Hello all,
Sorry for the recent blogging inactivity, the Tokyo Indie crew have had been off on their holidays enjoying the last flakes of the snowboard season, and generally had our noses to the grindstone. However, WE ARE BACK! This is what we have been keeping the neighbours up with recently...
First up, French duo Jamaica. Formerly known as Poney Poney, these boys have transformed into a duo and have just put the finishing touches to their first album. The debut has been mastered by Peter Franco and Justice's Xavier de Rosney and the first single is a fillet steak cut of power electropop. They are included on the latest Kitsune compilation and having the video directed by So Me, they already look like they are a healthy addition to the cool as ice French scene.
Here is the video which whimsically charts their rise and fall from grace...which hasn't even begun yet!
Next up is The much censored Fuck Buttons. I had this tune on my iTunes a few months ago but it got lost in amongst the chaff. it recently popped on shuffle on a recent Shinkansen journey to Nagoya and blew me away. Part rave, part beautiful post rock electronica, this is killer!
Fuck Buttons - Surf Solar
Hundred In The Hands. Remember the name, because these guys are going to be big. Being pushed by the ever reliable Warp label, expect these guys to be emerging from the summer's festival season victorious. "When the lights all go out, you become Berlin, and I'll be Stalingrad" has to be one of the best lyrics of the year i reckon!
Hundred In The Hands - Dressed in Dresden
'Schlachthofbronx Featuring Spoek Mathambo Gnucci Banana' has to be THE biggest mouthful in music to try and get out. I dread that somebody asks what the tune is when i spin it at the next Tokyo Indie event! Love the tropical beats and Spoek is doing some great things recently. The internet is crawling with remixes of this track as it was a subject of remix competition, here is my pick of the bunch which is a dancefloor peak-timer by Hat N' Hoodie.
Schlachthofbronx Ft Spoek Mathambo Gnucci Banana - Ayoba! (Hat N' Hoodie mix)
Finally, here is the fantastic Everything Everything, who are really exciting me at the moment. Uniquly interesting production and structure that swings sideways with a movement you are not expecting. File them alongside Modest Mouse and TV On The Radio, fingers crossed their album lives up to the fantastically titled 'Photoshop Handsome'.
Everything Everything - Photoshop Handsome
Right, thats it for now. The Tokyo Indie party kicks back into life next month and fingers crossed we have very special guests joining us...more on that later.
For now then, be good. Or at least don't get caught.
Mark TI.x
