Ryoji Ikeda - data.matrix

Ryoji Ikeda - dataplex
Label: Raster-Noton, CCI Recordings
Catalog#: R-N 068, R-N 068
Format: CD, Album
Country: Germany
Released: Dec 2005
Genre: Electronic
Style: Abstract, Experimental

[@Koettnylle]

My friends and i used to sing this tune together around a campfire when we were hiking. The chorus is so contagious it should be quarantined!

[@a-o1714]

How do you sing this song

[@friesiamans1966]

+anotherpairofeyes - it sure needs some practice, yes... :-) it has to do with beatboxing, no?

[@mayb2395]

Y??? if u had friends would u b here??? this is far better than friends.

[@mayb2395]

we did. did u get ours???

[@mayb2395]

did i say you are stupid?

[@rovingpianist]

The closest to capturing cyber-punk in song format. Brilliant, haunting, energetic. I love it.

[@Chameleonardodavinci]

I know I'm late to the party, but that was spot on.

[@canobenitez]

Listen to One Minute Warning - Passengers, you might like it as well.

[@omk573]

Walmart self checkout machine type beat 🔥🔥💯

[@miguel12222]

This song makes me feel like i'm being watched by a star

[@shinryohji]

That's strangely scientifically poetic.

[@therealsatan3334]

Wut

[@Ataurion]

Alright you need help

[@AZWADER]

Hit it on the nail dude. Definite vibe.

[@diamondcreepah3210]

You're being watched by SCP-2399

[@user-fm5mv8zb3o]

In 90's, He made a music for legendary japanese stage art group "Dumb Type". If someone gets internet, i recommend the work "OR" for the first time to watch. Unfortunately, the main member of Dumb Type passed away, and their golden age perhaps gone; Dumb Type is still acting, but I don't know their works in 21 century. Idk their recently works are good or not, but I promise the works in 20 century's were masterpieces.

[@stanleydan9159]

exactly right..

[@tigrantadevosyan731]

I have read an article about this guy, he is the pioneer in a genre called microsound. I have listened to a few of his songs on my laptop and was not that impressed, so the article praising him seemed unreasonable, but once I was in a music studio I remembered about him and tried to listen to his music on studio speakers and it was amazing. If you have an opportunity to listen to his songs on a good surround sound set give it a try. I can't explain why, but the title matches the composition perfectly.

[@Zeitgeist6]

You should see his Visual instalations if you ever get the chance. Mindblowing.

[@corticallarvae]

Micro sound has been around so much longer , it started on tape in the 50s 60s 70s he is a pioneer in digitally using the cut up method as coil and kk null even merzbow did in larger and scorpiacee covers the data cryptography now…

[@172Break]

@@Zeitgeist6 I saw him in a venue with a huge sound system and a projector screen in the early 2000s. The screen was scrolling white binary 1s and 0s on a black background. As it went on, pictures would appear made from the 1s and 0s. While this was happening, the bass was removing my chest! An hour disappeared in what felt like 5 minutes.

[@robertcunningham1672]

This is some of the most emotional electronic music I've ever heard I think

[@lustsoul666]

same, it is realy realy good

[@m00py1]

it's literally been years since I listened to Ikeda still so good.

[@parglissamyrnaj9032]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/aIuwioOOq7eSirc this one?

[@gbpooky]

me too. discovered his music in 11th grade (16 years ago) and its just as crazy and forward thinking as when i first found it

[@cardboardmusic]

Just been listening to this at home on a CD. What makes it even more 'organic' is the sound of the fridge or cars outside that come and go, adding to the soundtrack of the original CD.

[@a_perfect_human_being]

Satie is smiling upon you

[@WhyHelloThereChaps]

such an amazing album, definitely the kind of music you need to sit down and listen to far too loudly through a decent stereo system at least once

[@scitsalcoryp]

Amen friend !

[@elsiemabel]

Based

[@claudiocarbone2225]

My art teacher loves this kind of music and also other strange (for my class) genres ahahahah so yesterday he made us listen to this

[@filiparsovski4250]

fuck i want your teacher

[@agenteagresivo]

One bad ass teacher right there

[@claudiocarbone2225]

@@agenteagresivo yeah totally agree

[@aname.9743]

Sounds like a cool dude

[@audiosurfarchive]

Thats a real cultures badass there. Dataplex isnt that well known..

