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FCAN (electronic music)
FCAN is a multi-media project with main focus on house music, ambient music and epic IDM (Intelligent Dance Music); a term which has spawned the more blurry verbal creation "1991_INTELLIGENT_TEKKNO_MUSIC". Though the focal point is on the music, FCAN spans over much more. The FCAN project is a product by "Quackstate", an idea factory that designs and develops entire worlds of music, images, videos, texts, and sound, of which FCAN is a magnificent example.

Though appearing to be an acronym, the name "FCAN" does not stand for anything; the letters are at first sight apparently put together at random, though in fact the word is following a set of strict, though unwritten principles of what is a catchy pronunciation, and of which letter combination that has the greatest visually aesthetic value. Go to FCAN's website and note that all the words are written in capital letters and separated by an underscore, referring to the early days of the computer and the beginning of the digital age, which also entails the aspiring electronic music of that particular period; from the pioneering experimental work of Kraftwerk and Jean-Michel Jarre to the more audience friendly electronic dance music of the 1980s and 90s.

FCAN is thus an exponent for the always intriguing meeting between the old and the new; a new aesthetic, which is deliberate and omnipresent in text, visuals etc., and the fusion of the somewhat corny dance music of the 1990s and the IDM of modern day, a fusion so far not yet attempted, and thusly FCAN has anticipated the retro period of the 20 year span between the actual period and the rediscovered period. The music of FCAN is not the average heavy bass-induced techno music of the E-gulping crowd, but a pleasant and enticing string of ear candy, consisting of numerous and various elements, that intrigue the audience to listen to it over and over again, and always finding previously undiscovered layers that only enhance the pleasure. And thus pleasantly hypnotized the listener might experience an audio vision of being in a moist, green bamboo rainforest, or waiting in a central train station about to embark on a journey out in the world.

The enigmatic creator of the FCAN project and Quackstate, goes by the name of Mensch Matsumoto or simply "das Mensch". His goal is to eradicate the common misconception that an electronic musician is the same as a DJ, a notion upon which he very much disagrees. Because he performs live electronic concerts, and will thusly not be mistaken for the mind numbing background music usually associated with nightclubs.