I agree, some of these Japanese remix comps have been very good. They
certainly know how to pick some key people to do these remixes.
The remix albums I know of are:
Soft Ballet: Twist and Turn (Aphex Twin, Orbital, etc.)
Soft Ballet: Forms (Autechre, Black Dog, etc.)
Nav Katze: Never Mind the Distortion (Aphex Twin, Black Dog, GC, Ultramarine)
Nav Katze: Gentle & Elegance (Autechre, Seefeel, Sun Electric)
BUCK-TICK (a bunch of famous people, apparently)
YMO: Technodon remixes 2 (Orb, Orb and more Orb)
DJ Takemura: Child's View remixes (Aphex Twin, Luke Vibert, Roni Size, etc.)
Pizzicato Five: EXPO 2000 (not exactly IDM per se, but it's got some housey
numbers and a St Etienne remix)
Any more out there? I'd also be interested in hearing about any Japanese
artists along the BDP/GC vein of techno. I remember the Black Dog website had
a link to a Japanese musician who had perdy good downloadable samples of his
stuff.
Also, DJ Krush has done many collaborations and remixes, one recent one being
the track on the remix comp from Monday Michiru, a Japanese acid-jazz
chanteuse. And Ken Ishii recently released a remix album based on his last
Flare album (called Grip), but I think the remixers were folks from the
Japanese techno/avant-noise scene. (Why not Derrick May? Or Jeff Mills? Both
have spent some time in Japan... and May is working with Ishii after all...)
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