Artist of the Week: Cornelius
This week's artist of the week is Japanese Producer/Artist, Cornelius.
I first learned about Cornelius during the Japanese Pop For a Beutiful Life show on Radio 1190 when Jessica had a show focused completely on Pizzicato Five. This show introduced me to Japanese pop and the artist, Cornelius who helped bring Pizzicato Five into the spotlight. He really caught my attention with his remixes of Takako Minekawa and has even been imortalized in a song by Momus. In honor of Japanese Pop For a Beautiful Life's last show this past Sunday, I decided to pick Cornelius as the artist of the week.
"Japanese pop-noise savant Cornelius was born Keigo Oyamada in 1971; a self-taught guitarist inspired early on by Kiss and Black Sabbath, his musical alias was later chosen as an homage to the Planet of the Apes film series. A product of the same Shibuya-kei bubblegum scene that also gave rise to Pizzicato Five, Cornelius debuted in 1993 with the EP Holydays in the Sun, the first release from his own Trattoria label. He became a national teen idol in the wake of the release of 1994's full-length The First Question Award and a year later he issued the album 69/96, followed in 1996 by the remix LP 96/69. Released in 1997, Fantasma was his creative and commercial breakthrough, a kaleidoscopic, genre-hopping joyride through contemporary musical history that became Cornelius' first American release when it was reissued by Matador a year later. Another pair of remix collections, CM and FM, followed in 1999." - allmusic.com
Video for 'Tone Twilight Zone' on Youtube.com
Matador Records, Cornelius' Label
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