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Ultra Living

About Me


"1110" by HiM (now includes Ultra Living) out now
"Transgression" by Ultra Living now on Anthology Recordings
HiM at O-Nest, Tokyo, 2009
Ultra Living with HiM at O-Nest, Tokyo, 2007
HiM Japan Tour 2008, edited by Akio Okamoto
"entwurf" from the album "transgression" (2000)
Video directed by Takao Minami
"happy as a clam" from the album "through" (2002).
Video directed by Akio Okamoto
Discography

albums
"1110 / HiM" ('08 afterhours/jp)
"zoonomia" ('07 p-vine/jp)
"through" ('02 afterhours aft034) review
"transgression" ('00 afterhours aft014 / artefact [fr] art28 ) review
"monochromatic adventure" ('98 creation [uk] cre211)
singles
"preppy mc death of hip hop vol.1" ('01 ozone [us] ozo08827-6) review
"entwurf" ('00 afterhours aft012)
"absurdly pedantic" ('00 artefact [fr] art37)
"homesick" ('98 creation [uk] cre286)
"sweetest pleasure" ('97 creation [uk] cre251)
"freeze, die & revive" ('97 creation [uk] ctp286)
remix works
"sea level" him / him remix series vol.1 japan ('02 fatcat / bubblecore [uk / us] fb01) review
"日曜日の娘" puffy / PRMX 1 ('99 sony [jp] SYUM-0130)
"rev splash" ken ishii / island - continents - 600mhz ('98 sony / r&s [jp / eu] no.aivt)
"keep on keepin' on" pigeonhed / flash bulb emergency overflow cavalcade of remixes ('97 sub pop [us] sp0408)
"it's like the man said" pigeonhed / it's like the man said ('97 sub pop [us] sp0397)
"bullfrog green" the boo radleys / c'mon kids ('96 creation [uk] cre236)
"crabs" 18 wheeler / crabs ('96 creation [uk] cre232)
"the hours and the times" 18 wheeler / the hours and the times ('96 creation [uk] cre219
"gone! " the cure / gone! ('96 fiction [uk] ficdd53/575 927-2)

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 17/12/2006
Band Website: http://www.ultraliving.org
Band Members: Takuma Nonaka, Tetsushi Nonaka
Influences: Nuno Canavarro, Mauricio Kagel, Tom Ze
Sounds Like: they need money
Record Label: Unsigned

My Blog

HiM(now merged with Ultra Living) album and tour

New HiM (Doug Scharin, Josh Larue & Ultra Living) album is now available in Japan.http://www.amazon.co.jp/%E3%82%A4%E3%83%AC%E3%83%96%E3 %83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%86%E3%83%B3-%E3%83%92%E3%83%A0/dp/B001 172I...
Posted by on Sat, 12 Jan 2008 16:20:00 GMT

Ultra Living on Anthology Recordings

Hello friends,Ultra Living's 2nd album "Transgression", originally released in 2000,has been reissued by a digital reissue label Anthology Recordings.http://www.anthologyrecordings.com/release.asp?al b...
Posted by on Fri, 19 Oct 2007 22:28:00 GMT

musique maure

i just got married. my wife is from a town called shioya in kobe, an old port city near osaka. as her mother describes it, shioya is japan's taormina, a beautiful hill town overlooking the sea. since ...
Posted by on Sun, 22 Apr 2007 06:01:00 GMT

l'anthologie sonore

in the historic district of kurashiki, located between hiroshima and kobe, i found a strange library exclusively dealing with music. it's called kurashiki city music library, located in the upstairs o...
Posted by on Sun, 08 Apr 2007 09:01:00 GMT

maurice blackburn's film music

about 5 years ago, one of my friends working at a museum in tokyo organized an event that showed several films of a canadian animation filmmaker norman mclaren made for the national film board of...
Posted by on Thu, 29 Mar 2007 03:34:00 GMT