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Kebko Music is Tokyo-based Akiko Kiyama’s independent music label focusing on releasing avant-garde music
which is not bounded by any specific genres but embraces the whole range of techno, experimental music, field- & liverecordings
and classical music. The label owner established her name by Richie Hawtin featuring her track in his wellknown
DE9 Transitions mix in 2005. Since then, her music style has gradually changed to explore the edge of electronic
music. The core of the label is based on small handcrafted editions of cassette tapes. It aims to give a chance for all of
artists and listeners to explore their musical experience and creativity.
* Akiko Kiyama was born in Tokyo, Japan. Since her youth, she was surrounded by classic music education and had
been playing piano for 20 years. Her music career has started since 2004 since her debut EP "Dimension" on Sud
Electronic(London) which got great supports from renowned DJ & Musicians like Mad Mike, Richie Hawtin , Sven Vath,
Ricardo Villalobos. And in November 2005, her track " Like Ancient" has been licensed by M-NUS records ,and is
appeared on DE9 Transitions by Richie Hawtin. In 2007, She moved to Berlin to follow through with her commitment to
dance music and to develop her style further. She also released several singles on reputable labels such as
Contexterrior, Lick My Deck, etc and her first album "7years" came out on District of Corruption under Kompakt. Since
then she has been playing in Europe, North & South America and Japan widely, including her main acts at Fabric
London and Panorama bar Berlin.
* This is Akiko Kiyama's 4th full-length album, stemming from two years of exploration outside her established dance
floor inclinations, boiling down her sound to its essential organic grooves, intricate harmonies and eery atmospheres. The
nature of her organic grooves lies within inter-sound gaps, carefully crafted to lead the listener through time distortions
and into an hypnotic solitary world where music is breathed, not played. A sound imprinted of a definitely human
character and vigor, yet sometimes ambiguous, fleeting, and capricious. From her peculiar sense of harmony and
rhythm, and a meticulous minimal approach