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Cornelius (born Keigo Oyamada (小山田圭吾 Oyamada Keigo) 27 January 1969 in Setagaya-ku, Tokyo, Japan) is a Japanese recording artist and producer. His name is a reference to the Planet of the Apes chimpanzee character of the same name played by Roddy MacDowall. Oyamada’s first claim to fame was as a member of the pop duo, Flipper’s Guitar, one of the key groups of the Tokyo shibuya-kei scene. Following the disbandment of Flipper’s Guitar in 1991, Oyamada donned the “Cornelius” moniker and embarked on a successful solo career, while also producing for Pizzicato Five.
Cornelius’s musical style is often described as being similar to Beck’s, whom he acknowledges influenced him along with The Beatles, The Beach Boys, The Jesus and Mary Chain, and Primal Scream, among others.
The music of Cornelius could be described as experimental and exploratory, and often incorporates dissonant elements alongside more familiar harmonically “pleasing” sounds. This tension, plus his practice of bringing in sounds and samples from mass culture, pure electronic tones, and sounds from nature (see his Point album) lead him to being sometimes categorized as an “acquired taste.”
He chose his pseudonym in tribute to the character of the same name from the movie Planet of the Apes. He commissioned a song, about himself, on Momus’s 1999 album Stars Forever.
Oyamada married fellow musician and collaborator Takako Minekawa in 2000.
***Cornelius is also an emotional/blackmetal/hardcore band from Mainz, Germany.***
Cornelius’s musical style is often described as being similar to Beck’s, whom he acknowledges influenced him along with The Beatles, The Beach Boys, The Jesus and Mary Chain, and Primal Scream, among others.
The music of Cornelius could be described as experimental and exploratory, and often incorporates dissonant elements alongside more familiar harmonically “pleasing” sounds. This tension, plus his practice of bringing in sounds and samples from mass culture, pure electronic tones, and sounds from nature (see his Point album) lead him to being sometimes categorized as an “acquired taste.”
He chose his pseudonym in tribute to the character of the same name from the movie Planet of the Apes. He commissioned a song, about himself, on Momus’s 1999 album Stars Forever.
Oyamada married fellow musician and collaborator Takako Minekawa in 2000.
***Cornelius is also an emotional/blackmetal/hardcore band from Mainz, Germany.***
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ArcOfDoves wrote:
@DonDam: Point is by far his best work. A journey from start to finish.
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FootToFace wrote:
i prefer Flipper's Guitar but his solo stuff is pretty swell
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DonDam wrote:
Still waiting for Point to arrive by mail. Sensuous was a mixed experience. As the statistics indicate, I found Gum to be a really interesting song but not many of the others really sparked something big. Is Point better?
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MyNameIsEno wrote:
MissTheMoon: Try Neu! or The Knife.
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milogluth wrote:
missthemoon: sheeit, you really need to rediscover some old classics, because there's whole bands that surround themselves on the same genre and sounds of those two bands and some do it better... not really
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zzxasd43and wrote:
it makes me smile.
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MissTheMoon wrote:
This is the height of modern electronic music. I don't really listen to anything else apart from Cornelius and kraftwerk.
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adventuremouse wrote:
just got fantasma, and i'm hopefully getting Sensous and Point soon, so gooooood
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JoshuaWhoFilms wrote:
One of the most inspiring musicians out there. Simply amazing.
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nerdist wrote:
i bought for 10 years the lp "fantasma!" and listenend to it very often. i nearly forgot him...since today! :-) great re-discovery!
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MegatonShot wrote:
unsurprising that cornelius would be asked to record for an edgar wright film. i remember fantastic plastic machine being played a few times on 'Spaced'.
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Alec_Trevelyan wrote:
I want to eat chips with Keigo while being recorded using 3D microphones too
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adamzZz wrote:
His music makes me feel happy too.
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Comet_Course wrote:
Cornelius makes me so happy.
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JDAckers wrote:
I hope so cogsturning :D new album means new tour!
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cogsturning wrote:
according to his myspace hes got a new album in the works.
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glasseyedtiger wrote:
CM3 just came out...
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milogluth wrote:
he doesn't release albums to frequently, a bit above average maybe, his latest tour i assumed was for a new release.
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