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Swimming Mania
Today I received this single by Swimming Mania, called "Summer Convenience" (Ki/oon KSD2-1106), which I found on an auction site.
Swimming Mania is strange spin-off of Modern Choki Chokies. The single's liners and artwork make it all look quite anonymous, with only obstructed pictures of the three singers nicknamed Butterfly, Crawl, and Hira (Japanese for "breast stroke").
The back cover has this especially funny picture of the three singers in front of a mixing console.
I had found out about this single by reading that it features Hamada Mari (lead singer of Modern Choki Chokies), and searching the net I found out that another one is Okamura Midori aka Mint Lee, a TV commercial music composer and Manual of Errors artist (she was in a band called Space Ponch with Kishino You-ichi. The third one remains unknown... I wonder if it could be another Modern Choki Chokies member.
The two songs included are very good, "Summer Convenience" was a TV commercial song for Lawson (convenience store) in summer 1995, and "umi wa BEACH -She is a Beach-" is same as one of my favorite Modern Choki Chokies' songs, "hebi was SNAKE -Heavy is Snake-", only with new beach/sea-themed lyrics.
I must now be getting pretty close to completing my collection of Hamada Mari's musical works. I know I'm still missing her "Pajama Tripper" single (1999).
Posted on June 27, 2004 at 01:25 | Tweet
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