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  SAKANACTION

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  SAKANACTION

  2005年に活動を開始、2007年にメジャーデビュー。

  文学性の高い歌詞と郷愁感あふれるフォーキーなメロディ、バンドのフォーマットからクラブミュージックのアプローチをこなすなど独自のスタイルを持つロックバンド。

  様々な受容性を持つ楽曲はリリースするたびに高く評価され、2018年3月にリリースしたベストアルバム「魚図鑑」では、オリコンウィークリーチャート初登場1位を獲得。

  全国ツアーは常にチケットソールドアウト、2019年には全国アリーナにて6.1chサラウンドシステムを導入したライブツアーを実施。
  出演するほとんどの大型野外フェスではヘッドライナーで登場するなど、現在の音楽シーンを代表するロックバンドである。

  第64回NHK紅白歌合戦に出場、第39回日本アカデミー賞にて最優秀音楽賞をロックバンド初受賞するなど、多様な活動を高い表現で実現し、評価されている。

  また、「ミュージシャンの在り方」そのものを先進的にとらえるその姿勢は常に注目を集め、近年では各界のクリエイターとコラボレーションを行いながら、音楽と様々なカルチャーが混ざり合うイベント"NF"を2015年スタートさせている。

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  AKUFEN

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  AKUFEN

  There are not many artists who manage to define a particular era in music, and there are even fewer who know how to evolve beyond such achievements and find other creative paths down which to travel.

  Marc Leclair best known as Akufen much loved as Horror Inc. and also known as Anna Kaufen or Stowaway, clearly is a man of many monikers as RA founding editor Todd L Burns remarked in their early exchange (EX.038). To put this in other words, Leclair is a wide-reaching producer, DJ, and live artist capable of expressing genuinely different parts of his creative identity and he so edges out spaces for styles that bounce off the cornerstones of minimal house and experimental techno with rarer trips into areas that turn out off-beat for most parts. Also a trained visual artist, Marc considers collage a guiding principle in much of his creative life and his cut-and-paste technique is most notably perhaps in his Akufen productions.

  When asked what Akufen is to him, Marc says it is his lab and where he worked what has become known as micro sampling since the first Akufen LP came out on Force Inc in 2002. My Way assembled over 2,000 sound-bits from radio programs that he had cut up into minute pieces and rearranged to sketches of groove glued together by funky rhythms strung along the 4/4. The release turned Akufen into one of the more visible creators of micro-house in an instant with the likes of The Wire and the BBC taking note, listing My Way among the best albums of the decade more than once.

  More underground circles had heard of Akufen sooner of course by way of his releases on the then acute German labels such as Background and Trapez, not to forget the Quebec Nightclub double-pack on Perlon (24). Only all-Canadian imprints like Eric Mattson's Oral and Jeff Milligan's Revolver or Hautec had recognised their own even earlier and so by the time Force Inc. issued the seminal LP, Akufen was well and truly on the radar and a tongue-in-cheek representative of minimal house and techno, lightly stepping from Canada into Europe and back again.

  Despite his decisive deconstructions, Marc says he relies on spontaneity as his first creative impulse from which more meticulous work follows on. MC Escher and his graphics of mathematical yet realistically impossible ingenuity have had an influence on his thinking while musically Reich and Glass must be noted and of course, what came out of Michigan (Detroit) and Europe at the time, says Marc. For him to integrate these influences, Montréal’s Mutek festival would become instrumental, and the appearance of Akufen coincided with the first edition in 2000. The event builds bridges to this day and early on framed a scene of local and international artists converging on Montréal and delivering performances such as the formative debut of Narod Niki at Mutek in 2003. Masterminded by Ricardo Villalobos the laptop supergroup used the then relatively new Ableton Live software to network their live jam. Gathered on stage were Akufen alongside Richie Hawtin, Robert Henke, Dimbiman, Dandy Jack, Cabanne, Luciano, and Dan Bell, all flanking Villalobos to co-create what music journalist Philip Sherburne had tried to pin down as a new genre before, but not after describing Akufen’s 2002 live turning out as total booty-shaking microhouse.

  Mutek set out to advance electronic music and the digital arts from 1999 onwards and came to inspire Canada’s most outgoing scene to date. The Musique Risquée label founded by Vincent Lemieux and Akufen in 2003, then building on a collective comprising Scott Monteith aka Deadbeat and Stephen Beaupré as well, sums up the local interconnectedness of the time.

