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KRITA YUGA

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As a young Japanese boy, Yuga originally wanted to be a manga creator or a computer game programmer until he grabbed his first electronic guitar. He soon became interested in computer music and bought his first sequencer and synthesizer.
A few years later, he got fed up with his life in Japan. He impulsively left Japan with a small day bag and wandered around Eurasian countries for some years. In his wandering years, he was so fascinated with the sound of sitar in India that he leaned sitar there. He also came up with an idea to create some kind of electronic music featuring sitar as the lead instrument. In India he had a lot of special experiences and went through many changes within himself. He had sort of near-death or "death while being alive" experience in the holy town Varanasi. So he thinks Varanasi is his second home town.
He went to Europe after he left India. When he was busking on a street in Amsterdam, he was invited to Norway by a Norwegian producer, and experienced some professional studio sessions as a sitar player there.
After he returned to Japan, he resumed his own music projects. But he just used his computer as a recorder, and wasn't very interested in sound design. As his desire for creating his own unique sounds grows, he naturally became interested in programming his own synthesizer presets from scratch. Thanks to the internet, he quickly acquired knowledge on synthesizers and standard synthesis techniques. First he used conventional virtual analog-type synthesizers. He enjoyed creating sounds with such synthesizers very much but he also wanted to go beyond conventional synthesizer sounds.
He fatefully encountered NI Absynth and instantly fell in love with this incredible synth. After the arrival of Absynth, he was totally immersed in creating sounds with Absynth, forgetting everything else including eating and sleeping. He hadn't been into beat programming very much, until he started to listen to some bleepy artists such as Autechre Boards of Canada and Amon Tobin. Now he also enjoys beat programming very well.
Now he has finally acquired sitar, sound design, and music production skills and tools required to create music he has had in his mind for many years, he calls this style of music electoraga. But because of his mercurial nature, he has problem with sticking to a specific style of music and tends to go as eclectic as possible. He lately started to record his own singing, and now mainly training his skills as a singer.
He had been interested in creating experimental music that no one has created. However, he is now more interested in creating music which is fresh and new yet somewhat catchy, in other words, a bit innovative pop or rock music.
I'm now looking for a cellist who lives in the Tokyo metropolis area, or who can record at home and has a high-speed internet connection. Please feel free to contact me if you're interested.
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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 8/15/2006
Band Members: YUGA (Sitar, Programming, Guitar, Bass and Vocal).

