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Otomo Yoshihide

Real Name:大友良英
Profile:Otomo Yoshihide (born August 1, 1959 in Yokohama, Japan) is a Japanese experimental musician, turntablist and guitarist. He played in rock bands while at college, but turned to improvisation after discovering free jazz and free improvisation musicians like the guitarist Derek Bailey, the saxophonist Kaoru Abe and guitarist Masayuki Takayanagi (from whom he had lessons). Otomo studied at Tokyo University from 1979 where he took a course on ethnomusicology in which he concentrated on Japanese pop music during World War II and the development of musical instruments during the Chinese Cultural Revolution (samples of instruments and music from this period are found in several of his records). From 1981 Otomo played free improvisation in clubs, performing on guitar and also using tapes and electronics. Otomo began to release records from the end of the 1980s. He has been very prolific, working in a variety of styles and collaborating with a wide range of musicians. For much of the 1990s his main project was Ground Zero, a large group founded in 1990 with an ever-changing lineup. They played music in a variety of styles, perhaps best summed up as noise rock with an experimental edge. Ground Zero was disbanded in 1998. Towards the end of that group's life, Otomo formed Filament with Sachiko M, an outfit which concentrated on music made from sine waves, clicks and hums, and ISO (Otomo Yoshihide, Sachiko M and Yoshimitsu Ichiraku), which played purely electronic improvisations. He also continued to play with other musicians on a variety of projects. At the end of the 1990s he founded Otomo Yoshihide's New Jazz Ensemble, a group that played more traditional jazz (albeit with added sine waves from Sachiko M and noisy passages). In Japan, a more consistent lineup of the group, used the name Otomo Yoshihide's New Jazz Quintet, for several releases. Records released under his own name include Cathode (1999), Anode (2001). Otomo has also released duo albums with early experimental turntablist Christian Marclay ("Moving Parts", 2000) or Nobukazu Takemura ("Turntables + Computers", 2003). Among the other musicians Otomo has worked with are Jon Rose, Yamatsuka Eye of The Boredoms (with Eye as MC Hellshit and Otomo Yoshihide as DJ Carhouse), Butch Morris, Voice Crack and poire_z.
URLs:http://www.japanimprov.com/yotomo/
In Groups:Date Course Pentagon Royal Garden, Filament, Ground Zero (3), House Of Discipline, I.S.O., Intonarumori Orchestra, MC Hellshit & DJ Carhouse, Microcosmos (2), Novo Tono, Optical 8, Otomo Yoshihide Invisible Songs, Otomo Yoshihide's New Jazz Ensemble, Otomo Yoshihide's New Jazz Orchestra, Otomo Yoshihide's New Jazz Quintet, PantyChrist, Peril, Taku Sugimoto Guitar Quartet, Television Power Electric
Name Variations: All | Otomo Yoshihide | Ohtomo Yoshihide | Otomo | Y. Otomo | Yoshihide | Yoshihide Otomo | 大友良英
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Releases:
Problem (Cass)   Omba Records 1988
Silanganan Ingay (LP)   Tanga-Tanga 1989
We Insist? (2 versions)   Sound Factory ... 1992
The Night Before The Death Of The Sampling Virus (CD, Album)   Extreme 1993
All At Once At Any Time (CD)   Les Disques Victo 1994
Early Works I '81~'85 (Cass)   Maboroshi No Sekai 1994
Monogatari: Amino Argot (CD)   Trigram 1994
