Bisk

One of just a small number of Japan experimental techno performers to gain publicity beyond Japan, Naohiro Fujikawa’s fractured electronica beneath the name Bisk can be being among the most interesting and innovative post-techno hybrids to surface in the final many years. A indigenous of Hyogo, Fujikawa was hardly into his 20s when his debut Compact disc, Time, premiered by Belgian label Sub Rosa in 1996. Sounding actually years before its time, Period was a future-shock of sampler orchestration, the splintering continues to be of ambient, jazz, techno, hip-hop, electro, and experimental sound/musique concrete recombined into forms both exciting and bewildering. Fujikawa’s just other releases before Time had been on small-run, mainly Japan-only compilations (Trip Capture Information’ Floating on the very first Floor being the most known); released under his personal name, these paths were a lot more derivative than his following materials as Bisk. Pursuing Time, Fujikawa added a monitor to Expenses Laswell’s Oscillations Remix Compact disc/LP before Sub Rosa released another full-length CD, Unusual or Funny-Haha?, in 1997. Another important assortment of sample-based chaos unlike almost every other happenings in modern electronica, Strange arranged a typical of quality actually greater than its forerunner, and additional argued for Fujikawa’s position among the most significant and original fresh voices in experimental post-techno. The relatively less amazing Ticklish Matters made an appearance on Sub Rosa in 1998, plus a remix for American hip-hop group East Flatbush Task (included on the Tried by 12 remix recording, co-released by Ninja Melody and Chocolate Sectors in Dec 1998). Furthermore to his CDs, a trio of special Bisk tracks are available on Sub Rosa’s superb 1998 compilation, Drinking water and Structures, alongside choices by Seefeel, previous Tortoise bassist Bundy Dark brown and (most properly) Uwe “Atom Center” Schmidt, mostly of the performers to whom Fujikawa’s function owes a definite debt.