is a genre of film, television, and theatre in Japan. The name means "period drama" and is usually the Edo period of Japanese history, from 1603 to 1868. Some, however, are set much earlier — ''Portrait of Hell'', for example, is set during the late Heian period — and the early Meiji era is also a popular setting. ''Jidaigeki'' show the lives of the samurai, farmers, craftsmen, and merchants of their time. ''Jidaigeki'' films are sometimes referred to as chambara movies, a word meaning "sword fight", though chambara is really a sub group. They have a set of dramatic conventions including the use of makeup, language, catchphrases, and plotlines.

Types of ''jidaigeki''

Many ''jidaigeki'' take place in Edo, the military capital. Others show the adventures of people wandering from place to place. The long-running television series ''Zenigata Heiji'' and ''Abarenbō Shōgun'' typify the Edo ''jidaigeki''. ''Mito Kōmon'', the fictitious story of the travels of the historical daimyo Tokugawa Mitsukuni, and the ''Zatoichi'' movies and television series, exemplify the traveling style.

Another way to categorize ''jidaigeki'' is according to the social status of the principal characters. The title character of ''Abarenbō Shogun'' is Tokugawa Yoshimune, the eighth Tokugawa shogun. The head of the samurai class, Yoshimune assumes the disguise of a low-ranking hatamoto, a samurai in the service of the shogun. Similarly, Mito Kōmon is the retired vice-shogun, masquerading as a merchant. In contrast, the coin-throwing Heiji of ''Zenigata Heiji'' is a commoner, working for the police, while Ichi (the title character of ''Zatoichi''), a blind masseur, is an outcast, as were many disabled people in that era. In fact, masseurs, who typically were at the bottom of the professional food chain, was the one of the only vocational positions available to the blind in that era. ''Gokenin Zankurō'' is a samurai but, due to his low rank and income, he has to work extra jobs that higher-ranking samurai were unaccustomed to doing.

Whether the lead role is samurai or commoner, ''jidaigeki'' usually reach a climax in an immense sword fight just before the end. The title character of a series always wins, whether using a sword or a ''jutte'' (the device police used to trap, and sometimes to bend or break, an opponent's sword).

Sengoku-jidai

Sengoku-jidai (Warring States era setting) is a Japanese genre that has been used as the setting for novels, films, video games, and even anime and manga. It bears some parallels with the Western; Akira Kurosawa's ''Seven Samurai'', for example, was remade in a Western setting as ''The Magnificent Seven''. The famous anime and manga series ''InuYasha'' is set in this period despite some moments that were set in the modern era.

Roles in ''jidaigeki''

Among the characters in ''jidaigeki'' are a parade of people with occupations unfamiliar to modern Japanese, and especially to foreigners. Here are a few.

Warriors

The warrior class included samurai, hereditary members in the military service of a daimyo or the shogun (themselves samurai). Ronin, samurai without masters, were also warriors, and like samurai, wore two swords; they were, however, without inherited employment or status. ''Bugeisha'' were men, or in some stories women, who aimed to perfect their martial arts, often by traveling throughout the country. ''Ninja'' were the secret service, specializing in stealth, the use of disguises, explosives, and concealed weapons.

Craftsmen

Craftsmen in ''jidaigeki'' included metalworkers (often abducted to mint counterfeit coins), bucket-makers, carpenters and plasterers, and makers of woodblock prints for art or newspapers.

Merchants

In addition to the owners of businesses large and small, the ''jidaigeki'' often portray the employees. The ''bantō'' was a high-ranking employee of a merchant, the ''tedai'', a lower helper. Many merchants employed children, or ''kozō''. Itinerant merchants included the organized medicine-sellers, vegetable-growers from outside the city, and peddlers at fairs outside temples and shrines. In contrast, the great brokers in rice, lumber and other commodities operated sprawling shops in the city.

Governments

In the highest ranks of the shogunate were the ''rojū''. Below them were the ''wakadoshiyori'', then the various ''bugyō'' or administrators, including the ''jisha bugyō'' (who administered temples and shrines), the ''kanjō bugyō'' (in charge of finances) and the two ''Edo machi bugyō''. These last alternated by month as chief administrator of the city. Their role encompassed mayor, chief of police, and judge, and jury in criminal and civil matters.

