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Ryoji Ikeda | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 4, 1997)
• Format: Import
• Label: Touch Records
• ASIN: B000003SBH
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #602,365 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. headphonics 0/0

2. headphonics 0/1

3. headphonics 1/0

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5. +.

6. +..

7. -.

8. -..

9. +/-

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars ., November 29, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: + / - (Audio CD)

Put this disc in your stereo and see it becoming a surreal little ticking, pulsing, tone-generating box of fun. There is no melody and no groove; everything is cold, white, and sterile. It has a very clinical aesthetic to it ... very precise, careful, stagnant, and minimal. Extremely beautiful in its own strange way. For people who like very, very minimal techno.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing Works of Electronic Minimalism, September 12, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: + / - (Audio CD)

Ryoji Ikeda has put the whole idea of minimalism into this recording through tones, blips, clicks, and other electronic noise. The sound is amazing, and if you turn your head while listening to it, the sound changes. I prefer to listen to it on headphones, because you hear the full spectrum of sounds assembled by this Japanese composer. This recording is a transcendent experience to listen to. You cannot help but to look differently at the world after hearing it.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars a wonderful experimental electronic work, March 24, 2000

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scott (Buffalo, NY) - See all my reviews

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Awesome minimal electronics that fits alongside the work by those like Oval, Microstoria, Pan Sonic, Mego's Hecker & Pita Rehberg & Fennesz, as well as abstract sound acousticians Achim Wollscheid, Ralf Wehowsky(RLW), Bernhard Gunter, & some of Jim O'Rourke's more electronics based pieces with a touch of the 1950's Cologne school avant garde serialist electronic works. Equally if not better is his "Oș C" also released on Touch, described as "mixes of static noise with almost drill'n'bass-like excursions and random looping, sine-wave frequencies and pure digital warmth via some scientific Sähkö blap towards the end."-FE