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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 Hearsays: “Headrest”
ByPatrick St. Michel March 1, 2017

Blah blah blah, busy days, blah blah blah I just want to sleep for the next three days straight but that is just not possible. Well, thank goodness for some indie-pop. Fukuoka-based band Hearsays are back with a number that just jogs ahead on all the familiar elements of a nice, twee-leaning song — breezy…

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While We Were Out: New Cloudy Busey “Don’t Know Why You Love Me”
ByPatrick St. Michel January 9, 2012June 17, 2012

A lot of stuff happened while we were on vacation, and some of it we didn’t notice until, oh, minutes ago! Look, I had Jamba Juice to drink, I let my Twitter-viewing habits slip a bit. Anyway, one such late discovery was this new track from Cloudy Busey, the solo project of Ice Cream Shout’s…

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Controlled Karaoke: Backstreet Boys in Japan
ByPatrick St. Michel October 8, 2009

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTolFsb2H1Y&hl=en&fs=1&] So, I guess every college girl’s favorite pop group Backstreet Boys recently played some shows in Japan and appeared on a Japanese TV show. In this clip they talk about how much they love sushi and reveal which cities they thought deserved the Olympics. If Obama was counting on the crucial Backstreet backing for…

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New Stones Taro: “Insane” EP
ByPatrick St. Michel May 29, 2019

It feels like Stones Taro has been keeping busy in 2019, releasing on all kinds of labels and generally just delivering quality each time. The Insane EP comes from Italy’s Bellissima!, but follows in the footsteps of the tracks he’s put out via Japan’s NC4K. These are slightly loopy house tracks teasing a little bit…

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New I-fls: “Solstice”
ByPatrick St. Michel June 21, 2016

Ahhhh, summer is officially here, which means its time to set new hopes and dreams for the warmer months and hope for the best. Bedroom producer I-fls emerges with a song to mark the moment called “Solstice,” and it is a shifty and dreamy number containing a lot of optimism for the season. That’s long…

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New Foodman Featuring Machìna: “Clock”
ByPatrick St. Michel August 23, 2018

Voices have long crept into the music of Foodman, from discombobulated sonic touches to honest-to-goodness guests. Yet usually the humans joining the producer for songs clash with his wonky sounds — Ez Minzoku welcomed Bo Ningen’s Taigen Kawabe in to rap in a way that felt like it was trying to claw out of the…

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