Hidenobu Ito
Inspired by a burning desire to create music with an experimental edge, Hidenobu produces tracks that are often incited by a pinch of cross-genre eroticism, from techno and house to break-beat, cut-up, collage, deep house, soundscapes and modern dance music.
Flirting with both hard and software gear since the early 1990s, Hidenobu has released his "sound drawings" on labels as varied as TripTrap, NS-com, Flyrec, Subrosa, Ryoondo-Tea, Fenou and Level Records, time and again testing the boundaries of musical expressions and listener expectations.
His latest passion is Tokyo-based Elegant Disc, his own imprint, whose mission might best be summarized by the rhetorical question of what Maurice Ravel, Frank Zappa and Antonio Carlos Jobim have in common. The answer: four composers in love with new harmonies.
Elegant Disc is an electronica and Japanese avant-pop label that aims to broaden the notions and sensitivities of experimental (electronic) pop music.
JET SET feature article #097: 鬼才Hidenobu Itoと、『10 Girls' Voice』特集
Elegant Disc blog (Japanese)
Listen to Hidenobu Ito
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(EP) Wake [12": mo's ferry, 2007] |A1| Wake |
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(V.A.) top ten 2/3 [12": Level Records, 2007] |A1| Ferenc Vaspoeri – Prestige |
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(V.A.) 25 [12": mo's ferry, 2007] |A1| Butane – Nowhere Kansas |
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(Album) kiss [CD: Elegant Disc, 2006]
|01| kiss |02| sex'n'lovers |03| girlfriend |
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(Album) Lover / Cable [10": Fenou, 2006] |A1| Hidenobu Ito (feat. urara) – Lover |
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(Album) Love the End [CD: Elegant Disc, 2005] |01| Inside,
outside |02| クレイジーラヴ |
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(Album) First Love [CD: Flyrec, 2002] |01| theme of first love |02| cut
|03| twilights |
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(Remix) Yoshihiro Hanno – April Remixes Featuring remix tracks by Oval, World's End Girlfriend, AOKI Takamasa, Kama-Aina, Ryoma Maeda, Takanishi Tomoyasu, Christophe Charles, as well as Hidenobu Ito. |
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(Remix) Yoshihiro Hanno – April >> Remixes Featuring several tracks and an edit by Yoshihiro Hanno himself, as well as tracks remixed by Oval, Christophe Charles and Hidenobu Ito. |
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(Album) Bedroom in the cage |01| Prologue |02| Sweet Ambiguous Inbetween |
