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joli maniaque*: report
Last Saturday I headed to Shimokitazawa near midnight to go to a new event at Altoto, called joli maniaque*. I went there with Alessandro (Italian/German unit Micropupazzo of the radiodd family), and his friends Lynn and Ming.
When we got there we caught the last 2 songs of Marino's mini-live set, which had started a bit early, but I was happy to finally see her. Then, young DJs played electro-pop, techno-pop and Akishibu-kei (Akiba-kei + Shibuya-kei), sometimes in schoolgirl outfits.
Some of them were pretty good, others still need a bit of practice. If I was to criticize, I thought there was maybe a little bit too much Nakata Yasutaka produced stuff (but who can complain as he's all over the place), not enough Shibuya-kei (despite all the good records that they had put on display), and too much anisong (anime songs) for me. Also the volume was perhaps a bit low sometimes. No big deal though. It sure was a fun night! It looks like it will be a regular, with a 2nd edition coming in August.
Here are a few photos of the evening.
Larger sizes and more photos at Flickr
After the jump are YouTube clips of songs from the event...
capsule x Daft Punk x Beastie Boys - Starry Sky YEAH! Remix
A great mash-up (down to video) that was the craze on Nico Nico Douga (Japanese YouTube)
The Aprils "ki ra me ki moon diver"
feat. tetrapletrap-F
from album "Space Dream Bathroom"
Below are all songs produced by Nakata Yasutaka (of capsule, recently gaining much fame from Perfume's popularity).
Marino "Flavor"
from mini-album "lollipop", long sold out but set to hopefully be re-released as "lollipop+" with a bonus Aprils cover
coltemonikha "Namaiki" (no video)
from latest mini-album "coltemonikha 2"
Awesome track. On the mini-album, the regular version is followed by an extended version! When seeing the track list I thought "why???" but when listening to it for the first time, I thought "YES!!!" :)
capsule "Jelly" (fan video)
from album "FRUITS CLiPPER"
Perfume "Secret Secret"
from latest album "Game"
I love the Pino chocolate ice cream tie-up!
Posted on May 13, 2008 at 22:37 | Tweet
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You might be interested in this party, "Santa Fe" at Bar Sazanami (great place) on Dogenzaka. This guy ↓↓↓
http://mixi.jp/show_friend.pl?id=4080705
plays mainly 90's idol Jpop stuff and makes it really fun. It's not even so much my taste, but he chooses really good songs and plays them quite well. It's ostensibly an "Idol night" but it just ends up as a quality Japanese music night. You'll hear more Yamashita Tatsuro than Amuro Namie.
Posted by Rory P. on May 20, 2008 at 15:58