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So slip off your shoes, pour yourself a steamin' cup of green tea, and explore our world. We welcome your feedback.
ON OUR STEREO
The top six discs that get us through the night...
1. Cornelius - "Point" (Matador / Polystar)
2. Various Artists - "Bombay 2: Electric Vindaloo" (Motel Records)
3. Nobukazu Takemura - "Sign" (Thrill Jockey)
4. Various Artists - "Tokyo tech - Breakbeats 2" (NS-Com Records)
5. The Coup - "Party Music" (Ark 75 Records)
6. Gotan Project - "La Revancha del Tango" (Iya Basta / Discograph)
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SPRING 2002
Updated ΚApril 15, 2002
WHAT'S NEW...
Music Reviews:
WELCOME TO
THE POOLSIDE ECLECTIC
Checkin'in with new reviews of discs by the Avalanches, Anti-Pop Consortium, Boards of Canada, Future Sounds of Jazz series, the Dirtmitts, and much more...
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Interview:
HEY, GOOD LOOKING!
Some new tunes, some new records, another gig - the prodigious LTJ Bukem and Nookie are back in Japan. Arigatoooooo, Bruthaaaa'!
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Media Review:
NO REGRETS, OUR SONIC YOUTH
Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground 1981-1991" chronicles the lives and times of indie music's seminal bands such as Sonic Youth.
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Design Candy:
Rika and Ken dissect the Air Crew's latest picks of Osaka clubland graphics.
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Time Out:
Shibuya Kid's picks of dope nights and phat gigs around the globe: Tokyo, Osaka, New York, London, and points in between...
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Music:The latest releases from those New York Afrofunksters Antibalas and Tokyo's master of abstract hip hop, DJ Krush. And more!
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Movies:
"Beat" Takeshi Kitano's latst film continues in the tradtion of his ultra-violent gangster's tales "Hanabi" and "Sonatine."
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Mono:
Our master monster list of MP3 players, reviewed and linked for your downloading pleasure.
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Way Past Cool:More stories from the archive: Interviews reviews and more, with junglist LTJ Bukem, designer Paul Smith, Stereolab, Osaka graffiti punks, Rik Sanchez, and more.... |
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Mar. 24, 2002
We're hanging with the Kansai Posse in NoLIta, Manhattan, New York F_cking City, where Style Guru Reiko has arranged for
the Kansai Air Team to decamp for two weeks in a third-floor walk-up, fully furnished and complete with Katos, a calico
cat of indeterminate age and sex. The Κvisiting Kansai Crew is three strong: There's Nami, our Special Correspondent from
Kyoto; There's Naoko, laidback with a smile on her face from Nara, and there's Takako, adding that Osaka flava' that we
fava' to the mix. They're all related. You'd think they'd be content with their A Bathing Ape (BAPE) t-shirts,
but that's for the otaku boy "collectors collective." They're in NYC for some hardcore shopping with more underground
flava' and they know what they want. First up on the shopping list is some Zoo York label gear...
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