LOUD-CONTACT pres ZIP & FUMIYA TANAKA

Widely respected DJ and producer Fumiya Tanaka brought the sound of minimal, intense techno to Japan during the early '90s, and introduced thousands of club-goers to the best Detroit and German producers via his club nights around Osaka and Tokyo. His mix CDs, including 1995's I Am Not a DJ, were rapidly paced, breathtaking sequences of hard, driving techno tracks, and his own productions, including the Unknown Possibility series, were precise, well-crafted DJ tools, sometimes with tribal influences. Aside from work under his own name, he produced downtempo and experimental music as Individual Orchestra and Karafuto. By the 2010s, his work had shifted to a slightly glitchy microhouse sound, and he released numerous recordings in this style on Perlon (including 2016's You Find the Key and 2019's Right Moment) as well as his own Sundance imprint.