Kouhei Matsunaga

Kouhei Matsunaga
Background information
Birth name	Kouhei Matsunaga
Also known as	NHK Koyxen NHKyx NHK Koyxen
Origin	Japan
Genres	Experimental Ambient Industrial Electronic Noise Avant-garde Hip Hop
Occupations	Musician Composer Programmer Remixer
Instruments	Contact microphone Electronics Laptop computer
Years active	1992 – present
Labels	Skam Records Flying Swimming WordSound Important Records Mille Plateaux Tigerbeat6 Raster-Noton Mesk Records
Associated acts	NHK bs Internet Magic MOU
Website	http://www.ffss.info/kouhei/top_kouhei.html http://koyxen.blogspot.com/

Kouhei Matsunaga, is an electronic musician also drawing artist from Osaka, Japan.

History

Kouhei Matsunaga grew up in osaka, japan. He studied architectue and was listening to hardcore techno and rap music.He started to make music back in 1992 focusing on rather experimental music. Kouhei also worked with artists like Merzbow, John Watermann, Asmus Tietchens, RLW, Rudolf eb.er, Anla Courtis, Greg Davis, Conrad Schnitzler, Lesser, Mika Vainio (Pan Sonic), Mr Maloke (Puppetmastaz), Sean Booth (Autechre) and Sensational (ex Jungle Brothers).He also having another project as NHK (Raster-Noton) with Toshio Munehiro and Internet Magic with Max Turner(Puppetmastaz). Now he lives in Berlin and Osaka.

Also known as

• NHKyx
• Koyxen
• NHK Koyxen

Discography

• 1998 Upside Down (CD) Mille Plateaux
• 2001 Split with Merzbow (CD) Tigerbeat6
• 2002 INTO111115&111521849 / with Merzbow - Mode For Value & Intention (12") Cross Fade Enter Tainment (CFET)
• 2002 Move Machine With Glass (CD) Gender-Less Kibbutz
• 2002 Rudolf Eb.er & Kouhei (CD) PARA disc
• 2002 Split with Natiho Toyota (CDr, Album, Ltd) Deserted Factory
• 2003 Time To Move With Glass (12") Blade Records
• 2004 Complicated High Still Now... (CDr, Ltd) Autarkeia
• 2004 Split with John Watermann (CD) Hvexas Records
• 2004 Split with Niko Skorpio (CD) Deserted Factory
• 2005 Courtis_Matsunaga (CD, Album) Prele
• 2005 For Gemini And Back To Heian (CD, Mini) Feld
• 2006 Sensational Meets Kouhei (CD, Album, Enh, Dig) WordSound
• 2007 YAK (with Y-tong-G, Asmus Tietchens),(CD, Ltd) Monochrome Vision
• 2008 NHK (12") Raster noton
• 2010 Split with Mika Vainio (12") Important Records
• 2010 3.Telepathics Meh in-Sect Connection (with Mika Vainio, Sean Booth), (CD) Important Record
• 2010 Self VA. (CD) Important Records
• 2010 Sensational meets Koyxen (LP, CD) Skam Records
• 2011 Split with Asmus Tietchens (12") Important Records
• 2011 NHKyx yx aka 1ch aka solo (CD) Skam Records

Other projects

• NHK
• Internet Magic
• MOU

See also

• Flying Swimming
• WordSound
• Important Records
• Mesk Records
• Mille Plateaux
• Tigerbeat6
• Raster-Noton
• Skam Records

External links

• Blog - Koyxen
• Kouhei Matsunaga - Discography - Discogs