quoted 155 lines Date: Thu, 06 Jun 1996 21:59:00 +0900>Date: Thu, 06 Jun 1996 21:59:00 +0900
>From: "稲岡 健 " <QZA00114@niftyserve.or.jp>
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>Ho do you do,zappers? ;-)
>I am Ken Inaoka in Fukuoka,south of Japan
>and running a independent label called Syzygy Rercords.
>
>First,I am sorry for my poor english.
>There're some my friends and acquaintances (Hi, how are you doing?)
>on here(Zappo),so you know that! :-)
>This is my first post,isn`t this? I can` t remember surely.....
>
>Okay,let`s talk about Tanzmuzik.....
>
>I can tell you more detailed infomation about their activities until now
>and what they does recently because they are one of my best friends
>and have many times to play and talk with them.
>
>Yes,Tanzmuzik is Kansai-Area(around Osaka,Kyoto,Kobe) based
>project by two 27-years-old crazy guys called Akio Yamamoto
>and Okihide Sawaki.They played on keyboard(Okihide) and bass(Akio)
>as a member of a famous indie-rock band until 4 or 5 years ago.
>
>Now Akio moved to Tokyo in the later of last year with Fumiya Tanaka
>who is famous as a DJ and a producer of his Torema Records.
>Akio has been concerned in Torema Records from its early days.
>(It is not the meaning of runnning the label with Fumiya.)
>
>I love both of them because they will not want to be a *star*...
>(Yes,Ken Ishii too.)
>They only have very pure mind to create their emotional music...
>really cool. :-)
>
>
>They did some EPs+LPs under the the name of Tanzmuzik as follow:
>
> "MUZIKANOVA EP"(Torema,Japan/TRM JPN4)
> "TAN TANGUE EP" (RisingHigh,UK/RSN 88)
> "LOVELIGHT EP" (RisingHigh,UK/RSN 105)
> "SINSEKAI" (RisingHigh,UK/RSN LP26)
> "SINSEKAI" (Sony,Japan/SRCS7681)*
> *it is diffrent from UK`s one.
> About half of contents are changed for Japan.
>
>
>Also they offered some tracks to some compilation albums as follow:
>
> "TRANSONIC 1" (Transonic,Japan/TRS-25001)
> track4:"TARPM"
> "CHILLOUT OR DIE 3" (RisingHigh,UK/RSN LP25)
> track2:"MERGE"
> "Torema Classics" (TDK,Japan)
> *I don't know well because I haven't this one.
>
> Also their Remix works are as follow:
>
> Remix of ARP-2600's "VOICES OF PLANET"(Torema,Japan/TRM6)
> Remix of Sympathy Nervous[he did LP + EP on KK Records,Belgium
> in recently.his age is about 40!!!]'s"TUNE YOUR HEAD"
> on Transonic 5(Transonic,Japan/TRS25011)
>
>
>Also they did a ambient album
>"Scratches"(Sublime,Japan/SBLCD50090)
>in last december under the name of "Akio + Okihide" which was
>released by recommendation from Ken Ishii to producer of Sublime.
>In this project,they shows us many beautiful and calm soundscapes.
>I collaboreted with Okihide and we created a track called "Corona"
>In this album.
>
>
>Akio also has a solo project called "akio milan paak " that creates
>hard and minimal "morizzio-infulluenced" tracks for the dance floor.
>I 'm sure that he is the best dance track creator in Japan.
>Really cool and groovy!
>
>He did 2 EPs under this project as follow:
>
> "FAKIR" (Torema,Japan/TRM JPN10)
> "LAMBORGHINI EP" (Torema,Japan/TRM JPN15)
>
>He has also another 2 projects.
>One is called "speaker" with Fumiya Tanaka.
>they also makes hard and minimal tracks for the dance floor,too.
>The another is also solo project called "Tarhell" that appears
>on Torema`s sub label called "Untitled Records".
>"Tarhell" creates hyper-mad electro!! check it out.
>"Tarhell" apppears on Untitled Records' compilation CD/EP as follow:
>
> "ABSTRACT SET1"(Untitled,Japan/UNT001)
> "ABSTRACT SET2"(Untitled,Japan/UNT002)
>
>I heared from him that now he is remixing FLARE(Ken Ishii)`s track
>for sublime.
>
>
>How is Okihide???
>Yes,He is creating tracks for next album on RisingHigh and others!
>First of them,Okihide will release an album called
> "A BOY IN A PICCA SEASON"(Syzygy,Japan/SZY008CD)
>on our Syzygy soon...(maybe on July or August)
>
>It is a beautiful and emotional and gentle ambient but a little bit hard...
>It may take you more deeper and deeper than the world of Tanzmuzik...
>
>BTW,You may think what is "Picca". It is not japanese word.
>When I asked him "What is Picca?",he said to me "Picca is Picca!"
>and lauguhed slightly.... He only knows what picca is on earth...
>
>
>
>I must say that most of their records were sold out,
>so it is hard to get them.
>
>See these as follow:
>*Torema
>http://www.dircon.co.uk/truelove/labels/torema/torema_intro.html
>*Sublime
>http://mixj.recruit.co.jp/MusicM/sbl-j-s.html
>*Syzygy *Transonic
>http://www.ces.kyutech.ac.jp/student/JET/
>(Syzygy's page is incomplete.it doesn't updated since 1 years ago....)
>We(I and Yash Egami) will start a new homepage with realaudio2.0
>from later of this summer!! and tell you on Zappo when it is ready . :-)
>
>Discographies which I mentioned here may incomplete.
>Please mail to me if you have any further questions
>about their activities or how Japanese techno scene is on now.
>
>It is hard to write in English...I must learn it more and more...
>
>
>Peace + Respect,
>:-)
>
>Ken Inaoka@Syzygy records（QZA00114＠niftyserve.or.jp）
> <96/06/06 21:54:00>
>
>
>P.S.
>You can forward this post to everywhere without my permission
>if there are someone who wants to know about them
>or you want to let everyone know about them and their music .
>
>