The machi bugyō oversaw the police and fire departments. The police, or ''machikata'', included the high-ranking ''yoriki'' and the ''dōshin'' below them; both were samurai. In ''jidaigeki,'' they often have full-time patrolmen, ''okappiki'' and ''shitappiki'', who were commoners. (Historically, these people were irregulars, called to service only when necessary.) Zenigata Heiji is an ''okappiki''. The police lived in barracks at Hatchōbori in Edo. They manned ''ban'ya'', the watch-houses, throughout the metropolis. The ''jitte'' was the symbol of the police, from yoriki to shitappiki.

A separate police force handled matters involving samurai. The ''ōmetsuke'' were high-ranking officials in the shogunate; the ''metsuke'' and ''kachi-metsuke'', lower-ranking police who could detain samurai. Yet another police force investigated arson-robberies, while Shinto shrines and Buddhist temples fell under the control of another authority. The feudal nature of Japan made these matters delicate, and jurisdictional disputes are common in ''jidaigeki.''

Edo had three fire departments. The ''daimyo-bikeshi'' were in the service of designated daimyo; the ''jōbikeshi'' reported to the shogunate; while the ''machi-bikeshi'', beginning under Yoshimune, were commoners under the administration of the ''machibugyō.'' Thus, even the fire companies have turf wars in the ''jidaigeki''.

Each daimyo maintained a residence in Edo, where he lived during ''sankin kotai.'' His wife and children remained there even while he was away from Edo, and the ladies-in-waiting often feature prominently in ''jidaigeki.'' A high-ranking samurai, the ''Edo-garō'', oversaw the affairs in the daimyo's absence. In addition to a staff of samurai, the household included ''ashigaru'' (lightly armed warrior-servants) and ''chūgen'' and ''yakko'' (servants often portrayed as flamboyant and crooked). Many daimyo employed doctors, ''goten'i''; their counterpart in the shogun's household was the ''okuishi''. Count on them to provide the poisons that kill and the potions that heal.

Other

The cast of a wandering ''jidaigeki'' encountered a similar setting in each ''han.'' There, the ''karō'' were the ''kuni-garō'' and the ''jōdai-garō''. Tensions between them have provided plots for many stories.

What would a ''jidaigeki'' be without characters to give the flavor of the times? Jugglers, peddlers, fortune-tellers, candy-sellers, rag-pickers, blind moneylenders, itinerant singer/shamisen-players, effete courtiers from the imperial capital at Kyoto, the Dutch ''kapitan'' from Nagasaki, streetwalkers and prostitutes from the licensed and unlicensed quarters, the million-dollar kabuki actor, flute-playing mendicant komusos wearing deep wicker hats, and of course geisha, provide a never-ending pageant of old Japan.

Conventions

There are several dramatic conventions of ''jidaigeki'':

The heroes often wear eye makeup, and the villains often have disarranged hair.

A contrived form of old-fashioned Japanese speech, using modern pronunciation and grammar with a high degree of formality and frequent archaisms.

In long-running TV series, like ''Mito Kōmon'' and ''Zenigata Heiji'', the lead and supporting actors sometimes change. This is done without any rationale for the change of appearance. The new actor simply appears in the place of the old one and the stories continue. This is similar to the James Bond film series.

In a swordfight, when a large number of villains attacks the main character, they never attack at once. The main character first launches into a lengthy preamble detailing the crimes the villains have committed, at the end of which the villains then initiate hostilities. The villains charge singly or in pairs; the rest wait their turn to be dispatched and surround the main character until it is their turn to be easily defeated. Swordfights are the grand finale of the show and are conducted to specially crafted theme music for their duration.

On television, even fatal sword cuts draw little blood, and often do not even cut through clothing. Villains are chopped down with deadly, yet completely invisible, sword blows. Despite this, blood or wounding may be shown for arrow wounds or knife cuts.

On film, most often the violence is considerably stylized, sometimes to such a degree that sword cuts cause geysers of blood from wounds. Dismemberment and decapitation are common.

