Takashi Kokubo has been played over 40 times on NTS, first on 18 January 2017. Takashi Kokubo's music has been featured on 39 episodes.

Takashi Kokubo: Creating ambient music out of art and the environment | The Japan Times Russell Thomas

Takashi Kokubo didn’t know it back in 1985, but he was about to be at the forefront of one of Japan’s most coveted musical exports: kankyō ongaku (environmental music), an offshoot of ambient music that summons worlds and fills spaces with synthesized, and sometimes natural, sounds.

“When I created ‘Digital Soundology #1 Volk von Bauhaus,’ I didn’t even know what ambient or kankyō ongaku was,” Kokubo tells…