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BONJOUR
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Saturday 13 September
2008 |
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Live Inn
Rosa in Ikebukuro (Tokyo) |
Open 18:30 / Start
19:00 | Advance ticket: 2800 JPY / At the door: 3200
JPY | ILCD special set (Adv, ticket + ILCQ CD): 5000
JPY |
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applehead |
Mayutan is a pink and fluffy being, accidentally
touching down on earth after a journey gone wrong through outer space in
search of a lost pet. Finding life on our planet to her liking, this
extraterrestrial android decided to stay on. One day at the local
supermarket, R40, she made friends with two rabbit-like forty year-olds,
Fredy and Candy. They started a band together and settled on the name
applehead. Mayutan likes planet Earth (ILCQ = I love chikyu) and enjoys
exploring it. All is well, so long as no one treads on her tail.
But don’t be taken in by a cute story. This electro-fur
pop ensemble has real bite (was Snow White really a virgin?). Fascinated
by 80s new-wave (Devo and YMO), applehead are also into and part of
today’s techno pop scene. Operating out of the electro zone of
Akihabara, they have plenty in common with the manga-otaku-cosplay
tendencies of the neighbourhood, not least in terms of their looks. They
are in with the techno pop kids who’re on the rise in Tokyo
right now (Binary Kidd, Urbangarde, Souchi Megane) but are also close to
proud veterans like Techma! and Mecha-Elvis. With a
strong leaning towards visual fantasy, applehead live shows are a real
party filled with blow-up animals and luminous decorations. Several
successful appearances in France, notably at the LEX festival in
Nîmes in 2007 and in Paris not far from Bimbo Tower and
Dragibus, and applehead have decided to put out their debut album. A
perfect hands-on production by the band themselves along with mastering
from the incomparable Nagata Kazunao (ExT Recordings), give the album rare
stature. (Franck Stofer / SONORE, translation by Jack
Sims) | | http://www.applehead.jp |
http://www.myspace.com/aph4649 |
| http://www.sonore.com/artist/applehead
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CHIMIDORO |
A recent off-shoot from label
Tokyo Fun Party, which puts on some of the hottest parties in the capital,
Chimidoro is turning electronica on its head. With an original line-up of
a DJ, a bassist and 2 MCs, Chimidoro project an off-beat sense of humour
alongside unrelenting musical effectiveness. With tracks like
“Royal Milk Tea” and “Shigoto
Shitakunai” (I don’t want to go to work), Chimodoro
fire up the dancefloor and drive the girls crazy. |
http://www.tokyofunparty.com/ |
http://www.myspace.com/chimidorox |
http://www.sonore.com/artist/chimidoro/ |
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SONORE |
| Founded as a record company in 1998, SONORE also
became an artistic agency in 2008 at the same time as celebrating its 10th
anniversary.Booking, providing management, music sales and publishing,
SONORE has discovered so much talent in Japan that it has had to develop
and broaden its activities to keep pace.With 28 disks out to date (current
releases:Akane Hosaka and applehead), an authoritative work on Japanese
music (Japanese Independent Music, 2001), contributions to films and
documentaries (Body Modification Freaks, 2008) and numerous European
bookings (Maywa Denki at the Les Bains Numériques festival at
Enghien-les-bains on 6 June 2008 or Doravideo at the Universal Exhibition
in Zaragossa, 16-17 August 2008), the Nîmes Biennial, the
Japanese Experience (LEX), organised together with the Theatre of
Nîmes must be one of SONORE’s major achievements so
far. LEX 2009 will present all the thrill of contemporary
Japanese creativity, bringing 19 music, dance and performance projects to
Nîmes from 24 to 28 March 2009 (YMCK, Baby-Q, ASA-CHANG
& Junray).In between times, SONORE will be celebrating its 10th
anniversary on Friday 10 October 2008 at Super Deluxe in Tokyo (“LEX 2009
SNEAK PREVIEW”) and on Sunday 23 November at Club Noon in
Osaka (“Mozarella Panic Tour”) as part of the Osaka
Festival of European Film. |
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http://sonore.ning.com/ |
http://www.myspace.com/sonore |
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SONORE NETWORK
Since 1998, Sonore label has continued to
release some of the most internationally acclaimed cutting-edge artists.
