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Edition NIkO Release Archive:

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.

2010:

"Tapepoiesis"

release date: 20th Aug. 2010
price: 2,100 Yen (Tax Inc.)
buy: popmuzik (Japan)
cat number: NI008R
format: CDR (LTD 50)
cover design: shotahirama (All self made: Lists of 50 at flickr)

Track List:
1. Dystopian by ENG
2. SF by ENG

Info:
Radical free/spontaneous music/art ensemble, The Electronoise Group (ENG) is back! Their new album "Tapepoiesis" is a dedication album to legendary tape music community LAFMS (Los Angeles Free Music Society, The Lowest Form Of Music). ENG head shotahirama (now a novelist and still a laptop musician releasing some materials from Japanese sound-art label mAtter, and Re-Records from Hong Kong) is back on ENG music after their last album "Dokument 2006-2009". Bizarre, dada, surreal, all anti-real factors are concrete together as a hyper-reality tape music. This is their new masterpiece and it is a new epic for the noise-concrete music.

Japanese:
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"Moholism"

release date: 28th Feb. 2010
price: Free Down Load
buy: SoundCloud
cat number: NI007
format: File, mp3
cover design: shotahirama

Track List:
1.# by GerdArntz + Kaede Mira
2.## by GerdArntz + Linda Bjalla
3.### by GerdArntz + rurarakiss
4.Fistful by shunjiTAKAMI + Linda Bjalla
5.notch by sighkam + Linda Bjalla
6.Diagnosed by Toshitaka Ikeda + Kaede Mira
7.Vineland by JANDEATH + rurarakiss

*tracks by GerdArntz are for only private. If u want it, please e-mail to Edition NIkO.

Info:
Highly influenced by constructivism and a strong advocate of the integration of technology and industry into the arts, #7 from Edition NIkO, "Moholism". Constructivism was an artistic and architectural movement that originated in Russia from 1919 onward which rejected the idea of "art for art's sake" in favour of art as a practice directed towards social purposes. This album contains 8 artists from Tokyo, Kanagawa, Fukuoka, and from Russia, with 7 tracks inspired by Constructivist Graphic Design, like Rodchenko, El Lissitzky, and strongly inspired by Laszlo Moholy-Nagy. The word "Moholism" was made up by shotahirama using this great german-constructivists. Those Constructivists were early pioneers of the techniques of photomontage. Which is one of most important method for us (Edition NIkO). Using Max Bill art design (Swiss architect, artist, painter, typeface designer, industrial designer and graphic designer), we are proud to announce this 7th release from label, and this will be the 1st music album for Constructivism!

Japanese:
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2009:

"Dokument 2006-2009"

release date: 14th Sep. 2009
price: 1,890 Yen (Tax Inc.)
buy: Disk Union, Popmuzik
cat number: NI006R
format: CDR
cover design: shotahirama

Track List:
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, 07)
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)

Info:
New release from shotahirama, his band "ENG/electronoise group". The Ultimate DOKUMENT of time of a historical Band. ENG (electronoise group), a Myth, a Cult, a Philosophy. After more than 6 months of planing and organising this momumental release is finally realised. Edition NIkO is proud to present a limited 100 copies paper sleeve CDR that documents the first 4 years and the first stage of the band. CDR with original design by shotahirama dedicated to his respect John Heartfield. Besides the official File-Releases such as Barcelona, Kollaps from Tecnonucleo and Alg-a, this CDR also includes live recordings from their concert at BankART 1929 museum, Yokohama in 06, and also Shunt Club, London in 08, their first concert at loopline in 06, the Enban Concert at Tokyo in 09, plus a few more live-documents. (-text by Edition NIkO)

Japanese:
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2008:

"Baconism"

release date: 25th Dec. 2008
price: Free Down Load
buy: BOXSTR.net
cat number: NI005
format: File, mp3
cover design: shotahirama

Track List:
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

Review:
Abstraction from the Human Form... Diseases of the mouth bold, Crucifixion... austere, and often grotesque or nightmarish imagery. NIkO will introduce 9 artists, the individualistic experimentation, artificial intelligence and their experimental electronic sound dedicated to Francis Bacon. Its form, frequency and line, click and glitch, cut and paste, layers and drone, to create a composition which exists independently of visual references to the world. Today we are going to release out our 5th album, "Baconism". This is a compilation for the first anniversary of this NIkO Label. And those 9 artists from Berin, Hamburg, Paris, Madeira, Canberra, Tokyo, are expressing their Abstraction, and making surrealistic sound works in this experimental electronic music album "Baconism". Like Bacon's themes in "Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion", the triptych format, the placement behind glass in heavily gilded frames, the open mouth, and the use of painterly distortion; Furies, in the Oresteia of Aeschylus and the theme of the Crucifixion, some tracks contain complex or chaotic rhythms and close harmonies which some hear as random and noisy and violence. Some are using the term post-digital to describe various experimentations associated with the glitch aesthetic like distortion painting. Some are rhythmic but minimal electronic and long tracks of dense, hypnotic, atmospheric sound. Some are drone and illbient, queer sound-scape, like an image of flat burnt orange background in bacon's artwork. (-text by Edition NIkO)

Japanese:
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"Geometrik Conceptualism"

release date: 31st Aug. 2008
price: Free Down Load
buy: BOXSTR.net
cat number: NI004
format: File, mp3
cover design: shotahirama

