Toshiya Sukegawa (助川敏弥) - Bioçic Music: Aqua (バイオシック・ミュージック 「水」) (1993) [Full Album]

[@should_be_asleep]

This album is the first instalment in the Bioçic Music Series, a series of six albums that Toshiya Sukegawa (助川敏弥) recorded, with the assistance of Makiko Hirohashi (広橋真紀子) and Mitsuhiro Nagano (永野光浩), at the Bioçic Institute Of Environmental Music across 1993 and '94. The third instalment in the Bioçic Music Series, Bioçic Music: Astrology, can be found on FOND/SOUND's channel, here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/h6mtdYSoaa6tnqM FOND/SOUND also published a fantastic writeup of the album 'Bioçic Music: Astrology' that provides context for the Bioçic Music Series as a whole. This piece can be viewed here: www.fondsound.com/toshiya-sukegawa-助川敏弥-biocic-music-astrology-バイオシック・ミュージック/

[@TheLemonMasterYT]

Hey, I was wondering if there was a way of contacting you about an album i found, do you have a discord?

[@should_be_asleep]

@@TheLemonMasterYT Hey, thanks for the message, always keen to hear new old music :) I don't have discord, but you can email me at [e-mail] or message me on twitter @ghost_gums

[@TheLemonMasterYT]

@@should_be_asleep thanks!

[@TheLemonMasterYT]

i messaged on twitter

[@mwarrenpsc]

This is amazing! Are the other 4 albums anywhere? I will search slseek later but I’ll save my efforts if it is likely futile.

[@theyliveglasses4667]

There are few ways to make me click quicker than a Japanese water themed synth album

[@raning207]

same

[@Kotsonne]

mood

[@stretch1807]

🤣

[@KENJAAAHHHH]

...Literally.

[@meh3083]

you truly do understand, don't you

[@faktablad]

Back in the '80s and '90s, Japanese synth artists decided to invent KZbinRecommendationCore.

[@geoffweeg]

YT/RC for life

[@keegankonsor2182]

This is the best comment ever

[@fullriver1234]

This went on to inspire the creation of the video platform known as KZbin. Incredible stuff.

[@Dionysus_333]

Haha I love that

[@matiasblasi_music]

@@keegankonsor2182 i second this

[@cambone1995]

*shakes my wife awake* babe new ambient japanese water music just dropped

[@RardTangler]

Me

[@tl3082]

the lava cam n sounds go greate 2gether. h5.thx

[@ivxx7815]

LMAOO why is this so funny

[@wormswithteeth]

Wife: *OH SHEEEZ REALLY*

[@kamarth9]

What an album ! A year ago and still enjoying it. Wish I could meet people who like this kind of music Hugs from Cameroon 💛💛💛

[@PatheticTV]

Listening from Hong Kong, watching the ships sail through the Harbour from my flat. I feel a strange sense of serenity I haven't felt in a long time.

[@DavidJKenny]

Long may the feeling last, friend.

[@dischargesummary8794]

Down with the CCP 👎

[@Ramblin-Man]

Great view, I take it. Can you see the "Star" Ferries too? I had a great view yesterday, at Machu Picchu⛰, but I guess it's difficult to compare. For instance, I had no window...🤔 /J, Suécia (Cusco, Peru)🌎

[@amil9609]

I am from Hong Kong too !

[@Mansmokesalot]

loved that completely visualized it an it made me smile

[@Cydon27]

Text on the cover: Still glides the stream, slow drops the boat, Under the rustling poplars' shade; Silent the swans beside us float None speaks, none heeds; Ah, turn thy head! Let those arch eyes now softly shine, That mocking mouth grow sweetly bland, Ah, let them rest, those eyes, on mine! On mine let rest thy lovely hand! From "Faded Leaves", a poem by Matthew Arnold.

[@MrReedTea]

One of the best poems in my opinion I've ever read...

[@breathneon]

Thanks.

[@ceciliagincho6806]

Mesmerizing soundtrack. Perhaps most of people wouldn't decorate their Christmas trees while listening to this music, but it is just what I'm doing right now and it helps to create a soft atmosphere, specially because today it has snowed, and some of this album tracks lend the impression of drops of water or snowflakes falling down, falling and falling and falling...