The Day The Sun Turned Cold (CD, Album)   Milan Records 1994
Otomo + Mao (7" + 12", Ant)   F.M.N Sound Factory 1995
Summer Snow (CD)   Sound Factory 1995
Tatakiuri (CD)   Creativeman Disc. 1995
The Blue Kite - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (CD)   Éditions Milan Music 1995
Untitled (7")   London Musicians' Collective 1996
Ututu: Doppo Jukyo-ato No Ho E (CD, Album)   Atelier El Sur 1996
Memory Defacement (LP, Album, Ltd + LP, S/Sided, Ltd, Cle)   Japan Overseas, F.M.N Sound Factory 1997
Sound Factory (1997) (Album) (2 versions)   Gentle Giant Records 1997
Vinyl Tranquilizer (CD)   Sonic Factory 1997
Filament 1 (CD, Album)   Extreme 1998
Museum Of Towing & Recovery (10")   Hot Air 1998
21 Situations (CD)   Ambiances Magnétiques 1999
Cathode (CD, Album)   Tzadik 1999
Digital Tranquilizer Ver. 1.0 (2 versions)   F.M.N Sound Factory 1999
Filament 2: Secret Recordings (CD, Album)   For 4 Ears 1999
Film Music From Shabondama Elegy (CD, Album)   Station Kids, Eyewill 1999
Four Focuses (CD, Gat)   Amoebic 1999
Lupin The Third - Ending Theme (12", cle)   P-Vine Records 1999
Metal Tastes Like Orange. Secret Recording 1 (CD, Album)   Amoebic, Valve 1999
Plays The Music Of Takeo Yamashita (CD)   P-Vine Records 1999
Split (7")   Gentle Giant Records 1999
Without Kuryokhin (CD)   Long Arms Records 1999
Bits, Bots And Signs (CD, Album)   Erstwhile Records 2000
Mottomo Otomo (CD, Comp)   Trost Records 2000
Moving Parts (CD)   Asphodel 2000
Music For Dance Art Hong Kong's Memory Disorder (CD)   Sonic Factory 2000
Re/cycling Rectangle (7")   Rectangle 2000
Anode (CD, Album)   Tzadik 2001
Ajar (CD, Album)   Alcohol 2002
Blue (CD, Album)   Headz 2002
Ensemble Cathode (CD, Album)   Improvised Music From Japan 2002
Invisible Architecture #1 (CD)   Audiosphere 2002
Miira Ni Naru Made (CD)   Charhizma 2002
Thumb (CD)   GROB 2002
Loose Community (CD, Album)   Improvised Music From Japan 2003
P53 (CD, Album)   ReR Megacorp 2003
Soup (CD)   P-Vine Records 2003
Studio — Analogique — Numérique (3xCD, Mini)   Ambiances Magnétiques 2003
The Crushed Pellet (2xCD, Album)   Studio Wee 2003
Time Travel (CD)   Erstwhile Records 2003
Turntables And Computers (CD, Album)   Headz 2003
Warholes Or All Andy Would Enjoy (And Fear) / Warhol Memory Disorder (CD, Enh)   HEyeRMEarS Discorbie 2003
1. Grrr (CD)   Ambiances Magnétiques 2004
Brackwater (CD)   For 4 Ears 2004
Compositions For Guitars Vol. 2 (CD)   A Bruit Secret 2004
Concert In St. Louis (CD, Album, Dig)   GROB 2004
Good Morning Good Night (2xCD)   Erstwhile Records 2004
Soup Live (2xCD)   P-Vine Records 2004
Turntable Solo (CD, Mini)   Alcohol 2004
2. Tok (CD)   Ambiances Magnétiques 2005
3. Ahhh (CD)   Ambiances Magnétiques 2005
Early Recordings (CDr, Promo, Ltd)   Not On Label 2005
Guitar Solo: 12 October 2004 @ Shinjuku Pit Inn, Tokyo + 1 (CD)   Doubtmusic 2005
See You In A Dream (2xCD, Album)   F.M.N Sound Factory 2005
Trace Cuts (CD)   Musica Genera 2005
Untitled (CD, EP)   Erstwhile Records 2005
Untitled (3xCD, Album)   Erstwhile Records 2005
Episome (CD, Album)   Tzadik 2006
Heart, Beating In The Dark [Original Soundtrack] (CD, Ltd, 36-)   Office Shirous 2006
Time Magic City (CD, Album)   PARA disc 2006
Modulation With 2 Electric Guitars And 2 Amplifiers (CD, Album, Dig)   Doubtmusic 2007
The Multiple Otomo Project (DVD + CD)   Asphodel 2007