Clichés and catchphrases

Authors of ''jidaigeki'' work clichés into the dialog. Here are a few:

''Tonde hi ni iru natsu no mushi'': Like bugs that fly into the fire in the summer (they will come to their destruction)

''Shishi shinchū no mushi'': A wolf in sheep's clothing (literally, a parasite in the lion's body)

''Kaji to kenka wa Edo no hana'': Fires and brawls are the flower of Edo

''Ōedo happyaku yachō'': "The eight hundred neighborhoods of Edo"

''Tabi wa michizure'': "Travel is who you take with you"

In addition, the authors of series invent their own clichés in the ''kimarizerifu'' (catchphrases) that the protagonist says at the same point in nearly every episode. In ''Mito Kōmon'', in which the eponymous character disguises himself as a commoner, in the final swordfight, a sidekick invariably holds up an accessory bearing the shogunal crest and shouts, ''Hikae! Kono mondokoro ga me ni hairan ka?'': "Back! Can you not see this emblem?", revealing the identity of the hitherto unsuspected old man with a goatee beard. The villains then instantly surrender and beg forgiveness. Likewise, Tōyama no Kin-san bares his tattooed shoulder and snarls, ''Kono sakura fubuki o miwasureta to iwasane zo!'': "I won't let you say you forgot this cherry-blossom blizzard!" After sentencing the criminals, he proclaims, ''Kore ni te ikken rakuchaku'': "Case closed."

The ''kimarizerifu'' betrays the close connection between the ''jidaigeki'' and the comic-book superhero.

Famous ''jidaigeki''

For content set in (or largely in) the Edo period, see Edo period in popular culture.

Films

''Gate of Hell''

''Hanzo the Razor''

''The Hidden Fortress''

''Kagemusha''

''Lady Snowblood''

''Onibaba''

''Ran''

''Rashomon''

''Samurai Banners''

''Samurai Trilogy''

''Samurai Wolf''

''Sansho The Bailiff''

''Seven Samurai''

''Shinobi No Mono''

''Shogun's Vault''

''Throne of Blood

''The Last Samurai''

''Shogun's Shadow''

''Ugetsu Monogatari''

''Yojimbo''

Video games

''Downtown Special: Kunio-kun no Jidaigeki dayo Zen'in Shūgō'' - sequel to ''Downtown Nekketsu Monogatari'' (''River City Ransom'' in America) set in feudal Japan.

''Sengoku Ace''

''Shogun: Total War''

''Kengo series''

''Way of the Samurai Series''

''Onimusha'' series

''Genji: Dawn of the Samurai''

''Soul of the Samurai''

''Samurai Shodown'' series

''Total War: Shogun 2''

Anime and manga

''Basilisk''

''Crescent Moon in the Warring States''

''Fire Tripper''

''InuYasha''

''Kaze Hikaru''

''Ninja Scroll''

''Otogizoshi''

''Princess Mononoke''

''Rakudai Ninja Rantarō''

''Rurouni Kenshin''

''Samurai Champloo''

''Shounen Onmyouji''

''The Yagyu Ninja Scrolls''

''Sword of the Stranger''

''Samurai Deeper Kyo''

''Vagabond''

Live action television

Kamen No Ninja Akakage

Lion Maru series

Famous directors

Names are in Western order, with the surname after the given name.

Kon Ichikawa

Akira Kurosawa

Masaki Kobayashi

Shozo Makino

Kenji Mizoguchi

Kihachi Okamoto

Tomu Uchida

Famous actors and actresses

Names are in Western order, with the given name, then the family name.

Kanjūrō Arashi

Yoshimi Ashikawa

Tsumasaburō Bandō

Shin'ichi Chiba (Sonny Chiba)

Makoto Fujita

Utaemon Ichikawa

Kimiko Ikegami

Kōji Ishizaka

Chiezō Kataoka

Shintarō Katsu

Morio Kazama

Kin'ya Kitaōji

Hitomi Kuroki

Machiko Kyô

Ken Matsudaira

Hiroki Matsukata

Keiko Matsuzaka

Meiko Kaji

Toshirō Mifune

Yoshiko Mita

Kunihiko Mitamura

Hiroaki Murakami

Akira Nagoya

Tatsuya Nakadai

Nakamura Kichiemon II

Umenosuke Nakamura

Kō Nishimura

Denjirō Ōkōchi

Megumi Ōji

Hashizō Ōkawa

Matsunosuke Onoe

Teruhiko Saigō

Masato Sakai

Hiroyuki Sanada

Asao Sano

Koichi Sato

Kōtarō Satomi

Takashi Shimura

Ryōtarō Sugi

Yoshie Taira

Hideki Takahashi

Reiko Takashima

Masakazu Tamura, Ryō Tamura, and Takahiro Tamura (the three Tamura brothers)

Sanae Tsuchida

Eijirō Tōno

Gō Wakabayashi

Tomisaburo Wakayama

Ken Watanabe

Kinnosuke Yorozuya

Kaoru Yumi

Influence

''Star Wars'' creator George Lucas has admitted to being inspired significantly by the period works of Akira Kurosawa, and many thematic elements found in ''Star Wars'' bear the influence of Chanbara filmmaking. In an interview, Lucas has specifically cited the fact that he became acquainted with the term ''jidaigeki'' while in Japan, and it is widely assumed that he took inspiration for the term Jedi from this.

