Mop Of Head founder Takashi "George" Wakamatsu had a pretty standard musical upbringing. He studied piano from the age of 3, and says he listened mostly to classical music and old jazz. Then he heard a track that changed his life ...British dance duo The KLF's "F-ck The Millennium."
"I really felt that tune had a freedom from any specific style," George says. "It was a really free composition."
From that moment on, George says he began listening to music that would go on to influence Mop Of Head, an instrumental quartet out of Tokyo that aims to blur the line between rock and dance sounds. Their recently released full-length debut "Retronix" taps into a wide variety of genres, flirting with industrial stomp, electro and postrock. This blending helped land Mop Of Head a spot opening for similarly minded German outfit Digitalism on the Nagoya and Osaka legs of its Japanese tour.