One half of Afrirampo forms monmontonight [read more]
Posted by a 9:33 PM, October 18th, 2011 Comments Off
Hitoshi Nomura shooting sounds [read more]
Looking and hearing material from ‘post-music’ band Asa Chang & Junray [read more]
Travel through 3D dubbed up psychedelic mangas with DJ SHABUSHABU and Usamu Okamoto [read more]
On the eve of the first Big In Japan 2010 event, guest artist DJ SHABUSHABU talks to a local DJ SHABUSHABU supporter about music, skin, medicine and endings [read more]
Posted by stephen russell 5:51 PM, November 15th, 2010 2 comments
Trippple Nippples release their first EP(PPP) [read more]
Enigmatic pop star Jun Togawa has more than just banana eyes [read more]
Posted by a 6:23 PM, October 16th, 2010 Comments Off
A gift of instrumental Japanese krautrock magic from the year 2000 [read more]
Posted by a 9:48 AM, October 4th, 2010 2 comments
Improbable instrumental inventions from Maywa Denki [read more]
Big news concerning the real live Boredoms [read more]
“There are many copy bands, but I am the best,” says Aikawa Masaru [read more]
Improv forest post-rock from OOIOO who prefer to play their music to trees than people [read more]
Posted by a 1:36 PM, January 11th, 2010 Comments Off
It seemed like a pretty standard uptight fashion week party at TRUMP ROOM last night, until the Trippple Nippples exploded onto the dance floor with screams, water pistols, glitter bombs, fake blood and feathers, whipping everyone up into a messy mania before disappearing as quickly as they appeared. You better brace yourselves for these guys before they perform at our event in December! [read more]
Posted by a 4:57 AM, October 23rd, 2009 Comments Off
On the rooftop of an abandoned school near the flashing lights and madness of Tokyo’s Akihabara Electric Town, there is a nightly happening comprising kinetic sculpture, balloons, instrumental inventions, light, sound and performance art [read more]
Posted by a 12:00 AM, October 13th, 2009 Comments Off
Unlike a lot of experimentation in noise aesthetic, Monthly Hair Stylistics possess an irresistible brand of hilarity and silliness [read more]
Posted by a 12:32 AM, October 11th, 2009 Comments Off
Meet the Trippple Nippples, your new best friends / favourite Tokyo fem performance outfit. They will bring to the relationship their unhinged DIY aesthetic, an inimitably intense live energy and a song about teaching your nipples to speak. ‘Express’ yourself! [read more]
Posted by a 12:00 AM, September 1st, 2009 5 comments
Tenniscoats is: Saya and Takashi Ueno, and a plethora of floating members >>> Stripped back, left-field pop and delicately psychedelic folk >>> Sweetly naieve melodies, detuned pianos, woodwind instruments and distorted synthesizers >>> About to bring their emotive live performances to Australia, thanks to Room40! [read more]
Posted by angela 12:00 AM, August 28th, 2009 Comments Off
When Makoto Azuma moved to Tokyo with his band, he didn’t expect to find himself in a flower shop. 12 years later, the artist and musician has cultivated a new approach to creative practice through his florist Jardins des Fleurs. Former curator of AMPG Gallery (where he installed one exhibition per month for two years) and previously featured at Milan Design Week and colette in Paris, Makoto’s green projects are sprouting a healthy reputation far outside of Tokyo. We present a sampling of his work here [read more]
Pikachu (drums, vocals) and Oni (guitar, vocals). Two Osakan girls with penchants for red, Africa, catchy melodies, free noise, volume, improvisation, call-and-response vocals and jumping. Since forming in ’02 they’ve toured and collaborated with the likes of Acid Mothers Temple, Sonic Youth, Lightning Bolt, Yoko Ono and Keiji Haino as well as recorded nine albums and temporarily disappeared into the Cameroonian jungle to live with Pygmy tribespeople [read more]
Posted by a 3:26 AM, June 29th, 2009 Comments Off
