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Nagata Kazunao 40th Anniversary: live report
On Wednesday I headed to Roppongi SuperDeluxe for an event celebrating the 40th anniversary of veteran indies electronic/techno artist Nagata Kazunao. He's known as guy who runs the label ExT Recordings (home of De De Mouse and Cherryboy Function), previously label Transonic, and he was also a founder of Enban in Koenji, and also for his numerous music projects.
The event featured him playing with all his different units and in collaborations with other artists. Here's my quick report of the event.
The whole was started with Himitsu Hakase singing a karaoke song the way he does it, with Nagata-san standing behind with his hand on his chest. Some of the audience also stood up doing the same. :)
Then came the first act, Carre+Organization, where Organization is the solo unit of Nagata-san, and Carre is a 2-piece electro noise unit. Watch a clip at eyeVio.
Then there was a nice interlude with singer Nagisa Yōko who sang one song.
Followed shamisen player Yamamoto Dai, accompanied by Nagata-san who sampled and looped the shamisen sounds with added beats.
Then was yudayajazz, again accompanied by Nagata-san. The two did some live mixing and scratching of both sound and old Japanese video, that was quite amazing! Watch a clip at eyeVio.
Next up was Elektro Humangel, a crazy band that does some sort of electro-death metal. No guitars in sight, just keyboards and drums, sometimes bass, and their singer. Nagata-san assisted again, at the end trashing what looked like a huge vintage synth (I hope Nick will correct me? :)). Watch a clip at eyeVio.
Last but not least, it was time for Fantastic Explosion! A name with a long history, it's now the unit of Nagata-san with Yoshida Tetsuto. They played a selection of songs from the unit's whole repertory, such as "Chocolate" (from "Return of Fantastic Explosion") and "Ride On" (from "Fantastic Explosion 2", with Yoshida-san playing a SH-101!), and I think one song from their latest album, a soundtrack for movie "Hyperion".
The event went on with Kishino You-ichi, Himitsu Hakase and Tokiwa Hibiki, the DJs from event "giragira Night" that used to be held at Enban back in the days Nagata-san worked there. I had to leave though to catch the train back home.
Larger sizes and more photos at Flickr
Posted on November 29, 2009 at 01:34 | Tweet
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you have no idea how jealous I am
Posted by AxemRangers on February 20, 2010 at 11:34