ウェブサイトとは何ですか？

Muzan Editions, Nara-shi (2025)

19/03/2025

夢山の100作目として、による『Sound for Photo Exhibitions』をリリースできることを大変光栄に思います。
本作には、AOKI takamasaが自身の写真展のために制作した2つのトラックを収録。ギャラリーでループ再生されることを想定して作られており、鑑賞体験に音の奥行きをもたらすと同時に、AOKIの独自の美学が映像と音の境界を超えて広がっていく様子を感じることができます。さらに、デジタル版のボーナスとして、2008年に発表された「Solid Fusion」のedit版も特別収録しました。これら3つの楽曲はいずれも音の質感と空間の雰囲気を重視し、各パートが雲が風のない空で静かに形を変えていくように、ゆっくりと有機的に変化していきます。
夢山はAOKI takamasaの音楽を長年愛聴してきました。彼と実際に出会うずっと前からファンであり、ここ数年でご縁をいただき、親しく交流させていただく機会にも恵まれました。がAOKIの直近の写真展のオープニングパーティーで2度DJを務めたほか、はAOKI、と共に定期的のアンビエント・パーティー「SLOWMOTION」を共催。そうした経緯もあり、今回の100作目は私たちにとって特別な意味を持つリリースとなっています。
カセットテープは現在完売しておりますが、デジタル版はBandcampにて視聴・購入可能です。

https://muzaneditions.bandcamp.com/album/sound-for-photo-exhibitions

Mastering by
Album photography by AOKI takamasa.
Layout by

For Muzan’s 100th release, we are incredibly honored to present Sound for Photo Exhibitions, by the legendary AOKI takamasa.
AOKI presents two longform tracks originally created for his photo exhibitions over the years, designed to be played on loops at the gallery, adding a sonic depth to the viewing experience, as well as highlighting AOKI’s unique approach to artistic creation across mediums. As a digital bonus, we have also included a re-edit of his 2008 track “Solid Fusion”. All three pieces focus on texture and atmosphere, each “part” evolving slowly and organically into the next like clouds changing shape in a windless sky.
Muzan have been fans of AOKI’s work for many years – certainly long before ever meeting him – and over the past several years we have had the immense pleasure of getting to know him and work closely with him (Derive invited to DJ at two of AOKI’s last exhibiton openings; and Endurance co-organizing the longform ambient party, SLOWMOTION, with AOKI and Loe) making our 100th release even more special to us.
Cassette tapes are all sold out (for now), however the digital edition can be listened to and purchased on our Bandcamp.

#アンビエント #夢山 #電子音楽 #大阪 #カセットテープ

07/03/2025

We can’t believe it, but we’ve reached the milestone of 100 releases!! We want to celebrate this occasion with a surprise release.

MEDS100 AOKI takamasa - Sound for Photo Exhibitions

We’re honored that Osaka’s legendary Producer and DJ AOKI takamasa entrusts us with his first ever tape release. He’s been involved in the international electronic scene for more than two decades - sculpturing sounds for Alva Noto’s Raster-Noton, remixing Ryuichi Sakamoto and bringing the grooves to the dance floors worldwide.

EVERYTHING IS SPINNING - from the celestial bodies in our solar system to the smallest parts of our existence

These three compostions are being played continuously at AOKI takamasa’s new photo exhibition “Photography”. Music like a scent that floats through the air, creating a space of comfort .

06/03/2025

MEDS097 PsysEx / Endurance / Am Shhara / Chie Otomi
MEDS098 Erik Luebs / Juri Suzue / AMU / Kocho no Yume
MEDS099 Hakobune / Nobuhiro Okahashi / Menou / Ascalypso

Tapes and digital: https://muzaneditions.bandcamp.com/ or via our bio.

