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Yuko Nexus6
Yuko Nexus6
Photo © Albane Laure

Yuko Nexus6 likes risk and is not fazed by tackling a priori abstruse musical concepts, such as real time composition or interactive music. The computer is her main medium, although she rejects the idea of performing alone on stage with her machine, preferring to enjoy herself and integrate a host of other elements, such as plastic cassette recorders or microphones, and small grains of sand that she knows are capable of upsetting the electronics and adding suspense, action and love.

Yuko Nexus6 lives in Hikone, near Osaka and teaches at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at the University of Nagoya. She started creating her “music” almost by accident around fifteen years ago, when she installed a few bits of free software onto her office PC. Nowadays, Nexus6 is an international artiste and, in 2003, her third album, Journal from Tokyo received an Honorable Mention at the Prix Ars Electronica. In 2007, she was awarded an honor by the Foundation for Contemporary Art of New York.

Text © 2007 Sonore

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Nexus6 Song Book
(SONORE, SON-23, CD 2005)
electronica / experimental
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iTunes 		Having received an award from Ars Electronica in 2003 for the "Journal de Tokyo" album (SONORE, SON-18, CD 2002), Yuko Nexus6 strikes again with her brand new opus "Nexus6 Song Book" (Sonore, SON-23, CD 2005). Singing jazz, folk and traditional standards in Japanese, English and German, Yuko Nexus6 processes her voice using the most high-tech devices as well as the cheapest recording gadgets. Sound-art oriented, Yuko Nexus6's work is minimalist but full of wit. Special mention goes to the great booklet containing original lyrics and notes by Christopher Stevens, and superb photo artwork by Akiko Ikeda.
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Translation Of Sightseeing
(ONOMATO, ONO-01, CD-R 2004)
experimental / field recording
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 The sounds of Translation of Sightseeing performance by Yuko Nexus6 and Mariko Tajiri.
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Journal de Tokyo
(SONORE, SON-18, CD 2002)
electronica / minimalism
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iTunes Audio Lunchbox 		Yuko Nexus6 first developed works based on readings, then carefully applied a blend of the analog color of the audio cassette on to sounds generated by new musical technologies, offering a destabilizing linguistic and temporal experience. Yuko Nexus6 succeeds skilfully, with a sincere tone, in making music both minimalist and witty, filled with suspense, love and catastrophe.
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Bit Diary
(KAERU CAFE, KACA-0033, CD 1998)
electronica / experimental
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 Yuko Nexus6's debut album. Last copies.
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Blue L.L.L.
(KAERU CAFE, KACA-0050, CD 1999)
electronica / experimental
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Chotto Shio San-ju Seiki 2002 € 14.00Add to shopping cart
Minoru Kawabata, Makoto Inada and Yuko Nexus6 joined for an electro-folk ballade in 30th century.
V/A Billboard Head Soup 2006 € 18.00Add to shopping cart







Let’s celebrate our advanced age by wallowing in 80s pop culture. A splashing tribute to feathered hair, pink sweaters and leather jeans. A double CD compilation dedicated to American Billboard Hits. Carelessly scratching the gloss of these candy-floss memories with a disrespectful electro-punk attitude inherited from the very same decade, Nu Nulax Nulan, Xerxes and Sonore labels have joined forces to fulfill a colossal task: collecting 40 freaky covers hacked by a tribe of twisted international artists including: Satanicpornocultshop, Dag Shen Ma, Gangpol Und Mit, Conceal, Carl Stone, S Isabella, Liftman, Juicy Panic, Xper. Xr., Lui, Fire OF Love, Dragibus, Miroque, Satoru Wono, Frosen Pine, Barom One, Yuko Nexus6, Grand Buffet, Government Alpha, Donna Summer, La Bossa, Nes, El Da Rimpio, Contagious Orgasm, etc. Limited edition, 500 copies.
たまには80年代のポップ・カルチャーにふけって、年くった自分を褒めてあげるもよし。これはレイヤーヘアとピンクのセーターと革パンに贈るイカシたトリビュートで、米ビルボード誌のヒットチャートに捧げた２枚組のコンピレーションCD。そんな綿あめメモリーのつやつやしたうわべを、他ならぬこの時代から受け継がれたエレクトロパンクの無礼な態度でケーハクにスクラーッチ！しつつ、Nu Nulax Nulan、Xerxes、Sonoreの３つのレーベルが、このスバらしい仕事を成し遂げるために力を合わせました。サタニックポルノカルトショップ、Dag Shen Ma、Gangpol Und Mit、Conceal、カール・ストーン、S Isabella、Liftman、ジューシーパニック、Xper. Xr.、 Lui、 Fire OF Love、ドラジビュス、Miroque、ヲノサトル、Frosen Pine、バロムワン、Yuko Nexus6、Grand Buffet、ガバメントアルファ、 ドナ・サマー、 ラ・ボッサ、 Nes、 エル・ダ・リンピオ、 Contagious Orgasmなど、世界中のひねくれアーティスト連にこてんぱんにされたカバー40曲を収録。500枚限定版。
V/A Deluxe Improvisation Series Vol.2 2001 € 14.00Add to shopping cart
Gene Comeman, Scott Fields, Yoshimitsu Ichiraku, Kazuo Imai, Ko Ishikawa, Yoshiko Kanda, Hang Tae Hwan, Utah Kawasaki, Stefan Keunel, Brett Larner, Sachiko M, Toshi Makihara, Aya Motohashi, Yuko Nexus6, Masahiko Okura, Yoshihide Otomo, John Russell, Elliott Sharp, Carl Stone, Taku Sugimoto, Richard Teitelbaum, Ami Yoshida.
V/A Japanese Independent Music 2001 € 21.00Add to shopping cart
The fullest picture available of Japan's explosively radical underground musical scene. This book is a comprehensive report on the exuberant activity of the Japanese independent scene at the end of the twentieth century. Structured like a dictionary with an historical introduction, it offers a vision of more than 600 artists from musical streams as varied as: electro, harsh-noise, avant-rock, free-jazz. Comes with a CD of rare and previously unreleased tracks from: Keiji Haino, Yuko Nexus6, Acid Mothers Temple, Ruins, KK Null, Sachiko M, Hoppy Kamiyama, etc.
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