[@curlsvids]

this is what plays when your consciousness is uploaded onto the internet

[@Ataurion]

*Oh*

[@RayZappa]

[citation needed]

[@SlyHikari03]

Ghost in the shell moment

[@joselekiwi5695]

Max knight ultra spy reference?

[@michaelkimsheng]

This is so captivating. Love listening to it. I wonder what it is that gets me. His pacing is so good.

[@michaelkimsheng]

Seems he is alternating between two worlds. One close and intricate, the other large and distant. So fresh, so simple and so cool.

[@topnotch4598]

I just realized that one high pitch frequency might be too high for some people to hear.

[@Euonox]

I like the song but some of its frequencies are too high, it actually hurts too listen.

[@donniecapobianco8794]

its weird for me but knowing that in the future i won't be ble to hear this song as it was intended brings me a bigger pain than the one of actually hearing these frequencies.

[@swolycat]

@@donniecapobianco8794 wow that was deep

[@friesiamans1966]

@@donniecapobianco8794 i´m 62 now, and sometimes when we´re out in the garden in summer, my daughter might be annoyed by the crickets - me: which crickest? oh boy, i wasn´t pleased when i realized this...

[@charlieangkor8649]

for me it is skull splitting

[@cyberp1ss]

this is how sentient machines say i love you

[@Radocruz]

Nice Furniture either that or world domination

[@scitsalcoryp]

That is SO cute

[@danielmont6544]

yo wasn't this the song mr. krabs was trynna put on the radio

[@Hackerb0b]

lmao

[@cl4m473]

Oh you mean "boop beep beep bop"?

[@gizka6816]

@@cl4m473 boop boop beep

[@Ataurion]

@@gizka6816 beep boop boop beep

[@nremac]

I like the really subdued strings or whatever they are, hiding behind the white noise, around the middle and end of this.

[@nremac]

Yeah, those are the ones I like. 7:16 to the end has to be my favorite

[@wehrwolf1943]

that drop at 7:15 is tite

[@audiosurfarchive]

They seem to be the only non analog-synth elements..

[@logmeinwtf]

"No computers were harmed during the making of these sounds." ;)

[@abdul-rahman7606]

This song feels like I’m shrinking and falling in between the spaces of atoms

[@cubixthree3495]

And now it IS the 10-year anniversary! Congrats whoever published this video X3

[@vongeisterhand]

The very first time a friend asked me whether I wanted to go to a "Minimal"-club, this was the type of music I expected. Just try to picture my disappointment. ;-)

[@kyletomlinson5365]

wait what is a minimal club

[@vongeisterhand]

Kyle Tomlinson Well, a club where they play "Minimal Techno". Which obviously turned out to be something totally unlike Ikeda's music.

[@aschemusicreations]

this is minimal techno, but anything in a club is going to be subpar, lol

[@D3TOSS]

this here is not minimal techno, its more clicks and cuts/experimental style, similar to the artist "akufen" or the guys from "autechre"

[@account01]

glitch minimal

[@NateSassoonMusic]

i remember first time i heard this it blew my mind because i never heard anything like it before

[@j.rlouis3756]

Hearing it now, can confirm am blown

[@renosanceisdead7365]

can confirm, heard this and changed my music taste trajectory for the better half of a year

[@ihaveagoddamnplanarthur]

Same thing when i started listening to Autechre

[@contactkeithstack]

movies, whenever they go into clubs/dance halls set in the future they should have people dancing to Ryoji Ikeda.

[@nardo12]

Every time I see a scene like that in a movie I remember your comment

[@gematr14a42]

You know you're doing something right when this is in your recomended.

