JAPSTEP #4
ft. MusSck,Memory9,Midori Hirano@Bei Roy(Ziegrastr.13 Berlin-NeuKoelln)

MusSck, UK (Schematic, Bedroom Research, Alkalinear Recordings)
http://vlncdrks.tumblr.com/
http://soundcloud.com/mussck

Memory9, UK / IT (Mixedbizness,Organica)
http://www.memory9.net/
http://www.myspace.com/mmr9
http://soundcloud.com/memory9

‘Memory9 is some truly next level innovation. Blew me away the first time i saw him do his thing.’
DJ Vadim
‘Memory9 is like a Roller Coaster ride on Stanley Kubrick’s White Horse Spaceship.’
Mochipet
‘The sound you can imagine being played ten years into the future’
UKHH.com
‘Memory9, quite an enlightening experience in any standard. This guy is fresh and raw as *%$k!’
clashmusic.com
‘Memory9 is stupidly adept at the sampler, mashing up everything from techno to hip hop with a well-timed flick of the wrist.’
planetnotion.com

Midori Hirano, JP (Progressive From) as MimiCof
http://midorihirano.com/projects/mimicof/
midori hirano is a musician, composer, sound artist and producer, born in Kyoto/Japan and now based in Berlin/Germany. She has been playing music since from the age of 5 when she used a piano to flesh out her earliest compositions. While this led her to major in classical piano at university, it was the less traditional aspects of electronica that would ultimately prove her major inspiration. A native to Kyoto, Japan but making the creative pilgrimage to Berlin in 2008, her productions are based around the use of traditional instrumentation – piano, strings, voice – and augmented with often subtle electronic processing and digital samples creating a rich, rolling sound that is at once warm and melodic while tracing unexpected musical trajectories.
Her first album, LushRush, was released on Noble records in 2006 and was primarily a collaborative affair, seeing her work with a number of guest musicians to create one of those beautiful, sprawling debuts that radiates a hazy blissfulness upon first listen. Her second, Klo:Yuri, saw her further develop her sound, garnering critical acclaim from various magazines in the world including TIME magazine. She is also in demand as a composer of soundtracks for European and Asian films, with 2008 seeing her become the only Japanese composer to invited to take part in the Berlinale Talent Campus, hosted by the Berlin International Film Festival.
As a moniker of MimiCof, she focuses more on electronic textures.

Silverman, UK (One4ho)
http://soundcloud.com/thesilverman

ILL_K, DE (Dubspin)
http://www.myspace.com/illkmusic
http://soundcloud.com/ill_k

Dr Kaya, DE (IBWT)
http://soundcloud.com/dr-kaya

Dj Shigeshige, JP

Dingy Dysu, JP (Onibaba)
http://soundcloud.com/dj-dysu
http://djdysu.net/

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