  And, it was on Risquée that Akufen resurfaced in 2012 after having taken a step back from touring extensively and feeling his creativity being compressed by the publicity that had surrounded Akufen from the start.
  Leclair’s musical retreat took the form of Horror Inc., an alias he describes as one of his most personal and a way to show a quieter and cinematic if not darker side that again would resonate in both North America and Europe. Like Perlon co-founder Zip, these productions are dealing in longevity, and Marc's first release as Horror Inc. on Perlon in 2004 opened with a track called The Vanishing, and indeed the Berlin imprint would not hear of him again until signing Briefly Eternal in 2013. Only the 2010 Aurore EP on Mike Shannon’s Haunt label preceded the album and was Marked by more upbeat rhythms without losing any of the eerie quality of Horror Inc. productions that Leclair links to a type of dead-angle horror where you know something is coming, but you do not know what or where from.
  Still while embedded in the scene, the years following 2004 must be considered comparably quiet. (Do check out the broken-up blues on Blu Tribunl or the playful Who Cares as Anna Kaufen as well as the recent Akufen EPs on Karat and Telharmonic Textures though, plus his remixes for Massive Attack, Yello, Cabaret Voltaire, Thomas Dolby, Richie Hawtin and Craig David, just to name a few.)

  Also, unlike other Canadian artists, Marc did not join the exodus to Berlin at the beginning of mid-2000. He stayed in Montréal and continues his work there, often with Mutek that consider Akufen the early success story of their networking which reaches beyond Europe and North and South America and as far as Japan or Dubai today. The festival’s home edition turns twenty in 2019, the same as Akufen and hence they decided to sync the release of the upcoming Akufen LP with Mutek 20 in Montréal this year.
  Since Marc Leclair joined the Toi.Toi.Agency in 2017 he has appeared both as Akufen as well as Horror Inc. (live) playing at European outlets such as fabric London, Houghton Festival (UK), Funkhaus Berlin, Concrete in Paris, or Robert Johnson (DE) as well as in North America and the rest of the world.

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  BATHS

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  BATHS

  For as long as Will Wiesenfeld has been Baths, he’s been trafficking in perfect—or, more often and more interestingly—near-perfect pieces of pop. A classically trained singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist, Will first emerged with his Baths moniker in 2009, after a stint as [Post-Foetus] and the birth of another, still-active project known as Geotic.

  His music, which merged the glitchy, punishing gloom of L.A.’s beat scene with sunnier melodies and vocals that often drifted into falsetto, was an instant sensation. It was as experimental as it was comforting, a warm blanket made from the rarest linens. Publications like Pitchfork heaped praise on his debut album, 2010’s Cerulean, which codified the sound; Obsidian, which followed three years later, in part chronicled Wiesenfeld’s recovery from a ghastly illness, and was even more well-received.

  His 2017-release, Romaplasm, exists in the emotional crevices that are left unexplored in polite company or at stilted cocktail parties. Less outwardly grim than the darker half of Obsidian—but twice as bittersweet—this LP reimagines approachable pop songs as pieces of scaffolding that can be lived in, expanded and retracted, or torn down entirely.

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  THE CINEMATIC ORCHESTRA

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  THE CINEMATIC ORCHESTRA

  ジェイソン・スウィンスコーを中心にロンドンで結成。
  1999年にデビュー・アルバム『Motion』を発表し、ジョン・コルトレーンやマイルス・デイヴィスへのオマージュに満ちたジャジーな本作で注目を集めた彼らは、2002年のセカンド・アルバム『Every Day』で本格的にオーケストラ・サウンドを導入。
  伝説的ソウルシンガー、フォンテラ・バスも参加した本作品で、ジャズ、クラシック、ヒップホップ、エレクトロニカなど様々な音楽性を融合させて音楽性を広げていく。
  そして、2007年の『MaFleur』では、様々なヴォーカリストをゲストに招いて、まるで一本の映画のようにドラマティックな世界を作り出した。
  収録曲の「To Build A Home」は、世界各国で映画やTVCMに起用されただけでなく、最近ではフィギュアスケートの新たな定番曲としても知られている。
  2019年、12年の時を経て、遂に新作『To Believe』が完成し、4月には初となるホールコンサートツアーを成功させた。

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  D.A.N.

