Shigeru Ishihara, better known by the stage name DJ Scotch Egg, is a Japanese producer of
chiptune
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The t ...
/
gabba music based in
Berlin
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,
Germany
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.
He has released music on the Wrong Music label and Adaadat, and was signed to
Load Records
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after
Lightning Bolt were impressed by his music. A new album entitled ''Scotch Hausen'' was released in Spring 2007.
Contributions with other artists include Ove-Naxx, Hrvatski (
Keith Fullerton Whitman
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),
Mike Paradinas
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,
Duracell
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, Bong-Ra,
The Pipettes
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and
The Go! Team
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.
Shige has recorded improvised music collaboratively with
Ashley Marlowe and
Sam Dook under the moniker
Same Things. Two tracks have so far been released through
Junior Aspirin Records.
Discography
Demos
*''Shiez 2000 demos''
*''
Scotch Dub'' (2006, The Compliants Department)
Singles
*"
Scotch Chicken" 7" single,
Wrong Music
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, 2005
*"
Scotch Vader" (featuring additional remixes by Ove-Naxx and Bong-Ra; Netherlands only) Kriss Records, 2006
*"
Scotch Bach" (features additional remixes by Aaron Spectre and
Shitmat
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, unreleased.)
*"Scotchy & Shitty - Rave Like A Headless Chicken" (split with
Shitmat
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) 12" single, Wrong Music, 2008
Albums
*''
KFC Core'', Adaadat, 2005
*''スコッチエッグのハードコア・チップチューン大百科'' (Japanese only album, released on De-Fragment records title translates as "Scotch Egg's Encyclopedia Of Hardcore Chiptune") 2007
*''
Scotch Hausen'' (Adaadat/Very Friendly/Wrong Music) 2007
*''
Drumized'' (
Load Records
Load Records was an American experimental music-oriented independent record label based out of Providence, Rhode Island. "Load Records might possibly be in possession of the world's most challenging record roster," writes Mark Hensch of Thrash Pi ...
, 2008)
Compilation appearances
*'Yeah Man Thanks' (as Shiez 2000) on ''That's What I Call Wrong Music Volume 4'' (Wrong Music, 2004)
*'Scotch Forest' on ''Whatever'' (Wrong Music, 2005)
*'Scotch Boy' on ''Remove Celebrity Centre'' (
Junior Aspirin Records, 2006)
*'Switched on Scotch Bach 10' on ''Etc'' (Wrong Music, 2006)
*'Scotch Forrest' & 'Scotch Chicken' on ''OverKill'' (on Overkill, 2006)
*'Scotch Grind' on ''NUCD#02'' (on Numusic records, 2007)
Collaborations
*'Untitled'(with Duracell) and a Live noise set at ICA with
Hrvatski
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on Trade & Distribution Almanac Volume 3 (Adaadat, 2006)
*'Youth Pixxel' (with Germlin) on Youth Pixel album (Adaadat, 2006)
*'Punchingcones' (with Toxic Lipstick and Kunt) appears on The Rebirth Of The Fool Volume 3 (Dualplover, 2006)
*'Oodanhodoh Jya Massive Shoco-shocore (Ovnx And ScotchEgg Mashed U Shit)' (with Ove-Naxx) on Ove-Chan Dancehall
*'Scotch Pine' with Pine Forest on Infinite Chug
*'Brew' with Same Things on ASP 008 'Remove Celebrity Centre' CD compilation.
*'Toothache' with Same Things on ASP 014 'Skill 7 Stamina 12 - Toilet
- Same Things' limited vinyl 12", 200 copies
Junior Aspirin Records.
References
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Musicians from Brighton and Hove
Japanese electronic musicians
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Load Records artists