from
Brutalist Nightclub,
released November 13, 2022
Yoshitaka Shirakura (Konvektion / Shindou / the Calm)
Yoshitaka Shirakura is a DJ and party organizer based in Tokyo whose musical style crosses back and forth across different genres such as noise, avant-garde, and techno. He is good at creating and distorting dance floors by mixing earth trembling grooves, cutting-edge intervals of the sounds, and trebles that he has been delicately faced with though his exploration of noise music.
In recent years, he’s organized “Konvektion” an experimental techno party at Contact Tokyo with Takaaki Itoh and DJ Yazi. Also, several other parties and festival are regularly organized by Shirakura such as “Shindou” an avant-garde music party that intermingles sound art, noise, and drone, “Matatabi” a techno party teaming up with Yasunobu Suzuki, and “the Calm” an ambient festival in a rural mountainous area of Japan.
Besides playing and organizing, he’s also actively involved with booking work for Japanese techno and trance festivals such as ”CAMP Off-Tone”, ”Harukaze”, ”Sawagi Festival”, ”Re:birth”, and ”iLINX”.
As a music producer, 2019 saw him start performing drone live while playing the bass guitar. In the same year, he as “Fuguli”, an experimental music duo, participated in the production of a compilation album “From here to everywhere” released from VLZ PRODUKT (a Japanese label) and in 2022 “Anthology Of Experimental Music From Japan” from Unexplained Sounds Group (an Italian label).
Yoshitaka Shirakura (Konvektion / 震道 / the Calm)
Noise、Avant-garde、Technoなどの異なるジャンルを行き来する東京ベースのDJ、オーガナイザー。地を這うグルーブと前衛的な間、そしてノイズミュージックによって培った上音を織り交ぜ、空間を特異に歪ませることを得意とする。
近年の活動として、Takaaki Itoh、DJ Yaziと共にContact Tokyoにて”Konvektion”を主催。
また、Sound Art、Noise、DroneなどのAvant-garde musicを主体とした”震道”、Yasunobu Suzukiと共にTechnoを主体とした”またたび”、さらには、日本の山間地方でAmbient festival ”the Calm”を開催している。
その他に、”CAMP Off-Tone”、”春風”、”Sawagi Festival”、”Re:birth”、”iLINX”など、日本のフェスティバルのブッキングに精力的に関わる。
音楽プロデューサーとして、2019年よりベースギターを用いたドローンライブを開始。Experimentalユニット”Fuguli”としても活動し、同年、VLT PRODKT(日本のレーベル)よりリリースされたコンピレーションアルバム”From here to everywhere”に参加。2022年、Unexplained Sounds Group(イタリアのレーベル)よりリリースされた”Anthology Of Experimental Music From Japan”に参加。
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