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  D.A.N.

  2014年、櫻木大悟(Gt,Vo,Syn)、市川仁也(Ba)、川上輝(Dr)の3人で活動開始。
  様々なアーティストの音楽に対する姿勢や洗練されたサウンドを吸収しようと邁進し、いつの時代でも聴ける、ジャパニーズ・ミニマル・メロウをクラブサウンドで追求したニュージェネレーション。
  2015年7月にデビューe.p『EP』をリリース。
  2016年4月に待望の1sアルバム『D.A.N.』をリリースし、CDショップ大賞2017の入賞作品に選出。
  7月には2年連続でFUJI ROCK FESTIVAL'16に出演。
  また同年のFUJI ROCKオフィシャルアフタームービーのBGMで「Zidane」が起用される。
  2017年2月にJames Blakeの来日公演でO.Aとして出演。
  4月にはミニアルバム『TEMPEST』をリリース。
  11月に初の海外公演をLONDONで行い、滞在中にはFloating Pointsのスタジオで制作活動を行う。
  現地のジャイルス・ピーターソンのラジオ番組〈Worldwide FM〉に出演しスタジオライブを敢行。
  2018年2月、UKのThe xx来日東京公演のO.Aを務める。
  5月にUK TOURを敢行し"THE GREAT ESCAPE'18"に出演。
  7月には2ndアルバム『Sonatine』をリリースし、FUJI ROCK FES'18へ出演。
  9月から12月にかけて、リリースツアーとして、アジア（中国4都市、台湾、バンコク、香港）と、国内9都市の全17公演を開催。
  不定期で行う自主企画〈Timeless〉ではこれまで、LAからMndsgn、UKからJamie Isaacなど海外アーティストを招聘して開催している。

  D.A.N. site ｜ http://d-a-n-music.com/

  D.A.N. were formed in the summer of 2014 in Tokyo.
  Their unique and thoroughly modern sound, sitting somewhere between the minimal alt-pop of The xx and the live dance music dynamic of Caribou has won them fans throughout their home country, and an offer to appear at the prestigious Fuji Rock Festival in 2016 & 2018 has been swiftly followed by the band opening for international artists including The xx and James Blake and Floating Points in Japan.
  The band's self-organized event, "Timeless”, has seen them invite and play alongside acts such as Mndsgn (LA) and Jamie Isaac (UK) in Tokyo, whilst in late 2017 D.A.N.
  took off to London, where they spent some time recording with Floating Points at his personal studio, appeared on Giles Peterson’s Worldwide Radio and performed at the legendary Hackney hipster haunt The Shacklewell Arms.
  In May 2018, they appeared at The Great Escape in Brighton, UK, winning enthusiastic new fans from around the world.
  The band’s latest full length album "Sonatine” was released in July 2018, followed by an Asian tour through China, Taiwan, Bangkok and an appearance at Hong Kong “Clockenflap” festival.
  With influences ranging from underground house and techno through to psychedelic and African music, the three piece are equally at home in the club as they are on a festival stage, and are being widely touted as the most exciting prospect to emerge from the Tokyo scene in many years.

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  FLOATING POINTS(DJ)

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  FLOATING POINTS(DJ)

  Manchester born, London based 24 year old producer/dj/composer Sam Shepherd aka Floating Points has quickly become one of the most respected and sought-after musicians in modern music. Debuting in February 2009 with the limited 7 inch ‘For You/Radiality’ (Eglo records) he has gone on to establish himself as one the forerunners of today’s new dance music movement, earning the respect of his peers and contemporaries such as Theo Parrish, Kyle Hall, Benji B, Ramadanman, Four Tet, Kode 9 and Mary Anne Hobbs. He's released music predominantly on Eglo records (which he runs alongside Rinse FM’s Alexander Nut), as well as Planet Mu, R2, Ninja Tune and notching up remixes and features for the likes of Domino, Ubiquity, XL, Fabric and Rinse.

  The name Floating Points holds just much weight within the DJ world as its does in production, song writing and arrangement. In a short space of time Shepherd has won over crowds around the world with his strictly vinyl club sessions, spanning, house, techno, soul and disco, steadily climbing the ranks of the globes most impressive DJ’s, fuelling an indulgent record habit that regularly leads him on trips to both Chicago and Detroit.

