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Controlled Karaoke: Ultraman Meets “Thriller,” Acid Trip Ensues

ByPatrick St. Michel December 7, 2009

Just…wow. Good job Japan. You can stop the video at the 2:20 mark, the monsters stop dancing at that point.

kaiju dance
by gariisenab

(Via Japan Probe)

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New Sakanaction: “Sayonara Wa Emotion”
ByPatrick St. Michel November 20, 2014

A little bit back, Sakanaction released the video for “Hasu No Hana,” a slow-burning number that made the most of repetition. Now comes the other side of their most recent single and…it is pretty different! “Sayonara Wa Emotion” skitters from the start, both via the beat and the drippy-droppy synths that pass over it. All…

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Country Warp: Sakasa
ByPatrick St. Michel May 30, 2012June 17, 2012

Confession time, albeit one I’ve probably made before: if a Japanese artist I haven’t heard of hails from outside of Tokyo, I am much more likely to listen to their music. Blame this partially on two years spent living in a part of Japan unknown to most people I meet in Tokyo (shouts out to…

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Natural Pause: POOL’s “Cream Soda”
ByPatrick St. Michel May 11, 2014

Junya Sato’s POOL project features only one song as of now, but it is a doozy. “Cream Soda” is a slight number – guitar, some effects, his voice, percussion that sounds like it is coming from a hippie commune. Yet he constructs it in such a way this it boasts a psychedelic edge, everything blurring…

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New Kindan No Tasuketsu: “Goodbye My Cinderella (Kindan Ver.)”
ByPatrick St. Michel July 9, 2017July 9, 2017

Few groups in Japan…or anywhere else, really, at a time when pop music is suffocatingly serious (save for hip-hop)…balance humor with longing as well as Kindan No Tasuketsu. “Goodbye My Cinderella (Kindan Ver.)” isn’t the song to use as a jumping off point into a deeper discussion of this, because last year’s “Chasing The Eurobeat”…

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99 Letters Remixes Hoshina Anniversary’s “Everybody Plays The Music”
ByPatrick St. Michel February 23, 2011

Hoshina Anniversary’s bumpin’ “Everybody Plays The Music” gets an 8-bit makeover courtesy of 99 Letters and his arsenal of Game Boys. Before you even hit “play” on this retake you can probably guess what’s in store – a plethora of video game noises ranging from blasts of NES Shrapnel to Mario’s coin noise wigging out…

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Drafted: The Navy’s “Borderline”
ByPatrick St. Michel April 10, 2017April 10, 2017

This is technically a remastered take on quartet The Navy’s “Borderline,” but it’s the first I’ve heard of it and I can’t find more info on when it might have first come out (have you tried Googling “The Navy”)…so it’s like it is brand new to me! And it sounds lovely, the band creating a…

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