Ken Ishii
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Biography
Ken Ishii debuted on a legendary Belgian techno label, R & S Records, in 1993. In that year he straight won No.1 on the UK’s NME magazine’s techno chart, which led him to worldwide recognition. In 1995, the highly praised album “Jelly Tones” (R & S / Sony Japan) was released. In the following year, the video for the single “Extra” from this album (directed by Koji Morimoto, the animator of the worldwide hit cartoon, “Akira”) won MTV’s “Dance Video of the Year”.
Since then, Ken has been regarded internationally as one of the Japanese pioneers who can create world class electronic sounds. In 1998, he produced the official theme song for the winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan and it was played in more than 70 countries around the world. Then in 2000, Ken was interviewed and was on the cover of Newsweek magazine, featured as a symbol of the Japanese new culture. This was acclaimed as a great undertaking by a dance/electronic music artist.
He also produces music for films, such as doing the theme song and soundtrack for the monster hit Japanese film “Whiteout” in 2000, which led him to be nominated in Japanese Academy Awards. He expands his boundary to games as well. Rez, the game Ken contributed his exclusive tracks to, became a cult hit. In 2005, he reached a major achievement in being in charge of the music and designing an exclusive 12.2 surround sound system for the Seto-Nihon Pavilion, enforced by the Japanese Government, at World Expo in Aichi, Japan.
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Jelly Tones
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SUNRISER
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Flatspin
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Sleeping Madness
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QuintonDempsey
Jelly Tones are the jelliest.
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fujiline
tokyo is legend!
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Daniellynet
Yay, seems like the default name is Ken Ishii now, neat.
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bastige1337
jelly tones.. if you didn't get this album, you're missing out
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WiTHiNt
"last.fm is suggesting" The users are suggesting, not last.fm :)
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Daniellynet
I agree. Just looked on all his sites/pages and it seems that Ken Ishii IS the actual name.
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Abroxas
It annoys me a bit, btw, that Ken Ishii is shown with this "correct your tags" picture within my library. Spelling an artist in his correct romanized (look at his bloody homepage) form doesn't make it "wrong" and people should get used to have two different artist pages until last.fm is actually getting to melt them (which seemingly never happens).
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Abroxas
last.fm is suggesting Ishii's name written in japanese letters. If you enabled romanizing on last.fm (which helps to get your last.fm library straight), the website displays all japanese names in their romanized form, but it still differentiates them. That's why it seems that last.fm suggests the same name it thinks to be misspelled.
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Spacirelei
Wait...last.fm? How is it that your "do you mean ..Ken Ishii?" is spelled the same as what you think is misspelled?
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KiteKiteKat
нравится принравится!!
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ZoiQ
woah this guy is pretty cool
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DJ-IGORSTEP
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DJ-IGORSTEP
!!! Respect !!!
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