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About Me

Who Is:
www.jido-genshi.com
jido-genshi is the pseudonym that i use for my experimental electronic music project. i have several different solo projects as well as band projects that i am currently involved with.
jido-genshi now available on iTunes!
Me Personally:
[autodidactic polymath]
i am a musician, photographer, web & graphic designer, magician, escapologist & psychological illusionist, author, amateur robotics engineer and rocket scientist and most recently indie toy designer.
Projects:
this is my Bjork Remix that I made of Oceania. bjork had it on her site for a while there...
i am also relaunching my industrial project cell:burn as well as my projects V E N T E R , StarDotStar and Seven, And Then Some . These projects will be on my record label ZERO:GENSHI .
... and currently, a project that originally started out as a little doodle but has now taken on a life of its own (and has recently consumed my life!), is my Broken Heart Robot project. due to the amazing amount of feedback i had been receiving regarding my little robot, i decided to make a vinyl toy version of him. this is a limited edition run of 1000 pieces and is currently found at stores such as KidRobot.com, MunkyKing.com and Meltdown Comics (meltcomics.com) as well as other urban vinyl & toy retailers throughout the world. so now that the toy is officially released and doing quite well, I guess this adds to my list of occupations: Toy Maker!
stay tuned for an announcement of the next plan for Broken Heart Robot (and another possible, and most major add to my list of occupations!)
random picture of the day (or week or month; taken by me.)

My Interests

creating and producing sounds and music, vocoders and synths (hard and soft), theremin, traditional [film] and digital photography, graphic and web design, vinyl toy design, industrial design, architecture, aviation and aerospace, robotics and nanotechnology, films, books, futurism, hyper-realism and surrealism, philosophy, neuro-linguistic programming, behavior modification, cryptology and encryption, ancient secrets and mythologies, foreign languages and cultures, love... and being in it.

I'd like to meet:

creative, intelligent, passionate people looking to explore, create, collaborate with, exchange ideas and thoughts with...

Music:

apparat, arovane, autechre, arvo pÃ¤rt, plaid, nin, haujobb, bluetech, aphex twin, kate bush, david sylvian-mick karn and japan, richard devine, omsk411, bjork, ryan francesconi, chet baker, cyrusrex, tweaker, boom boom satellites, massiveattack, monolake, annodalleb, david bowie, amon tobin, this mortal coil, akira rabelais, matmos, ryuichi sakamoto and ymo, scanner, einstÃ¼rzende neubauten, arvo part, my bloddy valentine, venetian snares, diamanda galas, erik satie, delarosa and asora, boards of canada, skinny puppy, m83, cocteau twins, miles davis, gary numan, talvin singh, front line assembly, sybarite, goldfrapp, pj harvey, johnny cash, yasume, lisa gerrard and dead can dance, tortoise, yann tiersen, nina simone, and so much more...

Movies:

amelie, irreversible, akira, blade runner, the matrix, baraka, fight club, la fille sur le pont, the reflecting skin, nikita (and anything luc besson), run lola run, leon the professional (again with besson), dancer in the dark, se7en, spirited away, the hunger, city of lost children, lucia y el sexo, twin falls idaho, kill bill 1 and 2, city of lost children, lost in translation, 12 monkeys, snatch, kissed, o brother where art thou (and most all coen bros films), the secretary, the wisdom of crocodiles, la belle et la bÃªte (jean cocteau)

Television:

these are all guilty pleasures, which, of course, is what tv is all about! the dick van dyke show (still the best sitcom ever created!), carnivale, six feet under, rome, la femme nikita (miss it), aeon flux (the shorts), 24, house, firefly, dexter

Books:

microsound by curtis roads, the age of spiritual machines by ray kurzweil, sex and rockets-the occult world of jack parsons, the book of secrets, books by: neal stephenson, the god delusion by richard dawkins, ayn rand (everyone must read "For The New Intellectual" as it is very pertinent to today!), clive barker, william gibson, philip k. dick, william s. burroughs, art, surrealists (andrÃ© breton, georges bataille, etc.) history, philosophy, architecture, photography, greek myths (hesiod's theogeny, apollodorus' library) and the roman versions (ovid's metamorphoses), hermetic philosophy (kybalion, divine pymander, etc.), DSM-IV (for research), applications of neuro-linquistic programming (robert dilts), science and sanity: an introduction to non-aristotelian systems and general semantics (alfred korzybski), heidegger, sartre, wittgenstein, derrida, baudrillard and many more...

Heroes:

Those rational, critical thinkers, scientists and artists that produce and contribute to this world and spread reason, fairness and tolerance for the betterment and progress of all humankind.

My Blog

My new synth-pop release on iTunes

Just out is the re-release from my electro-synthpop project StarDotStar titled StarDotStar Archives. This is an EP to sort of "clean out the closet" of older material in preperation of an upcoming new...
Posted by genshi on Fri, 28 Sep 2007 07:27:00 PST

First album released on iTunes...

My first album has now been released on iTunes world-wide (U.S., U.K., Australia, Japan, Canada) entitled, "The WarmWetLow". It will also be available shortly on Rhapsody Online, emusic, Sony Connect,...
Posted by genshi on Sun, 17 Sep 2006 07:20:00 PST

My New Tattoo!

Here a couple of pics of my new tattoo (right forearm). The photo was taken one day after, so still needs much healing (especially after 5 hours of inking!) Thanks to my amazing tattoo artist, Daniel ...
Posted by genshi on Mon, 04 Sep 2006 04:22:00 PST

Broken Heart Robot debuting at Comic-Con!

Hello All,My toy label, GENSHI:TOY, will be debuting the Broken Heart Robot at this years San Diego Comic-Con at the DKE Toys booth. We will be showing the finished, packaged retail versions of Broken...
Posted by genshi on Thu, 08 Jun 2006 07:25:00 PST

My Broken Heart Robot toy COMPLETED!

I hit a milestone today... My Broken Heart Robot toys are finished manufacturing and are on the boat from the factory in Hong Kong headed towards my distributor here in the U.S.A.! Soon you will be ab...
Posted by genshi on Sat, 03 Jun 2006 01:12:00 PST

WarmWetLow Video

Now that MySpace accepts videos, you will notice that I have uploaded the video to my song, "The WarmWetLow". This is an abstract interpretation of the song that was generated with mathmatical and cha...
Posted by genshi on Tue, 04 Apr 2006 05:43:00 PST

Step by Step Process of Making the Broken Heart Robot toy...

I thought it might be kind of neat to let you all see the manufacturing process of my Broken Heart Robot toy; from my initial little doodles all the way through to the finished product (once it gets t...
Posted by genshi on Wed, 22 Feb 2006 10:31:00 PST

Major World Wide Distribution

Boy, when it rains it pours as they say, but in a good way. Just found out today that my own independant label, Genshi Media Group, finally signed a major distribution deal (something I've been workin...
Posted by genshi on Thu, 10 Nov 2005 07:21:00 PST

Broken Heart Robot toy coming soon!

If you haven't already figured it out by now, I am the one behind the Broken Heart Robot here on MySpace. For the past couple of months I have been working on making it into a designer vinyl toy an...
Posted by genshi on Sun, 06 Nov 2005 09:23:00 PST

My New Podcast

I've been very busy lately with many projects, some of which I will post here. One thing I have been experimenting with is Podcasts. If you would like to hear a Podcast of my upcoming CD, "The War...
Posted by genshi on Tue, 16 Aug 2005 10:19:00 PST