Kimihide Kusafuka is perhaps best known as a member of the mid-1980s Japanese electro/industrial band Techno Menses, but he had a prolific solo career as well. This release, from 1984 on DD. Records, is full of arpeggiated synth lines, moody drum machine rhythms, noisy drones and a few minimal but symphonic masterpieces (the last 10 minutes of side B are epic). Reminiscent of both Bruce Haack and Merzbow.
While K2 (another psuedonym of Kusafuka’s) and Techno Menses are both more progressive and innovative than the efforts on this album, Demise Symphonika has a timelessness that the other projects definitely lack.
hello,
i’ve only recently discovered your site and want to give you huge thanks and praise for the collection of old and analogue synth music that you are sharing here. also, i’m really interested in the music on this tape and would really be very happy if you ever find the time to give it another upload. also if you don’t already know this, i think there is another tape from this guy on a german blog: http://tapeattack.blogspot.de/2011/11/k-kusafuka-re-music.html
greetings;
Thanks for the tip, we look forward to hearing Re-Musik! The link here should be working again, don’t hesitate to drop us a line if you are looking for anything else.
wow, that was a really quick reply. thanks for the tape, its really a nice piece of music and i agree with the kind of timeless feel that you describe.
i will surely come back to you if i encounter another dead link in my exploration of your blog, so dont worry.
another link that might be interesting concerning this specific japanese label that i came across is a pretty thorough listing of around ~180 releases and a little info on some of the artists on this japanese site, if you scroll down a bit:
http://blog.goo.ne.jp/googoogoo2005_01/e/3cb4c1b7042c2e5b0bee31bf80829506
keep up the good work,
greetings;
hi, could you reupload this please?