all tracks composed and produced by AOKI takamasa 2004 ~ 2005

Mastering : Gen Isayama at studio NU-VU
Artwork : Masakatsu Mizutani and AOKI takamasa

artist's information

AOKI takamasa <http://www.aokitakamasa.com/>

Born 1976 in Osaka. Living in Paris, France presently. Since the first album, "SILICOM", released from PROGRESSIVE FOrM in the beginning of year 2000, he has been looking at his own personal methodology while creating activities of sounds mainly based on computer/software.

He is an energetic artist who expands the limits of the original musical expression vigorously. Many of the music that is called ELECTRONICA/IDM in general are Meta-techno like, and are heading toward anorganic substance. On the other hand, the music that AOKI takamasa produce is made from same computer base, but is surprisingly teemed with physical, vivid, and uplifting feeling with distinctive clearness.

The album "QUANTUM" released from "Cirque" in 2003 is the organic groove that is a certain sense of existence and an original fresh rhythm. You will be able to understand immediately if you listened to the latest album, "SIMPLY FUNK", which was released in 2004.
Although you could feel the sense of the existing rhythm thoroughly pushed out and cultivated, in "QUANTUM", made as a non-beat album, his original essence of groove is oozing out, and again, his extraordinary talent surprises us.

He gives priority as well as the production activity and masterpiece in the live performance that develops aggressively. From 2001 up to present time, he has been invited to not only Japan but also the SONAR festival in Spain and the event of a European each city.His performance steadily collects support from the audience in various places.

A collaboration album with Tsujiko Noriko on fatcat records, and a new single or an album from a new label “op.disc” by Yoshihiro Hanno and Fumiya Tanaka are being planned in 2005. Even more enthusiastic activities are to be expected.