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1) K2 is the personal noise project by Kimihide Kusafuka since 1983. He had been influenced by early punk rock, no wave (“No New York”!), and industrial music in the late ‘70 to early ‘80. The first period of K2 activity had been related to mail art and music betaween 1983 to 1986. He had made many cassette works and exchanged them with domestic or world-wide mail art/music artists and labels, although he had not done any live shows. In the first period, he had gotten close contacts with Masami Akita (Merzbow), Tadashi Kamata (D.D.RECORDS), G.X. Jupitter-Larsen (The Haters), Richard van Dalen (De Fabriek), M.B., DDAA (ILLUSION PRODUCTION), Vittol Varoni (Trax), and more. He was also a student in Tokyo Medical and Dental University, and had studied about dental science, especially, pathology, morphology and molecular biology in this period. He had stopped all of his musical and mail art activities in the end of 1986, and then he had concentrated to pathology. He had been promoted to post-graduate course (oral pathology) and had gotten D.D.S., Ph.D. in Tokyo Medical and Dental University. After it, he have becomen a pathologist in Japanese Red Cross Medical Center, Tokyo, Japan.
1) K2 is the personal noise project by Kimihide Kusafuka since 1983. He had been influenced by early punk rock, no wave (“No New York”!), and industrial music in the late ‘70 to early ‘80. The first period of K2 activity had been related to mail art and music betaween 1983 to 1986. He had made many cassette works and exchanged them with domestic or world-wide mail art/music artists and labels, although he had not done any live shows. In the first period, he had gotten close contacts with Masami Akita (Merzbow), Tadashi Kamata (D.D.RECORDS), G.X. Jupitter-Larsen (The Haters), Richard van Dalen (De Fabriek), M.B., DDAA (ILLUSION PRODUCTION), Vittol Varoni (Trax), and more. He was also a student in Tokyo Medical and Dental University, and had studied about dental science, especially, pathology, morphology and molecular biology in this period. He had stopped all of his musical and mail art activities in the end of 1986, and then he had concentrated to pathology. He had been promoted to post-graduate course (oral pathology) and had gotten D.D.S., Ph.D. in Tokyo Medical and Dental University. After it, he have becomen a pathologist in Japanese Red Cross Medical Center, Tokyo, Japan.
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