UNITED STATE OF ELECTRONICA☆コミュのU.S.E come to Japan now???

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Monday, January 09, 2006

Tokyo interview


Here is an interview answered by Jason:

(1) What can people expect from your live set at the
Ganban party in Tokyo - what kind of musical style(s),
the vibe, and the intent...


We bring as much energy, love, and excitement to the stage as we possibly
can. There are seven of us so the sound is huge, blissful and pumping. Our
live show is rumored to be even more rockin' than our album is. There will
be dancing, there will be sweating and rock. We encourage everyone to freak
out as much as possible and party with us. U.S.E is you and me, so everyone
in the room is as much a part of the experience as we are up on stage. The
intent is to channel joy and love to earth.


(2) What records do you like to play at home? The
producers you respect, and record labels you think are
"hot"...?


That is always such a challenging question because all 7 of us are listening
to many different records everyday. So I'll speak myself today: I've been
listening to Daft Punk's new record "Human After All" all day today. It is
such an underrated album, many people overlooked it right away when it came
out due to the fact that it's less poppy than their last incredible album.
The new album is so exciting, sonically. Every sound is brought right up to
the point of explosion, the repetition and subtle variations of simpler
themes really makes the music pound itself into your head.

Speaking of production: I think that the modern hip-hop production is some
of the most exciting, accessible music coming out these days. There are
tracks that the Neptunes make that are very modern and exciting to me. Much
of my favorite production came from the nineteen sixties and seventies.
Brian Wilson (Beach Boys), Phil Spector (The Ronettes, others), George
Martin (The Beatles) and Roy Thomas Baker (Queen) are all producers and
artists whose sounds are permanently written on my brain. I also love the
production of Dr. Dre, Jim O'Rourke, Shane Tutmarc, Jon Brion, Dave Fridman
and Chris Walla. I have much respect for anyone making music that is artful
and accessible. As for labels, Mannheim Worldwide will keep getting hotter,
I don't know much about labels, they don't know much about us.

(3) What's happening with U.S.E. right now?


Right now U.S.E is taking a break from the road. We have toured the states
and Japan for over 2 years supporting our first album. It has been a long
and fruitful run, we are overjoyed that U.S.E has made its way to the ears
and hearts of so many. But now it's time for new music. We have no shows
planned for early 2006 other than ToKYO!!!!

We're in our rehearsal space and studio, masterminding the recording of our
next record, and working on new songs. The next record is looking to be a
bit more rocking and live sounding while being more focused and tight, we've
played hundreds of shows since the last one was recorded.

Just 2 Hours ago, U.S.E was in our space preparing our set for the Gan Ban
party at Studio Coast next week. We'll be debuting a new song that was
written last time we were in Tokyo, and is about our love for Japan and the
people that we've met and played for in our last two visits.

In other n-use, our first album will be released in the UK and possibly
Europe this spring, more info on that to come.


(4) What exactly is U.S.E. music, and how do you feel
you are unique?


I feel we are unique because of our true love for eachother. We are all
really united as friends and work to be very supportive of each other.
U.S.E really feels like a family.

U.S.E music is many things. It's always hard to describe your own band
because you're inside of it and perhaps have less perspective.. However, our
Diva-To-the-Left, Carly, put it best... U.S.E is Dance-Party-Rock.

As far as our sound, I feel we're unique because of: our use of a
live-vocoder playing over very-melodic songwriting, our MC drummer, our 6
vocalists on stage, we have no "leader" or "front person", we have
Jazz-chords with anthemic shout-choruses, we have a drum machine just
pumping boom, boom, boom the whole show, the lead vocal is shared among 3-6
people and probably a few other things. It all comes together to make U.S.E,
I haven't heard any other group that sounds exactly like us yet. I'm still
looking.


(5) What are your impressions of the Japanese scene?


To tell the truth, from our previous visits, we all have the brightest and
most positive impressions of everything Japanese. We have had the pleasure
of meeting some incredible Japanese musicians on our last few trips. We love
the music of Ramrider, Beat Crusaders, Cornelius, Towa Tei, DJ Krush and
many other Japanese artists. I think there is a real sensitive, ornate
quality to Japanese music both modern and traditional and it has sincerely
crept its way into our songwriting. There seems to be an intense and
unending enthusiasm that we've noticed in the fans in Japan, I think that
really pumps up the bands to perform better and better.