MEDS097 - MEDS099は、私たちにとって特別なリリースです。100作目目前の最後の3タイトルであることもそうですが、それ以上に、これまでで最も個人的な思い入れのある作品だからです。
この3本のテープには、日本の電子音楽シーンで活躍する12組のアーティストの音楽が収められています。彼らは卓越した音楽家であるだけでなく、大切な協力者であり、サポーターであり、そして何よりも、仲間です。私たち（アンドレアスと私）は今回の収録アーティスト全員と個人的につながりを持っていることに、心からの感謝と誇りを感じています。
夢山の活動（リリースにしてもイベントの企画にしても）は、周囲の人々の協力と支えなしには成り立ちません。だからこそ、今回のリリースは私たちにとって特別な意味を持っています。もちろん、世界中のアーティストとのコラボレーションを大切に思う気持ちは変わりません。しかし、夢山は基本的にはローカルなレーベルです。関西を中心に、素晴らしい才能、寛大さ、そして確かなビジョンを持つ人々によって築かれてきました。
そういう意味で、この3本のテープは、これまで私たちを支え、共に歩んできてくれたアーティストや友人たちへのラブレターのようなものです。彼らの存在が、私たちをここまで導いてくれ、そして今もなお、前へ進む力を与えてくれています。夢山は私たちの人生の中でかけがえのないものとなりました。それもすべて、日本のコミュニティの皆さんのおかげです。本当に、ありがとうございます！

This is a very special batch of tapes for us. Not only are these the last three releases before our 100th (!!!); but, more importantly, it is one of our most personal batches ever.
Here you will find music by 12 singular artists from within Japan's electronic music scene. In addition to being wildly talented sonic explorers, they are also colleagues, supporters, and friends. The fact that Andreas and I know each and every artist on this compilation personally makes us feel both grateful and proud.
Muzan's work - whether releasing music or organizing events - is made possible by the help and support of the people around us, which is why this particular batch means so much to us. It goes without saying that we deeply value our collaboration with artists from around the world; however Muzan is, at heart, a local label, founded on the talent, generosity, and vision of the people around us here in Kansai and beyond. And so this batch of tapes is, more than anything, a love letter to the artists and friends who have helped us come this far and who continually inspire us to keep on going! Muzan has become such a special part of our lives and we owe so much of that to our community here in Japan. Thank you all!

Mastering by our friend
Art by Furuya Kōrin.
Design by Endurance.

14/02/2025

OUT NOW: “Japan-Batch” Winter 2025!

今回、参加してくれるメンバーは全員日本を拠点としてるアーティスト。彼らによって生み出された数々の素晴らしい曲はアンビエント、ドローン、エクスペリメンタルなど色々なスタイルにわたって収録されている。参加していただき誠にありがとうございます。

Supporting local Japanese talents or artists that have found their way to Japan has been one of our main goals since we've started Muzan Editions.

These three albums are very dear to our hearts. We present you a glimpse into the vibrant Japanese ambient/experimental scene with some of its best artists.

Each side features two artists and their own unique musical approach - beautiful, 80s Kankyo Ongaku inspired Ambient; spacey, arpeggio-driven synths; La Monte Young’s dreamhouse-like drones and improvised sound experiments.

Muzan regulars , , are joined by some of our personal favorites - , , , , , , Kocho no Yume, and .

Mastering by the amazing
Layout by

11/01/2025

“Stratosphere” 1/31 FR at UpsideDown,Osaka

Door 2,000yen
open 23:00

Ben Kaczor photo by
DJ Morita
Dérive

Erik Luebs

Sound design by the almighty Yori

Ben Kaczor
スイス出身で現在バーゼルを拠点とするDJ、ディープハウス鬼才。Monument、Hessle Audio、Inverted Audioなど、エレクトロニックミュージック界の影響力があるプラットフォームにミックスを提供している。Ben KaczorはバーゼルのElysia BaselのレジデントDJであり, またLawrence、Carsten Jostによって設立され、ドイツ産ミニマル・ディープハウスを生み出してきた名門レーベルDial Recordsから秀逸なアルバムをリリースした。今までヨーロッパのシーンで注目され、典雅なテクノ・気品ある映画のようなディープハウスで活躍の幅を広げ、来日ツアーが決定！大阪初上陸！