References

External links

A Man, a Blade, an Empty Road: Postwar Samurai Film to 1970 by Allen White on Greencine, this article discusses specific ''chambara'' films, their distinction from regular ''jidai-geki,'' and the evolution of the genre.

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name	Little Nobody
background	non_vocal_instrumentalist
alias	Andrew Bergen / Schlock Tactile / Slam-dunk Ninja
origin	Melbourne, Victoria
currently	Tokyo, Japan
genre	Experimental, Electronic (IDM, Glitch, Ambient) Industrial, Hip-hop, Electro
years active	1996–present
labels	IF? Records
associated acts	The LN Elektronische Ensemble, DJ Fodder, Atomic Autocrac vs. Admiral Anderision
website	Little Nobody's el cheapo website
website	Little Nobody's dodgy MySpace site }}

Little Nobody is the electronic music production alias of Australian musician and writer Andrez Bergen.

Background

An expatriate Melburnian, who currently resides in Tokyo, Japan, Bergen is also an author and photographer, as well as a music, movie and anime journalist for the ''Daily Yomiuri'' newspaper, and Tokyo correspondent for ''Anime Insider'', ''Geek Monthly'' and ''Impact'' magazines.

In the past he has also written for ''Mixmag'', ''ToyFare'', ''Remix'', ''Wax'', ''The Age'' and ''Herald Sun'' newspapers, ''Vice'' Australia and ''Cyclic Defrost'' magazines, and he occasionally edits subtitles and narration for Japanese animation like ''Tokyo Marble Chocolate'' and ''The Drawer Hobs'', and Mamoru Oshii's live-action ''Assault Girls'' (2009).

In 2011 Bergen published his debut novel called ''Tobacco-Stained Mountain Goat'', via American publisher Another Sky Press.

Bergen is a co-founder and until recently was the ongoing manager of Melbourne/Tokyo label IF? Records, which was launched in 1995 and has since featured an array of Australian (and especially Melburnian) artists like Artificial, Blimp, Voiteck, Ben Mill, Isnod, Honeysmack, Josh Abrahams, Little Nobody, Soulenoid, Guyver 3, TR-Storm, Rhizo, Son Of Zev, DJ Hi-Shock, Sebastian Bayne, Enclave, Alkan, Koda, Kultrun, Bill Hunter, Nod, Zen Paradox and FSOM, amidst a rotating international roster that has included Si Begg, DJ Warp, Dave Tarrida, James Ruskin, Justin Berkovi, Luke's Anger, Wyndell Long, Dasha Rush, E383, Tobias Schmidt, Jammin' Unit, DJ Wada, Khan Oral, Captain Funk, Jason Leach, Alone Together, Donk Boys, Biochip C, Toshiyuki Yasuda and Thomas P. Heckmann.

"I started IF? Records principally because I was receiving all these great demo tapes from local artists for my show on PBS," Bergen told journalist Terry Rance in Inpress magazine in 1997. "No-one here was putting them out, and rather than sit around griping about it, I thought I'd try and help them myself."

Bergen produces his own music not only as Little Nobody, but as a member of other production outfits Schlock Tactile, DJ Fodder, Curvaceous Crustacean, Slam-dunk Ninja, Atomic Autocrac vs Admiral Anderision, Dick Drone, and the LN Elektronische Ensemble.

He currently lives in Tokyo with his wife, artist Yoko Umehara, and their daughter Cocoa. In 2011 he and his daughter were in a tall building in Tokyo when the Tōhoku earthquake struck; they were unhurt.

Little Nobody's studio sounds

Bergen has said he has been influenced in his own music by the 1970s industrial sounds and ideology of Throbbing Gristle and Cabaret Voltaire - "Since about 15 years ago, when I first heard their album ''Voice of America''," he told journalist Trish Maunder in ''The Age'' newspaper in 1999.

In 1998, he released his first full-length Little Nobody album, titled ''Pop Tart''.

Three years later, the next Little Nobody album ''Action Hero'' - which also contained real sounds - was one of the 4 final nominees for Best Album of the Year in ''3D World'''s 2001 Australian Dance Music Awards, of which The Avalanches were the eventual winner.