[@lilydu1350]

I absolutely agree

[@colvert2389]

100% true

[@Sunnyshinedaze]

I was just working to this and was like "ooh nice music :0 I likey-" but then river came on @16:05 and that beat drop literally made me stop in my tracks and drop what I was doing. I looked out the window of my room at the world outside. Suddenly, I was washed clean of all the things that didn't matter and basked in the grand scene of life outside of my bedroom. Overwhelmed by emotion, I stared at the swaying trees, the clouds rolling by, and the sunlight passing through the grass and felt the familiar way I used to view humans, nature, and the world creeping into my heart. The birds landed and took flight and I felt with so much determination that life is to be discovered and not something to get through as fast as possible: something to enjoy and to savour. I hadn't felt that way in a long time: like life is so big and possible. Anyways, it was a lit experience bro. 10/10...highly recommend.

[@RonaldPetrin]

One with nature happens.

[@LL-bl8hd]

This has a kind of "magical" sound, like I could imagine it as the background music for some theme park attraction where you walk around looking at wondrous things.

[@PatheticTV]

Or some kind of indie RPG. heck, any kind of game could severly benefit from this

[@ellenlapel6451]

@@PatheticTV Oh hey, did you not play Ocarina of Time? Check out Zora's Domain music - '96, three years after this album came out. It think they hired Toshiya after hearing this! :D

[@yippeeyokai5750]

@@ellenlapel6451 Koji Kondo was the composer for Ocarina of Time.

[@chrizz6665]

its already nighttime here in germany. As i listen to your upload, my thoughts start drifting away in a smooth wave of sound. I looked outside my window and big snowflakes were falling from the dark sky. illuminated in the streetlaps soft and warm light.

[@RonaldPetrin]

Snowflakes Are Dancing”, like “Tomita” of long ago…40 yrs.

[@skunker505]

This is good to listen to after a bad job interview 😭

[@Splitter4444]

bad job interviews can be so humiliating and damaging to your self-esteem :'( remember that they're often very bad at evaluating how good you are and your value as a person has nothing to do with the value you offer a company, anyway

[@TheLemonMasterYT]

companies want you to feel bad so you feel like you need to make yourself fit their standards

[@misterblueskyyy]

Solidarity, pal. Your worth isn't defined by your labor. It won't always be this bad.

[@fortheloveofnoise]

Work for yourself.

[@poopoo6894]

all of these nice replies 🥺

[@TheMartianBotanist]

my grandmother in Atlantis recommended this

[@Ramblin-Man]

Me too, but from a bridge over troubled water...🙄

[@sharonitaful]

This is the most magical music I had ever heard, thank u so much for this. I can't imagine my life without this music anymore. Saludos desde México, 🇲🇽.

[@beneteaunicolas1814]

it's a joke? *

[@kamarth9]

I had the same feeling when i first heard "Three drops"

[@misterblueskyyy]

This gets me to breathe and defuse my anger better than almost anything else. Thank you.

[@cristian.ilie.018]

The Best Channel in the Universe !!! Is it a coincidence that the Best Period in My Life 1988 - 1994 (my raw childhood) is the same period the BEST Music ever came out ????.....

[@Klaude]

listening to this serene music from seoul at the end of August. it is gonna pour out but feeling so relaxed and calm b/c of this. thanks for the upload.

[@ellenlapel6451]

My favourite ambient albums are this one (Aqua), Yoshimura's Wet Land and Isoda's "With Wave"... So now I think my element is water! :)

[@Alexander2142]

Your element is Earl Gray Tea

[@clocktower5678]

thank you so much sba. listening from california. still thinking about the fires, longing for rain. the sounds you upload have often helped me give form to these different feelings. keep it up!

[@meanwhileinjapan2265]

Very relaxing for now just forget all your problems and enjoy this music you have good taste in music and deserve to relax for once enjoy :)

[@voviTF2]

Yet another wonderful upload, thank you so much should be asleep. I am doing not so well right now, but your music helps me find calm and more balance. You truly make an impact on people.

[@DreamOfMusication]

River is pure bliss

[@muhammadansari5696]

It inspired me to compose a haiku: The stream is cold I sat on a patch of moss A leaping frog lept

[@W-is]

makes me think of that album which was produced by an aloe vera plant Aloe Extract Sound (アロエ その不思議なサウンド)

[@russellford5597]

It's hard to have a favourite but "Sea" fills me with a warm glow.

