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Casino Versus Japan is the recording name for Erik Kowalski (born May 5, 1973), a United States-based electronic musician from Lexington, Kentucky by way of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, who produces intelligent dance music (IDM for short) with baroque melodies and distorted trip-hop beats.
As a young boy in Wisconsin he recorded episodes of television series Miami Vice, sampling Jan Hammer’s music, later collecting them, and playing them over the backdrop of other musical genres. After a brief stint with model railroading such experiments with tape grew less obvious. Samples were collected from a range of sources, and eventually mixed with meagre homespun recordings. Later attending Lincoln High School in Manitowoc, Kowalski would often be found playing the grand piano in the empty auditorium rather than attending class, slowly teaching himself chord progressions. During this same period, he also learned the basics of other instruments including guitar and drums in an effort to put together simple songs. By then, other influences began to take hold.
Kowalski (recording guitar-based, ambient/experimental music as Radiogate in 1996 and 1997) found many creative peers and grew into an integrated underground electronic music community in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. His tenure at Atomic Records, along with writing for the alternative fanzine Milk Magazine, kept him informed on developments within many styles of innovative music.
As a young boy in Wisconsin he recorded episodes of television series Miami Vice, sampling Jan Hammer’s music, later collecting them, and playing them over the backdrop of other musical genres. After a brief stint with model railroading such experiments with tape grew less obvious. Samples were collected from a range of sources, and eventually mixed with meagre homespun recordings. Later attending Lincoln High School in Manitowoc, Kowalski would often be found playing the grand piano in the empty auditorium rather than attending class, slowly teaching himself chord progressions. During this same period, he also learned the basics of other instruments including guitar and drums in an effort to put together simple songs. By then, other influences began to take hold.
Kowalski (recording guitar-based, ambient/experimental music as Radiogate in 1996 and 1997) found many creative peers and grew into an integrated underground electronic music community in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. His tenure at Atomic Records, along with writing for the alternative fanzine Milk Magazine, kept him informed on developments within many styles of innovative music.
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sweatbloodtears wrote:
which album to start with?
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N808a4 wrote:
Via Rouge, Relay Goodbye, Warm Windows, Marilyn Set Me Free. A mastery of abstract textures, matched by few. Please Kowalski to be releasing the more.
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glentennis wrote:
His 'sun' tracks ("It's Very Sunny", "Making Lake Park in the Sun", "Search for the Sun") are coincidentally my absolute favorites.
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Bearologist wrote:
Amazing stuff, can't believe this guy toured with deerhunter earlier this year. "Money dosen't buy happiness"...no, but it would have bought me and a few buddies some flights to the US to see them play = very happy! Marumari track "casino versus japan" from his remixes album is a gem. Anyone who can be bothered to youtube it is in for a treat ; )
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mushroomsseason wrote:
Eric, you are a genius.
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m-saIami wrote:
there was a team japan, and a team casino... you know the end
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aaronsrun wrote:
非常に興味深い
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XsnrG8 wrote:
Does anyone know the reasoning behind the name "Casino Versus Japan"? Can I be enlightened?
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lrwld wrote:
Feel good
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TangerineStars wrote:
American BOC
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p-hop wrote:
Buried
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MescAline-Yenot wrote:
=)
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Imajika wrote:
<3 <3 Looooooove
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AE_club wrote:
ПРослушал привьюшки, и ни че так, зацепило.
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malibufire wrote:
So wheat!
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autumngaze wrote:
http://holypagerecords.bandcamp.com/track/lucid-driving
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DJOnesNzeroS wrote:
Killer
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stan_da_lada wrote:
he´s simply a genious !!
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nick_InZoMNiAC wrote:
He's very good, reminds me a bit of BoC, not as good though, of course.
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acock wrote:
great!chaos
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