Also known as 旬
しゅん
Syun Origin Tokyo, Japan (1984) Members Susumu Hirasawa | Years active 1984 – 1996? Albums OOPARTS, Landscapes Record labels SYUN, DIW Records | |
Associated acts Mandrake
P-Model
Fukō Project
Global Trotters
BIKINI
Sonic Sky
LONG VACATION
Masami Orimo Past members Susumu Hirasawa
Akiro "Kamio" Arishima
Akemi Tsujitani
Iwao Asama
Yuji Matsuda
Teruo Nakano
Hiromi Seki
Shuichi Sugawara
Shigeo Motojima
The oldman, who was on the way to IWATE.
Motohiro Yamada
Sacol Trakranprasirt
Supal Kuntatun Genres Experimental music, Electronica, Ambient music Similar Tadahiko Yokokawa, Katsuhiko Akiyama, Hajime Fukuma, Teruo Nakano, Kitune Akimoto | ||
Shun (旬) (later known as "Syun") was a Japanese experimental sampling unit created by Susumu Hirasawa. The unit, while essentially over, never officially ended, with its last work being released in 1996.
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History
In 1983, Hirasawa's band P-Model had their Another Game album delayed four months by their label Tokuma Japan Communications, who demanded the group redo the lyrics of the song "Atom-Siberia", claiming they encouraged discrimination. After this, P-Model broke their contract with Tokuma and created the "Another Act" project, where the group would release records with compositions made independently by each member in styles different from P-Model. Hirasawa's releases were made under the name "Shun", experimental in nature and featuring heavier use of Hirasawa's homemade sampler, the Heavenizer.
After the fourth Shun album in 1987, the project was put into dormancy until 1994, when Hirasawa re-branded it as Syun, a label to release some of his less commercial works. The same year Syun released Landscapes, an ambient album featuring sounds created by the Vista landscape design software for the Amiga. In 1996, Syun released the Thai-inspired Kun Mae on a Calculation.
No more albums were released under the Shun/Syun name after 1996, although Hirasawa continued to use the sounds that originated in Syun albums, most notably in his soundtracks for the adaptations of Berserk and the works of Satoshi Kon.
Members
Songs
Table Beat1994
Conditioning Cycle1994
Shun 21994