(6) What are your plans for 2006?


Well, as stated above 2006 will bring the recording and hopefully release of
our second full length album. It will also bring a release in Europe of our
first album. I'm sure we'll end up touring the states a bit and hopefully
make it over to Japan and other places around the world. Our goal is to play
a show in every country in the world, we'll have to really plan ahead for
that.

We hope to also work on other musical projects, we have other bands that can
be heard at http://www.mannheimworldwide.com and
http://www.thecatchmusic.com . We hope to keep pursuing these projects as
well. The more music we make the happier we all are.


(7) I hear that U.S.E was born after several members
jokingly posed as an imaginary electronic band from Mannheim, Germany at a Seattle nightclub. How and why did this joke arise...?


Actually U.S.E was born just BEFORE that happened. That did happen at the
first U.S.E show and I don't think we really fooled anybody because we were
playing to an audience of mainly our friends. However, fake German accents
were attempted, each song was played twice and it was very, very
mysterious. This just reminds me of the completely goofy and playful spirit
that brought on the birth of U.S.E. It was funny and the band was not
really an "actual band" yet so the idea was, "let's pretend we're an 'actual
band.'" I think we may actually be an actual band by now but I'm still not
sure sometimes. Mannheim has a warm place in our hearts, I actually had the
opportunity to visit there this year and it turned out to be much
less-romantic that expected. Mannheim is also the name of our
guerrilla-record label and mascot.


(8) What directions (in music) do you think will be
important this year?


North West seems to be an important musical direction this year. I feel
that there will be a strong push of conceptual island-adventure-pop music
this year as well. In truth, I really hope that music will take a stronger
turn to melodic songwriting. I understand the powerful emotion and energy
expressed through non-melodic singing and screaming but we are all most
inspired by a beautiful melody. It is encouraging to have albums coming out
this year by beautifully-melodic bands such as The Flaming Lips, The
Strokes, Aqueduct, Wonderful and U.S.E.

Thanks for supporting us and our music. We are so excited to come back to
Japan! We feel like the most blessed, lucky band in the world for this
opportunity to spend more time in our favorite foreign land, Japan!




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Tokyo Interview??ってなんなんでしょうね？？？？
雑誌？？？TV？？それとも自分たちが自分たちへのInterview??:)))
あ！そうそう〜Rock ShowさんのBlogにてGanban nightのタイムスケジュールとU.S.E.のRadio出演情報が載ってました！:))))要Checkです☆
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★ United State Of Electronicaのラジオ出演情報！1/13(金)に東京：新木場ageHa @ STUDIO COASTで開催されるイベント、GAN-BAN 5th ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL NIGHTへの出演が決定しているUnited State Of Electronicaがイベント当日、InterFMのラジオ番組「Guy Perryman」(13:00〜16:00)にゲスト出演します。スタジオでの生ライヴ・パフォーマンスもありとのこと！


★ GAN-BAN 5th ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL NIGHTのタイム・テーブル決定！1/13(金)に東京：新木場ageHa @ STUDIO COASTで開催される、GAN-BAN 5th ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL NIGHTのタイム・テーブルが発表になりました。

ARENA：
22:00 DOOR OPEN
22:00 TAKAYUKI SERINO (DJ)
23:00 United State Of Electronica. (LIVE)
00:00 TOMOYUKI TANAKA (DJ)
01:30 MYLO (LIVE)
02:30 THE GLIMMERS (DJ)
04:00 SPACE COWBOY (DJ) 〜 GRAND FINALE（グランド・フィナーレ）

ROSE ROOM：
22:00 DOOR OPEN
22:00 DUCK ROCK
23:30 CAPTAIN FUNK
01:00 MADOX
02:30 ATOMIC HOOLIGAN (DJ SET)
04:00 SUGIURUMN

TENT：
AGERO (a.k.a. BRYAN & DJ TASAKA & DJ AYASHIGE) PRESENTS
NEWDEAL (a.k.a. HITOSHI OHISHI)

From:Rock Show
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