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Kuniyuki Takahashi
12+ albums
deep housejapanesefuture jazzacid jazzchillout
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For the MONACA composer, see 高橋邦幸. Kuniyuki Takahashi (高橋邦之) is a DJ and producer from Sapporo, Japan. While he has produced several styles of music, he is best known for making deep, spiritual house with a heavy jazz influence - incorporating plenty of improvisation and organic instrumentation. Much of his music has been issued under his own name (sometimes shortened to Kuniyuki or just Kuni), but he is also well known for his work as Koss, which tends to be his more ambient and experimental material. He bought his first synthesizer at the age of 14, after becoming obsessed with electronic music pioneers such as Yellow Magic Orchestra and Brian Eno. He first began making ambient and experimental music during the mid-'80s, before forming the EBM/industrial duo DRP (Deutsches Reichspatent) with Tomoyuki Murastige by the end of the decade. Their debut album, Electro Brain 586, appeared in 1990, and the duo recorded a second album (Peace Offensive) in 1991, but it didn't see the light of day until 2015. Takahashi began his solo career in 1994, initially working under the name Forth before going by Frr Hive for his 1997 debut album, Rose Trumpet Herb, an excursion into atmospheric drum'n'bass. In 1998, Takahashi performed at the Rainbow 2000 outdoor festival as a member of Haruomi Hosono's group. Takahashi began recording as Kuni in 2000; his track "No Way" was featured on 2000 Black Records Presents the Good Good, a broken beat compilation released by the label founded by Deg
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