Q.I.BASE
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[Japanese]

History

Mar 2002
6th album "II" was released.
Apr 2001
started weekly (every friday 24:00-25:00 in Japan) internet radio show for Q.I.'s music world (by sankakuyama FM,Japan), "Q.I.Future Musick".
Mar 2001
5th album "cyborg OM" was released.
Feb 2001
Bass cyborg OM tour 2001 vol1-Jun2001
Press comments about his 4th album

"4 PHUSION" "His miraculous bass technique makes us feel a lot of possibility"(GROOVE)
"Beyond the usual fusion music"(MUSIC MAGAZINE)
"At first ,this album reminded me of a kind of nice groove spin like Jeff Beck's WHO ELSE.His cooler bass groove is different from the usual funk slappers ,also a little bit different from the another bass originater like Jonas Hellborg.Anyway he had got an original groove music by the way of overdubs bass works"(JAZZ LIFE)
"Hyper bass ninja of the world!"(SOUND&RECORDING MAGAZINE)
"Miraculous future sound"(YELLOWPAGE SAPPORO)
"Having a nuance of the immediate future"(BASS MAGAZINE)

Oct.2000
participated in "MIX 2000" which is the first international music showcase event in Japan.He participated in MIX2000 as a lecturer for the course "BASS NEW FUTURISM WORKSHOP".
Aug.2000
Nov 2000:Bass New Futurism Tour 2000 vol.2
Apr.2000
MOON MBC-6 6string fretless bass signature model,"Q.I.special 1" was accomplished
Feb.2000-Jun.2000
Bass New Futurism Tour 2000 vol.1
Jan.2000
started duo unit "JINGERO" with JINMO(g) .JINGERO is cyborganic freeform & groovy instrumental unit for worldwide.
Nov.1999-Dec.1999
live & recordings in Europe
Oct.1999
Ncontracted with MOON corporation and started endorsing MOON 6string basses.
Oct.1999
HBC-TV Japan scouted him for the image character of new bitcasting.
Jul.1999-Oct.1999
Bass New Futurism Tour vol.2
Feb.1999-Apr.1999
Bass New Futurism Tour vol.1
Press comments about his 3rd album "PSYBASS METALOOP"

"The man whocarves out the future of the bass"(BASS MAGAZINE)
"Cyber bass space & the height of technique"(PEPPERLAND)
"Genius bassist plays pop & trance techno,anyway so cool!!"(MUSHROOM)
"Stanley Clarke meets Jeff Mills. or hard minimal techno version of Squarepusher.it is so real fusion music."(STUDIO VOICE)
"Expressing decadant future"(YELLOWPAGE SAPPORO)
"Amazing technique & POP"(SHIFT TECHNO)
"The craziest bass player of the world <quote from BASS PROFESSOR MAGAZINE>"(JAZZ CRITIQUE)

Mar.1999
New album "PSYBASS METALOOP" was released.
Nov-Dec.1998
Bass Futurism Tour in Europe vol 2
Aug-Oct.1998
Bass Futurism Japan Tour 98 vol 3
Jul.1998
Participated in LOVE PARADE"Nation of Gondwana"in Berlin(Bass solo performance,played with DJ)
Nursery injection festival at stubnitz in Stockholm
Jun-Aug.1998
Bass Futurism Tour in Europe vol 1
Apr.1998
Released "cooler&more groovy" non overdubs bass solo album "Sci-Fi Basso+ live in Berlin ".
Started collaboration with Jinmo ,Misako Kano in Tokyo.
Jan.1998
Bass Futurism Japan Tour vol 1

Participated in "KLANG KRIEG" which is the biggest event for the industrial, digital hardcore artists in Berlin (in 19th July). Except Q. I. , all the solo artists were D. J. (Alec Empire, etc)

Collaborated with Carl Crack (ATARI-teenage-RIOT) at St.Kilda trips drill in Berlin 27th June 97.

Perticipated in Arvika Festivalen (Sweden). Collaborated with SU-EN Butoh. Co. Knocked out big audience by his bass solo (11th, 12th July 97).
Press comments about his CD"STOMUTATION+live at knitting factory"

"Also goes by the name of BASS NINJA because of his innovative performance."(Jazz Critique Japan 1997 No.2)
"Incredible "NO OVERDUBS" bass solo album like the raging billows."(YELLOWPAGE SAPPORO, JAPAN 1997 MAY No.191)
"SCARY,AMAZING,solo electric bass guitar from this unknown GIANT. a MONSTER electric 6string fretless bass player."(DOWN TOWN MUSIC GALLERY, NEW YORK)
"Breaking the limits of the bass technique, It's an extreme bass world !"(BASS MAGAZINE, TOKYO)

He will not only play together with radical jazz musicians but collaborate with DJ or machines more than last New York Tour in 1996.

His main stuff was 6string fretless bass (surely with FUTURISTIC technique, you know? ) , but now that he mainly uses Steinberger Klein fretless bass painted in black and metalic gold.

Check out this extraordinary FUTURISTIC BASS NINJA.