[@rivh1399]

Why is this so meditative and ethereal

[@joselaramenendez640]

this is like being at a circus underwater

[@NathanGatten]

Who knew my birth year was THE year for ambient music.

[@waisehell]

28:21 Sea

[@funtimes8296]

Music like this reminds me of dreams I had forgotten

[@12Fireblast]

02:26 that sound.... wow

[@DannyKavka]

It’s a famous sound sample called “Lore” that’s all over Korg workstation patches starting in the late 80’s. It’s usually layered in with other sounds.

[@devingademan]

@@DannyKavka A classic. Beautiful.

[@lpstweetytv5242]

​@@DannyKavkaThey used that sound in the new Zelda game recently

[@R56760]

Wonderful music to work on complex IT and software development. Thanks, it helps making the lockdown a peaceful retreat.

[@mihailokovincic9399]

I swear man, this channel.... ♥️

[@isaacblonded]

It's always a great day when you upload.

[@kamarth9]

*Tree Drops* masterpiece 💙

[@PraetorClaudius]

All the layers are blended together really well. A lot of production from this era sounds dated but this sounds as great as ever.

[@flowerpower4434]

The first note I herd I was like ok cool

[@takitogr]

seriously good... that was some good 1 hour healing while working. thanks!

[@ricardocardenas186]

Otherworldly. Wonderful

[@kamarth9]

Thanks to "Jewels" i landed here. It's like experiencing heaven in sound 10:25 *Tree Drops* How can a REAL human being not love this song ? I feel special Listening to this album. Thanks *Should be asleep*

[@dabulls1g]

This is beautiful but i feel like I’ve heard this before. I played a game called klonoa back in 2000-2001 and this music reminds me a lot of that game, beautiful album. thank you

[@minamur]

you see a lot of influence on videogame music from ambient music

[@dabulls1g]

@@minamur yeah, this is true. I know of a guy named Masahiro Andoh who wrote the music for a game called Arc The Lad I, II, III and Gran Turismo and he's part of a band called T-Square. There's a lot of similarity in some of the music there too.

[@EthanMoran1999]

@@minamur Yeah they say that Aphex Twin's Selected Ambient Works Vol.2 was the inspiration behind the Silent Hill soundstacks.

[@dabulls1g]

@@EthanMoran1999 that's really interesting, I am a big fan of both Aphex Twin and the Silent Hill soundtracks! I'll have to re-listen to SAW 2

[@NickW-x9g]

so warm synths like a kiss of mother

[@PosauneundPapier]

Staring out my window on 5th Ave in Manhattan. The cars look like little toys. In such a crazy city I need time at night with the lights out and a nice cup of jasmine tea and this music to set the balance.

[@TheBigboy1138]

This definitely has some mario galaxy vibes to it! Great album!

[@st_lf]

水

[@dabulls1g]

Water 🌊 💜

[@manaowls]

6:30 Instantly starts talking in parseltongue.

[@Reflected_motive]

So we meet again japanese ambient youtube algorithm

[@n0isyturtle]

This is like if Angelo Badalamenti wrote Dragon Quest music

[@diderichlangmannen]

Excellent.

[@Munq]

instant favorite

[@starving4338]

Had to download this one

[@prod.parasito]

That's an absolute masterpiece...

[@overheadpotato]

THE LAST TRACK IS FIRE

[@stewartlancaster6155]

life of water actually

[@LucieSalat]

Mesmerising, enlightening and captivating, just like the real thing 💙💦💎

[@holographicsol2747]

Thank you so much x

[@ideologikal]

Magical sounds . . .

[@FONDSOUND]

💧

[@trexx.999]

ok where has this been my entire life !!!!!????

[@colvert2389]

25:04 (wait till synth drop)

[@Mondscheinelfe]

This what heaven sound like fr

[@n33wom]

Does anyone... literally, anyone, know where Toshiya's works can be legitimately bought or downloaded? I can't even see them available on less legitimate websites either.

[@toxendon]

4:18 You're a wizard Harry.

[@ok-xx1wy]

I guess we’re all back

[@TheHyshock]

Anyone else getting some strong Twin Peaks vibes?