[@rickgrant6883]

this record made my girlfriend genuinely angry

[@jannis01]

Hahah also had to listen to complaints with other experimental music xD i wonder

[@jannis01]

Why they dont like it xd

[@freesolja1]

getting angry over any piece of art that isn't harming anyone is the stupidest shit

[@Nachtdwaler]

​@@freesolja1 It's very understandable though. If you are not genuinely interested in exploring said art it can be annoying af. You can't expect people not to get angry when you listen to a 3 hour long expirimental noise set at full blast. Put some headphones on :^)

[@freesolja1]

@@Nachtdwaler well of course getting upset over someone playing something that's irritating when you want them to stop is reasonable but being upset by the arts existence is silly. If the former was the case for the original comment I think it'd be more fitting to say the dude made his girlfriend angry tbqh

[@miss.mercurial]

I love the "erased melodies" sort of thing you can hear starting around the eight minute mark. Like they're recording over recordings of recordings played in another room.

[@AnTran-zs8ny]

All jokes aside, i really love it. The textures and glitchs create such sentimental subtal pattern.

[@audiosurfarchive]

This is a masterpiece climax to one of the greatest if not greatest glitch albums of all time.

[@lucide9577]

Space rock candy popping in my mouth!

[@kaydenthehousewife]

This song is growing on me I've been listening to this for almost an hour and haven't been bothered by it.

[@coopermelville1476]

this is a certified hood classic

[@officialmasqq_594]

underrated

[@rhymeswithgabriel]

this is one of the most beautiful songs i have ever heard.

[@karinegrandvoinet2038]

are you able to sing it ?

[@wybucher]

that image is totally moving

[@helldronez]

fuck i am not the only one

[@tsg_frank5829]

optical illusions

[@voilabb]

I love how the album cover, name of track, and sounds all tell a story.

[@RadekLoquendo]

i tought bronies could not into good music, i like you dude

[@voilabb]

Thanks bruh

[@cameronfleming488]

New meme

[@toasterovenhugs]

Even newer meme.

[@RadekLoquendo]

nice meme

[@user-xe9sy8mo3m]

I can't tell why this sound makes me so high,so it's wonderful.

[@aschemusicreations]

Anyone who enjoys this should check out an artist called Pan Sonic, specifically the album Alltopiiri

[@alexpasko1126]

You know the good shit!

[@alexpasko1126]

I'm taking any recommendations btw

[@diogojustino]

Everything from Raster Noton Label, specially Alva Noto: www.raster-noton.net/artists/alva-noto?c=5. Have fun!

[@joaoquintela2183]

Pan Sonic are two guys: Mika and Ilpo.

[@aschemusicreations]

i know, i just refer to artists' names as one thing, for whatever reason

[@tenyxx]

This music lets the voices in my head fade away

[@_INUIT]

really heavy, and deep vibe I can't move

[@jooch_exe]

When you turn 6 degrees longitude to discover the submarine has turned into an orchestra.

[@jyhiodslasdf]

Can't wait for theneedledrop to review this banger

[@___Benedetto]

This not just a song it is a microcosm !

[@rectalfondue2729]

Jerma really is an amazing singer

[@Sporadic1994]

WTF I instantly started to keep a time with the sound of my own breathing with this song

[@coliath]

"I only listen to real music"

[@friesiamans1966]

me too, that´s why i´m here... :-)

[@gothbotanist2376]

I love this stuff because it causes my brain to go into another dimension

[@ArtificialLifef0rm]

Ikeda's music can best be described as a fusion between Glitch and Ambient.

[@presauced]

damn tinnitus slaps hard!

[@mikeb6085]

Listening to this for the first time in many years, I was looking for one specific, extremely high pitched, almost painful tone (plays a few times around 1:10). At first I thought I was, sadly, too old to hear it anymore. Turns out it seemingly just doesn't play on my headphones or earbuds. They're not top of the line audiophile headphones, but they're not junk either. Strangely, it plays on my cheap standalone plug-in computer speakers that sound like junk. It also sounds clearer and more distinctive on my mp3 file rather than a compressed youtube video, but that's to be expected. It's weird, but I just want to get the full effect on my over ear headphones and feel that frequency pierce my eardrum.

[@nismo267]

thank you for sharing

[@hanac5586]

I can hear it with my 10€ earbuds, that sound is indeed painful :D

[@zedxcu]

dont most headphones have rolled off treble these days? i cant hear it with my sennheiser hd559s

[@mikeb6085]

@@zedxcu I can't hear it with my Samsung Galaxy Buds2 Pro, or my Bose QC35 II either, so I suppose you're right. Weak.

