aus is the solo project of Yasuhiko Fukuzono of Tokyo, Japan. Fukuzono started making music for experimental films when he was still a teenager. As aus, he has performed live since 2004, including sets at SonarSound Tokyo, Summer Sonic Festival, De La Fantasia Festival along with many international artists such as Haruomi Hosono (YMO/Sketch Show), Chaterhouse, Luke Abbott, L'altra, Daedelus, Ulrich Schnauss, Helios, Xela, AGF and collaboration with Sylvain Chauveau, Lindsay Anderson (aka L'altra), Danny Norbury, Robert Svensson etc.
aus has released 4 albums so far and "Lang" (Preco, 2005) became a huge hit throughout Japan. The "Lang" remix album gathered many popular musicians like Ulrich Schnauss, Manual, Joshua Eustis (Telefon Tel Aviv) and Kettel, Isan, Bracken, Dosh, State River Widening and The Remote Viewer.
Recently aus has remixed Straightener (has a devoted and somewhat large audience in Japan), Tujiko Noriko, The Declining Winter (aka Hood) and co-founded the post-pop ensemble Mita Kuuluu with Gutevolk and itoken (aka d.v.d, harpy). He has gained attention worldwide through his skillful and delicate sound production, exquisitely combining electronics with sounds from daily life. The music video of the track "With rain" (included in the album "Curveland") made by Takafumi Tsuchiya was nominated in the music video category at the world famous visual festival Aurora 2007 (along with Beck, Zero7 and Subtle).
Fukuzono is also the owner of a record label "flau" in Tokyo. flau has released many artists including Colophon (aka Jefre Cantu Ledesma), Jean-Philippe Collard-Neven, The Boats, Henning Schmiedt, Orla Wren, Part Timer, El Fog.