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TRS 25015
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"The improvisation unit Transonic Jokers's live recorded album from their performances from 1994-95. The members are Yoshihiro Sawasaki (YS), Kazunao Nagata (Fantastic Explosion), and Naka Tomizawa (King of Opus). Cut up collage mix in-out their original live sound." A superstar group of sorts, this one goes so far as to beautifully spoof the original cover artwork of the Cosmic Jokers' brilliant self-titled debut. You'll have to see it to believe it. Nagata is on electronics, Sawasaki (best known for his Sublime associations) on synthesizer, Tomizwa on mixer & effects, Sueo on "devise" & Genshijn as "navigator". Musically this one shares the Cosmic Jokers jamming cosmic flavor, but updates it with the sweeping space squelch of 90s minimalistic techno pulse. The most outrageously killer release on Transonic to date and a complete classic of its kind.
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TRS 20002
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Subtitled "This CD would be enjoyable with shuffle mode of audio system", this is another exciting chapter in the fracture-beat Japanese underground. Really on an EP in length (but not exactly discounted to us, sorry), this features 88 tracks, many of which are just ambient wave segment that last only a few second in duration, which disrupt into one another quite nicely. An extremely memorable atmospheric beat loop repeats, strange news samples get introduced along with various drum programming variations -- a densely packed compendium of the Transonic sound system.
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TRS 20001
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Third release already by this Japanese outfit. This features a self-constructed cut up of their first album plus 8 new tracks of Fantastic Explosion's unique sampledelic Japanese drum 'n' bass.
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TRS 25020
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Live album from the strange Japanese drum'n'bass/soundtrack-sampling Japanese duo of Kazunao Nagata and Takahiro Suzuki. Weird collage interludes, live programming, thrown together in unusual fashion.
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TRS 25012
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Transonic is a new Japanese label run by Kazunao Nagata, the same guy behind the utterly fascinating electronics label, Zero Gravity. This Transonic label is not related to Nanjo of High Rise/Musica Transonic, but instead focuses on the strange electronic underground currently brewing in and around Tokyo. Like Zero Gravity, the graphics lean towards stunning hi-tech precision and the sounds documented run the gamut from classic ambient stylings to the more purely inexplicable. "King of Opus has been paying attention to Les Baxter and Martin Denny's exotic sound and Esquivel and Rass Garcia's strange mood. This album includes dub-based exotic voodoo sound, techno sounding like tropical island wood percussion sound. 90s strange sound." An odd and compelling album that dares to list the following as "musical inspilation": Les Baxter, King Tubby, Sonny & Cher, Voodoo, crazy surf, bad jazz, bad mambo, exo, bon-zai disco, ghoul, noise, down beat, chant."
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TRS 25014
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"Nina Noho, techno ambient unit, was only active for 2 years during 1990-92. This album only includes their ambient tracks." A duo of TMZ & Merumo, produced by Nagata. As the title might imply this is fueled by the early vision of Aphex Twin's ambient works and minimalist techno standards. Strange synthesis, the occasional heavily processed vocal, patterned electronic machine music that might not wipe your slate with pure innovation, but is certainly of interest.
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