I thought I would fill in the gap and do a series of posts about Japanese musician "Yoshinori Sunahara":http://y-sunahara.com/. Yoshinori was born in Hokkaido, Japan in September 13, 1969. His influences include Yellow Magic Orchestra, Kraftwerk and Art Of Noise. He played in several bands until becoming 1/3rd of the techno pop group Denki Groove (Electric Groove) on their 3rd album _UFO_. It was released in 1991. Denki Groove was a platinum record selling group in Japan that brought techno music into the mainstream. Yoshinori was known as Marin in the group. In '94 Denki Groove took a break so the members could release solo albums. Yoshinori released some tracks under various aliases and produced his first solo album in '95 titled _Crossover_. Unlike the loud, in-your-face, comically strange antics of Denki Groove, Yoshinori had produced a very polished and lush downtempo album with hip-hop beats. He followed this album up in 1998 with two airplane inspired concept albums _Take Off and Landing_ and _Pan Am - The Sounds of The 70's_. He left Denki Groove in 1999. In 2001 he released his last album _Love Beat_ which was more techno and less downtempo. He hasn't released any albums since _Lovebeat_. He had a greatest hits come out this year on Sony's Ki/oon sublabel titled _Works '95-'05_. I'm not sure what goes up to '05 that he did but it's hard to get info on Japanese artists together. I wanted to post a couple of non-album tracks. The first is from the amazing Japanese Electronic primer _Pacific States_. The track was produced for this album and came out just prior to the _Crossover_ release. The second track is a remix for FPM and the other is a track of his remixed by Nicola Conte.
GooGoomuc says
Yea they are very cool. I dont own them,but would love too. they are AKG K701, kinda pricey at 300 bucks,
I don't know if I have been a good boy this year, wishing that Santa will leave them under the tree..
I just ordered "Pacific State" off of Amazon for 5 bucks used,(what a deal) and got Love Beat from itunes..
Love getting turned on to new music!!!
spaceling says
That Pacific State Album also has those tracks by Hruomi Hosono (Swing Slow) and Doctor Y.S. and the Cosmic Drunkards (Yoshihiro Sawasaki) and an excellent track by dj Krush
Yoshinori Sunahara is brilliant shit and Lovebeat might be the most chilled out album ever. It basically makes me think of the better japanese rpg music i've heard which is awesome. Good post made me sign up for site and i don't even know what Mog.com is yet. If anyone else is looking for some real unique music most people aren't aware of check out Fever Ray good shit.
I thought I would fill in the gap and do a series of posts about Japanese musician "Yoshinori Sunahara":http://y-sunahara.com/. Yoshinori was born in Hokkaido, Japan in September 13, 1969. His influences include Yellow Magic Orchestra, Kraftwerk and Art Of Noise. He played in several bands until becoming 1/3rd of the techno pop group Denki Groove (Electric Groove) on their 3rd album _UFO_. It was released in 1991. Denki Groove was a platinum record selling group in Japan that brought techno music into the mainstream. Yoshinori was known as Marin in the group. In '94 Denki Groove took a break so the members could release solo albums. Yoshinori released some tracks under various aliases and produced his first solo album in '95 titled _Crossover_. Unlike the loud, in-your-face, comically strange antics of Denki Groove, Yoshinori had produced a very polished and lush downtempo album with hip-hop beats. He followed this album up in 1998 with two airplane inspired concept albums _Take Off and Landing_ and _Pan Am - The Sounds of The 70's_. He left Denki Groove in 1999. In 2001 he released his last album _Love Beat_ which was more techno and less downtempo. He hasn't released any albums since _Lovebeat_. He had a greatest hits come out this year on Sony's Ki/oon sublabel titled _Works '95-'05_. I'm not sure what goes up to '05 that he did but it's hard to get info on Japanese artists together. I wanted to post a couple of non-album tracks. The first is from the amazing Japanese Electronic primer _Pacific States_. The track was produced for this album and came out just prior to the _Crossover_ release. The second track is a remix for FPM and the other is a track of his remixed by Nicola Conte.
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Yoshinori Sunahara is brilliant shit and Lovebeat might be the most chilled out album ever. It basically makes me think of the better japanese rpg music i've heard which is awesome. Good post made me sign up for site and i don't even know what Mog.com is yet. If anyone else is looking for some real unique music most people aren't aware of check out Fever Ray good shit.