That year, his remix EP of ''Bare'', in collusion with vocalist Marcella Brassett, was also adjudged as "Single of the Week" in Melbourne's ''Beat'' magazine by reviewer Andrew Mast. ''Beat'' magazine.

Little Nobody also appeared on the second compilation of Si Begg's cut-up beat ''Noodles Discotheque'' series in 2001.

He has since put out a series of vinyl releases in Japan such as the ''Depth Charge'' EP (2003), ''Eating the Heart of the Fishes'' (2005), ''The Slack Plague'' EP (2007), ''Robota'' EP (2010), and the ''Metropolis How?'' EP (2010), featuring James Ruskin and Justin Berkovi.

In 2008, Bergen released a remix compilation (''Little Nobody Presents Slam-dunk Ninja: The Perspicacious Remix Selection''), plus a new album (''Eat Tatoo Dead Tiger''), and since then has unleashed three more albums through Auricular in the USA (''Deeppresso'' 2009, ''Hackneyed Record Crate'' 2010, and ''Convert to Mono'' 2011).

During 2010 Bergen made a return to the vinyl format for some releases. "Digital is glutted out,” he told James Coulson at ''Metropolis'' magazine in Japan. “It’s a great medium to exercise lack of restraint and release experimental stuff since there are no overheads, but sales and attention are minimal. Digital is physically intangible, and CDs have gone the way of the dinosaur. DJing vinyl is something I can show my daughter when she grows up, and the analog sound is just a wee bit richer.”

In May 2011 he release the Little Nobody ''Commix'' remix compilation CD through Japanese label Fountain Music (featuring mixes by Mijk van Dijk, James Ruskin, Dave Angel, Shin Nishimura, Donk Boys, Si Begg, Patrick Pulsinger, DJ Wada, Captain Funk and Justin Robertson).

Remixes and covers

Little Nobody's music has been remixed by Sweden's Donk Boys, Britain's Si Begg (Mosquito), Luke's Anger, Justin Robertson, Dave Tarrida (Tresor), James Ruskin, Dave Angel, Tobias Schmidt (Tresor), E383, Steve Cobby from Fila Brazillia, Justin Berkovi and Jason Leach (Subhead), as well as by German, Dutch and Austrian producers Bas Mooy, Jammin' Unit, Mijk van Dijk, Biochip C and Patrick Pulsinger, and Americans AUX 88, Paul Birken, Blake Baxter, Wyndell Long and Steve Stoll, Australian producers Steve Law (Zen Paradox), Nicole Skeltys, Digital Primate, Bitch Shift, Dee Dee, Son Of Zev, DJ Hi-Shock, Koda, Craig McWhinney and Nick Littlemore from Pnau, and Japanese musicians Tatsuya Oe (Captain Funk), DJ Wada (Co-Fusion), DJ Warp (Elektrax), Alone Together (IF?), Magnet Toy (Trope), Funkarmor, Masaya Sasaki, Toshiyuki Yasuda (formerly from Fantastic Plastic Machine), Naotoxin, Gadget Cassette, Shin Nishimura and Yamaoka.

In return, he's had a hand at remixing Severed Heads, AUX 88, Wyndell Long, Dasha Rush, Dead Sound, Luke's Anger, Kid Calmdown, Slam-dunk Ninja, DJ Hi-Shock, Marcella Brassett, Dale Baldwin, Bitch Shift, Koda, Alkan, Son Of Zev, Abis and Toshiyuki Yasuda, and, with the LN Elektronische Ensemble, covered The Doors' ''Light My Fire'' for a live session at SBS Radio in Australia.

Tours, live performances and gigs

Little Nobody has played live in Tokyo, Osaka, Hong Kong, Beijing, London, Amsterdam, Detroit, San Francisco, New York, Chicago, Windsor and extensively around Australia - having performed at essential Australian rave parties like Every Picture Tells A Story, Hardware, Where The Wild Things Are, Freaky Loops, Earthcore, Zoetrope, War Of The Worlds, Dragonflight, Sunshine People, Omniglobe, Innovator, Technofest, TransAtlantic, Electric and Be Strange, as well as at the Offshore Festival.

