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		<title>Maximum The Hormone &#8220;Yoshu Fukushu&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Sep 2013 14:01:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick ST. Michel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Maximum the Hormone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Yoshu Fukushu]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Maximum The Hormone&#8217;s sixth album, &#8220;Yoshu Fukushu,&#8221; proves its members know how to laugh at themselves. The four-piece have long been slapped with the &#8220;hardcore&#8221; and &#8220;nu-metal&#8221; tags, putting the band in the company of other such acts like Limp Bizkit and Korn, who aren&#8217;t known for self-awareness. Yet Maximum The Hormone know to wink [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Various artists &#8220;Tanukineiri Drink Sampler&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2013/09/18/music/various-artists-tanukineiri-drink-sampler/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=various-artists-tanukineiri-drink-sampler</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Sep 2013 14:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick ST. Michel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[free download]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[netlabel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tanukineiri Drink Sampler]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tanukineiri Records]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s getting harder to listen to netlabel-released albums in one sitting recently. Electronic-music compilation series &#8220;Fogpak&#8221; recently put out a collection featuring 48 different artists (should we call the Guinness people?). Now Tanukineiri Records has popped out &#8220;Tanukineiri Drink Sampler&#8221; — 90 minutes and 30 tracks strong. The album also highlights the negatives and positives [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Namie Amuro &#8220;Feel&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Aug 2013 14:12:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick ST. Michel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Feel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Namie Amuro]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The age of the J-pop diva has long passed, those halcyon days of Whitney Houston-inspired vocals and million-unit-moving singles. The female entertainers from this period have recently coped by embracing American trends. Kumi Koda struck Oricon Single Chart gold last year with &#8220;Go To the Top,&#8221; which featured elements of contemporary stateside electronic dance music [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Smany &#8220;komoriuta&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Aug 2013 14:10:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick ST. Michel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bunka-kei]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bunka-kei Records]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[komoriuta]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[netlabel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Smany]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Netlabel culture in Japan &#8212; referring to Web-only music labels that distribute tunes online, usually for free &#8212; has been around long enough to develop its own set of minor celebrities and &#8220;star&#8221; imprints. Bunkai-Kei has become one of the most popular of these Internet institutions, and its latest release from the artist Smany finds [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kyary Pamyu Pamyu &#8220;Nanda Collection&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2013/07/17/music/kyary-pamyu-pamyu-nanda-collection/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=kyary-pamyu-pamyu-nanda-collection</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jul 2013 14:06:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick ST. Michel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[J-pop]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kyary Pamyu Pamyu]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nanda Collection]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Yasutaka Nakata]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Am I an adult? Or am I a kid?&#8221; sings Kyary Pamyu Pamyu on &#8220;Furisodation,&#8221; a song about the Harajuku blogger-turned-model-turned-pop-star turning 20 earlier this year. That&#8217;s the question that looms over all of her sophomore album, &#8220;Nanda Collection.&#8221; The album is obsessed with the messy transition from youth to adulthood, the sound of Kyary [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Slow Beach &#8220;Lover Lover&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jul 2013 14:05:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick ST. Michel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ano(t)raks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dai Ogasawara]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[free download]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kai Takahashi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Slow Beach]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Slow Beach is somewhat of a supergroup in Tokyo&#8217;s indie-rock scene. The group finds Dai Ogasawara, founder of twee-leaning netlabel Ano(t)raks, hooking up with producer Kai Takahashi, who is responsible for some of the most interesting electronic compositions of the year, including a chilled-out remix of Phoenix&#8217;s &#8220;Entertainment.&#8221; They have teamed up with Yuriko Ohno [...]]]></description>
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		<title>miwa &#8220;Delight&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2013/06/20/music/miwa-delight/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=miwa-delight</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 15:01:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick ST. Michel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Delight]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[miwa]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The title of miwa&#8217;s first two releases, &#8220;Guitarissimo&#8221; and &#8220;Guitarium,&#8221; seemingly announced her musical niche. Those top-selling albums (her debut made her the first Japanese performer born in the 1990s to take the Oricon album chart&#8217;s top spot) revolved around guitar, in the form of frantic rock numbers and slow ballads. Her early work featured [...]]]></description>
