Японский цветок — Akiko Kiyama — воспитанная в уважении к классической музыке нимфа с лаптопом, с первого трека заворожившая Берлин (Sud) и бдительного Хоутина, вписавшего изданный на Сontexterrior трек Акико в историю своих знаменитых превращений DE9, — станет одним из пяти хедлайнеров нового витка Save в Gazgolder Gallery.
Неповторимый тридцатидвухминутный лайв Акико, записанный в клубе Unit в родном Токио — чарующий, как японская пятистрочная поэзия, — звучит откровением и сейчас — почти два года спустя. Сопоставив это звучание с бесконечно нежным, эстетским аудио, зафиксированным во время совместного рождественского сета Акико Кияма с Margaret Dygas и Julietta в Harry Klein, получаем нечто не поддающееся осмыслению. Японская душа — это алгебраический нонсенс: деление на ноль, факториал бесконечности, задача с постоянно растущим числом неизвестных. Понять её невозможно, можно услышать.

Akiko was born in Tokyo, JAPAN, 1982. She has been surrounded by classical music education since she was a young girl. At the age of 14, she was absorbed in DrumNBass that was occurring in London at the time, and it was then that she made a commitment to club music, to pursue and evolve with the ever changing sound of techno. She started to create her own tracks with a laptop since 2002 and has been performing in Tokyo. Her first solo EP "Dimension", released on Sud Electronic in October 2004, which got great reviews by top world class DJs. And in November 2005, one of her tracks has licensed by M-NUS, and was selected by Richie Hawtin in his well received mix "DE9 Transitions". In 2007 she moved to Berlin to follow through with her commitment to dance music and to develop her style further. She also had several singles in 07 on a few reputable labels such as Safari Electronique, Contexterrior, Lick MyDeck, Neopren etc and more on District of Corruption. And one of the track on Lick My Deck has appeared on recent DJ-Kicks by Booka Shade (K7! Records).