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Category: Music

  • Polypunk 46

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    Digiki has a fresh new episode of Polypunk (46) up for your enjoyment, “Life Without Objects.” Love that cover image. Good luck on the move, Antonin!

  • Live from Tokyo

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    Live from Tokyo is an upcoming documentary on Tokyo’s independent music scene, directed by Lewis Rapkin. And yes, that’s Marxy that you see pop up a few times in the trailer.

  • Sucker Bombaclaat Vol. 1.4

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    Tokyo Fun Party‘s SoccerBoy is at it again, guerrilla uploading a new mixtape made up of a live set from this past Friday at Trump Room — so hot in fact that it was busted up by the fuzz (listen to it here). Download or stream Sucker Bombaclaat Vol. 1.4 (“This is how we do…

  • UNITXT u_08-1

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    A short film called “UNITEXT u_08-1” shot in Tokyo with sounds by Alva Noto, voice by Anne-James Chaton, and directed by Carsten Nicolai. Via Max Hodges.

  • Minimal Tokyo!

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    Paul Snowden has produced a rather nice tee for Minimal Tokyo as part of his “Wasted German Youth” series. Wish I could have attended Ivan‘s event last week at the Vitamin Water event space in Harajuku.

  • Sound Gardening

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    TABlog has a write-up on Philippe Chatelain‘s latest “Sound Gardening” event, held last week. Hope I can attend the next one in September.

  • My Dear Horse

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    My Dear Horse, SoccerBoy‘s first “official” mixtape, available only from HMV in Japan (comes out August 1).

  • Meeting Modernity: A Night of Neojaponisme

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    If you’re a regular reader of Néojaponisme, then you’re probably already familiar with Ian‘s series of found photography which he’s been releasing under the “Meeting Modernity” banner (since it “documents Japan as it engaged with modernization and commercial photography in the Meiji and Taisho Periods”). The photos have already been on the road with shows…