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		<title>May.e &#8220;Mattiola&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2013/06/20/music/may-e-mattiola/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=may-e-mattiola</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 15:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick ST. Michel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[download]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mattiola]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[May.e]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tanikineiri]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Thousands of people have uploaded videos of themselves to YouTube playing acoustic covers of well-known songs. Armed with a guitar, a voice and dreams of viral stardom, the covers tackle everything from contemporary pop to hip-hop, and more often than not are done with an ironic nod to the viewer. On the other side of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Noah × Sela &#8220;Split EP&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2013/05/16/music/noah-x-sela-split-ep/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=noah-x-sela-split-ep</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 15:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick ST. Michel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[cd review]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Flau]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Noah]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sela]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Over the course of its six-year existence, Flau Records has carved out an identity as a record label offering intimate music. The actual sonic styles of the artists represented by the acts signed to the border-hopping imprint differ &#8212; some make proper songs, some just produce beats, and sometimes there will be a blend of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Momoiro Clover Z &#8220;5th Dimension&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2013/05/16/music/momoiro-clover-z-5th-dimension/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=momoiro-clover-z-5th-dimension</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 15:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ian Martin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[5th Dimension]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cd review]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Momoiro Clover Z]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There were some curious rumors flying around prior to the release of &#8220;5th Dimension,&#8221; the second album by idol quintet Momoiro Clover Z, some of them intriguing (&#8220;It&#8217;s going to be a concept album&#8221;) and some worrying (longtime producer Kenichi &#8220;Hyadain&#8221; Maeyamada reportedly called it &#8220;tedious and uninteresting&#8221; before hastily erasing the offending tweet). Momoiro [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kis-My-Ft2 &#8220;Good Ikuze!&#8221; (Avex Trax)</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2013/04/18/music/kis-my-ft2-good-ikuze-avex-trax/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=kis-my-ft2-good-ikuze-avex-trax</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2013 15:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick ST. Michel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[boy band]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Good Ikuze!]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[J-pop]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kis-MyFt2]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Odds are, Japan Times reader, that you do not like Kis-My-Ft2. Maybe you&#8217;ve been unable to escape the bleating &#8220;Wanna Beeee!!!&#8221; while out strolling in Shibuya, or maybe they lost you at, &#8220;From the people who brought you SMAP and Arashi!&#8221; So this review should be quick, right? A nice hatchet job with a couple [...]]]></description>
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		<title>i-fls &#8220;Diary of Spectre&#8221; (self-release)</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2013/04/18/music/i-fls-diary-of-spectre-self-release/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=i-fls-diary-of-spectre-self-release</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2013 15:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick ST. Michel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bandcamp]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bedroom producer]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first song I ever made &#8212; and I&#8217;m willing to wager many who graduated high school in the mid 2000s share this experience &#8212; was using Apple&#8217;s GarageBand, a software application that lets people make music on their computers. &#8220;I made a killer techno track last night, dude,&#8221; I overheard one classmate say, so [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Various Artists &#8220;Upwards and Onwards&#8221; (Ano(t)raks)</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2013/03/21/music/various-artists-upwards-and-onwards-anotraks/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=various-artists-upwards-and-onwards-anotraks</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Mar 2013 15:02:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick ST. Michel</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[indie]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jam The Mod]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paellas]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fledgling online-only label Ano(t)raks takes a somewhat needless risk with their second compilation album, &#8220;Upwards and Onwards.