Ben Kaczor’s entrancing music resonates within the emotional spectrum, exploring the delicate balance between light and shadow with boldness and sensitivity. Navigating through the sonic landscapes of Dial Records and Elysia Basel with elements of stirring elegance, he is renowned for a compelling blend of atmospheric techno, vibrant house and cinematic soundscapes. His compositions inspire opportunities for both introspective reflection and creative expression alike.

DJ Morita
大阪出身、在住のDJ。 2000年代初頭よりダンスミュージックに魅了され、レコードを収集し始める。自身の選び抜かれたコレクションにより組み立てられたサウンドはオーディエンスをゆっくりと快適空間へと連れて行く。

Erik Luebs
アメリカ出身で日本を拠点に活動するミュージシャン兼サウンドデザイナー。遊び心に満ちた自由なアプローチでテクノに取り組んでいる。Bandcampで毎月シングルをリリースしており、米国のThe Bunker New York、オランダのNous’klaer Audioなどのレーベルからのリリース、DJ NobuのFuture Terrorパーティーや欧州にあるDraaimolen Festivalへの出演など国内外で注目されている。

Erik Luebs is a US-born musician and sound designer based in Japan. Eschewing typical genre tropes, Luebs approaches techno with a playfully disruptive technique, reinterpreting the fundamentals using built-from-scratch patches and labyrinthine sequencing. While the labor-intensive process is inspired by a wide range of luminaries such as Mark Fell and Rrose, the resulting music is firmly tied to the dance floor. His unconventional approach to dance music has led to releases on labels such as The Bunker New York, Nous’klaer Audio, performances at DJ Nobu’s Future Terror party in Japan and at Draaimolen Festival in Holland.

01/12/2024

Muzan Editions presents:

Grand River

12/1 Sunday 18:00-22:00
At Club Daphnia
Charge: 2500 YEN

with
Grand River (live) .aimee
YAMA (DJ)
Yuri Urano (live)
Endurance (live)

本日18時から、Daphniaにて、ベルリンを拠点としてるGrand Riverを迎えます！私たちはずっと彼女のファンでしたので、関西に呼べるチャンスに飛びつきました。
当日は、彼女は「Tuning the Wind」という作品を披露します。風の音を楽器として使い、自然と電子音の境界を溶かすような没入感たっぷりのサウンド体験です。Daphniaの音響システムでこれを聴くのは、本当に特別な体験になると思います。ぜひ遊びに来てください！

Muzan is delighted to welcome the inimitable Grand River to Osaka today at Daphnia. With releases on labels such as Spazio Disponibile, Editions Mego, and Ghostly International, we've been fascinated by Aimée's music for a long time, so when she contacted us we jumped at the chance to bring her to Kansai.
For next week's show, she will be performing her piece Tuning the Wind, a deeply immersive sound experience where wind is the primary instrument, magically blurring the lines between natural and synthesized sounds. Listening to this on Daphnia's sound system is going to be unforgettable. We sincerely hope you can join us~~~

In addition to Muzan's Endurance, we've invited Yuri Urano and YAMA, two of the best sonic explorers in Japan, to perform next Sunday as well.
After having just released Yuragi, her second album with Muzan, Urano brings together carefully collected field recordings and masterfully sculpted electronics, continually pushing the boundaries of ambient music.
YAMA, a buyer for Newtone Records, is one of the most brilliant selectors we know. Her depth and breadth of knowledge and love of music - whether techno, house, or ambient - never fails to transport listeners beyond time and space. Please join us for a night of deep sound and experience.
aimee

#夢山 # #電子音楽 #大阪 #ダフニア #実験音楽 #アンビエント

24/11/2024

Muzan Editions presents:

