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

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

, especially with influences from glitch 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 Ambient music is a genre of music that emphasizes tone and atmosphere over traditional musical structure or rhythm. It may lack net composition, beat, or structured melody.The Ambient Century by Mark Prendergast, Bloomsbury, London, 2003. It ...

are also very common, but still with the distinguishing feature of effects-treated samples and glitches. This sound is exemplified by World's End Girlfriend, Kashiwa Daisuke, and Kazumasa Hashimoto.

Artists on roster

* Cinq * Eisi * Gutevolk * Kashiwa Daisuke * Kazumasa Hashimoto * Midori Hirano * Nakaban * Natsume * Piana * Praezisa Rapid 3000 * Serph * Tenniscoats * World's End Girlfriend * Yarn:moor * Yasushi Yoshida

References

External links

Official site

List of artists
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