Browse by Label: SONY (JAPAN)

Artist:	MILLS, JEFF
Title:	From The 21st
Label:	SONY (JAPAN)
Format:	CD
Price:	$30.00
Catalog #:	AICT 43

Japanese-only CD collection of tracks from the international king of Detroit loop minimalism. An exclusive album of new tracks, not a collection of previously available vinyl tracks. Futuristic and expansive Mills development, highly desirable. "All compositions arranged, produced and mixed by Jeff Mills for Axis Records. Recorded at Spider Formation-Chicago." Track listing: "Gata"/"Solara"/"Dove@3:43"/"Optima (Reason)/""B2f-7"/"To Count"/"31J56-4"/"Zenith"/"Twighlight 20"/"Violet (21 Counts)/"M87". Mills, from the Sony Techno Page; "Born in 1963 in Detroit, Jeff Mills started DJing in 1987. He started creating his own music in 1989. He formed a Techno unit, Underground Resistance with Mike Banks, aka Mad Mike , in 1990. His record has been released under a several names including X-101. After leaving Underground Resistance, he established his own label, Axis, based in Chicago. As one of the most talented and popular DJs, he spends much time touring and performing in Europe and UK. He established a new label, Purpose Maker, in 1996, in which he approaches and challenges Techno music at a different level. Jeff Mills is known for playing 30 to 50 disks within an hour -- truly an unique DJ style. This is because he tries his best to get the cream of every record and only plays the part he feels is the best part of each tune. He believes that DJ's need to listen to the music carefully, and be a medium for the record consumer. For some strange reason, he does not consider himself a DJ."

Artist:	WYATT, ROBERT
Title:	The End of an Ear
Label:	SONY (JAPAN)
Format:	CD
Price:	$25.00
Catalog #:	MHCP 430CD

Japanese reissue of the first (pre-accident) Robert Wyatt solo album, first issued in 1970 by CBS. 2004 digital remaster, packaged in mini-LP paper sleeve. At this point Wyatt was in between work with the Soft Machine and Matching Mole and was aided by the likes of Elton Dean (alto saxello), David Sinclair (organ), Mark Charig (cornet), Neville Whitehead (bass), Mark Ellidge (piano) & Cyril Ayers (percussion). Wyatt himself on drums, mouth, piano, organ. The album opens & closes with a baffling space-jazz 'cover' of Gil Evans' 'Las Vegas Tango' that is quite deep, and proceeds through various settings of psychedelic jazz, Gong-like jamming and free-style improv balladry. Very out, very good. Japanese liner notes. Also included is a Soft Machine, Matching Mole, Robert Wyatt family tree diagram in English.

Artist:	CAGE, JOHN
Title:	Music For Keyboard 1935-1948
Label:	SONY (JAPAN)
Format:	2CD
Price:	$43.00
Catalog #:	SICC 076/77CD

A series of Japanese-only reissues from 2003 by Sony of John Cage-related documents, rescuing these historic recordings back to the public view after decades of exclusion. Music For Keyboard is THE famous double LP of Cage's early piano music (including his first prepared piano works), originally issued by Columbia in 1970. Produced by David Behrman, performed by Jeanne Kirstein (prepared piano, piano, toy piano). Recorded 1969; reproduction of the original Richard Kostelanetz liner notes included. Features: "Two Pieces" (1938); "Metamorphosis" (1938); "Bacchanale" (1938), "The Perilous Night" (1944); "Tossed As It Is Untroubled" (1943), "A Valentine Out of Season" (1944), "Root of an Unfocus" (1944); "Two Pieces" (1946); "Prelude for Meditation" (1944); "Music for Marcel Duchamp" (1947); "Suite For Toy Piano" (1948); "Dream" (1948). From Richard Kostelanetz's liner notes: "...their distinctive rhythms and unusual tonalities make these pieces as instantly recognizable as Cage's own face and voice; for the paradox is that although many of his compositional constraints function to deny both personal habit and tasteful choice, they also create a particular style of sound in time that is unmistakably Cagean." This was a Japanese-only CD for a long time, but just recently issued in the U.S. on the New World Records label...

Artist:	VA
Title:	New Electronic Music From The Leaders Of The Avant-Garde
Label:	SONY (JAPAN)
Format:	CD
Price:	$29.00
Catalog #:	SICC 078CD

Japanese-only reissue of this historic compilation, originally issued by Columbia in 1967. First time on CD. Includes one piece each by John Cage, Milton Babbitt and Henri Pousseur. Reproduction of original Richard Teitelbaum liner notes included. Features: Cage: "Variations II (1961); Babbitt: "Ensembles for Synthesizer" (1962-64); Pousseur: "Trois Visages de Liege (1961). Cage's "Variations II" is an indeterminate composition for any number of players, by any sound producing means; here David Tudor performs on amplified piano. Teitelbaum: "Freed from the conventional restraints of system, style or the control of the rational faculty, this music participates (in Cage's words) in 'disorganization and a state of mind which in Zen is called no-mindedness.' The listener, similarly liberated, is offered an experience that is hallucinatory, spaced out and very beautiful." Babbitt's "Ensembles for Synthesizer" is classic 60's electronic blatter, referred to as Speed Music with "pitch successions frequently moving at rates approaching or surpassing thresholds of human perception." Pousseur's "Trois Visages" is his most significant electronic work, taking off w/ children's rhymes into pure electronic streams.

Artist:	NEUHAUS, MAX
Title:	Electronics and Percussion -- Five Realizations
Label:	SONY (JAPAN)
Format:	CD
Price:	$29.00
Catalog #:	SICC 079CD

Japanese-only reissue of this classic electronics & percussion album, originally issued by Columbia in 1968. First time on CD (different performances than those featured on the Alga Marghen CDs). Produced by David Behrman, recorded in Feb., 1968; includes a reproduction of the original Max Neuhaus liner notes. Featuring works by Brown, Stockhausen, Cage, Bussotti & Feldman, performed by Max Neuhaus. The pieces are: "Four Systems -- for Four Amplified Cymbals" (Earle Brown; 1954); "The King of Denmark" (Morton Feldman, 1964); "Coeur pour Batteur -- Positively Yes (Sylvano Bussotti, 1959); "No.9 Zyklus for One Percussionist (Karlheinz Stockhausen, 1959); "Fontana Mix -- Feed (John Cage, 1958). This would be considered one of the first "live electronic music" albums and the front cover photo of a bare-chested Neuhaus in front of this percussion kit is one of the unforgettable images of the avant-garde. Neuhaus is better known in recent times for his real-world Times Square sound installation.

Artist:	VA
Title:	Ghost In The Shell
Label:	SONY (JAPAN)
Format:	CD
Price:	$32.00
Catalog #:	SRCS 8381

A soundtrack to the Sony Ghost In The Shell Playstation, featuring exclusive tracks by Takkyu Ishino, Mijk Van Dijk, Brother From Another Planet (Claude Young), Hardfloor, Westbam, Joey Beltram, Scan X, The Advent, BCJ (CJ Bolland), Dave Angel & Derrick May. Derrick's "To Be Or Not To Be (Off the Cuff Mix by Juan Atkins)" is widely advertised as his first new track in 7 years, a radical non-dance experimental journey through some of his classic sound sources.

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