[@rhymeswithgabriel]

i love this piece... i think it's one of my favorite songs ever

[@MrvelvetviruS]

Saw it in my university's museum!! UNDERSCRIPTIBLY AWESOME!!!

[@juanker52]

07:15 ＡＳＣＥＮＤ

[@tliloselotl_]

This is is so genius stuff, I'm completely in love

[@instrumentalpersonae]

I found it really pleasurable to close my eyelids and pay attention to the sporadic movement of my eyes, considering the auditory stereoscopic effect. It was a bit much for me just now though, as I've been running off mostly caffeine and the stress of studying.

[@cjstevens6405]

Stumbled my way here. Excellent, excellent stuff!

[@stopyourstalkingshitbro1602]

*Lights OFF* *Close windows.irl* *Run TOR.exe* *Listen DATA.MATRIX* *Open Hack.exe* FEEL DARK MAN

[@spugg713]

He's hacking at speeds that shouldn't be possible !

[@donjuanpond1]

such a multidimensional track, really expands from the initial state in such a visual way

[@donjuanpond1]

returning to this it almost unfolds in a way like autechre’s LCC where the repetitive beat-like parts dissolve to let the ambient synths out

[@a_perfect_human_being]

I feel sterilized listening to this. Clean beyond a body can be.

[@VLUElectronicMusic]

If you like this track, I recommend checking out the album "Linienbusse" by Studio Pankow.

[@liquidkitchen8708]

42 plpz wth.. lets say not the best music taste.. daring, but.. love it

[@user-ws2hc8cd5c]

ミレパから来ました最高です

[@solarium001]

This makes me think of the incredible miniseries Maniac. Because a recurring part of its score reminds me of the strings section on this track, but apart from that, Maniac features a sentient computer experiencing an emotional crisis, which is what two of the top comments here say this track sounds like.

[@audiosurfarchive]

Maniac got snubbed. It was brilliant.

[@canberrawarmuseum8290]

Minimalist jungle or what! Pretty good actually

[@jomak9]

Jungle, a super epic one.

[@douglasmaxwell6547]

Amazing music in its raw form

[@noorahmadlondon]

this video makes me feel like I am floating through a galaxy of information and future possibilities and timelines. It definitely is out of this world.

[@licenselessrider4486]

really lovely, relaxing and groovy and introspective

[@_sandw427]

日常背景音乐播放一点也不违和可以在念书的时候洗脑循环 进入一个虚无热爱学习的新高度

[@user-ep2dk5mi4d]

i cannot sleep

[@monowavy]

i cant neither

[@GamesBurro]

I cant neither

[@bluetechn]

The composed sound resembles the feelings!

[@reaper-ej1sx]

the one that goes beep boo boo bop boo boo beep

[@bakamitai131]

mr krabs is a robot 😢😢😢

[@scitsalcoryp]

Would really be amazing to see this commissioned for an orchestra and live performance

[@romi9485]

Now i want see that

[@MauveGun]

Godlike sonar beat.

[@louisb7614]

discovered this music years ago but dismissed it. Finally found it again - many thanks internet

[@erickmonin5815]

L'unique musicien capable de me donner le vertige

[@GlycyGamesMusic]

Similar to the awesome Amon Tobin (who uses real sounds for his music) you style is pretty unique and interesting, so astonishing...It's Aurélien BARRAU who brought me here. Thx and good continuation for the future.

[@XoArK]

Probably his best track off of this album...

[@adlozi]

this piece is so inspiring.

[@ZINCOX-yz9gb]

Amazing tune.

[@monikaskorupka9083]

Good

[@zhizn_snake]

I bet Mr. Game & Watch could really diagonally shuffle to this.

[@JohnPaulBuce]

the bass drop man 😎👌🔥🔥🔥

[@bluefingers4058]

i cried when i first listened to this

[@user-ey5xk5tj9r]

yeah sad song

[@bluefingers4058]

@@user-ey5xk5tj9r if you actually understood the meaning of this song instead of blindly commenting your dumb opinions you will cry too

[@rexremedy1733]

You can have this also on intensive care. But that one is more economic and less painful...

