Noble is a Japanese record label founded in 2001. Specializing in experimental

electronic music Electronic music is a genre of music that employs electronic musical instruments, digital instruments, or circuitry-based music technology in its creation. It includes both music made using electronic and electromechanical means ( electroac ...

, especially with influences from

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and post-rock, artists from its roster have been influential and popular in the Japanese electronic music and post-rock scene.

"Noble Sound"

Noble artists make up the bulk of a wave of Japanese electronic musicians whose work includes synthesized orchestral instruments, glitches in rhythm and samples, and chord progressions and harmonies characteristic of post-rock and shoegaze. Influences from ambient music are also very common, but still with the distinguishing feature of effects-treated samples and glitches. This sound is exemplified by

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, Kashiwa Daisuke, and

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Artists on roster

* Cinq * Eisi * Gutevolk * Kashiwa Daisuke *

* Midori Hirano * Nakaban * Natsume * Piana * Praezisa Rapid 3000 * Serph *

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* Yarn:moor * Yasushi Yoshida

References

External links

Official site

List of artists
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