Grand River

12/1 Sunday 18:00-22:00
At Club Daphnia
Charge: 2500 YEN

with
Grand River (live) .aimee
YAMA (DJ)
Yuri Urano (live)
Endurance (live)

来週の日曜日、Daphniaにて、ベルリンを拠点としてるGrand Riverを迎えられることになりました！私たちはずっと彼女のファンでしたので、関西に呼べるチャンスに飛びつきました。
当日は、彼女は「Tuning the Wind」という作品を披露します。風の音を楽器として使い、自然と電子音の境界を溶かすような没入感たっぷりのサウンド体験です。Daphniaの音響システムでこれを聴くのは、本当に特別な体験になると思います。ぜひ遊びに来てください！

Muzan is delighted to welcome the inimitable Grand River to Osaka next Sunday at Daphnia. With releases on labels such as Spazio Disponibile, Editions Mego, and Ghostly International, we've been fascinated by Aimée's music for a long time, so when she contacted us we jumped at the chance to bring her to Kansai.
For next week's show, she will be performing her piece Tuning the Wind, a deeply immersive sound experience where wind is the primary instrument, magically blurring the lines between natural and synthesized sounds. Listening to this on Daphnia's sound system is going to be unforgettable. We sincerely hope you can join us~~~

In addition to Muzan's Endurance, we've invited Yuri Urano and YAMA, two of the best sonic explorers in Japan, to perform next Sunday as well.
After having just released Yuragi, her second album with Muzan, Urano brings together carefully collected field recordings and masterfully sculpted electronics, continually pushing the boundaries of ambient music.
YAMA, a buyer for Newtone Records, is one of the most brilliant selectors we know. Her depth and breadth of knowledge and love of music - whether techno, house, or ambient - never fails to transport listeners beyond time and space. Please join us for a night of deep sound and experience.
aimee

#夢山 # #電子音楽 #大阪 #ダフニア #実験音楽 #アンビエント

09/11/2024

Huge thanks to Collin Smith for featuring Muzan in the Tape Label Report!!
It's no exaggeration to say that without Bandcamp, there would be no Muzan - so being included in a write-up on our favorite platform is even more exciting for us!
In addition to some lovely and well-deserved love for 's Touch Again (2021), cover art for two other releases were featured: Bastian Void + Endurance's split tape (2024) and Endurance's Further (2023)!
Pop over to Bandcamp to read this month's Tape Label Report - and do stop by our page as well!

https://daily.bandcamp.com/tape-label-report/the-tape-label-report-october-2024

We have something VERY special planned for this Fall: 12 Japan-based artists across three tapes😎😎😎😎
More information to come in the following weeks!

#夢山 #大阪 #アンビエント #アンビエント音楽

31/10/2024

Muzan's early fall batch is out in the world and here is the physical proof: tapes!
It took us a little longer to get some proper pics ready, but we couldn't be happier with how this batch turned out. In addition to looking gorgeous, these tapes sound incredible too ✨
Huge thanks to , , and Günter Schlienz for trusting us with their music! It is seriously wonderful, so if you haven't had a chance to listen, please visit our Bandcamp.
Mastering was taken care of by , who truly gave the music the presence and power it deserves 🙏
Photography and design by .
We've got a handful of tapes left - and digital versions are also available - so stop by our Bandcamp to listen and purchase.
https://muzaneditions.bandcamp.com/

#アンビエント #電子音楽 #大阪 #カセットテープ #モジュラーシンセ

15/10/2024

Muzan is honored to host the 10th Anniversary bash for one of our absolutely favorite labels, , run by the inimitable .
Over the past decade, Ario has built Astral Industries into one of the most inspiring and original electronic labels in the world. Their catalog explores the liminal spaces between ambient, techno, and sound art through the work of artists like Rod Modell, Toki Fuko, LF58, and Multicast Dynamics.
In order to do justice to such an important milestone, we've invited friends from near and far to make sure things get done in true Astral Industries style. Expect a night of vast cosmic soundscapes and deep fifth-dimensional techno. Don't miss this!

🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀
10 Years of Astral Industries

Date: Saturday, October 19, 22:30 - late
Place: Upsidedown, Osaka
Charge: 2000 JPY

Performances by:
Neel
Ario
Mohemann
yu1 .881
Endurance (live)

10/10/2024

10/18 Friday
Venue: Environment 0g

Open:19:00/ Start:19:30
Door: ¥2000

“An evening with Muzan Editions”

David Edren (Muzan Editions | Belgium)

DUP SYS (Muzan Editions | Japan)

Kris Keogh (Muzan Editions | Australia) .supersupersounds

We’re delighted to announce David Edren’s Osaka debut. DUP SYS and Kris Keogh will join us and complete this Muzan family get-together. We can’t be happier to do this at one of, maybe the best, address for experimental music in Osaka - Environment 0g.

David Edren
ベルギーのアントワープを拠点に活動する電子音楽家David Edrenが大阪初上陸。
「植物」や「茶」をテーマに禅を感じさせる穏やかで詩的なアンビエント.モジュラーシンセを用い、ガムランのような音色のアルペジオが多層的に重なり合いながらポリリズムを形成しています。
David Edren has been an essential part of Belgium’s alternative music scene since the early 2000s. His albums and live performances are a deep dive into the world of a kosmische polyrhythmic minimalism inspired by fauna and flora, botanical gardens and tea. You can experience this on his latest release “Daarbuiten”, released on Muzan Editions last spring.

DUP SYS
大阪を拠点に活動するDUP SYSと共に, アンビエント、ドローン、辺境、エクスペリメンタルな世
界に入り込みましょう
Over the years Osaka’s DUP SYS has become one of our favorite live acts. Get ready for lush sounding ambient combined with John Hassel-like field recordings that transports the listener to another realm and times.

Kris Keogh
オーストラリアのミュージシャン、プロデューサー、アートデザイナー, クリス・キオも出
演決定!グリッチエレクトロニクスとアンビエントのジャンル混血児サウンド。
It’s an honor to have Kris Keogh, musician, producer, mastering wizard and art designer from Australia, back in Osaka and play one of his rare gigs. His release “Processed Harp Works, Vol 3” is one of the most beautiful albums we have in our catalog. He’s a master of creating sounds that are layered into dense, epic wall of sounds - glitched electronics meets ambient.

08/10/2024

You can PRE-ORDER our new batch NOW!

Release date: Oct 18

This time we have three stellar albums for you:

Owl - Celestial Echoes
Günter Schlienz - Software
Yuri Urano-Yuragi

Celestial Echoes and Yuragi were mastered by the mighty 🙏

Owl- Celestial Echoes
We welcome Belgium’s Owl to Muzan Editions. He’s released some of our favorite deep techno and ambient albums on labels like Silent Season and Huinali. For “Celestial Echoes” he spent some time in the mountains of Switzerland where he recorded the foundation of the album and used modular synthesis to refine each song in his studio. He describes it as an attempt to capture the tension between light and dark, clarity and confusion, and finding meaning in the in-between.

Günter Schlienz-Software
After a two year hiatus, Günter Schlienz is back with Muzan. “Software” can be described as his most minimalistic and abstract work to date. With DIY modular synth, second hand reel-to-reel tape machines and field recordings he created an album that is soft and cozy, but delivers an undeniable coldness underneath its warmth.

Yuri Urano-Yuragi
We’re happy to have Yuri Urano join us again. She’s been very busy with her multidisciplinary work, performing at MUTEK Montrea/Tokyol and events all over the world. Her daily practice with singing bowls and field recordings inspired her to focus on moments where resonance and vibration played a major role during her work process. It feels like each tone on “Yuragi” is moving and oscillating.

Muzan Editions