[@waltwhitman7545]

best microsound album, best raster noton release

[@rgray5783]

On the edge of the universe ...like all of you

[@_devil__0nline67]

MKULTRA sampled this

[@omk573]

@brokenupbeat bruh

[@getmeoutoftheyoutubeservers]

@brokenupbeat unfortunately, you have been wooooshed

[@hammy_wtf5503]

Ryoji Ikeda = Aphex Twin on drugs.

[@elisch16]

Right now i feel like something was updated on my mind, As if my mind was subjected to psychological programming or something like that. But i feel cool so I think it's right.

[@smloveskittycats]

It's like a brain massage :

[@markus3355]

but why is this good..?

[@PCubiles]

Hearing this music I'm also hearing crickets, which actually fits well

[@disectormusic]

Tones to make your speaker go nuts.

[@temirtau8996]

This would really fit perfectly as a soundtrack for Serial Experiments Lain!

[@phoenelai]

big respekts to Ryoji Ikeda

[@tngsk]

Best soundtrack for WATCH DOGS

[@Dtoburn2]

Absolutely, it sounds exactly like that.

[@spcsh1936]

I like how every click sounds like turning off of a device

[@friesiamans1966]

i would like to start a little discussion - i read a comment below that made me laugh - but then it kept spinning in my head, enhancing a thread of thoughts that i want to share.. first the original comment by r gray: "I was told that ' minimalism ' is an excuse for not being able to play your instrument . I tend to agree........everyone and their dog has listened to bullshit like Throbbing Gristle......( and I really liked them...had both their disc sets ) but eventually the sounds and noise ought to proceed to somewhere... otherwise it is just noise that anyone can fart out on a noise making apparatus" well, as to throbbing gristle: i remember, that my brother used to admire them during the late 70s for their uncompromising harshness, he even had their sign with the blitz on his pullover - i discovered them for myself much later and also listened to them for quite a while - i think later i felt the same as r gray, that´s why i had to laugh, when i read his words... thinking about it now, i must say, it´s not just quite as simple - you still have to see the time context in which things happen - for instance "deep purple in rock" was the hardest rock music you could get at that time, listening to it now you might say nice try! throbbing gristle were revolutionairy in their time, of course decades later there is not much left of this - anyway, wether you like throbbing gristle or not, i think their work was quite important during their time, to crack up overcome, obsolete schemes........ and as to minimal music: i´m a musician myself and i made a lot of minimal music, it´s absolutely not as easy to make as it sounds (i´m talking about good minimal music, if you want to get bestest quality, listen to steve reich "music for 18 musicians" - THE classic from the late 70s) - i also make ambient music, taking everything down, down, down - while i´m a fan of noises of almost any kind i somehow reached the point when i said: i don´t even claim to make music anymore - if anyone says: this isn´t music, i have no problem with that, it has become completely unimportant to me... everywhere on youtube people fight fiercely to make clear that THEIR star and idol is the ABSOLUTE BESTESTESTEST!!!!!! and that THEIR taste is the ONLY REALLY good one, and that anyone who dares to doubt it should best be killed a.s.o. what i want to say, what i would like to discuss: is the quality of the tones played identical with the quality of the music - is that measurable at all - at this very moment i see one of the old throbbing gristle titles in the other window: "perception is the only reality" and tend to say they´re right - again and again i have to realize, that my perception of music and quality of music is completely different than that of the most people i know, and what´s more, my perception changes constantly, so how could i say this IS OBJECTIVELY GOOD and that ISN`T... anyone ready to write a thought about that? (btw. i love this music by ikeda, it sounds very elegant and beautiful to me, while others might think it´s a boring ringtone or something)

[@thechrissguy]

I don't know why this is so freaking deep.

[@Voldees]

Listen it in earphones. it makes me crazy :D

[@csagouki]

Do yourself a favor and get a FLAC version of this and monitors. You won't regret it.

[@tomshoot]

[LOVE]

[@disectormusic]

Wav?

[@Arctic_Narwhal]

@@disectormusic Theres no difference in sound quality between flac and wav lol