Hamburg Termine: [mfoc] Nikae & Kyoka

Sunday 17 March MFOC w/ Kyoka Live & Nikae DJ

+ Raf (IDM Clown ab 20 Uhr)

Kyoka (Raster Noton/ Japan)
works as a musician/composer in berlin and tokyo and is known for her chaotic and direct musical approach and a heavy-rough sound, resulting in a broken pop-beat with experimental yet danceable rhythms.
she grew up in japan, having piano, flute and syamisen lessons during her childhood. while listening and recording radio shows to tape, she became attracted by the possibilities of scratching tapes back and forth and soon she begun to use the tape recorder as her toy, cutting, editing and producing first rough sounds.

in 1999, she started to explore the potential of synthesizers/computers and during her stay in los angeles from 2004 to 2008, she enjoyed some first success when her songs charted at local radio stations.

in 2008, her first mini-album »ufunfunfufu« was released on the berlin-based onpa))))) label, followed by »2ufunfunfufu« in 2009 and »3ufunfunfufu« as an exclusively digital release.

2012 saw the release of her first 12" ep »iSH« on raster-noton, which is now to be followed by »is (is superpowered)«, her first full length album due in may, 2014.

a quote by ryuichi sakamoto may underline the exceptional talent of kyoka: "panic! it sounds like a toy box turned up side down. how can she make such pretty and chaotic sounds!? i love it!"

http://www.ufunfunfufu.com
https://soundcloud.com/kyoka
http://www.raster-media.net/artists/kyoka

Nikae
lives and works in Hamburg as an musician, artist, sound designer, dj and owl.

Influenced by Musique Concrète and the outer space of electronic music, her compositions are built from manipulated and fragmented fieldrecordings, interweaving with analogue synth lines, knocking radiowaves, rare voice scraps and filtered tape layers.
As a DJ (Nikae) she also runs two regular nights at the notorious Hamburg Golden Pudel Club (Next Time & Noctuidae) and releases her music on her own label Noctui.
Compilation appearances on differing labels, such as MMODEMM, SKY WALKING, ANTI-GHOST MOON RAY…
Her newest collaborative project is called C with the musician F#X/E.K.G.

http://www.nikason.de
https://noctui.bandcamp.com
https://soundcloud.com/nikacis
https://www.mixcloud.com/Nikae__/
http://cwelle.org