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Nao Tokui

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About Me

Born in 1976 and resides in Tokyo. His production forte is to produce high quality, four-to-the floor which is tight and moreover groovy, with an element of speed. In 1998, he started DJing techno as well as producing minimal techno. In 2000, having seen the limit of production capacities of the combination of his own written C language software and AKAI MPC2000, he met up with the music programming software, Max/MSP.
In the following year, he fully started production with Max/MSP. At the same time, he started programming his own software within the Max/MSP. In the same year, he released his 1st 12" Single, "Nao Tokui&TNT/We All need" from the Belgian label, Pocket/Music Man. Also in 2002, from the Swiss label, Speaker Attack, he had a track included in their compilation, Deck Shark Series Vol. 4. That summer, he joins PROGRESSIVE FORM as their new artist.
And as a researcher studying at university, he conducted researches on Artificial Life and Complex systems and finished his PhD thesis about emerging systems and the computer-human interaction. He thinks that both "the act of producing music" as well as " the act of writing music programs" are similar and it is "a way of self-expression". He would like to both utilize and combine "music production" and "software programming" and appeal both elements in the future. In this direction, he made his own music software, SONASPHERE - a kinetically driven 3D music programming environment in 2003. It was one of the first experimental music softwares on Mac OS X and highly praised by both the musicians and programmers.
In 2003, he released his first full album "Mind The Gap" from PROGRESSIVE FOrM. Then, he joined op.disc, a new techno label run by Fumiya Tanaka and Yoshihiro Hanno. He now lives in Tokyo and works on his second album coming in the summer 2008.

SYNC PODCAST / Co-hosted with AOKI takamasa


LIVE VIDEO

LIVE AT UNIT / TOKYO - Dec 2005

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 3/31/2006
Band Website: naotokui.com
Influences: German dub techno/electronica (Basic Channel, Rhythm & Sound, Monolake, Jan Jelinek) West coast programming-oriented techno around the millennium (Kit Clayton, Sutekh, Twerk) Japanese electronic music (SILICOM, AOKI takamasa, Radiq, Indopepsychics...) HipHop in general (A tribe called quest, Nas, Mobb Deep, The Roots...)
Sounds Like: deep, dubby, glitchy, algorithmic, texture oriented, dance
Record Label: op.disc, PROGRESSIVE FOrM
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Fumiya Tanaka - Via

Fumiya Tanaka - Via ...
Posted by Nao Tokui on Tue, 18 Mar 2008 08:36:00 PST

Laforet Harajuku meets op.disc

The new shopping site of Laforet Harajuku (one of the most prominent department store for Japanese youth fashion in Tokyo) features op.disc artists.The site is really cool: Good interface with great m...
Posted by Nao Tokui on Fri, 07 Mar 2008 03:32:00 PST

Chaos - This Weekend!

If you happened to be in Tokyo this weekend, don't miss Fumiya Tanaka's party, "Chaos", at Club Yellow.????????????????!
Posted by Nao Tokui on Thu, 28 Feb 2008 10:34:00 PST

Nao Tokui - SIGNAL 9 @ Heavy Sick ZERO 23.12.07 pt.1

I came across this one... Thank you, BoNcHo0, for recording and sharing this video....
Posted by Nao Tokui on Sat, 16 Feb 2008 04:52:00 PST

SYNC PODCAST - NAP backstage Interview recorded at UNIT (with special guests)

A new story of SYNC Podcast, co-hosted by AOKI takamasa, is available.This time, I interviewed NAP, another op.disc artist, at the backstage of UNIT Tokyo. Hope you enjoy. (It's in Japanese though... ...
Posted by Nao Tokui on Sat, 16 Feb 2008 04:48:00 PST

Dartriix Live in Tokyo on Samurai.FM

A live recording of Datriix, a producer unit of Fumiya Tanaka and Radiq a.k.a. Yoshihiro Hanno, one of the best techno producer from Japan and the owners of op.disc label, is now available on Samurai....
Posted by Nao Tokui on Sat, 16 Feb 2008 04:39:00 PST