Nobukazu Takemura (竹村延和 Takemura Nobukazu) is a Japanese musician whose sty… Read Full Bio ↴Nobukazu Takemura (竹村延和 Takemura Nobukazu) is a Japanese musician whose style has run from jazz to house to drum and bass to chamber music to electronic glitch within less than a decade. Born in Osaka in August of 1968, he became interested in punk and New Wave music at a young age, and by high school, after a record store job that exposed him to Jazz and Hip hop, he had regular gigs as a battle DJ.
In 1990, Takemura founded Audio Sports with Yamatsuka Eye (of the Japanese noise band The Boredoms) and Aki Onda. Their first album, Era of Glittering Gas, was released in 1992 (after which Onda subsequently took control of the project), the same year as Takemura's first solo album, under the name DJ Takemura. He has also released material with Spiritual Vibes (since 1993) and as Child's View (since 1994). He is currently paired with Childisc vocalist/composer Aki Tsuyuko under the touring name of Assembler.
He founded the Lollop and Childisc labels ; his voluminous releases, remixes, and collaborations make a comprehensive discography difficult, and his music often defies any easy categorization. He emerged in the US after the release of Scope on the Thrill Jockey label in 1999, an album that features delicate melodies blossoming from oceans of white noise and staccato electronics.
His unique and complex approach to melody and instrumentation has generated a catalog of collaborations with critically acclaimed artists from various places in the world. From Issey Miyake, who had him create music for 2 seasons of designs, from Steve Reich to DJ Spooky from Yo La Tengo to Tortoise.
Takemura was also responsible for the sound design of Sony's robotic dog Aibo. In the January 2002 issue of the UK music magazine The Wire, he notes that conveying hundreds of emotions through the dog's few simple sounds was not easy :
"Usually people don't think consciously of what it's like to be angry or to cry ... humans can obviously use words to express themselves. To create the sounds of emotions was a difficult task."
In 1990, Takemura founded Audio Sports with Yamatsuka Eye (of the Japanese noise band The Boredoms) and Aki Onda. Their first album, Era of Glittering Gas, was released in 1992 (after which Onda subsequently took control of the project), the same year as Takemura's first solo album, under the name DJ Takemura. He has also released material with Spiritual Vibes (since 1993) and as Child's View (since 1994). He is currently paired with Childisc vocalist/composer Aki Tsuyuko under the touring name of Assembler.
He founded the Lollop and Childisc labels ; his voluminous releases, remixes, and collaborations make a comprehensive discography difficult, and his music often defies any easy categorization. He emerged in the US after the release of Scope on the Thrill Jockey label in 1999, an album that features delicate melodies blossoming from oceans of white noise and staccato electronics.
His unique and complex approach to melody and instrumentation has generated a catalog of collaborations with critically acclaimed artists from various places in the world. From Issey Miyake, who had him create music for 2 seasons of designs, from Steve Reich to DJ Spooky from Yo La Tengo to Tortoise.
Takemura was also responsible for the sound design of Sony's robotic dog Aibo. In the January 2002 issue of the UK music magazine The Wire, he notes that conveying hundreds of emotions through the dog's few simple sounds was not easy :
"Usually people don't think consciously of what it's like to be angry or to cry ... humans can obviously use words to express themselves. To create the sounds of emotions was a difficult task."
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Let My Fish Loose
竹村延和 Lyrics
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@FunkYoLove
Where the night draws on
Crevices deep down to me
At last my memories are free
That let my fish loose
Trace the spiral alone
Here in the fifth lake
Shadows and the silence
Time creeps on the night
Everyday everyday I wonder
How long we gwan suffer
Man all broke him back to earn a dollar
And things nor get better just worser
Man all hang himself true him can't take pressure
That's what going on in my area
Deeper and deeper in burning fire
Is like they want we to turn into ashes and blow away forever
But I won't quiver or shiver
Just simmer and wait for the father
Fish and miller or deep sea
Fish with eyes of blue
Feeding on the blue seeds
Swimming through my mind
@Lucretia2222
I have been listening to this since I was 12, I'm 24 now and it's still an amazing song. kudos 12 year old me for having great taste. I found it randomly on audio-galaxy before it got shut down. This and the Aphex Twin version are so good.
@chriscloud3732
now you’re 34, is it still amazing? ;~)
@brianm22
The Aphex remix is amazing and the orginal is amazing too.
@feltongailey8987
Perhaps creepier than AT's remix. Both wonderful in their own right.
@UnkleLiz
Wonderful, just wonderful
@jasonjinx
such a nice beat and backround effects
@vieiracelina
Mravilhoso!
@EvilEddtheRed
Lovely!
@matzomaniac
damn... came here for aphex twin and found a masterpiece! got this shit on repeat!
@cxojinu
such a great song. happened upon it by chance when the aphex twin vid i had saved went down. so awesome, gonna listen to it again right now.