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Tetsu Inoue
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Tetsu Inoue (井上徹) is a former electronic music producer from Japan. He primarily made various types of ambient music, such as ambient techno & lowercase, particularly on the label FAX. He has lived in Japan, San Francisco, and New York and collaborated with musicians such as Pete Namlook, Bill Laswell, Andrew Deutsch, Carl Stone, Terre Thaemlitz, Jonah Sharp, Taylor Deupree, and Uwe Schmidt.[1] After the release of his last album Inland in 2007, Inoue completely disappeared from the public eye.[2]
Discography
[edit]Albums and collaborations
[edit]- Shades of Orion (with Pete Namlook) (1993, reissued 2000)
- 2350 Broadway (with Pete Namlook) (1993, reissued 1996)
- DATacide (with Uwe Schmidt as DATacide) (1993)
- Ambiant Otaku (1994, reissued 2000)
- Zenith (as Zenith) (1994)
- Electro Harmonix (with Jonah Sharp) (1994)
- 2350 Broadway Vol. 2 (with Pete Namlook) (1994)
- Cymatic Scan (with Bill Laswell) (1995)
- Flowerhead (with Uwe Schmidt as DATacide) (1995)
- Mu (with Uwe Schmidt as Masters Of Psychedelic Ambiance) (1995)
- Organic Cloud (1995, reissued 2003)
- Slow And Low (1995)
- Second Nature (with Uwe Schmidt and Bill Laswell) (1995)
- Shades of Orion 2 (with Pete Namlook) (1995)
- 62 Eulengasse (with Pete Namlook) (1995)
- Tokyo - Frankfurt - New York (with Haruomi Hosono and Uwe Schmidt as HAT) (1996)[3]
- World Receiver (1996, reissued 2006)
- Shades of Orion 3 (with Pete Namlook) (1996)
- 2350 Broadway Vol. 3 (with Pete Namlook) (1996)
- Waterloo Terminal (1998)
- Psycho-Acoustic (1998)
- Active/Freeze (with Taylor Deupree) (2000)
- Audio (with Charles Uzzell-Edwards and Daimon Beail) (2000)
- Fragment Dots (2000)
- Field Tracker (with Andrew Deutsch) (2001)
- Pict. Soul (with Carl Stone) (2001)
- Yolo (2005)
- Inland (May 2007)
- 2350 Broadway Vol. 4 (with Pete Namlook) (2007)
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Sean Cooper. "Tetsu Inoue". All Music. Retrieved February 18, 2014.
- ^ "Essential albums: Tetsu Inoue". Ambientmusicguide.com. Archived from the original on 2021-09-26. Retrieved August 25, 2020.
- ^ "Release "Tokyo - Frankfurt - New York" by HAT - MusicBrainz".
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[edit]Tetsu Inoue
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Tetsu Inoue is a Japanese electronic music producer and ambient composer, best known for his minimalist ambient techno and space ambient works that emerged in the 1990s.[1] Born in Tokyo, he later lived in San Francisco and New York, where much of his influential output was created.[2][3]
Inoue's career gained prominence with his debut album Ambiant Otaku (1994), a limited-edition release on the Fax +49-69/450464 label that blended subtle rhythms with expansive soundscapes, establishing him as a key figure in the ambient techno scene.[4] His subsequent solo albums, such as World Receiver (1996) on Instinct Ambient and Psycho-Acoustic (1998) on Tzadik, further explored glitchy, immersive electronics and lowercase aesthetics, earning acclaim for their innovative textural depth.[5][6][7]
Throughout the late 1990s and early 2000s, Inoue frequently collaborated with prominent artists in the electronic and experimental music communities, including Pete Namlook on projects like 2350 Broadway (1993) and the Shades of Orion series, Jonah Sharp as part of Electro Harmonix and on Instant Replay (1997), Atom Heart (Uwe Schmidt) in the group Datacide—which evolved from acid techno to ambient-jazz—and Bill Laswell on Cymatic Scan (1995).[2][8][3] These partnerships highlighted his versatility across genres like space ambient, drone, and psybient, often released on labels such as Sub Rosa, Caipirinha Productions, and DiN.[3][7]
Inoue's discography, spanning over two dozen releases under his name and various aliases like Organic Cloud and Trance Media Network, reflects a commitment to organic, evolving sound design influenced by his multicultural experiences.[7][2] His later works, including Yolo (2005) on DiN, continued to push boundaries in glitch and ambient until activity notably declined after the mid-2000s, with his last releases in 2007, leaving a lasting impact on electronic music's ambient subgenres.[9][10]