With a fancy for experimental electronic music, our catalogue gathers a
bunch of quick-witted and ingenious talents who never shy from pushing
limits. "Sonore seems to be rapidly becoming one of the
most intrinsically daring electronic labels around, with these two
releases acting as a neat primer of its boldly explorative, decidedly
experimental modus operandi."
(Allan Harrison, Grooves Magazine,
USA 2006)
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A mesmerising, art-damaged assemblage of what seems like billions
of audio fragments sifted from the refuse of an increasingly dumb
globe-mass culture, each contorted into fun, furiously elliptical sonic
sculptures.
(Allan Harrison, Grooves Mag, USA
2006)
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Yuko Nexus6
Yuko Nexus6 is another distinctive Japanese female musician to
add to a list that includes singers Haco, Phew and Ami Yoshida, queen of
the sinewave Sachiko M and shamisen player Yumiko Tanaka. "Song Book" is a
one-off tour de force, showing no shortage of ideas or attitude.
(Clive Bell, The Wire, UK 2005)
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Satoru Wono
"Sonata for Sine Waves and White Noise" does for electronic music
what Jeff Koons did for the visual arts, to subvert the audience's
perception of the immediate exterior with a sense of street smart satire.
(TJ Norris, Igloomag.com, USA 2003)
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With her lunging rhythms and
deliciously retro melodies, Akane Hosaka catapults us into a world of
gleeful wallabies and drummer-boy monkeys.Her discovery of music came
through song, and only later led to instrumental
experimentation.References to her early influences, the 60s and 70s
precursors of electropop, are deliberate, there for all to see: Raymond
Scott, Perrey & Kingsley or Yellow Magic Orchestra. Nevertheless
her true inspiration is from the visual world and lies in graphic forms
and architectural fantasy:Keiji Ito, Archigram or Bruno Munari.For her,
these images evoke musicthat she then sets about transcribing.Naturally
reserved, she’s a perfectionist in her work. Seeing her in the
studio is like watching a blacksmith in the smithy, as she bends her music
into the required shapes. Her compositions are like
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| | RADIO DONDON VOL.6
Playlist: 01. = 00:22 De
De Mouse: Baby's Star Jam (Tide Of Stars, ExT Recordings, 2007)
02. = 05:30 ?? : ??
03. = 06:47 Mr Bungle: Chemical Marriage
(Disco Volante, Warner, 1995) 04. = 09:42
Oorutaichi: YoriYoyo (Drifting My Folklore, Okimi,
05. = 13:07 Palais Schaumburg: Telephon
(Telephon, ???, 1981) 06. = 15:38 Pizzicato
Five: T.V.A.G. (On Her Majesty’s Request, Sony Music
Entertainment, 1989) 07. = 20:12 Hosoe Shinji
& Saso Ayako: Spinning Bird (Street Fighter EX2 OST, Pony Canyon,
1998) 08. = 23:29 Gil Trythall: Orange
Blossom Special (Country Moog, Athena, 1972)
09. = 25:44 Yano Akiko: (Japanese Girl,
Tokuma Japan, 1976) 10. = 29:09 High Places:
Head Spins Extended Version (03/07-09/07, eMusic, 2008)
11. = 31:25 Yoonkee: Rice With Bloody Kimchi
(Asian Zombie, Ooo2 Records, 2004) 12. =
35:03 Kyame Nat Kadaw: Nilar Lawin (Music Of Nat Pwe, Sublime Frequencies,
2007) 13. = 39:10 Clipse feat. Slim Thug:
Wamp Wamp (Hell Hath No Fury, Re-Up Records, 2006)
14. = 43:03 Ono Gagaku Kai: Bato (Gagaku,
Ocora, 1979) 15. = 46:48 Raymond Scott: The
Wild Piece (Manhattan Research Inc, Basta, 2000 (1969))
16. = 50:51 Technoboys Pulcraft Green Fund:
Lost Second (Ex Machina OST, Commons, 2007)
17. = 55:10 Gary Lucas: The Wall (The Edge Of
Heaven, Label Bleu, 2001) |  |  |  | |
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