collaborators

Abertronix
Viloin on Wings of Darkness

Influences: A
Arcade Fire
Adrian Sherwood
Air
Amon Tobin
Amy Winehouse
Angelo Badalamenti
Annie Lennox
Antonín Dvorák
Aphex Twin
The Art of Noise
Arvo Pärt
Audio Active
Autechre
B
The Beatles
Beck
Bedrich Smetana
Bill Evans
Binocular
Björk
The Blue Nile
Boards of Canada
Bob Marley
Bonobo
Brian Eno
Brian Jones
BT
Burt Bacharach
C
Can
Charles Mingus
The Chemical Brothers
!!! (chk chk chk)
Cocteau Twins
Coldplay
Cornelius
Cyndi Lauper
D
David Bowie
Dead Can Dance
Death Cab For Cutie
Deep Forest
Depeche Mode
Django Reinhardt
DJ Krush
DJ Shadow
Duran Duran
E
Eagles
Edward Elgar
Elvis Costello
Enigma
Eric Clapton
Erik Satie
Eurythmics
Everything but the Girl
F
Faith No More
Fischerspooner
Frédéric Chopin
G
Gavin DeGraw
George Harrison
George Michael
The Goo Goo Dolls
Gota Yashiki
The Grateful Dead
Gustav Holst
H
Helios
Hikaru Utada
I
Imogen Heap
J
The Jam
Jeff Buckley
Jerry Garcia
Jimi Hendrix
Johann Pachelbel
Johann Sebastian Bach
John Adams
John Bonham
John Cage
John Lennon
John Williams
John Zorn
Joy Division
K
Kate Bush
Kenji Kawai
The Kinks
Kraftwerk
Kronos Quartet
Kula Shaker
Kyohei Tsutsumi
L
Led Zeppelin
Lee "Scratch" Perry
Lisa Loeb
Lou Reed
Ludwig van Beethoven
M
Madonna
Massive Attack
Matchbox Twenty
Matmos
Michael Nyman
Miles Davis
Murcof
Muse
My Bloody Valentine
N
Neil Young
New Order
Nick Drake
Nikhil Banerjee
Nirvana
Norah Jones
O
Oceansize
Orbital
P
Pat Methany
Peter Gabriel
Philip Glass
Pink Floyd
Porcupine Tree
Portishead
Primal Scream
Q
Queen
R
R.E.M.
Radiohead
Regina Spektor
Ravi Shankar
Riceboy Sleeps
Robert Wyatt
The Rolling Stones
Röyksopp
Rurutia
Ryuichi Sakamoto
S
Secret Chiefs 3
Shahid Parvez
Sheryl Crow
Shiv Kumar Sharma
Sigur Rós
Sixpence None the Richer
The Smashing Pumpkins
The Smiths
Spiritualized
Squarepusher
Steely Dan
Steve Reich
Sting
The Stone Roses
Super Furry Animals
The Style Council
T
Talvin Singh
Thom Yorke
Thrillseekers
Trentemøller
Trevor Horn
Trevor Rabin
Tycho
Tracy Thorn
U
U2
Underworld
Unkle
V
The Velvet Underground
The Verve
Vilayat Khan
Vishwa Mohan Bhatt
W
Wham!
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
X
Y
Yellow Magic Orchestra
Yes
Yoko Kanno
Yoko Ono
Z
Zakir Hussein

Books
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
Rashomon, Hana, Kumonoito, Torokko by Ryunosuke Akutagawa
Sekigahara by Ryotaro Shiba
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Ginga Eiyu Densetsu by Yoshiki Tanaka

Mangas
Death Note
Bleach
Claymore
Parasyte (Kiseiju)
Hi Izuru Tokorono Tenshi
Beck
Nodame Cantabile
Phonex (Hinotori)
Buddha
God Sider

Animes
Trinity Blood
Darker than Black
Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion
Gundam I
Akira
Memories
Ghost in the Shell
Bleach
Kekkaishi
Neon Genesis Evangelion

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My Blog

My Debut EP Goes Live!

My 1st EP "EPI" is now available on iTunes (finally...).This is kinda temporary one and most songs in this album will probably be included in the coming LP.So I'm not planning to release physical copi...
Posted by KRITA YUGA on Wed, 10 Oct 2007 04:48:00 PST

So I'm Singing...

I love writing both instrumental and vocal pieces. I'd like to know what you guys think about my singing. Do you enjoy it as much as my instrumental works? Or you think I should stop singing and just ...
Posted by KRITA YUGA on Thu, 29 Mar 2007 05:32:00 PST

ADD MY SONG TO YOUR PAGE

If you like my music very much and would like to support me, please add any of my songs to your page and let your friends know about me. I know even if you really like it, you'll eventually get tired ...
Posted by KRITA YUGA on Sun, 04 Feb 2007 10:07:00 PST

tax report

I've EVENTUALLY filed my tax report for the year 2006. I really hate this event. Every year it makes me depressed... Hope I'll be able to hire a tax accountant next year. But I already paid too much t...
Posted by KRITA YUGA on Tue, 13 Mar 2007 09:50:00 PST

moving

Now i'm moving within the tokyo metropolis and don't have internet connection at home till Monday (I'm posting this at an internet cafe). so sorry for the delay in approving your friend request, relyi...
Posted by KRITA YUGA on Sat, 03 Mar 2007 05:16:00 PST

Got a New Macbook Pro!

I'm really excited. It's superb! She really looks cool and got incredible processing power. I think I won't have to freeze my synths any more. Please look forward to my new tracks, I promise they'll ...
Posted by KRITA YUGA on Tue, 31 Oct 2006 06:40:00 PST