  Outside of his studio based productions and crate-breaking DJ sets Shepherd makes use of his classical music training, writing, composing and arranging for the Floating Points Ensemble. The 16 piece group, led by Shepherd, recently won the ‘Best Maida Vale Session’ gong at Gilles Peterson’s ‘Worldwide Awards’. With big plans for 2011 the future is looking bright for Floating Points. When not writing, recording or playing music Sam Shepherd can be found in the laboratories of UCL, where is currently studying a PHD in 'The Neuroscience Of Pain'.

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  The fin.

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  The fin.

  神戸出身、ロックバンド。
  80～90年代のシンセポップ、シューゲイザーサウンドから、リアルタイムなUSインディーポップの影響や、チルウェーヴなどを経由したサウンドスケープは、ネット上で話題を呼び、日本のみならず海外からも問い合わせ殺到している。
  The Last Shadow Puppets、Phoenix、MEW、CIRCA WAVESなどのツアーサポート、FUJI ROCK FESTIVAL、SUMMER SONICなどの国内大型フェス始め、アメリカのSXSW、UKのThe Great Escape、フランスのLa Magnifique Society、中国のStrawberry Festivalなどへの出演、そしてUS、UK、アジアツアーでのヘッドライナーツアーを成功させるなど、新世代バンドの中心的存在となっている。

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  GOCOO

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  GOCOO

  1997年、日本における大型野外フェスの先駆け「Rainbow2000」でデビュー。

  バンド結成から20年を超えるメンバー達が共に時を重ねる中で生み育ててきた唯一無二のグルーヴと音楽性は和太皷の新たな境地を開く。

  元祖ダンスミュージック　元祖トランスミュージックである太皷のチカラですべての思いを　祈りを　音にして　今ここに　みんなで　音の柱を建てていこうと謳う　そのライブは原始の祭へと繋がる。

  2003年から、毎年１～２ヶ月に渡る海外ツアーを展開。
  日本のルーツミュージックである和太皷で国や音楽の境を超えて繋がる音楽を発信しロック、ジャズ、レゲエ、ルーツミュージックなど様々なジャンルのフェスに出演。
  この15年で、EU、中南米、オセアニア、アフリカ、延べ39カ国241回（2019年6月現在）ライブを行ってきた。

  またリーダーのKAOLYはEU、アメリカと世界各国の太皷グループへ独自の演奏スタイル、精神性、身体感覚を太鼓を通して伝え続けている。

  2015年/2016年「サカナクション アリーナツアー」他に出演
  2016年「ゆず 東京ドーム公演」に出演
  2018年３月21日公開の松竹映画「曇天に笑う」に出演、
  及びオープニング楽曲をサカナクションと共同制作している。

  GOCOO WEB SITE : www.gocoo.tv

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  KUNIYUKI TAKAHASHI

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  KUNIYUKI TAKAHASHI
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  TAYLOR MCFERRIN

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  TAYLOR MCFERRIN

  Taylor McFerrin is the somewhat elusive Multi-intsrumentalist Producer responsible for the Cult Classic "Broken Vibes EP" and the Widely Acclaimed Brainfeeder Released LP "Early Riser". His music is known for pushing the boundaries of Soul, Electronic and Hip-Hop production using his unique of collection of Vintage Synths, Drums Machines and Psychedelic Effects. In the past few years he has collaborated with musical giants such as Hiatus Kaiyote, Robert Glasper, Thundercat, and Anderson .Paak. But in 2019 he looks to expand his range as he takes on the lead vocalist roll for his upcoming Full Length Album titled "Love's Last Chance". As he describe's it: "This Album represents what I've always been building towards...I knew the final piece to the puzzle would be for me to start singing. Now it finally feels like i can share a fully realized version of my of the Music in My Mind"

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  WASHED OUT

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  WASHED OUT
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  ICHIRO YAMAGUCHI + B2B(DJ)

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  ICHIRO YAMAGUCHI + B2B(DJ)

  「サカナクション」として、2005年に活動を開始し、2007年にメジャーデビュー。
  2015年にNFをスタートさせる。

  今回はNF発起人である山口一郎とチームNFによるBack to Backを披露します。

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