Title: Cybernetic Defiance and Orgasm: The Essential Henry Kawahara
Artist: Kawahara, Henry
Label: Em Records
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 4560283211976
Genre: Electronic
Release Date: 2021-09-17
Number of Discs: 3

Here is a portal to a vast and relatively unknown world, the Japanese cyber-occult underground media scene of the early 1990s; our guide is the late Henry Kawahara, a media artist and electronic music producer whose expansive and visionary conception of digital technology merged with a desire to break free of the constraints of mere rationality. This collection, the first-ever archival release of his work, is drawn from recordings released during the period 1991-1996, an exceptionally fertile time for Kawahara. Originally released on CD by a few Japanese independent labels including Hachiman Publishing, a cyber-occult / new-age / old Shinto book specialist, the releases were available mainly in book stores, so this sumptuous and prescient music has remained relatively unknown. The original titles and tag lines of the CDs give clues about Kawahara's interests and the music itself: Digital Mushroom, Subtropical Illusion, Never-ending Asia, and so on. This 15-track gateway compilation is available on double 12" vinyl and DL; the CD version has two extra discs featuring sound from two art installations entitled Dysteleology - a and Dysteleolog - ß from the 1990s. All formats feature extensive English liner notes.

Tracks:
1.1 In My Relationship with Youi Think About Myself on the Bed (Panpot Version)
1.2 Primitive Love (Genshi No Ai) (Delayed Version) 03. Start on a Journey
1.3 Sound LSD #.SS05/7.83HZ (Radio Mix)
1.4 Eco-Loocation
1.5 Sing An Anklungs
1.6 Lilac Strings
1.7 [Java] Dance #2. "Relaxed"
1.8 Nanpu (South Wind) (First 1992 Version)
1.9 Children in the Museum (Original Nov. 1991 Mix) 11. Nicea 'N Bark
1.10 Yebisu/Yellow #2
1.11 Yorokobi-No-Koe
1.12 Destination of Endorphins) (Original Edit)
1.13 Dance of Electronic Neuron Circuits) (First Mix)

Kawahara, Henry: Cybernetic Defiance and Orgasm: The Essential Henry Kawahara - COMPACT DISCS

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