Track List:
1.Sea Wall#1 by Edwin Lo
2.Spacescape by Edwin Lo
3.Hidden Operation by Edwin Lo
4.Sea Wal#2 by Edwin Lo
5.Auditory Scenes by Edwin Lo
6.In the memory of by Edwin Lo

Review:
Work by Hong kong sound artist Edwin Lo. Edwin's silent and secret of soundscape, people can't ignore this if u are interested in Francisco Lopez, Ralph Steinbruchel or Jason Kahn. Edwin Lo is a sound artist, field recordist and phonographer form Hong kong. He is currently finishing his final year of Degree in School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong. Through different experiments on sound ---- whatever in computer or in recording process ---- Edwin Lo tries to think sound as an object of desire, as haunting memories and experiences, and articulation of our consciousness and awareness on listening. Wonderful view from unknown landscape. He focused on the sound of nature and its effect on humans, field recordings and the perception of time and space as experienced through sound, often electronically treated. But not like sample-loops, or no electronoise or something like digital, which is most beautiful part of his works and i can see some influences in it, his passion for architecture, photography, and interior design. This album is dedicated to Walter De Maria. (De Maria emerged as a leader of the Earthworks movement in 1968 when he filled the Galerie Heiner Friedrich in Munich with dirt. Earthworks and serial geometric sculpture continue to occupy De Maria in the 1970s: his Three Continent Project was completed in 1972 and the Lightning Field, one of his most accomplished work of land-art, in New Mexico was finished in 1977. He lives and works in New York. In 2000 two of his conceptual recordings from 1964 and 1968 finally came out on a self released CD. text from discogs) (-text by Edition NIkO)

Japanese:
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"NEUBAUTEN"

release date: 25th Dec. 2008
price: Free Down Load
buy: BOXSTR.net
cat number: NI003
format: File, mp3
cover design: shotahirama

Track List:
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

Review:
"NEUBAUTEN" is a word from my legendary respect Einstürzende Neubauten. And their name in English literally means "Collapsing New Buildings," where "New Buildings" describes a type of architecture common in post-WWII Germany (large concrete box-style buildings) and "Collapsing" is an adjective in this context, not a verb. This album were made by file sending process, collaps and rebuild their sound-file, mp3, WAV, aiff, snd, doing mail-art with other laptop artists in Japan, and show us a wonderful but extremely ill and sick of technoid-rhythmic production of glitch, sinewave, higher-frequency pulse sonic-music. This is for sonics for maniacs. Curation was legendary laptop duets by shotahirama and yy_zz from Hong kong, called "NI." There project ideal was to express the content of various psycho-pathalogical conditions, especially schizophrenia, manic - depressive psychosis, mental retardation and paranoia. It was very similar to shotahirama's main project ENG (electronoise group) but instead ENG uses free-improv and drone text, NI uses only sound-files and making rhythmic technoise sounds. Information Overload supersedes normal, rational thought structures, forcing deviation into less restrictive mental procedures of so-called 'mental illness'. NI was trying to be a voice for those individuals condemned to the slow decay of mental hospitals and chemical, electro, surgical therapy, without fetishising them into blatant entertainment product. But NI was also described as "hard hitting, noise tinged electro-industrial", the music was loaded with infectious and penetrating rhythms perfect for dance floors. They split and ended up after they released out this album. (-text by Edition NIkO)

Japanese:
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"POSTISM"

release date: 14th Feb. 2008
price: Free Down Load
buy: BOXSTR.net
cat number: NI002
format: File, mp3
cover design: shotahirama

Track List:
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

Review:
"Postism" is a word made up by shotahirama, and it comes from "Post me your expressionism!" This concept was a dedication for the "Mail Art" during the late 70's in Los Angels, US. Like L.A.F.M.S (Los Angels Free Music Society) people were making music by sending their own tapes to the community and collage them up and making a huge noise-concrete sound, and they call it as an Art. And that is the most important meanings for this POSTISM project. The best part for this album was its 1st track, Anytone/KWC. He made a mournful drift of high-sheen Ambience music. And an other Hong kong artist, sherman. Sound like Juan Hidalgo's "Rrose Selavy". (-text by Edition NIkO)

Japanese:
coming soon...

2007:

"Chainsia"

release date: 27th Dec. 2007
price: Free Down Load
buy: BOXSTR.net
cat number: NI001
format: File, mp3
cover design: shotahirama

Track List:
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.

Review:
1st release and 1st label compilation for Edition NIkO. "CHAINSIA" is a new word comes from "Chain+Asia". It was a beginning for label's world wide expansion in Aisa, its cultural network through various initiative internationally, Hong kong, Tokyo, Osaka. Like Zen Lu from Shenzhen, China, is an experimental musician and sound artist, hosted and founded We Play!Records, and he is the founder of Neo Sound group. Zen is one of most influential sound artist in China. And from Hong kong, Sin:Ned, is also powerful in Asia. He spends much of his time hacking and sculpting sonic materials with his laptop and various electronic gears. He has been release out his first solo release, "uroborus: a study on no-input device" from lona records. And those young and progressive chinese laptop artists passed there identity to Japanese new age laptop artists. Like yuji kondo, is a sound artist and composer from osaka and kyoto. He makes compositions using computer programs, and restructure the sounds such as snow noise, sine wave, stylus tip noise, tape hiss, impulse click, field recording sources, acoustic percussion instruments, random tuning electric bass guitar tones, and voices in unconventional ways. generated materials are fed back by the matrix-switch system on daw software, and are used in music. (-text by Edition NIkO)

Japanese:
coming soon...