Sundaze (04)

Hello another Sundaze Sunday coming up, possibly not the easiest of listening but then a little effort brings it's rewards here. So without further ado i present to you Koss, which btw is what Iranians say when they see Rice i'd say it'll make a nice inside joke when you see her face on the tele..that stupid koss ! Back to the music i devided the 39min Koss titletrack differently then officially which btw didnt make much sense to me. My second offering is a compilation made by two radio jocks who meanwhile have been doing shows of this kind off music for a decade now..i'd say they are well versed in thismusic and it shows..btw at the bottom is a link where you can listen to or download their podcasts. In case you long for Sundaze every day.

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Koss - Ring ( 00 ^ 122mb)

Kuniyuki Takahashi (Koss) is based in Sapporo. He started his making music in 1985 ('DRP'), heavily impacted by German progressive and noise. In the late '80s to the early '90s, together with Tomoyuki Murastige they produced a hardcore sound fusing metal percussion, noise and electro. Europe, Belgium specially took in these hardcore body beats and so Antler Subway records, released Electro Brain 586 in 1990.
During the middle of ' 90s, Kuniyuki performed live frequently under diverse monikers , then under the name 'Mask' he presented a fusion of native/world music and electro. He also started the production of the tunes absorbing acoustic sound such as percussion, piano and so on that he plays himself. In 1998 he joined Haruomi Hosono (a.k.a Yellow Magic Orchestra member) as percussionist at the big event 'Rainbow 2000 Japan' . In 2000, his first album Ring under the name 'Koss' was released. This epic downbeat album includes the trilogy Ring extending to almost 40 minutes. It got good reviews and acclaim from fellow artists like Larry Heard and Plaid. In 2001, Koss was at the 'Big Chill' festival in Naxos, Greece he began his live performance with his laptop mutating and evolving his music which came across brilliantly. This resulted in the album Live Ring released in 2002 where he absorbed the element of dub into Ring creating a whole new 'perspective' and with it enhancing his music and acclaim.



01 - Ring I (18:32)
02 - Ring II (14:42)
03 - Ring III (6:09)
04 - Ra1030in (7:12)
05 - Source-SW (8:18)
06 - Ple Ate (7:38)

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VA - X-Rated, The Electronic Files (02 ^ 130mb)

This album was compiled by the hosts of X-Rated, an electronic music program heard on the radio station KINK-FM.

CD 1 starts with Lustmord-Evergreen 'Ixaxaar', which Mantra "this is the night of the demon" stuck itself into the brain and let the album 'The Monstrous Soul' become a classic. Track 2, 'Valchirie' is an exclusive from Biosphere . Cosey Funny Tutti's Cassette 'Time to Tell' is another 23-min classic excerpted here are 7min of great SloMo Ambient Pop. Multicide is John Everall, known from working with COIL- and Nocturnal-Emissions. Banabila is a classic ambient artist, here he mixes up twoof his albums Voiznoiz 1&2' . Edgar Froeses Tangerine Dream have been at it since 1970 , here we have an outake from 'Phaedra' (74) . Kim Cascone, with his projekt PGR/PoisonGasResearch has made a name in the industrial scene since the mid eighties, curently concentrating on Laptopnoise and Microsound the track here is a bit of an odd one out.. Michael Wells presnts his projekt S.O.L.O. chilled downbeats, The last track is by canadian Chris Meloche, who 6 hour live radioshow got him noticed and a record deal for his trancy harmonies



01 - Lustmord - Ixaxaar (5:08)
02 - Biosphere - Valcherie (8:50)
03 - Cosey Fanni Tutti - Time To Tell (Excerpt) (7:11)
04 - Multicide - Zero Element (6:35)
05 - Banabila - Voiz Recycled (8:56)
06 - Tangerine Dream - Phaedra (Excerpt) (6:12)
07 - Kim Cascone - Acoustic Polytopes For BlurBuilding (5:32)
08 - Michael Wells presents S.O.L.O. - Software (7:18)
09 - Chris Meloche - Loop 6 (Excerpt) (10:01)

VA - X-Rated, The Electronic Files 2 (02 ^ 150mb)

Robin Rimbaud alias Scanner offers an exclusive opener, to CD 2 , close to COILs Ambientwork. Anthony Rother with his Projekt PSI Performer shows a much more experimental side with his 11-min '1953' . Klaus Schulze is featured with a excerpt from 'Timewind' (75). Vidna Obmana, the belgian master of silent ambient, surpises with an asian touch Minimaltrack, which Micromusic-Sounds test your eardrums COIL's Mini-CD-Album 'The Remote Viewer' excerpt os a atmospheric and hypnotic which brings tour guests Cliff Stapleton and Mikek York in the picture. Atom Heart's (Uwe Schmidt) shows his experimental side in this Live At Sel i/s/c . Holger Czukay, with Can, was with his1968 (!)-Album 'Canaxis' way ahead and shows us here with the slightly edited 'Boat Woman Song', Pete Namlook aka Peter Kuhlmann has rbeen releasing an enormous amount of work this lat decade . 'Autumn' from the 'Seasons Greetings' Album (94) may not be the high light of his work but it fits in here rather well.. Last artist here is the Ex-Industrial-Collective Bourbonese Qualk, they dropped the hardcorenoise Laptopsound and surprise here with ambient pop "extra soft condition"



01 - Scanner - Spyder (6:32)
02 - Psi Performer - 1953 (11:33)
03 - Klaus Schulze - Bayreuth Return (Excerpt) (10:23)
04 - vidnaObmana - Controversial Space (6:44)
05 - Coil - Remote Viewing 1 (Excerpt) (12:02)
06 - Atom Heart - Live At Sel i/s/c 1 (Excerpt) (5:04)
07 - Holger Czukay - Boat Woman Song (Excerpt) (7:44)
08 - Pete Namlook - Autumn (Excerpt) (10:03)
09 - Bourbonese Qualk - Temporale (3:36)

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