幽閉者 [Prisoner] (CD, Album)   Headz, Headz 2007
Core Anode (CD, Album)   Ftarri, Meenna 2008
Difference Between The Two Clocks (CD, Album, Dig)   Textile Records 2008
Les Archives Sauvées Des Eaux (CD, Enh)   Disc Callithump 2008
Sweet Cuts, Distant Curves (CD, Album)   Balloon & Needle 2008
Monte Alto Estate (CD, Album)   Doubtmusic 2009
Remixes:
Ooh I Feel Horny (12") Ooh I Feel Horny (Yosh... All Access (2) 1994
D-Construction (CD, Maxi) Ronim Alusru Les Disques Du Soleil Et De L'Acier 2000
[r*] Iso | Chall (CD) Isoo Mego 2000
General Representation Products Chain Drastism 2-CD (2xCD) Play Mate At Hanoi (Ol... P-Vine Records 2002
Pulser (LP) Play Mate At Hanoi, Ol... Vinylsoyuz 2002
Production:
Null & Void (CD)   Tzadik 1995
Plays Standards (CD)   Nani Records 1997
Untitled (Ten) (CD, Comp + CD, Mixed) V.G. Extreme 1997
Turntable Solos (CD, Comp)   Amoebic 1999
Plays Standards (CD)   ReR Megacorp 2001
ONJQ Live (CD)   DIW Records 2002
Out To Lunch (CD, Album)   Doubtmusic 2005
Live Vol. 1 Series Circuit (2xCD, Album)   Doubtmusic 2007
Mix:
Turntable Solos (CD, Comp) Turntable With Guitar Amp Amoebic 1999
ONJQ - Live In Lisbon (CD, Album, Car)   Clean Feed 2006
Live Vol. 1 Series Circuit (2xCD, Album)   Doubtmusic 2007
Sora (CD, Album)   EWE Records 2007
Appears On:
Ir/Rational Music 2, Elliott Sharp - Live In Tokyo (Cass, Album)   Zoar Records 1985
Pure Will, Without The Confusions Of Intellect (CD) Duo No.1 - No.4 Livevil (2) 1991
Dragon Blue (CD)   Sound Factory 1993
Ground Zero (CD, Album) Massacring God Mountain 1993
Hypnotique (CD) Hypnotique Part 1-4 God Ocean Records 1993
Bug (Album) (2 versions)   God Mountain ... 1994
Cyberband (CD)   Moers Music 1994
Electric Sun Featuring John King (CD, Album) Marmots, Unplugged God Mountain 1994
Eternal Blue Extreme: An Asian Tribute To Derek Jarman (CD) The Garden Of A Nuclea... Somnus 1994
Gender (CD, Album)   God Mountain 1994
Multiverse (CD, Album)   Sound Factory 1994
Neu Konservatiw (Album) (2 versions) God Speed!, Null & Voi... God Mountain ... 1994
Switchbox (CD, Album, Dig)   No Man's Land 1994
Chipfarm (CD) Unknown Mix - 2, Green... God Mountain 1995
Conduction #28 & #31 (CD, Album) Conduction #28, Part I... New World Records 1995
Daytona (CD) Kosei-Shu F.M.N Sound Factory 1995
Kang Tae Hwan (CD, Album)   Chap Chap Records 1995
Null & Void (CD)   Tzadik 1995
The Miracle Of Levitation (CD, Comp) Lam Cheng-ying Gentle Giant Records 1995
Untitled (Cass, C10)   Not On Label 1995
秘密のナイフ [Himitsu No Knife] (CD, Album) 急がなければ [Is... Creativeman Disc., Alida 1995
Cult Junk Cafe (CD)   Gentle Giant Records 1996
Klangkunst (CD, Comp, + B) Survival Songs Prestel-Verlag 1996
Live Bloodbath Live (CD, Album)   Phenotype, Disk Union 1996
Panorama Paradise (CD)   Creativeman Disc. 1996
Resonance 5.1 (CD, Album) Improvisation London Musicians' Collective 1996
Techno Mit Störungen (CD)   Plag Dich Nicht 1996
Tokyo Invasion Volume 1: Cosmic Kurushi Monsters (2xCD, Comp) Paraiso 1 Virgin 1996
://shopping.live@victo. (CD, Album)   ReR Megacorp 1997
Bad Alchemy Nr 31 (7")   Bad Alchemy 1997
Conflagration (CD, Album)   Creativeman Disc. 1997
Consume Red (Album) (2 versions)   ReR Megacorp ... 1997
Memory & Money (CD)   Stupeur & Trompette! 1997
Untitled (Ten) (CD, Comp + CD, Mixed) V.G. Extreme 1997
Viva Guitar (CD, Promo)   Creativeman Disc., Guillotine Discs 1997
Vuoy (CD, Album)   Trattoria, Polystar 1997
