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  • Lov Songs

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    Tomorrow marks the release date of the new Kaji Hideki album, LOV SONGS, on Felicity Records. My wife being the Kaji-kun freak that she is, I of course had to pick it up today (in Tokyo, you can always buy an album the day before of its official release date). I’m about halfway through listening…

  • Daft Punk and the Premini

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    My recent pic of the Premini ad brought on a debate over wether the figures are really Daft Punk. Well, here’s the proof that it’s really them. That page also lets you watch the really nice TV ad they made for the campaign.

  • Malt Squash

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    Asano Tadanobu sure looks like he’s enjoying that beer. Shot taken with the A5403CA mobile phone.

  • Group

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    So continuing from the previous post, I found that Taichi album because it was sitting next to the new album by Group, BEFORE TURNING OFF THE LIGHT. Taichi is the drummer in the band, and the album has the distinction of having been recorded and mixed by Dry & Heavy’s Uchida Naoyuki. You can listen…

  • Weekend Control

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    I actually did quite a bit of shopping at Tower today, and picked up another album by Taichi, WEEKEND CONTROL. It’s on the Revirth label, and you can listen to the tracks here. The reason I found it was because it was sitting right next to… (see next post).

  • Massage

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    While at Tower Records in Shibuya today, I picked up the first issue of a new magazine/newspaper (launched a few days ago) by the Gas people, called MASSAGE. Although the main website is just in Japanese, the newspaper (giant-sized, think WEST EAST magazine, and non-stapled) itself is bilingual. Here’s a blurb describing the new endeavour:…

  • Premini

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    Daft Punk are part of the ad campaign for this new Docomo mobile phone, the Premini. It’s supposedly the smallest and lightest mobile in the world. Shot taken with the A5403CA mobile phone.

  • Hadashi no Gen

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    ‘Hadashi no Gen’ (Barefoot Gen), a well-known Japanese comic book series about a boy who survived the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima, has been entirely translated into English for publication shortly in the United States, its translators said Saturday. The 10-volume saga, portraying the life of a boy named Gen before and after the horrific…

  • Kiiiiiii in Concert

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    Patrick’s Agenda brings us news that Kiiiiiii, alongside Nihao! and Petty Booka, will be performing at Shinjuku Red Cloth on August 11. I’ll definitely try to go to this if I’m in town (it’s during my holidays, and I still don’t know if I’m going anywhere).

  • Dress Code

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    Yesterday marked the release of ex-P5 vocalist Nomiya Maki‘s 3rd solo album, DRESS CODE (you can listen to a few tracks here). This time we see production duties handed over to Sunaga Tatsuo, which has given us a cool bossa influenced album. To my ears, it’s much better than her second effort, which didn’t do…