Defy All Robots

I've posted up various other music releases that were created to alter ones reality, to be aurally psychoactive. 

Here's another dose.

Yoshifumi Kawahara was born in 1961 in Fukuoka, Japan. He died in Cambodia in 2012. He has been called 'the Jon Hassell of Japan'.

Taking the stage name Henry, Kawahara was a composer of avant-garde music that was an eclectic blend of experimental electronics, exotica, & new age music. He referred to his music as "cyber-occult". He was active in the Japanese cyber-occult underground of the 1990s, a scene linked with technologies such as 3D (binaural) recordings, brain machines, sound chairs, computer graphics, & digital compact discs.

These tracks, produced 1990-95, include a series of recordings described as "Parallel Data Sounds" & "Sound LSD", a new language system that speaks directly to the cerebrum using frequency components that are not perceived by the conscious mind, reflecting Kawahara's interest in concepts such as astrology, love mantras, & astral projection. 

Also here are two pieces featuring dolphin sounds & human brainwave feedback, as well as pieces from a recording unit called H Music De-perception (HMD) & a group called Xiaoyun. 

Here the original 2-CD set is augmented by a special bonus CD & includes a .pdf of the Koki Emura booklet.

 

Henry Kawahara - Cybernetic Defiance & Orgasm: Other Sides of...,
EM Records EM1205TCD, 2022.
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Disc-1: Music for Multimedia -
Feel Strange
Beyond Armageddon
69 with B-Dog
Love Moonlight
The Old Man at the Goagajan Woods
St. Valentine Day
Love Dance
Mercury Power

Disc-2: Co-Producton Works -
enDOLPHIN (Water Sonic version)
Sleeping Besides the Beast
Minami-kaze #4
Start on a Journey
Sim Sex
Morning
Neuro Dancer
Sweet Dreams
Still Life
Synethesia
Dolphin Dreams (Deep Relax mix)
Dolphinic Meditation (enDOLPHIN)

Disc-3: Special Bonus Disc - 
Dance of Electronic Neuron Circuits (Third mix)
Destination of Endorphins)
Yorokobi-No-Koe
Nicea 'N Bark
Children in the Museum
Nanp ū (first 1992 version)
[Java] Dance #2. "Relaxed"
Sing an Anklungs (edit)
Eco-Location (Stargazer version)
Sound LSD #.Ss05/7.83hz (for radio mix)
Start on a Journey)
Primitive Love (Genshi No Ai delayed version)
In My Relationship with You, I Think About Myself on the Bed) (Panpot version)

 

 

 

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