Kohei Matsunaga (aka NHK yx Koyxen) is an

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musician and draughtsman born in 1978 in

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, Japan, currently residing in Osaka and

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, Germany.

History

Kohei Matsunaga grew up in Osaka, Japan, where he studied architecture and listened to hardcore

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and rap music. His interests shifted to more

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sounds and he started to make music in 1992, focusing on experimental music. Matsunaga has collaborated with artists such as Conrad Schnitzler,

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, Sean Booth from

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, and more.

Discography

* 1998 Upside Down (CD)

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* 2001 Split with Merzbow (CD)

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* 2002 INTO111115&111521849 / with

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– 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 * 2009 e? * 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 koyxeи (LP, CD) SKAM Records * 2011 Split with Asmus Tietchens (12") Important Records * 2011 NHKyx yx aka 1ch aka solo (CD) SKAM Records * 2012 Split with SND (12") PAN * 2012 Dance Classics Vol.I (12") PAN * 2012 Dance Classics Vol.II (12") PAN * 2013 Dance Classics Vol.III (12") PAN * 2013 Drawings (Book+7") Fang Bomb * 2015 Hallucinogenic doom steppy verbs (12") Diagonal * 2015 Terepa (12") Other People * 2016 Doom steppy revarb (12") Diagonal * 2017 Exit Entrance (12") DFA Records * 2018 Parallel tempo (12") OUS * 2018 Reflexes (Cass) DFA Records * 2019 Panorama walking with the birds and the water decorative sound landscape (CD) Tamaki Niime * 2019 Self split (12") Diagonal

Other projects

* NHK * NHK bs * NHK yx * NHK'koyxeи * NHK rmx * MOU * Koyxeи * Internet magic * NHK yx Koyxen * Terepa

External links

Blog – Koyxen

Kohei Matsunaga – Discography – Discogs
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