Along the way he has performed alongside Elenor Rayner (as Little Nobody vs E) Luke Vibert, Derrick May, Squarepusher, Scanner, Jeff Mills, Eddie 'Flashin' Fowlkes, Chez Damier, Cari Lekebusch, Ben Sims, Ian Pooley, Pilote, Neotropic, Spearhead, Stacey Pullen, Adam Beyer, Miss Kittin, Heiko Laux and Mike Patton from Mr Bungle.

He also supported Coldcut during theirAustralian audio/visual tour in 1999.

Little Nobody, and his Andrez turntablist alterego, has played at Australian clubs like Filter, Teriyaki Anarki Saki, Centriphugal, Frigid, Warm Up, Phreakin', Scissor*Paper*Rock, Zoetrope, Club Kooky, Revolver, Honkytonks and More Bass. In Japan, he played at the renowned Womb and Unit nightclubs as well as at Dommune, and in London at the now-defunct Moon Palace.

Little Nobody and Andrez Bergen releases

''Solid Gold Collectibles, & Then Some'' EP (1997) So!! Muzik

''Pop Tart'' album (1998), IF? Records

''Action Hero'' album (2000), IF? Records

''Bare'' EP (2000), IF? Records

''Cocaine Speaking'' remixes (2000), IF? Records

''Reaction Hero'' remix album (2001), IF? Records

''Boastward Ho'' EP (2001), Fitja Records

''Pop Tart'' mixes (2002), IF? Records

''Depth Charge'' EP (2003), Fitja Records

''Crotch It'' EP (2004), TTAK

''Eating The Heart Of The Fishes'' EP (2005), IF? Records

''Plus / Minus'' EP (2007), TTAK

''The Slack Plague'' EP (2007), IF? Records

''Game Over: Variations'' EP (2008), IF? Records

''Techelectric Tangents Vol. 1'' EP (2008), IF? Records & Hypnotic Room

''Techelectric Tangents Vol. 2'' EP (2008), IF? Records & Hypnotic Room

''Wayward Seafarers'' EP (2008), IF? Records & Hypnotic Room

''Double-Click to Play'' EP (2008), Dead Channel, UK

''Woklurk Orange'' EP (2008), IF? Records & Hypnotic Room

''Live In Tokyo'' EP (2008), IF? Records & Hypnotic Room

''Remember Radio?'' LP (2008), Dead Channel, UK

''Game Over: Reset 140'' EP (2008), IF? Records

''We Call It Crack House - Si Begg Remix'' EP (2008), Hypnotic Room Special Edition

''Robota'' EP (2008), IF? Records & Hypnotic Room

''Cocaine Speaking'' Remixes (2008), IF? Records, Elektrax & Hypnotic Room

''Disquo'' EP (2008), Hypnotic Room

''Cocaine Speaking - Mijk van Dijk Remix'' EP (2008), Hypnotic Room Special Edition

''Metropolis How?'' EP (2008), IF? Records

''I Have Become So Many People I Do Not Know Which Is Myself'' LP (2009), Dead Channel, UK

