is a Japan

Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

ese techno

Techno

Techno is a form of electronic dance music that emerged in Detroit, Michigan in the United States during the mid to late 1980s. The first recorded use of the word techno, in reference to a genre of music, was in 1988...

 DJ

Disc jockey

A disc jockey, also known as DJ, is a person who selects and plays recorded music for an audience. Originally, "disc" referred to phonograph records, not the later Compact Discs. Today, the term includes all forms of music playback, no matter the medium.There are several types of disc jockeys...

 and producer from Sapporo. He graduated from Hitotsubashi University

Hitotsubashi University

is a national university specialised in the social sciences in Tokyo, Japan. The University has campuses in Kunitachi, Kodaira, and Kanda.Hitotsubashi is considered as one of the most prestigious universities in Japan. It is ranked 25th in the world in 2011 by École des Mines de Paris.Hitotsubashi...

. He has released work under his own name as well as under the pseudonyms: FLR, Flare, UTU, Yoga, and Rising Sun.

Strongly influenced by Detroit techno

Detroit techno

Detroit techno is an early style of electronic music beginning in the 1980s. Detroit, Michigan has been cited as the birthplace of techno music. Prominent Detroit Techno artists include Juan Atkins, Derrick May, and Kevin Saunderson...

, Ken Ishii had his first release on Richie Hawtin

Richie Hawtin

Richard Hawtin is an English-Canadian electronic musician and DJ who was an influential part of Detroit techno's second wave of artists in the early 1990s and a leading exponent of Minimal techno since the mid 1990s...

's label Plus 8

Plus 8

Plus 8 is a Canadian techno record label, based in Windsor, Ontario and founded in 1990 by DJs Richie Hawtin and John Acquaviva. Initial releases were by the pair themselves and their friends using aliases such as States of Mind and Cybersonik, along with other Detroit-based musicians such as...

. He composed the music for the opening ceremonies to the 1998 Winter Olympics

1998 Winter Olympics

The 1998 Winter Olympics, officially the XVIII Olympic Winter Games, was a winter multi-sport event celebrated from 7 to 22 February 1998 in Nagano, Japan. Seventy-two nations and 2,176 participans contested in seven sports and 72 events at 15 venues. The games saw the introduction of Women's ice...

 in Nagano. He provided a track for the 2001 video game Rez

Rez

Rez, developed under the codename K-Project, Project Eden, and Vibes, is a rail shooter video game released by Sega in Japan in 2001 for the Dreamcast and PlayStation 2, with a European Dreamcast release and United States PlayStation 2 release in 2002...

by Sega: Creation The State Of Art which is the music used in the third level of the normal game, as well as music for the game LSD

LSD (video game)

LSD: Dream Emulator is a video game released in Japan in 1998 for the Sony PlayStation video game console and is one of three products based on Lovely Sweet Dream, a dream journal that Hiroko Nishikawa, a staff member at Asmik Ace Entertainment, had been keeping for a decade...

. His track "Let It All Ride" has also been used in the PSP video game Lumines II

Lumines II

Lumines II is a sequel to the puzzle game Lumines. The game was released in November, 2006 in Europe and North America, and in February 2007 in Japan.-Gameplay:The gameplay in Lumines II is very similar to its predecessor, Lumines...

.

Albums

• Garden On The Palm (2 X 12" - RS 93012 - 1993)
• Innerelements (CD - RS 94038 CD - 1994)
• Jelly Tones (2LP/CD - RS 95065/RS 95065 CD - 1995)
• Green Times (CD - Sublime Records SBLCD5002 - 1995)
• Grip (CD - Sublime Records SBLCD5011 - 1996)
• Metal Blue America (CD - R&S Records - 1997)
• Sleeping Madness (2LP/CD - RS 99153/RS 99153 CD - 1999)
• Flatspin (CD - Exceptional EXLPCD0103 - 2000)
• Millennium Spinnin at Reel up (CD - Sony Music Ent. - 2001)
• FLR Easy Filters (1999 - 2001) (2 X CD - Reel Musiq Sublime Records RLCD-002 - 2001)
• Rebore Vol.2 (2001)
• Future In Light (CD - Exceptional EXLPCD0302 - 2002)
• Interpretations (CD - Exceptional EXLPCD0405 - 2003)
• Play, Pause and Play (2 X CD - Sublime records IDCS1016/1017 - 2005)
• Sunriser (CD - 70Drums IDCK-1002 - 2006)
• Daybreak Reprise -SUNRISER Remixed- (2008)

Singles

• "Pneuma" (12" - RS 93025 - 1993)
• "Deep Sleep" (12" - APOLLO 8 - 1993)
• "Tangled Notes" (12" - RS 94046 - 1994)
• "Extra" (12"/CD - RS 95064/RS 95064 CD - 1995)
• "Stretch" (CD - SRCS 8098 - 1995)
• "Overlap" (CD - RS 96107 - 1996)

External links

• Ken Ishii -- official site.
• Sony Music Japan bio.
• Nippop Profile | Ken Ishii.
• Ken Ishii discography at Discogs
  Discogs
  Discogs, short for discographies, is a website and database of information about audio recordings, including commercial releases, promotional releases, and bootleg or off-label releases. The Discogs servers, currently hosted under the domain name discogs.com, are owned by Zink Media, Inc., and are...
  
  .
• Ken Ishii - Extra - Video.