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MONTAGE is a breakbeat jazz/electronica outfit by Mitch(Akira Yamamichi) .
I've been making a new album_laptop folk issue. entitled lovery music. inspired by german group "thief". _inclding menbers of Jazzanova.
The brand-new cd of MONTAGE f/ Electroacoustic Jazz Quartet is in store now. entitled "Battles, Games and Mathematics". Including mathematical polyrhythmic afrobeat jazz with fragmented micro guitar phrases and Jimanica's smash drumming. inspired by Battles, HiM, Kieran Hebden and Steve Reid, Tony Allen, and Steve Reich's Gradual Shifting Process. And Generative rendered signal/noise tracks like Alva Noto meets Radian, Autechre, Fourtet and Supersilent.. Also texture oriented DUB with Cal Lyall's Tabletop Guitar Surgery and Peter Slade's Unique beat programming like Kit Crayton meets Keith Rowe, Pole, and Tied and Tickled Trio.
Here's rendered signal/noise and processed brushworks.
The polyrhythmic afrobeat jazz tracks will up soon.
and "V.A./Montage Remixes Edit logistic on Beat logistics" is out now. in association with remixers_RIOW ARAI,ILL SUONO,ORGA,DJ SEEN,FDF. sounds like Cut chemist, Prefuse73, Forss, Dabrye, Four tet, Authchre, Madlib, The Roots, Ben Harper..
Mitch began dj and producing dub/techno with Ryoji Ikeda as CCI in 1990. after few years for CCI, Mitch started MONTAGE and producing abstract hiphop and drum'n'bass under influence of MO'WAX,Ninja Tune..released the cd "Anthlopologie" and "Mixology" from Soup-disk. joined as the dj in turntable summit "Headz by Headz"(feat. DJ Krash,DJ Cam,DJ Vadim). remixed DJ Vadim's track for Ninja Tune. after that, found new streams by jazzanova,modaji_crossover,deep house,brasillian,latina. then, produced brasillian deep house for joining Bossa tres jazz 2/v.a.(yellow productions(fr) and Francois K's "Bossa Mundo 2". started private label "universal language" and released crossover/broken beatz cd "Les Vibes Bleu" and "Blue vibes".
through the digging jazz drum breaks, got laptop, and found Radian and Patrik Pulsinger's electronic jazz session, Mitch formed Electroacoustic Jazz Trio. for reseach of jazz electronica and post rock. to process and edit drum/guitar/bass sounds with lots of plugins. just like Battles, Supersilent, Four tet, Radian, Autechre, Alva noto, Jaga Jazzist, Jan Jelinek and Triosk, Savath and Savalas. this trio shifted quartet with Jimanica and MMF.
Also Mitch has a few side project. once joined Ryoji Ikeda's compilation cd (incl.Jim O'rourke, David Toop..etc) with pulse and music concrete like Luc Ferrali. few releases with sine waves and pulse from Stilluppstaypa's label. and started the minimal house unit"BERGBAHN" like Richie Hawtin, Sutech, Kit Crayton, snd,noto,Lo soul,Farben, Mike Ink..
Discography
1995
Akira Yamamichi/Phenomenized soundscapes
[ CD, statics/V.A. genre:electroacoustic/label: cci recordings]
1996
Montage/Metafiction
[CD, silverlization /V.A./genre:abstract hiphop/label: soup-disk]
1997
Montage/Anthlopologie
[CD, genre:abstract hiphop/label:soup-disk]
1998
Montage/Metalanguage
[CD, silverlization2 /V.A. label: soup-disk]
1999
Montage/Remix work for DJ VADIM's USSR RECONSTRUCTION/V.A.
[CD, Vinyl/ label: NINJA TUNE(UK)]
Montage/Mixology
[CD, genre:drum'n'bass/label:soup-disk]
2000
Montage/Mixology
[CD, genre:drum'n'bass/label:lisence release sub rosa(BEL)]
Akira Yamamichi/Pulse Beats
[CD, genre:electroacoustic/label:fire inc.(NL)]
2001
Montage/Libre, Nocturne op.7
[CD, Vinyl, Bossa tres jazz 2/V.A. label: YELLOW PRODUCTIONS(FR)]
Akira yamamichi/Semiologie
[CD, genre:electroacoustic/label:fire inc.(NL)]
2002
BERGBAHN/PULSE TRACKS
[CD, genre:clickhouse/label:code inc.]
Montage/Libre, Nocturne op.7
[CD, Vinyl, Bossa Mundo 2/V.A. label: WAVE MUSIC(US)]
Montage/Les Vibes Bleu
[CD, genre:crossover/label:universal language inc.]
2003
Montage/Blue Vibes
[CD, genre:crossover/label:universal language inc.]
Akira Yamamichi/Absolute Threshould Test
[CD, 60 Sound artists protest the war/V.A. genre:electroacoustic/label:ATAK]
2004
Electroacoustic Jazz Trio/Scripts and Paragraphs for Generative Tools
[CD, genre:post rock /jazz electronica/label:code inc.]
V.A./BERGBAHN Remixes vol.1 Flux Figure Transform
[CD, genre:klickhouse/label:code inc.]
2005
Electroacoustic Jazz Quartet/Game Theory
[CD, genre:post rock/jazz electronica/label:code inc.]
2006
V.A./BERGBAHN Remixes vol.2 Design Patterns
[CD, genre:klickhouse/label:code inc.]
V.A./Montage Remixes "Edit logistic on Beat logistics"
[CD, genre:electronica/hiphop/down tempo/label:universal language inc.]
2007
Montage ft. Electroacoustic Jazz Quartet/Battles, Games and Mathematics
[CD, genre:breakbeat jazz/post rock/label:code inc.]
2008
Montage/Metafiction
[CD, genre:breakbeat jazz/post rock/label:code inc.]
