NI008 Edition NIkO + Re-Records Collaboration coming soon
Artists are:
From Re-Records
Alok
Anytone (aka kwc)
Edwin Lo
nerve
Domting (member of iii)
ch'os (aka vasco)
No One Pulse
sherman
Knife goes on
Sin:ned
iii
From Edition NIkO
Hakobune
Hiroki Sasajima
Ishimura
Nobuto Suda
pawn
shotahirama
shunjiTAKAMI
Taishin Inoue
Yuji Kondo
and more TBA
NI007 "GerdArntz" release date: coming soon
Artists are:
GerdArntz + Kaede Mira
GerdArntz + Linda Bjalla
GerdArntz + rurarakiss
and more TBA
NI006R "Dokument 2006-2009" release date: 15th Sep. 2009
Distributed: disk union (Japan)
Artists: ENG (electronoise group).
Artwork by: shotahirama
Dedicated to John Heartfield.
track:
1.Geisha Rape Blues (from Kollaps released by Alg-a, 08)
2.For Emil Ruder (live rec from Enban, 09)
3.Jehovah Genocide (Unpublished track from magic book records, 09)
4.Sun (from Kollaps released by Alg-a and NTNS Radio, 08)
5.Zomanna (from Kollaps released by Alg-a, 08)
6.Animalia's hand job (live rec from Enban, 09)
7.Funeral Music for dadaism (from TAO released by Tecnonucleo, 09)
8.Panik (Unpublished, 08)
9.BPM as Broken Penis Moonlight (Unpublished, 09)
10.Germanik (Unpublished, 08)
11.Dada corrupted (Unpublished track from Raash Records, 06)
12.Ich bin konkret poesie (from Barcelona released by Tecnonucleo, 07)
13.Sambient (Unpublished track from Raash Records, 06)
14.Silent (from Chainindividual released by Edition NIkO)
15.No name (live rec from BankART 1929 museum, 06)
16.No name (live rec from Akihabara GOODMAN, 06)
17.Anarchitektur (Unpublished and mastering by shunjiTAKAMI, 07)
18.Auto (Unpublished and mastering by shunjiTAKAMI, 07)
19.Fruhling (from 81.3 J-WAVE Radio Sakamoto, 08)
20.Wahrnehmungen (Unpublished, 07)
21.Esplendor Paisaje (live rec from Kasama museum, 07)
22.Model Control Organism (Unpublished, 09)
23.Cruising Geisha (live rec from Enban, 09)
NI005 "Baconism" release date: 25th Dec. 2008
Artists are: NNY, [-hyph-], Darren McClure, SIFIR, Kasper T Toeplitz, JANDEATH, MICLO DIET, HAARMANN, Shoeb Ahmad.
Artwork by: shotahirama
Dedicated to Francis Bacon.
track:
1.Sand Dune by NNY
2.aSTUDYtowardsINTROJECTION by [-hyph-]
3.Steamline by Darren McClure
4.animot amourtalite mon frottage by SIFIR
5.Hexst_Francis_Bacon by Kasper
6.Metropole by shoeb ahmad
7.wohnungHasenMaster by HAARMANN
8.KATTACK by JANDEATH
9.Boyz2Noise by MICLO DIET
NI004 "Geometrik Conceptualism" release date: 31st Aug. 2008
Artists: EDWIN LO
Artwork by: shotahirama
Dedicated to Walter De Maria.
track:
1.Sea Wall1
2.Spacescape
3.Hidden Operation
4.Sea Wal2
5.Auditory Scenes
6.In the memory of
track:
1.Oil by NI.+SHARP
2.Negativ Land by NI.
3.Machine Age Voodoo by NI.+s Am0.
4.Dada Compuesto by NI.+enormous O'clock
5.Auto by NI.+shunjiTAKAMI+Toshitaka Ikeda
6.GAS by NI.+moze
7.mekano rebuild by NI.+Yuji Kondo+cOLLAGE
track:
1.Oniono by Anytone/KWC
2.I was trying to tell her something... by Kim_Nasung
3.Hammer in her hand... by Kim_Nasung
4.comeout by Toshitaka Ikeda
5.plain.1 by s Am0.
6.Love is Blind, and You are such a Loveless Blind Man by sherman
7.Noism by SASAKI hiroaki
8.He came and his eyes blinked... by Kim_Nasung
9.OBESITY by MICLO DIET
10.mekano by NI.+Yuji Kondo
NI001 "CHAINSIA" release date: 27th Dec. 2007
Artists are: PROVOKE, Darren McClure, Zen Lu, MICLO DIET, yy_zz, yuji kondo, Toshitaka Ikeda, Urajiro, Linda Bjalla, shotahirama, Sin:Ned, Capricornus, NI.
