Artist: Takkyu Ishino
Genre(s):
Techno
Ethnic
Dance
Discography:
Throbbing Disco Cat
Year: 1999
Tracks: 12
Berlin Trax
Year: 1999
Tracks: 10
Titles 3
Year:
Tracks: 7
Titles 2
Year:
Tracks: 13
Takkyu Ishino is known chiefly for organism a fellow member of techno-pop ring Denki Groove, merely in recent eld he has affected into a second career as an in demand techno DJ and remixer, decent well-known in Europe. Take a listen to Denki Groove's 1993 record album Vitamin, and then compare it to Ishino's 1993 remix of Pizzicato Five's "Twiglike Twiggy," which reduces the song down to the chanted title lyric and a pulsation, evolving techno track. Ishino's techno expertise gives Vitamin its punch, merely not its down; on "Twiglike Twiggy" it's all him, making no concessions to the mainstream. In 1990, Ishino teamed up with heights school day friend Pierre Taki and formed the fugacious band Zinsei, which shortly became Denki Groove with the addition of a few members. The band broke through in 1993 with Vitamin and 1994 with Dragon, and in 1995 they took a hiatus to focus on solo projects. It was here that Ishino first-class honours degree unleashed his sound in Dove Loves Dub, which assorted techno with ambient and breakbeats. But it was his DJ mix CD, Mix Up, Vol. 1 that got real attending, letting the European techno scene that Japan could farm serious techno that could advance the form, not just copy it. This light-emitting diode, several age later, to DJing Berlin's Love Parade, one of the first-class honours degree Japanese to do so. In 1998, Ishino began the Loopa label, releasing his have real as well as others. Karaoke Jack was released in 2001.
