https://unoiki.bandcamp.com/album/kj

[UI012] Various Artists - KJ

Tracklisting:
01 Andrés Marcos - Special Encounter (for KJ)
02 MRZ - The Here Is The Outer Space
03 Kimathi Moore - the Obsidian Man
04 J-Lab - Fade To Black
05 Dr.Nojoke - De-fer+ves.cence
06 Humeka - Intumescence
07 Storlon - Le Noble Chemin Octuple
08 Revy - Beyond (for choenyi)


After a five year hiatus UNOIKI is back with a new release in 2020!
KJ is a compilation to commemorate KJ aka choenyi, member of the UNOIKI collective, who passed away on September 04 2013 in Asheville, North Carolina/USA.

Six UNOIKI members and two guest contributors, Revy and Kimathi Moore, pay tribute to the excellent, extraordinary and influential mind, that KJ was.
He will never be forgotten.
We miss him a lot.


About KJ:

KJ was a creative force of nature. 
He was unconventional by all means and constantly in search of new uncharted territories both in his life and in his music. He was a practicing Buddhist, an avid collector of gemstones, crystals and very hard to find old school Techno records. He was also a DJ and a composer who was known abroad, in Europe as Choenyi. He lived on the creative edge. 
Soon after his minimal Techno years he became more and more fascinated with exploring atonal guitar and bass playing and never looked back. 

He lived just a few blocks from me at this big house known affectionately as ‘the Mansion’, near downtown,  which was also the home for other well known experimental Noise, Drone / Ambient and Techno artists. With all of those artists living at that house, the creative environment was at an all time high,  underground performances were frequently held there and this was the perfect environment for KJ. 

KJ had such an impact on everyone that met him, from the personal to the musical. He played a fundamental role in Asheville’s 2nd wave explosion of experimental sound artists. He however never fell into any sub-genre for very long before he was off exploring something else. There was this sense of urgency and restlessness in his search, from his life to his music. He was at home anywhere. 
As a sound artist he frequently used computers, field recordings and found sounds and when he began exploring microtonal guitar and bass playing it’s like his creativity became unleashed to its full power. 

I once remembered him getting up in the middle of his Drone music performance and going to the restroom then going outside to smoke a cigarette and chat with someone outside on the sidewalk….while the music was still going on strong, and for him to then come back after 15 minutes later and pick up where he left off, that to me was a genius move. A performance that to this day has no equal in my psyche and helped solidify my idea of performance and freedom. 
KJ’s influence on Asheville’s cultural heritage can never be overstated. 
In my eyes he stands as a legendary figure in Asheville’s creative underground scene. 
He was and will always be my creative hero.

Kimathi Moore

Various Artists - KJ [UI012] - snippets

He Has Special Mission About Real Underground World , Culture , Activity , Art , Fact , And Even LifeStyle Same As All Jewish And FreeMason And Even Builder burg's Peoples Concentrate Whole Lifetime To #31 Years Old For Being And Living And Grow In REAL UNDERGROUND WORLD And He Has Many Specially Programs In #RUITRADIO For Only REAL UNDERGROUND NATION = RUGNATION FROM #TEH CAPITAL CITY OF MOST UNDERGROUND COUNTRY IN OUR PLANET = LOVELY EARTH (IR.IRAN) AND HE BELIEVE TO ONE BIG HIDDEN FACT SO IMAGINE IF IN OUR EARTH WE DONT HAVE ANY UNDERGROUND WE COULDNT HAVE ANY GRAND ANY NATURE AND NOTHING AT ALL SO REAL UNDERGROUND IS BASMENT OF NATURE AND LIFE SO WELCOME TO REAL UNDERGROUND WORLD WHERE ALL THE FIRST AND BEST IDEA ABOUT EVERYTHING IS COMIN AT FROM IT SO 
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from Ghavam transferred to Qavam

I am a live-act & electronic music producer from Berlin, active since 2005. 
More than 150 releases of deep, hypnotic, percussive, minimal techno, microhouse and electronica under the CLIKNO guise.
CLIKNO is infused by Musique Concrete, Dada, Minimalism and life at all and is made of field recordings and found sounds.

www.linktr.ee/dr.nojoke

bandcamp
www.drnojoke.bandcamp.com
www.clikno.bandcamp.com
www.rand.bandcamp.com

spotify playlists
Club Architects
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3zsE39u1QIbv0VFf9kzRCo
CLIKNO
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1flKVXgrwFRBBiTReJiWAG
Music for Peripheries
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5jtKoxvUAssIgDTmpdGiZa


out now:

