-mora-rephase

Katan will be out June 20th, 2023. Order a copy via  https://cosmicwaverecords.bandcamp.com/

Premiere: 9beats - Quantum Fluctuations (Valentino Mora Rephase)[CWRLTD001]

Daniel[i] - Brandwerk Flow

Twenty-three years on from its original release, the debut album of American artist Mike Parker stands proud as a blueprint for deep, hypnotic techno in the new millennium. Originally published as a CD-only edition on Parker’s own Geophone label, Field Records are now giving Dispatches the first full vinyl release it so richly deserves - spread across six sides and reproducing Parker’s distinctive artwork at scale. A stealthy classic spoken about in hushed tones by techno connoisseurs - this new edition should gain the wider recognition it rightly deserves. 

Charting the course of Parker’s career reads like the evolution of deep techno itself - moving from early collaborations with Donato Dozzy to appearances on seminal labels such as Prologue, Semantica and Spazio Disponibile. The essence of his approach was forged early on, honing techno’s propulsion into a raw essence without losing any of the weight. It’s an exercise in minimalism, but the sound is still monolithic and engulfing, crystal clear in its intention and devoted to the power of subtle pressure. When the decay on a reverb opens up a fraction, Parker’s music leaves enough space for you to notice. Incremental shifts become monumental in his hands and his commitment to subliminal layering reveals hidden depths the further you submit to his hypnotic sound. 

This definitive edition of Dispatches looks at the vinyl singles which accompanied the album’s original release and creates a more complete picture of the area that Parker was exploring at the time. It’s the first time that the alternate take of icy depth charge ‘Copper Variations: CV1’ appears on wax, as goes for the pneumatic tension of ‘Reduction’ and evocative miniature sound sculpture ‘Blue Equals Black’. Expanding the album beyond its original CD form, epic rarity ‘Dissolution 99’ presides over the final side, while the standout Voiceprint release is now represented in full with the inclusion of heavyweight stepped techno workout ‘Voiceprint: Voice Two’. 

Able to sustain his own creative vision without cowing to the trends or expectations of any scene or clique, Parker’s music has progressed on its own terms. What this reissue demonstrates is how fully formed his vision was - even at a relatively early stage. In an era where the deep techno scene is thriving, Dispatches feels all the more relevant, undiluted by time and still unmatched in its immersive perfection.

Bandcamp

Mike Parker - Reduction

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Peuceus

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Stroboscopic Artefacts presents the Monad series. Rarefied and introspective, confrontational and extreme, each featured artist will delve into the Monad concept:
"The generation of number series is related to objects of geometry as well as cosmogony. From the Monad evolved the Dyad; from it numbers; from numbers, points; then lines, two-dimensional entities, three-dimensional entities, bodies, culminating in the four elements earth, water, fire and air, from which the rest of our world is built up."
AOKI Takamasa's Monad IX is a stark example of exploring the periphery of contemporary electronic music and yet impressing an artisitc identity upon these fringes. An anonymous voice on 'mnd-sng-01' blurts 'shake everything', and this is his point. Shake not just yourself on the dance floor, but shake your notions of artistic processes. The tracks draw attention to themselves as constructions, they're not titled but serial numbered from 'mnd-sng-01' right through to 'mnd-sng-04'.

SAM009 was skillfully mastered by Artefacts Mastering, Berlin.

Words: Clare Molloy

AOKI takamasa 'Monad IX' [SAM009]

Official Vidéo by Gëinst  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoMj-Qu_6-M

The canopy is the upper stage of the forest, directly influenced by solar radiation. It is sometimes considered as a habitat or an ecosystem as such, especially in tropical forests where it is particularly rich in biodiversity and biological productivity.

ACCENTVA002 released on Accents Records 2017
get the whole VA on Bandcamp

https://accentsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/accentva002-various-artists-002

Canopée (ACCENTVA002)

Aoki Takamasa-hope

Aoki Takamasa & Tujiko Noriko - Doki Doki Last Night

After playing at one of my favorite festivals in the world, I received the sad news that there was a problem with the recording of my set... So I decided to share with you an edit of Laurie Spiegel I made for https://soundcloud.com/terraforma which I think represents quite well the energy of that day and was a pretty special moment of my set. 

Thank you so much to Terraforma for having me and to all the music lovers that came to this wonderful place from all around the world ❤️

Laurie Spiegel - Drums (Valentino Mora Terraforma Rephase)

ARA001 - B1 - Orcan Tears

Polar Inertia - Parallel Transport

with RV8, the osaka-based producer and musician AOKI takamasa continues his long- term project that focuses on the modulation of rhythms and grooves. it began with his first ep ‚rhythm variations‘ in 2009, released as part three of the unun-series. besides his collaboration with raster-noton, he released records on several labels like commmons, progressive form and op.disc, produced remixes for well-known musicians like ryuichi sakamoto or yoshihiro hanno and played performances at, for example, elektra/montreal and club transmediale/ berlin, all in all making him a renowned producer in japan and beyond.

starting with a firework of bleeps and bops, already the very first minutes of his new record reveal aoki‘s preference for vibrating beats and likewise his playful approach to music, generating a sound that is aiming at the dance floor.

like the first ones, almost all tracks of the record are characterized by a constant modulation of chords and lines that sometimes appears somehow hyperactive, but nevertheless results in a natural flow that perfectly reflects AOKI‘s laid-back attitude combined with his will to produce danceable and funky music.

the fluent arrangement is only interrupted by the third track which forms a caesura by being more reduced and slower. in contrast to this, the following tracks present a faster tempo and an increased intensity; and whereas the first tracks reflect downbeat and r‘n‘b influences due to their broken beats and chunky sound, the later songs are characterized by a more sleek and technoid style, incorporating dribbling basses, clappy sounding snares and modulated voice snippets.

although all of the musical components are constantly broken down, modulated, and rearranged, the overall sound of the record is dense and compact, featuring a groove made up of numerous elements that are complexly intertwined. the eight tracks of the record fit seamlessly together and create a composition that nearly functions like a dj set.

the album was mastered by yoshinori sunahara. needless to say that RV8 will be released as cd and lp.

AOKI takamasa. rhythm variation 02 (excerpt). taken from AOKI takamasa. RV8

Back in 2009, Italian DJ and producer Luca Mortellaro - better known simply as Lucy - established the Stroboscopic Artefacts label. And over the last 14 years, the imprint has nurtured a reputation for its line-blurring electronic abstraction and dancefloor experimentation, releasing influential material by artists like Speedy J, Kangding Ray, Donato Dozzy, Paula Temple, Rrose, Ben Klock, Wanton Witch, and of course Lucy themselves. Naturally following the label's ten year threshold, the pandemic pause and Mortellaro's subsequent artistic re-evaluation, OTHER FACTS emerges as a fresh entity, fully unplugged from Stroboscopic Artefacts' dancefloor mainframe, with its gaze pointed on widescreen cinematic sound design and audio-visual art.

AOKI takamasa 'Monad IX' [SAM009]

Other Facts (fka Stroboscopic Artefacts)

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