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MFP 032EP
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"Hidenobu Ito is not really known in Europe, although he already has a list of releases to show, but on the other side of the world -- in Japan. Hidenobu grew up in Inagi City, a municipality of Tokyo. Since his childhood he has been interested in game and experimental music. So, he started working as a cartoonist to afford his own music equipment. In the 1990s, he began producing his first tracks, music compilation albums and soundtracks. Up to now, Hidenobu Ito released his music on labels such as Flyrec, Elegantdisc, NS-com, TripTrap, Sub Rosa, etc. The first contact to the Mo's Ferry crew was his track 'Lover' on the third series of the 10" label, Fenou. After that, one of his tracks had been included on the Mo's Ferry Prod. 25 last year. Now, there's his first solo release for the label called Wake. The title track definitely helps to find a proper genre for this EP (like minimal), but it already shows Hidenobu's vision to include no out-of-the-box samples, but experimental and organic snippets. 'Voicedelique' and even more 'Micro2' are better examples to show that. B1 is a remix by Krikor, the perfect matching artist for this EP. He made a piece that still contains the weirdness of the original but has a little more punch."
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NSC 006
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Four track 12"-only EP. "If you like Oval or Mouse On Mars, or the releases on French label A.P.C, you'll love Hidenobu Ito. Not quite exploring the techno field, but digging rock n roll. Indulge yourself in experimental and dreamy listening electro lounge music. Influences range from the Paradise Garage to Dinosaur Jr and Ken Ishii and his music is a mixture of short wave radio and manga samples mixed with 'folk' style vocals. The most important thing is that the samples reflect his memory and sentiment." Limited stock.
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NSC 005 CD
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1999 release; last copies, reduced price. "Who is this young man who can throw together fragmented beats, white noise and of sonic disturbance and make it sound so sweet ? Well get ready to wonder again, because Hidenobu is back with an album that carries on where the E.P. left off and establishes the enigmatic producer's claim as perhaps the most exciting sonic scientist to emerge from Japan's burgeoning dance scene. Bizarrely titled the Bedroom In The Cage (apparently Ito's bedroom really is enclosed within a huge wooden cage) the debut album from Hidenobu Ito blends harsh electronic noise with shards of sweet melody, cracked abstract beats with walls of distorted guitars and unidentifiable found-sound. All-in-all, 19 tracks of pure, un-cut musical invention, taking in every style you can imagine and a few you can't as well. Hidenobu Ito is a ex-trash rocker who used to like nothing better than trashinging venues in Godzilla-style assault, but he's also the childhood piano prodigy who fell in love with house, techno and electronic ,music of all forms and still holds a deep love of traditional japanese art."
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