Tag: Japan
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Lou Hayter – Private Sunshine
Rather late to the party – but my what a party! Listening to Lou Hayter’s Private Sunshine, which I would say quickly has rocketed up to my favourite albums of 2021, but it was released last year. The deluxe was released this year, so sorta qualifies. To the layman they’d probably say ‘chilled 80’s’ but…
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Viagra Boys: Always Hard
After Pengshui, another recent punk gem is Sweden’s Viagra Boys – kind of like an amphetamine Fat White Family that shops at IKEA and not ALDI. Started in 2015, they seem similarly genre blind like Fat White, and have a post punk funk thing going on – as well as country and electro…. You can…
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Chicken Attack OooHoOohHOh
I knew about Japanese yodeller Takeo Ischi but I didn’t know about his work with The Gregory Brothers…love the Spaghetti Western meets Japan via Austria, so many layers. Go Chicken Go! And there is a sequel, Chicken Pig Attack!
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The History of Ulysses 31
Obviously given the channel ‘Toy Galaxy’ this history of my biggest love, Ulysses 31 is slanted towards toys, but there is background to how U31 started. I have never seen the pilot, that’s big news, and a few things I didn’t know. One big thing is that the US didn’t really get Ulysses 31 mania,…
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Psychs – Spreadin’
On trend, maybe the whole hazmat chic will become fashionable like facemasks in Japan? But Psychs killing it like soap on COVID-19 here. I’d say a sick beat, but that means something else nowadays (the world is changing fast). Oh yes – and WASH YOUR HANDS! (via Andy Churchill)