WRONGWRONGRIGHTRIGHT
https://clikno.bandcamp.com/album/wrongwrongrightright

rand - III
https://rand.bandcamp.com/album/iii

ILO BABO RISI
https://stellierecords.bandcamp.com/album/dr-nojoke-ilo-babo-risi-ep-st017FUSO

FUSO
https://archipelmusique.bandcamp.com/album/fuso

M
https://clikno.bandcamp.com/album/m

REMIXES 2
https://drnojoke.bandcamp.com/album/remixes-2-2

ALMA ATA OUM
https://goldminmusic.bandcamp.com/album/alma-ata-oum

rand - PERIPHERIE REMIXES
https://clikno.bandcamp.com/album/peripherie-remixes

rand - PERIPHERIE
https://rand.bandcamp.com/album/peripherie

projects:
@CLIKNO label
@rand_gerdes_drnojoke "rand", duo with @jan-gerdes
@anomali solo-dronescapes
@ploberlin electronic music impro orchestra
@thepoolberlin collective
@paralelo-trioon duo with @J-Lab
@UNOIKI collective | label | network


Info:
Dr. Nojoke is a producer, performer and musician– his live sets continually bring new and unique sounds to the table, a combination of field-recordings, self-made sounds, and highly conceptual production that redefine the way we understand electronic music.
A Berlin native and leader in directional minimal techno (or “clikno” as he describes it), Dr. Nojoke is a master of rethinking ordinary musicality and procuring new uses for the everyday.

Dr.Nojoke´s live show may feature instruments such as radio, crushed plastic bottles and souvenirs as Dr.Nojoke celebrates the joy of finding special sounds in everyday objects not usually appreciated for their musicality.

Since 2005 performances in clubs and on festivals in Brazil, South Africa, Canada, Sweden, UK, Italy, Russia, USA, Ukraine, Belarus, Romania, Moldova, Slovenia, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Spain, Portugal, France and throughout Germany.

More than 150 releases (EPs/albums/remixes/contributions) on labels such as CLIKNO, Archipel, Goldmin Music, Sleep is Commercial, Klangscheiben, UNOIKI, Pluie/Noir, Destroy All Monsters, Minim.all, Autist, Eintakt, Resopal ...

http://unoiki.bandcamp.com

UNOIKI is an exploratory platform for electronic music, visual and related art nestled between the cornerstones CLUB and ART!
UNOIKI is a collective of like-minded artists with an original and unique vision.

CD-releases
- [UI001] V.A. - UNdefinition (May 2010)
- [UICAL2010] V.A. - UNOIKI calendar 2010 (December 2010)
- [UI002] V.A. - Evaluation (March 2011)
- [UI003] V.A. - Redefinition 1 undefined (July 2011)
- [UI004] V.A. - Redefinition 2 evaluated (November 2011)
- [UI005] Sul.a - Uint (March 2012)
- [UI006] Superlaucher - Catalysm (May 2012)
- [UI007] Dr.Nojoke - Unexpressed (July 2012)
- [UI008] V.A. - New Caledonia (November 2012)
- [UI009] V.A. - UNO-IKI-SAN - 3 YEARS celebration sampler (January 2013)
- [UI010] Paralelo - Berlin Wall of Sound


Our artists:
  Humeka (producer, FR)
  Sven Laux (producer, GER)
  J-Lab (producer, UK)
  Dr.Nojoke (producer, GER)
  Storlon (producer, SUI)
  MRZ  (producer, performance artist, SUI)
  Keinzweiter (producer, GER)
  Komsomol (producer, IRN)
  The Automatic Message (producer, audiovisual, CAN)
  Andrés Marcos (producer, SUI)
  Ten and Tracer (producer, US)
  choenyi (producer, US)
  Sul.a (producer, graphic designer, CAN)
  Jonathan Mangelinckx  (graphic design, BEL)
  Marianne Klausen (philosopher, DEN)
  Christian Epple (DJ, producer, GER)
  Trigerfinger / Tendts (producer, live-act, GRE)
  Cleymoore (DJ, producer, live-act, POR)
  Strukturator (producer, live-act, UKR)
  Jesse Voltaire (DJ, producer, live-act, CAN)
