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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.

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(Via Japan Probe)

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Tropical Mayhem: Alfred Beach Sandal’s “Camping Car Is Dead”
ByPatrick St. Michel July 10, 2011

On “Camping Car Is Dead,” Alfred Beach Sandal propose an intriguing idea – beach music that sounds like it belongs nowhere near an actual coastline. Despite having several sand-coasted trademarks, including very prominent steel drum bouncing, “Camping Car Is Dead” feels like a jigsaw puzzle of Malibu constructed in such a way that everything sorta…

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Spring In Your Step: Mymeans “Souiu Ko To Data”
ByPatrick St. Michel May 22, 2014

It opens like a bunch of kids who listened to Marquee Moon a couple dozen times and went from there, until they let their peppy sides come through and ease back on the stutter-step guitar work. Osaka’s Mymeans soon transition into a springy number that just hops along, aided by the vocals which move at…

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Drift Off: Oono Yuriko’s Kimi Wa, Dare?
ByPatrick St. Michel September 5, 2014

Oono Yuriko’s new EP, released via Ano(t)raks, seems like a good place to end the week. After the last few hectic days (maybe I’m just speaking too much for myself), her relatively easy-going collection feels like an especially welcoming mattress to collapse on. It isn’t pure ComforPedic though – what makes it a compelling listen…

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What?: HUH
ByPatrick St. Michel July 6, 2010

“We disregard the methodology that already exists. All tunes are made by the improvisation. We come and go between Dub,Free folk,Pop,Hip-Hop,Noise, Hardcore & Free music at time. We never perform repeating the same tune.” That’s how HUH describe themselves, and it pretty much sums up the duo’s musical stylings perfectly. Heck, the only misleading bit…

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New Yullippe: Retouch
ByPatrick St. Michel March 24, 2016

Osaka’s Yullippe excels at slow-burning electronic numbers that feel like quicksand. Her latest, “Retouch,” is one of the more sinister sounding songs she’s made in recent memory, less about pounding the listener into submission and more about making them feel deeply unnerved over the songs nearly eight-minute-long play time. A few human breaths appear early…

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Unsettled: Megumi Wata’s “Blindman”
ByPatrick St. Michel February 8, 2016

I talked to Megumi Wata — along with primary songwriter Shintaro Sakamoto — for The Japan Times today. And in some shameless synergy, I also waited until today to write about “Blindman,” the title track to her fantastic album released last week. Whereas as her breakthrough single and first album leaned heavily on unease, “Blindman”…

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