Ken Ishii  

From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia

Jump to: navigation, search

Related e

Wikipedia
Wiktionary
Shop


Featured:

Ken Ishii is a Japanese techno DJ and producer from Sapporo. He has released work under his own name as well as under the pseudonyms: FLR, Flare, UTU, Yoga, and Rising Sun.

Strongly influenced by Detroit techno, Ken Ishii had his first release on Richie Hawtin's label Plus 8. He composed the music for the opening ceremonies to the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano. He provided a track for the 2001 video game Rez by Sega: Creation The State Of Art which is the music used in the third level of the normal game, as well as music for the game LSD. His track "Let It All Ride" has also been used in the PSP video game Lumines II.

Discography

Albums

  • "Garden On The Palm" (2 X 12" - RS 93012 - 1993)
  • "Innerelements"(CD - RS 94038 CD - 1994)
  • "Jelly Tones" (2LP/CD - RS 95065/RS 95065 CD - 1995)
  • "Green Times" (CD - Sublime Records SBLCD5002 - 1995)
  • "Grip" (CD - Sublime Records SBLCD5011 - 1996)
  • "Metal Blue America" (CD - R&S Records - 1997)
  • "Sleeping Madness" (2LP/CD - RS 99153/RS 99153 CD - 1999)
  • "Flatspin" (CD - Exceptional EXLPCD0103 - 2000)
  • "Millennium Spinnin at Reel up" (CD - Sony Music Ent. - 2001)
  • "FLR Easy Filters" (1999 - 2001)(2 X CD - Reel Musiq Sublime Records RLCD-002 - 2001)
  • "Rebore Vol.2" (2001)
  • "Future In Light" (2002)
  • "Interpretations" (CD - Exceptional EXLPCD0405 - 2003)
  • "Play, Pause and Play" (2 X CD - Sublime records IDCS1016/1017 - 2005)
  • "Sunriser" (CD - 70Drums IDCK-1002 - 2006)
  • "Daybreak Reprise -SUNRISER Remixed-" (2008)

Singles

  • "Pneuma" (12" - RS 93025 - 1993)
  • "Deep Sleep" (12" - APOLLO 8 - 1993)
  • "Tangled Notes" (12" - RS 94046 - 1994)
  • "Extra" (12"/CD - RS 95064/RS 95064 CD - 1995)
  • "Stretch" (CD - SRCS 8098 - 1995)
  • "Overlap" (CD - RS 96107 - 1996)





Unless indicated otherwise, the text in this article is either based on Wikipedia article "Ken Ishii" or another language Wikipedia page thereof used under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License; or on research by Jahsonic and friends. See Art and Popular Culture's copyright notice.

Personal tools