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August 31, 2006
Podcast Volume Nine
Final Fantasy / This Lamb Sells Condos
Of Montreal / Oslo In The Summertime
Casiotone For The Painfully Alone / I Love Credence
Big Star / The Ballad Of El Goodo
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band / Pachuco Cadaver
Donna Regina / Enemy
Mouse On Mars / Ret Phase
Lansing-Dreiden / Part Of The Promise
Prince / Strange Relationship
Taeji Sawai + ACO / Material Girl
Kevin Blechdom / I Done Usin U’s And Bees
Apeiron / Crepitation
Mr. Lif / Success
Spencer Doran / Jumper / Everybody
Geskia / Were Saw
Details on the Podcasting page.
Posted by shane at 07:14 PM
August 28, 2006
Berlin Bragile
Flyrec releases the debut album from its latest artist, Miho Folio, entitled Bragile. It’s quite good, and if you don’t believe me you can hear samples on their website. Something looked really familiar when I spotted it in the store today, and, ohhh yes, that’s Hiro’s illustration on the jacket. Hiro moved to Berlin a few months ago and is apparently illustrating Japanese album jackets from outside his own country…
Posted by shane at 01:53 AM
August 27, 2006
Polypunnnnkkk
Digiki and Mai Ueda team up to bring you a super fresh mix, Polypunk 10, available from Digiki’s site! I am particularly a fan of the original collaborative track featuring Digiki beats with experimental jetsetter Mai’s wonderful Osaka-ben floating overtop in a one-sided telephone conversation. I wish they’d make an album like this (hint, hint).
Posted by shane at 02:44 PM
August 24, 2006
John Jay Blog
John Jay, Executive Creative Director of Wieden+Kennedy has been added into the blogging community of Tokyo-centric honeyee.com web magazine, amoungst Hiroshi Fujiwara and many other influencers (my favorite word). Currently he has just one post here.
Posted by shane at 01:19 AM
What's Been Going On
Wellll, I've noticed it's been a long time since I've had anything to say here. Not sure I have any specific feelings on that matter, but what I have been doing is just passing the days, getting the work done, and then going out to play!
Live performances I've seen lately:
キセル (Kicell)
Mas (VJing as usual)
Posted by shane at 12:57 AM
August 06, 2006
Report From The Motherland
My roommate / friend / artist / genius / Alex Degen will have a week long show of a new series of illustrations he has been working on at Office Gaienmae starting tomorrow night (Monday) from 8pm. Tyme. and I will DJ. I am trying to pick out a variety of songs for this now, but instead I find myself absorbed in Wire’s Pink Flag and The Wedding Present’s Seamonsters. Please come check the show.
Posted by shane at 10:31 PM
August 02, 2006
Junk Mail As Poetry
Curated but unadulterated:
wood painting stink grass spit image
spade grass block punch argy-bargy
wood trimmer wire rush light lock
vaulting course ferry master screw coupling
double-line regular-built weasel-worded
purse crab glossy-black earth flax
care-encumbered commutation ticket smooth-gliding
beni abbas police chief storm sash
neo-malthusianism salad oil steam still
eager-seeming cherry stoner bezoar antelope
fire-mouthed twelve-feet rapid-transit
crazy-headed caricature plant bessemer process
tool truck mazer tree true-based
well-ignored pre-essay carnal-mindedness
police whistle sea hedgehog smoke tree
lime uranite star dust peach-kernel oil
v-scraper sickle-billed spear kin
Posted by shane at 01:27 PM
Takagi On Apple Pro
W+KTokyoLab artist, collaborator and friend Takagi Masakatsu’s profile for Apple Pro has gone live and can be viewed here. During Apple’s recent Japan tour they also spent two days at our office shooting our profile, which apparently will go live in September... After which time I will be world famous. Ahahahaha. Stay tuned.
Posted by shane at 03:43 AM