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Casino Versus Japan Is The Recording Name For Erik Kowalski Born May 5 1973 A United States-Based Electronic Musician From Lexington Kentucky By Way Of Milwaukee Wisconsin Who Produces Intelligent Dance Music IDM For Short With Baroque Melodies And Distorted Trip-Hop Beats. As A Young Boy In Wisconsin He Recorded Episodes Of Television Series Miami Vice Sampling Jan Hammer's Music Later Collecting Them And Playing Them Over The Backdrop Of Other Musical Genres. After A Brief Stint With Model Railroading Such Experiments With Tape Grew Less Obvious. Samples Were Collected From A Range Of Sources And Eventually Mixed With Meagre Homespun Recordings. Later Attending Lincoln High School In Manitowoc Kowalski Would Often Be Found Playing The Grand Piano In The Empty Auditorium Rather Than Attending Class Slowly Teaching Himself Chord Progressions. During This Same Period He Also Learned The Basics Of Other Instruments Including Guitar And Drums In An Effort To Put Together Simple Songs. By Then Other Influences Began To Take Hold. Kowalski Recording Guitar-Based Ambient/experimental Music As Radiogate In 1996 And 1997 Found Many Creative Peers And Grew Into An Integrated Underground Electronic Music Community In Milwaukee Wisconsin. His Tenure At Atomic Records Along With Writing For The Alternative Fanzine Milk Magazine Kept Him Informed On Developments Within Many Styles Of Innovative Music. While Being An Avid Music Consumer And Collector All Of These Points Became The Ingredients Of A Dedicated Music Hobby That Led To More Focused And Devoted Recordings. In Early 1998 He Approached Mike Bailey Of The Local Electronic Label Star Star Stereo With Some Demo Tapes And Shortly Thereafter Released His Self Titled Debut Casino Versus Japan. This Subsequently Led To Live Performances Including Several Dates Opening For Low With Charles Wyatt Charles Atlas Accompanying Kowalski On Guitar. In January 2000 Go Hawaii Was Released On CD By Wobblyhead Later On Double-Vinyl LP By City Centre Offices 2001 . By The Summer Of 2002 The Track It's Very Sunny Found Itself In A Hummer Television Commercial Allowing His Music To Reach A Far Greater Audience. His Third Album Whole Numbers Play The Basics Followed In September 2002 On Carpark Records. The Song Manic Thru Tone Was Used In MTV's "Choose Or Lose" Campaign In The Fall Of 2002 Capping Off A Busy Year For The Artist. In 2004 A Collection Of Outtakes And Unreleased Tracks Hitori Kaiso 1998-2001 Appeared As Well As A Split EP With The California Duo Freescha. A New LP Has Been Slated Since Forever. Meanwhile Frozen Geometry 2016 And Doll Frame 2017 Are Not Meant To Be Listened To In Their Entirety From Beginning To End But Rather Curated By You The Dreamer Into Appropriate Soundtracks For The Moments Of Your Lives. Long Drives Are Encouraged. Discography * Casino Versus Japan CD Digital 1998 Star Star Stereo * Casino Versus Japan Digital 2xLP 12" TBA Attacknine * "Hadley" Split With Jessica Bailiff 7" 1999 Star Star Stereo * Various Artists Crouton No. 2 CD 1999 Crouton * Go Hawaii CD Digital 1999 Wobblyhead * Go Hawaii 2xLP 2003 City Centre Offices * Go Hawaii 2xLP 2013 Wobblyhead * Via 10" Digital 2000 Wobblyhead * "Silver And Gold" Split With Am-Boy 7" 2004 Frank Wobblyhead & Sons * Whole Numbers Play The Basics CD LP Digital 2002 Carpark Records * Whole Numbers Play The Basics Cassette TBA Carpark Records * Hitori Kaiso 1998 - 2001 2xCD Digital 2004 Attacknine * Casino Versus Japan Freescha Split CDEP/12" 2004 Wobblyhead * Night On Tape CD 2xLP Digital 2010 Attacknine * Damaged Errata Digital Attacknine * Frozen Geometry 2xCassette Digital 2016 Self-Released * Doll Frame 2xCassette Digital TBA Self-Released * Suicide By Sun 2xLP Digital TBA Self-Released read less