Artwork by: shotahirama
Dedicated to Hermann Nitsch.
track:
1.memorandum for players by Provoke
2.Ground Haze by Darren McClure
3.Night Bird by Zen Lu
4.ghostloop by MICLO DIET
5.erume. by yy_zz
6._hryk.25 by Yuji Kondo
7.40X51cm by Toshitaka Ikeda
8.the 7th troidal line by Urajiro
9.LiquidSunshine by Linda Bjalla
10.Bushman by Sin:Ned
11.Untitled 2 by capricornus
12.mediaerror by NI.
Edition NIkO
About :
Edition NIkO was founded/curated and art directed by Japanese-American sound artist shotahirama in 2007. It is a label cooperation for electronic music based in Tokyo. The main interest was to give uniting sound and art design with strong attention to scientific sequences, Dada, Bauhaus, and drone ambient sound scapes. A surrealistic minimalism. So, priority is to publish series with focus on a specific philosophy of music/ sound/ art composing. Also it is a platform for conceptional and experimental related projects in music, art and sciencemusic both by myself (shotahirama) and by other artists and musicians. All NIkO releases have been on either MP3 or CDR (mostly mp3) as I feel that these formats currently offer the most appropriate form of reproduction. But its basically, a non-profit label..... NIkO Label was closed down at the end of 2008 and reopened in January 2009 as Edition NIkO.
Founder:
shotahirama is a Japanese-American Sound Artist located in Tokyo, inspired by Modern Art, Dada and Bauhaus. Also known for the founding of the Edition NIkO (NIkO Label), ENG (electronoise group) and JANDEATH. His musical focus is characterized by digital synth and field recording with computer software processing and improvisation, which generates a large palette of possible sounds including; grainy textures, complex patterns of smooth drones, and microscopic clicks and cuts. shota' music is electroacoustic in nature, in that both analogue and digital worlds are fused into one.
Edition NIkO festival:
Deep Listening Chair Festival, organized by Edition NIkO, is one of most famous Tokyo's festival for Experimental Digital Music and related Visual Arts. Festival takes place under the theme Surrealistic Minimalism. Sound and other media since 2007 at various venues in Tokyo. DLC will address both theoretical and practical aspects of today’s independent and experimental music production at the intersections of digital music and sound & media arts. Artists, experts and theorists will present their work as a means to pool knowledge and sketch out the sector’s future prospects. Visitors can hone their personal skills in workshops designed to encourage and support DIY experimentation. Selected projects and initiatives will demonstrate what they do in a hybrid formats fusing exhibitions and work-in-progress sessions that engage visitors’ participation. Actions and installations will illustrate further examples of creative output wiring music, art and digital culture.
Deep Listening Chair Festival 2009
11. July. 2009
at Loopline Tokyo.
christophe charles (Mille Plateaux)
Tetsuo Furudate (Sub Rosa)
Chihei Hatakeyama (Spekk)
ENG/electronoise group with Cal Lyall, Taishin Inoue, Kelly Churko, Blackphone666, Daisuke Kitabayashi
Darren McClure
enormous O'clock
Yuji Kondo
a snore
Seiji Takahashi
Day1 at Loop Line Tokyo.
Daisuke Kitabayashi+Akira Hakko (Tokyo), Darren McClure (Nagano), DARTE (Tokyo), ENG/electronoise group (Tokyo), Provoke (Osaka), shinjiro yamaguchi (Tokyo), Toshitaka Ikeda (Kanagawa), Emiko Shirayama (Kanagawa), yuji kondo (Osaka)
Day2 at SOUP Tokyo.
cOLLAGE (Tokyo), enormous O'clock (Kyoto), SASAKI hiroaki (Tokyo), MICLO DIET (Tokyo), Rolling Maestro (Tokyo)
Deep Listening Chair Festival 2007.
at Loop Line Tokyo.
cOLLAGE (Tokyo), Darren McClure (Nagano), DARTE (Tokyo), ENG/electronoise group (Tokyo), Ryo Miyashita (Tokyo), shunjiTAKAMI (Tokyo)
hay, Shota, I finally got your WHITE CD-R ! Great job! I like it! what is the next theme of the release of Niko? It seems your preference is really influenced by contemporary visual art....Anyway, Cheers!
how are you doing, my friend? It is really cool that you can invite Tetsuo san to play in deep lsitening chair 2009! It seems the festival is going better and better! I am so excited about that. Anyway, I hope everything will be fine and run smooth! Take care and cheers! (btw, again, NICE flyer design!) :)
Always thank you for organizeorganization of the live broadcasting!! And I understood the warmth of your human nature this time. I respect passion for your music. In next time, Tokyo!
Deep Listening Chair Festival 2009
Deep Listening Kyoto Festival 2009.
Deep Listening Chair Festival 2008.
Deep Listening Chair Festival 2007.
