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Naohiro Fujikawa’s fractured electronica under the name Bisk (訪問錄)is also among the most interesting and innovative musical
hybrids to appear in the last several years. Sounding literally years ahead of its time, Time was a future-shock of sampler
orchestration, the splintering remains of ambient, jazz, techno, hip-hop, electro, and experimental noise/musique concrete recombined
into forms both fascinating and bewildering. Fujikawa’s only other releases previous to Time were on small-run, largely Japan-only
compilations (Trip Trap Records’ Floating on the 1st Floor being the ...read more
Naohiro Fujikawa’s fractured electronica under the name Bisk (訪問錄)is also among the most interesting and innovative musical
hybrids to appear in the last several years. Sounding literally years ahead of its time, Time was a future-shock of sampler
orchestration, the splintering remains of ambient, jazz, techno, hip-hop, electro, and experimental noise/musique concrete recombined
into forms both fascinating and bewildering. Fujikawa’s only other releases previous to Time were on small-run, largely Japan-only
compilations (Trip Trap Records’ Floating on the 1st Floor being the most notable); released under his own name, these tracks were far
more derivative than his subsequent material as Bisk.
Following Time, Fujikawa contributed a track to Bill Laswell’s Oscillations Remix CD/LP before Sub Rosa issued a second full-length
CD, Strange or Funny-Haha?, in 1997. Another essential collection of sample-based chaos unlike most other happenings in
contemporary electronica, Strange set a standard of quality even higher than its predecessor, and further argued for Fujikawa’s status
as one of the most important and original new voices in experimental post-techno. The somewhat less impressive Ticklish Matters
appeared on Sub Rosa in 1998, along with a remix for American hip-hop group East Flatbush Project (included on the Tried by 12 remix
album, co-released by Ninja Tune and Chocolate Industries in December 1998). In addition to his CDs, a trio of exclusive Bisk tracks
can be found on Sub Rosa’s excellent 1998 compilation, Water and Architecture, alongside selections by Seefeel, former Tortoise
bassist Bundy Brown and (most appropriately) Uwe “Atom Heart” Schmidt, one of the few artists to whom Fujikawa’s work owes a clear
debt. ~ Sean Cooper, All Music Guid.
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