[@GreenshirtMr1023]

Reading "The Company of Wolves" by Angela Carter and this is the perfect creepy synth soundtrack for the story

[@Rhinoch8]

When I died, and came back to life again. My second birth in life.

[@Limestone463]

Perfection doesn't ex-

[@ms_musicarchive]

Ok time to go sleepy...

[@Mattandthejaysmusic]

yea, man !

[@cassettemokarosa5108]

my cat is rly concerned by this

[@paulauksztulewicz7381]

Amazing! Thank you! I believe I hear a Korg M1 in there? Still have my M1. :)

[@TheMerlinia]

Korg M1/Roland D50/Yamaha Dx7/Akai S950/1000

[@TheMerlinia]

At the end I hear some PPG (Waldorf Microwave) like bells or maybe from the Ensoniq Esq. Last strings sound very Kurzweil K1200.

[@paulauksztulewicz7381]

@@TheMerlinia Nice! Thank you for the info. :)

[@Jexton]

Yep. Thats the awesome Lore patch there at the beginning.

[@ratondeciudad70]

august in the water vibes

[@jdnbabybrain8765]

🙏🏼💘

[@Splitter4444]

oh shit sick drop at 16:35

[@thejazzo3595]

plesant surprise.

[@GreenshirtMr1023]

I had a flashback

[@amil9609]

…..and people listen to vapour wave music today. We have become the senseless

[@kamarth9]

Hahaha really

[@Sosukz]

Poor people, there is so much of these gems. Vapor just tries to emulate this movements

[@vabertolliver]

Could you share the mp3 version? Please

[@Koshirozation]

♥️

[@AndrewSekiewicz]

Toshiya Sukegawa (1930-2015)

[@hamsterazumi]

It reminds me of the anime film "Angel's Egg"

[@Kuberniccus]

wow

[@zeozen]

hahah, I think the very opening of this album and first song is a reference to westminster chimes

[@hosono256]

I should be asleep

[@TheBigboy1138]

Ok, that's the name of the channel...so why are you saying it here? Lazy comment maybe?

[@Ramblin-Man]

I've always wanted to hear bioçic music, and now I have. Still, I don't know what it means, since there's no such word...🤔

[@user-ob9zo9cr4c]

Birth Of Water

[@Chadeenrewer]

Gives a Mario galaxy vibe subtly

[@Voldein]

So why can't you just find these musicians on Spotify or Apple music? it's so annoying Imagine if this was properly preserved and distributed, it would give these pieces an endless lifespan

[@mattd3826]

I agree. Music like this is the reason I don't use Spotify, cus none of these gems are on there

[@GrinninPig]

I come from the water

[@user-ob9zo9cr4c]

36:50 lit

[@melanieheckler1773]

OOOoooOoooOOOooooOOoOO!!!!

[@n0q161]

Someone have a download link to this album? Since it is very hard to find

[@kamarth9]

Videoder (for Android) and other apps can help you download the audio file in good quality

[@DanekR]

Can I get this CD in mp3 file?

[@florbyjuniot4287]

Liszt 'Les jeux d'eaux à la Villa d'Este' vibes in the first piece

[@colvert2389]

6:34 & 50:55

[@user-ob9zo9cr4c]

30:22 I guess I will sampling it,

[@MartyMcVador]

Can we get a link please ?

[@should_be_asleep]

​@@exekow Dang, is it? I try not to upload stuff that people can easily find on slsk. I did check it a couple of times before uploading this album, but didn't see any users sharing it - I spotted Toshiya Sukegawa's Bioçic Music: Astrology being shared on there though.

[@should_be_asleep]

Will try to get a link up soon™!

[@ngholden]

​@@should_be_asleep ​ Astrology is there, but haven't ever seen this one uploaded! Would love a link. It's so beautiful.. is there much else by Toshiya Sukegawa? Thank you for uploading!

[@should_be_asleep]

2 weeks is kinda soon right? Sorry for the delay (as always)! Link is below: mega.nz/folder/TQInWQgI#zNUyO7iDy-mPEVl6oOyK7w Enjoy :) And please let me know if there's anything wrong with the link.

[@ngholden]

@@should_be_asleep Thank you!!

[@colvert2389]

10:25 & 14:00

[@glo1168]

Mario Galaxy got some splainin to do

[@jihyeooh]

im going to into metaverse

[@Excalibur32]

33:40 sounds like Kirby 64