Ken Ishii
compiled
by Nicholas D. Kent
email: ndkent "at" optonline.net
Last
updated 00.8.16
(*) means
I don't own this album and haven't listened to it.
(@) means
I don't own this album but have listened to it.
thanks:
Terry Green, Chester Campbell
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Ishii, Ken
Garden on the Palm
1993 Sony/R&S cd:
SRCS 7350, 2x12":R&S Records (Bel) RS 93012
Contains 12"s plus
some new material to fill it out into an album
- Garden on the
Palm
- Loop
- Prodrome
- Nil
- Sponge
- Popgun
- QF
Ishii is Japan's best
known techno artist.
Ishii, Ken
Innerelements
1993? R&S (Belgium)
cd: RS 94038 CD, SRCS-7443 (Japan)
Contains the various
12"s plus some new material to fill it out into an album. Overlaps the above
but is much longer.
- Encoding
- A.F.I.A.C.
- Twist of Space
- QF
- Flurry
- Garden on the
Palm
- Pneuma
- Sponge
- Radiation 03
- Loop
- Fragments of
Yesterday
- Kala
- Decoding
Ishii, Ken
Jelly Tones
1995 R&S (Belgium)
cd: RS 95065 CD, SRCS-7487(Japan)
New Material. Good
design, Akira-type anime by Morimoto, who's a top animator. Clever techno material
(*) Stretch (cd
ep: SRCS-8098)
Ken Ishii
Circular Motion
+ Overlap
(*) 1996 Sony cd
ep: SRCS-8146
Ken Ishii
Echo Exit
(*)1997 Sony CD ep:
SRCS 8297
- Echo Exit (original)
2)
- Echo Exit (Mekon
Remix)
- Echo Exit (Silver
City Remix)
- Echo Exit (Hoax
Remix)
- Echo Exit (Boom
Boom Satellites Remix)
- Echo Exit (Jeroen
Verhey Remix-Edit)
info: Chester
Campbell
Ken Ishii
Metal Blue America
(@) 1997 R&S Records and Sony SRCS
8523.
- Metal Blue America
- Butter Bump
- Actio Surrealismo
- Jet'n' Rush
- Super Fly
- Somewhere There
- Headfirst
- Spinous Blue
- Decrescendo
- Rev Splash
- Drummelter (Bonus Track for Limited
Edition)
Chester
Campbell adds: This
cd also contains a CD EXTRA portion that works on Macintosh or Win95 computers.
The packaging of this CD is great!! It is a red paper tri-fold folder inside
a clear plastic slip case. The red folder is covered in braille-like bumps (there
is a pattern but I doubt they mean anything) and the CD itself is silver on
top and red on the bottom (playing side). Inside the folder is a folded strip
of white paper with some holes punched out (reminiscent of computer punch cards)
and then the track information, recording information, liner notes, etc.
compilation supervised by Ken Ishii
Mix-Up Vol 3
(@) SRCS-8053)
Chester
Campbell adds:
The Mix-Up series is one CD per artist
that were recorded live, usually at a club in Japan. Ishii's wasn't recorded
in front of an audience but it is a continuous mix ... recorded at Sound Dali,
Tokyo on May, 23-24, 1996. The tracks are:
- Kala - Ken Ishii
- The Nervous Track (Yellow Mix)
- Nu Yorican Soul
- United Future Airlines (Astral
Hijack Mix) - United Future Organization
- Multifunction - Tronikhouse
- I Believe - Octave One
- Finite Time - Flare
- Amuck - Low Res
- Pitch Control - Moebius-Plank-Neumeier
- Static Friendly - BFC
- Frame Out - Ken Ishii
- Decay - MK
- Video Crash (Crash Instrumental)
- Tyree
- Go (Rainforest Mix) - Moby
- Planet Rock - Afrika Bambaataa
& Soulsonic Force
- Riot in Lagos - Riuichi Sakamoto
- Strap Down Part 2 - Meat Beat
Manifesto
- Military Jazz - Plug 2
- Step Into Eden (Rollin'Drum and
Bass Mix) - The Ballistic Brothers
- Piano Power - Remy & Sven
- Strings of the Strings of Life
- Rhythm is Rhythm
- Can You Feel It - Mr. Fingers
NK: This was part of a 4 album series
which are all essentially DJ sets on CD. There is another series with various
artists doing a DJ like set as a compilation, like this one, called X-MIX. Ishii
has an album in this series also. The X-MIX series I think got a U.S. or European
release while the MIX-UP series remained japan only afaik.
Ken Ishii
FLATSPIN
2001 ken ishii/exceptional
(UK) EXLP0103
I have the 14 track
UK version, I think various regions have slightly altered contents. Certainly
skillful but not much here really excited me. He samples some Tomita classical
moog (Firebird) with permission on one track but there isn't enough of it to
interest Tomita fans.
Other names that
Ishii uses to release albums-
Rising Sun/Yoga Green
Times (SBLCD-5002) (*)
Flare Reference
to Difference (SBLCD-5006US) (*)
Flare
Grip
1996 SBLCD-5011, UK
CD: Sublime SBLCD50011UK
I never found this
one very memorable
Regrip (SBLCD-5012)
remix
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