As is explained on the Abikyokan blog , our new album Novaya Zemlya will not in fact be released at the Release Party on April 11th. Of course, we'll still be doing the show, and will make it the best we've ever done. We have a CD of all-new material available at the show, including the collaborations with Makino Eri, TropeN, Psy-vogue and Dakko that will also be the bonus tracks on Novaya Zemlya (all excellent, all never heard) and a brand new song from us, Spectrum.
Today I'm beginning the countdown to the show on the 11th by introducing and generally bigging up all the artists with whom we'll be playing. First up, TropeN.
call& responseを主催するウェスト・トーキョーのロックシーンの重要カップル
Ian & KanameのバンドTrinitronです!!
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This will be Trinitron's first and only gig
- so who are these mysterious creatures? Primarily,
they are Ian Martin and Kaname Katsuyama,
longtime partners and ubiquitous and much-loved fixtures
of the west Tokyo indie scene.
Ian's Call And Response label has been responsible not only
for releasing previously unheard Tokyo bands but also for
sundry extraordinary events, some of which Abikyokan have
either played, DJed or more often simply got flaming drunk at.
4/11 Countdown Part 4 - Antonio Yodobashi and Mu-tan
I don't like DJs.
Nothing personal to those of you who DJ, it's just another
inexplicable and annoying complex of mine.
Stranger still, I am a DJ. I'm a British person too, and don't get me
started on my fellow countrymen. Or blondes. Or cyclists.
Anyway. I DJ because I like music, not because I want to be cool,
and I consider skillful, technical, fashionable DJing akin to
watching someone masturbate on stage, and as the majority of DJs
are balding, tubby, goatee-bearded, pimp's hat-wearing, chain-smoking,
bad attitude-having single men (rather than, say,
cute college girls wearing only striped kneesocks),
this is not such a great thing to behold. Any road, I digress.
Today's article is about two DJs I DO like very much.
I will go into the many reasons why I like them,
but I think the one I mentioned is key
- they, like me, don't want to be DJs, just to play good music.