Dentro (CD, Album)   ReR Megacorp 1998
Double Agent(s) Live In Japan Volume Two (CD, Album) Crisis On Earth Two Locus Solus 1998
Gravity Clock (CD, Album)   Amoebic 1998
Hades Park (CD)   Avant 1998
Heppoco Pou (CD, Album) Gyu-Nyu, La Perla Paranoiz 1998
Live In Tokyo (2xCD) Across The Sky #1, Acr... ReR Megacorp 1998
Filmmuziek (CD, Comp) Maintitle Short/Crow-S... Stichting Projector, Eddy Ouwens Special Products 1999
Happiness Proof (Album) (2 versions) Fluid of Wisdom P-Vine Records ... 1999
I.S.O. (CD)   Alcohol 1999
Last Concert (CD)   Amoebic, Alcohol 1999
PantyChrist (CD)   Seeland 1999
Resonance Volume 8 Number 2 / Volume 9 Number 1: LMC…The First 25 Years (2xCD) El Perecho De Vivir En... London Musicians' Collective 2000
29092000 (CD)   Amoebic 2001
Big Picture (CD, Album) 子供のように Little More Records 2001
Constructions V-VII (CD)   Utterpsalm 2001
Deluxe Improvisation Series Vol. 1: 2000 (CD) Untitled ASE (2) 2001
Deluxe Improvisation Series Vol. 2: 2001 Pt. 1 (CD) Untitled ASE (2) 2001
Flutter (CD, Album) Night Lights / Density Tzadik 2001
Hikashu History (CD)   Tzadik 2001
Plays Standards (CD) Washington Post March ... ReR Megacorp 2001
+ (CD, Album) Bottle_Bow Erstwhile Records 2002
Deluxe Improvisation Festival 2001: Day One (CDr) Untitled ASE (2) 2002
Deluxe Improvisation Festival 2001: Day Two (CDr) Untitled ASE (2) 2002
Dreams (CD)   Tzadik 2002
Juice And Tremolo (The Works Of Chamber Music) (CD, Album) TCM ~ The Chugoku Elec... Sonore 2002
ONJQ Live (CD)   DIW Records 2002
Off Site Composed Music Series In 2001 (2xCD, Album) Portable Orchesta - Ho... A Bruit Secret 2002
Pulser (LP) Swee-Pea - There Vinylsoyuz 2002
Compositions For Guitars (CD, Album) Hum A Bruit Secret 2003
I.S.O. (CD)   Sound Tectonics 2003
Les Insectes (CDr, Album, Ltd) Intrusion Via Les Haut... Residence Baudoux 2003
ONJQ + OE (CD)   P-Vine Records 2003
Tails Out (CD)   DIW Records 2003
Taku Sugimoto Guitar Quartet (CD, Album)   Bottrop-boy 2003
BOX (5xCD) Tokyo 20012004 F.M.N Sound Factory 2004
Intonarumori Orchestra (CD) Russolo Phone, Future ... Off Site 2004
Montage (CD, Album) 柔らかい月 Victor Entertainment Japan 2004
ONJO (CD)   Doubtmusic 2004
Undecided (CD, Comp) 2004.1.17 P.S.F. Records 2004
Electric Ascension (CD, Album)   Atavistic 2005
Estrapade (CD) Omlegging No Type 2005
Green Zone (CD, Album)   Doubtmusic 2005
Long Live The People Of The Revolution (LP, Ltd)   Eventuell 2005
Long Live The People Of The Revolution (LP)   Eventuell 2005
Out To Lunch (CD, Album)   Doubtmusic 2005
Revenge Of Ying And Yang (CD, Album) Density Noise Asia 2005
Nunki (CD, Album) All Is Splashing Now, ... Victor Entertainment Japan 2006
ONJQ - Live In Lisbon (CD, Album, Car) Song For Che / Reducin... Clean Feed 2006
An Anthology Of Noise & Electronic Music / Fifth A-Chronology 1920-2007 (2xCD, Comp) Live 1992 Sub Rosa 2007
Juzu a.k.a. Moochy (12") Vortex Proception, Crosspoint 2007
Live 1992+ (CD)   Doubtmusic 2007
Live Vol. 1 Series Circuit (2xCD, Album) Lost In The Rain (Berl... Doubtmusic 2007
Live Vol. 2 Parallel Circuit (2xCD) Te Recuerdo Amanda > S... Doubtmusic 2007
Profanation - Preparation For A Coming Darkness (CD, Album) Babylon Blackout Columbia Music Entertainment 2007
Sora (CD, Album) Untitled - Opening, Su... EWE Records 2007
Soup (CD, RE, Album)   ION 2007
Soup Live (CD, Album, RE)   Ion 2007