''Eat Tatoo Dead Tiger'' LP (2009), Auricular Records, USA

''Game Over: Reboot'' EP (2009), IF? Records

''Poiseworks - Shin Nishimura Remix'' EP (2009), Hypnotic Room Special Edition

''Kapitän "L"'' EP (2009), IF? Records

''Split 12-inch, Minus Vinyl #4'' EP (2009), IF? Records

''Robota - Jammin' Unit Remix'' EP (2009), Hypnotic Room Special Edition

''Robota Remixes'' EP (2009), Hypnotic Room

''Jazz Muzak Remixes'' EP (2009), Elektrax

''Robota Techo Remixes'' EP (2009), Elektrax

''Compulsion - Luke's Anger Remix'' EP (2009), Hypnotic Room Special Edition

''Blah Blah - Patrick Pulsinger Remix'' EP (2009), Hypnotic Room Special Edition

''Compulsion Remixes'' LP (2009), IF? Records

''From The Edge'' EP (2009), TTAKredefined

''Like A Sturgeon'' EP (2009), IF? Records

''Deeppresso'' LP (2009), Auricular Records, USA

''Compulsion Remixes'' LP (2009), Hypnotic Room

''Robota Remixes'' EP (2010), IF? Records

''Metropolis How? Remixes'' 12" EP (2010), IF? Gynoid Audio

''Hackneyed Record Crate'' LP (2010), Auricular Records, USA

''Robota'' 12" EP (2010), IF? Records

''Get Away From It All'' 12" EP (2010), IF? Records

''The Condimental Op'' 12" EP (2011), IF? Records

''Convert To Mono'' LP (2011), Auricular Records, USA

''Get Away From It All Remixes'' EP (2011), Elektrax

''Hard Foiled'' LP (2011) IF? Records

''Disquo Remixes'' EP (2011) Hypnotic Room

''Metropolis How? Redux'' EP (2011) Gynoid Audio

''Commix'' Remix Compilation LP (2011) Fountain Music, Japan

''Troll Remixes'' EP (2011) Finn Audio

''The Thin Flan Remixes'' EP (2011) Gynoid Audio

Other works

''Live, Sorted & Tauted'' (LN Elektronische Ensemble, 2001), IF? Records

''Mitanime Remixes'' EP (Schlock Tactile, 2003), IF? Records

''Ninja Daddy'' EP (Slam-dunk Ninja, 2007), IF? Records

''Live, Sorted & Tauted: Rewound & Unstrung'' (LN Elektronische Ensemble, 2008), IF?

''Blah Blah Remixes'' EP (Funk Gadget, 2008), IF? Records

''Rewind'' EP (Curvaceous Crustacean, 2008), IF? Records

''Suicidio'' EP (Conversational Dentures, 2008), IF? Records

''Split 12-inch, Minus Vinyl'' EP (Little Bitches, 2009), IF? Records

''Love Me Slender'' EP (Schlock Tactile, 2009), Hypnotic Room

''Suicidio Plus+'' EP (Conversational Dentures, 2009), IF? Records

''Your Soul Is Mine'' EP (Psyborg-9, 2009), Elektrax

''Broken Piano'' EP (DJ Fodder, 2009), IF? Records

''Blah Blah Remixes'' EP (Funk Gadget, 2010), Slidebar Recordings

On compilations

''Zeitgeist 2'' (1996), IF? Records

''Zeitgeist 3'' (1997), IF? Records

''Sunblock'' (1998), Sunblock/MDS

''Dance Your Pants Off!'' (1998), Australian Dance Music Conference

''Dragonflight 99'' (1999), Dragonflight

''Hemphouse'' (1999), Sense Recordings

''Beatscootin'' (1999), Groovescooter

''ZOO'' (2000), IF? Records

''Every Picture Tells A Story, Vol. 3'' (2000), MUD

''Noodles Discotheque, Vol. 2'' (2001), Noodles (UK)

''909001'' EP (2001), Nine09

''Esoteric Psikology'' (2001), Nine09

''Kiss FM: Sounds of Australia'' (2001), Shock

''Beatworkz, Vol. 2'' (2001), Organarchy

''Exasperation Flicka'' (2003), Fitja Records

''Yel.Blu.Gre.'' (2003), Fitja Records

''Minus / Plus: Initials'' EP (2005), IF? Records

''Jungaru Teitai'' (2005), TTAK (Japan)

''Dartness + Height'' (2005), TTAK (Japan)

''Serapionne'' (2006), TTAK (Japan)

''Slam-dunk Ninja: The Perspicacious Remix Selection'' (2008), IF? Records

''Z-13'' (2008), IF? Records

''Suburbia Remixes'' (2008), Elektrax (Australia)

''We Too Are You'' (2008), IF? Records

''TTAKredefined 1'' (2008), TTAKredefined (Japan)

''TTAKredefined 2'' (2009), TTAKredefined (Japan)

''Zen Lounge'' (2009), Hypnotic Room (Australia)

''Lego Project 1'' (2009), Dead Channel (UK)

''Auricular Audio Magazine #14'' (2009), Auricular Records (USA)

''Compulsion Remixes'' (2009), Hypnotic Room (Australia)

''Iffy Bizness'' (2009), Hypnotic Room (Australia)

''IF100'' (2009), IF? Records

''Iffy Bizness Vol. 2'' (2010), Hypnotic Room (Australia)

''Is Your MP3 Player Ready? Weird Fodder From The Coffers'' (2010), IF? Records

''Behind Moisture Crack'' (2011), Vinyl 12" feat. Cristian Vogel, Tobias Schmidt & Bill Youngman, Slidebar (Germany)

References

External links

http://andrezbergen.tripod.com

abc.net.au profile

japantoday article

Australian Music Online interview with Andrez Bergen (8/05/2006)

IF? records 2007 article

Little Nobody links

Little Nobody website

Free Little Nobody releases

Little Nobody @ MySpace

Little Nobody @ Discogs

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