Artist description happy lounge Jazzy beats from Shibuya, Japan! ELEKTEL music is innovative, playful and happy dance music. Combining Big beat with Bossa/lounge and a twist of computerized silly cartoons.

Music Style Shibuya-kei(if you know, check http://www.allmusic.com/)

Musical Influences Bigbeat, House, Lounge and Bossa Nova

Similar Artists Towa Tei, Fantastic Plastic Machine, Pizzicato Five, Cornelius, Ursula 1000, Dimitri from Paris, Jazzanova, United Future Organization and Deee-Lite

Artist History Elektel are funked-out Sci-Fi combo from Tokyo, Japan. Late one night, Ken was spinning a 12" vinyl in a cyber sushi bar at Shibuya. Suddenly he hit upon great idea, he sent e-mail to his friend, "Polymoog" Yoshiro. "Polymoog" is known as a synthesizer crazy. He was editing old keyboard in his laboratory. He called his friend Mamiko on vid-phone. Meanwhile Mamiko was playing Beethoven in her studio. And they tried to perform brand new tunes in the club. Wow! Groovy! The songs sound fantastic! Then Elektel began at January 1, 2000. Every night Ken is scratching vinyl and mixing all music - lounge, house, breakbeats and bossa nova at his bonsai garden. Polymoog is operating sequencer, sampler and old synthesizer in his laboratory. They don't make the tracks together, they works separately and exchange files by Internet. They are inspired by technology and science; Linux, Play Station, MP3, Anime, Pokemon, Internet, PC and cyber space. Now they set a goal to distribute their songs from the earth to the other planet. An electric fusion of sound from the Elektel Era and sound from the year 2000 and beyond. Sit back and sayonara!

Group Members UEHARA Kenichi: turntable and program. polymoog: moog and program. Mamiko: honorary member. TAKUMA Dai: honorary member

Instruments turntable, sampler, keyboard and guitar

Albums The Man Who Wears Sunglasses

Location Shibuya, Tokyo - Japan

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