Country Kill (CD, Album)   WildDisk 2008
Prequel Oct. 1998 - Mar. 1999 + 1 (CD, Album)   Doubtmusic 2008
Screen: Festival Concepts Of Doing 1999 (CD, Album)   Concepts Of Doing  
Tracks Appear On:
Extreme Music 1993 (Cass, Smplr) Sampling Virus Extreme 1993
Eternal Blue Extreme: An Asian Tribute To Derek Jarman (CD) The Garden Of A Nuclea... Somnus 1994
What Sound Vol. 2 (CD) Languag TNT, Music TNT Sound Factory 1994
Chipfarm (CD) Unknown Mix - 2, Green... God Mountain 1995
Riddle Of Lumen (CD) N.N.Scum, Internationa... F.M.N Sound Factory 1995
The Miracle Of Levitation (CD, Comp) Guitar Solo Gentle Giant Records 1995
Balls To The Wall Magenta (CD) Q, Slug Named God Dohb Discs 1996
Mimikaki (CD) Y Kuwagata Records 1996
Resonance 5.1 (CD, Album) Improvisation London Musicians' Collective 1996
Haikus Urbains (CD, Comp) Walls Have Ears, Ear P... Cave 12 Disques 1997
Untitled (Ten) (CD, Comp + CD, Mixed) V.G. Extreme 1997
Angelica 1997 (CD) Memory Disorder, ! Cud... Dischi di Angelica 1998
RRR 500 (LP, Comp) Untitled RRRecords 1998
Klinkende Munt 2000 (CD, Comp) The 25th Century Not On Label 1999
The Improvisation Meeting At Bar Aoyama (CD) 05/05/99 Reset 1999
Turntable Solos (CD, Comp) Turntable With Guitar Amp Amoebic 1999
Masters Of Japanese Electronic Music (CD) Cartrige Far East Experimental Sounds 2000
Sonar 2000 (4xCD) Filament 1-4 So Dens 2000
The Wire Tapper 6 (2xCD, Dig) Hyoushi Wire Magazine 2000
Vooruit Geluid Fe5tival 2000 (CD, Comp, Promo) When I Come Back Vooruit 2000
A Box Full Of Ghosts (3x7" + CD-ROM + Box, Comp) If 6 Was 0, Live At P3 Gentle Giant Records 2001
Avanto 2001 (CD) FF Avanto Recordings 2001
Improvised Music From Japan (10xCD) Cathode #4: Sound Chec... Improvised Music From Japan 2001
Scanning Of Modulations (VHS, NTSC) Condition #6 Uplink Records 2001
10時間 / Ju-Jikan: 10 Hours Of Sound From Japan (2xCD, Album, Comp) Composition For Two Gu... 23five, San Francisco Museum Of Modern Art 2002
An Anthology Of Noise & Electronic Music / First A-Chronology 1921-2001 (2xCD) Untitled #1 Sub Rosa 2002
Deluxe Improvisation Festival 2001: Day One (CDr) Untitled ASE (2) 2002
Japanese Avant-Garde (CD) DT-2.01 Sub Rosa 2002
Meeting At Off Site Vol. 1 (CD) Untitled Reset, Improvised Music From Japan 2002
Minima~list (CD) 2 Guitars List 2002
Persepolis + Remixes. Edition 1 (2xCD) Untitled Asphodel 2002
Platte (LP, S/Sided) Columbia CO36021 Charhizma, Jimmy Draht 2002
Pulser (LP) Loop1 - Otomo Yoshihid... Vinylsoyuz 2002
The Wire 20 1982 - 2002: Audio Issue (3xCD, Comp + Box) Cathode #4: Soundcheck... Mute Records Ltd. 2002
AMPLIFY 2002: Balance (7xCD + DVD + Box) Untitled, Seven Guitar... Erstwhile Records 2003
自由の意思 [Free Will] (CD, Comp, Ltd, Boo) Untitled P.S.F. Records 2003
Haunted Weather. Music, Silence and Memory (2 versions) Filament 2-5 Staubgold ... 2004
Improvised Music From Japan 2004 (2xCD) Untitled Improvised Music From Japan 2004
Intonarumori Orchestra (CD) Anode #4 Off Site 2004
Undecided (CD, Comp) 2004.1.17 P.S.F. Records 2004
Big Ears Fitzgerald's Manifesto (CD, Album) Playgirl, Oa-21 Sonic Arts Network 2005
Dolmen. Contemporary Art And Sound Series 2000 / 2006 (2xCD, Comp) Former State Penitenti... Dolmen Associates 2008
An Anthology Of Noise & Electronic Music / First A-Chronology 1921-2001 (3xLP, Comp, Ltd) Untitled #1 Sub Rosa 2009
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