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Techno Kayō Night #3 report

Last night I went to Techno Kayō Night #3 at Club Roots in Kōenji. The DJ event featured all 3 selectors of 2000-released popular Techno Kayō CD series (also sold out and rare, I only own one of them despite my will to buy them all): Fukuta Takeshi, Yoshida Tetsuto and Yamamoto New. I learnt that the three met in Ōsaka, where Yamamoto-san still lives (he came down to Tokyo just for the event), and that their selector unit name 8-bits was decided by Fukuta-san who's an avid gamer.
Also DJing was Nagata Kazunao (Transonic, Fantastic Explosion).

1. Yoshida Tetsuto, 2. Nagata Kazunao

A few good memories:

• Yoshida-san played Narikiyo Kanako's "Pajama jama da!". I loved that song from, I think, having heard it a long time ago in a random collection of anime midi files. Turns out it was used in the anime series Urusei yatsura.
• Yamamoto-san played the original soundtrack to "Super Mario Brothers", not the 8-bit Famicom-performed version we all know, but a really much cooler recording. I'll definitely have to track down that one.
• Fukuta-san played Magical Power Mako's "Fresh Vegetable", great song I had first heard at his defunct monthly event Hoi!.
• Nagata-san played the great "aa! Budōkan" by bokufū Slump which I first heard on "Techno Magic Kayōkyoku".
• Yoshida-san played Pizzicato Five "Action Painting", Miyamura Yūko "Mama Told Me", and an old Nomiya Maki solo track (can't remember which).
• It wasn't played while I was there, but when telling Fukuta-san that lately I'm really into kyonshi films, he told me that he brought a famous Techno Kayō kyonshi song, by the Japanese unit "Kyonshi-!!!" (actually Hosono Haruomi (YMO) and Matsumoto Takashi). The song was used as the theme of the series "rairai kyonshis", that became the center of the kyonshi boom in Japan. I should be seeing "Shaolin Kyonshi" next Wednesday!
• Nagata-san played a back-and-forth mix of two Japanese versions of "Neverending Story" and all four DJ's sang together.
• Other music that caught my attention and that I have to check out: W's "U&U" album, the theme to "Pin Pon Pan", ...
• Most video being played consisted of 80's Japanese video clips, TV programs, commercials, etc. The old Nintendo ads introducing games like "Duck Hunt" and "Tennis" were a blast! Also cool Transformers ads, remember that one that turned into a stereo? I also had a panther that transformed into a cassette tape. Also played was Tommy Boy's very funny "Kung Faux", which I may just have to buy (Amazon Japan U.S.).
• There was a bunch of obviously gay guys who were dancing non-stop, one of them knew lyrics and moves to most idol songs probably better than any 10-year old girl in the 80's, incredible! It was really entertaining to watch him.

Posted on November 13, 2005 at 15:19 | Tweet |

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