&#8221; Founded late last year, Ano(t)raks highlighted bedroom-made indie-pop, a style defined by simple guitar playing and equally basic lyrics about love. Indie-pop has been going strong since the 1980s &#8230; and has barely evolved sonically since then. Nobody [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NMB48 &#8220;Teppen Totande!&#8221; (Laugh Out Loud Records)</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2013/03/21/music/nmb48-teppen-totande-laugh-out-loud-records/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=nmb48-teppen-totande-laugh-out-loud-records</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Mar 2013 15:02:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick ST. Michel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[idol]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NMB48]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Teppen Totande!]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Contrary to popular hemming and hawing, the big problem with Oricon chart-dominating act AKB48 isn&#8217;t their music. Their discography certainly contains misfires, but producer Yasushi Akimoto and company can pen great material for the dozens-strong group. Last year, they boasted two of the best songs in all of Japan: &#8220;Sugar Rush,&#8221; one of the best [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yucca &#8220;Our Journey&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2012/12/27/music/yucca-our-journey/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=yucca-our-journey</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Dec 2012 00:04:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig Exton</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Six long years after their first two enjoyable albums, Tokyo band Yucca made a welcome return in June 2012 with the even more impressive &#8220;Our Journey (to anywhere we want).&#8221; It may not be the most innovative album of 2012, but because of its beautiful textures and overall listenability it was the Japanese album that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The 50 Kaitenz &#8220;Rock &#8216;n&#8217; Roll Love Letter&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Dec 2012 00:01:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daisuke Kikuchi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Rock music in Japan has become reliant on programming, synthesizers and new technology. While that electronic advancement has made it easier for bands to start out through D.I.Y. websites, new artists can sometimes lack live-performance techniques and the experience of interacting with an audience. This tends to result in the pursuit of trendy genres, which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Expe &#8220;Emeralda&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Dec 2012 00:01:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erik Luebs</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[As Expe, Takatoshi Yoshitake&#8217;s October release &#8220;Emeralda&#8221; approaches the technical thresholds of guitar and percussion, but avoids the egotistical posturing that characterizes much progressive music. Instead, &#8220;Emeralda&#8221; dives deep into meter and timbre all while maintaining a cool, nuanced sensibility. It&#8217;s a funk record for those in love with spiritual jazz and ambient music. In [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jazz Collective &#8220;Jazz Collective&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Dec 2012 00:01:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean Smith</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;ve been to any jazz or funk gigs in the Kanto area over the last couple of years, there&#8217;s a good chance you may have seen trombonist Takao Hirose up on stage. In addition to featuring in the horn section for other acts and playing on various recording sessions, Hirose also heads his own [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Various Artists &#8220;Fogpak #4&#8243;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Nov 2012 00:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick ST. Michel</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Walk into the nearest record store and check out the prices &#8212; CDs for &#165;2,000 on the low end, some creeping into the &#165;3,000 range &#8212; it&#8217;s a lot for 10 or 12 songs. Thankfully, a legal online alternative exists. SoundCloud and Bandcamp allow musicians to reach listeners directly and the prices are often much [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chatmonchy &#8220;Henshin&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Nov 2012 00:01:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shawn Despres</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Since making their major label debut in 2005, Chatmonchy has established itself as one of the country&#8217;s most popular female rock bands. As a trio, they released several chart-topping discs and sold out gigs at the iconic Nippon Budokan. In 2010, the band played its first American shows with Spin Magazine and MTV Iggy labeling [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mamadrive &#8220;Mousou Tengoku&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Oct 2012 00:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig Exton</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[On their first full-length album, Kobe&#8217;s Mamadrive prove pretty good at capturing the energy and power of their live shows. Masako Shibuya&#8217;s strong voice leads the songs and her distorted bass lines work with Maika Sasakawa&#8217;s guitar riffs to weave counter-melodies around the vocal ones. The noisy and more complex indie-rock elements in their music [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Superfly &#8220;Force&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Oct 2012 00:01:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick ST. Michel</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Superfly does one type of sound so well that there is no reason to try anything new. The project &#8212; primarily the stage name of singer Shiho Ochi, with some songwriting assists from Koichi Tabo &#8212; plays guitar-centric rock indebted to the music of the 1960s and &#8217;70s. It&#8217;s a style that suits her well, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Miu Sakamoto &#8220;I&#8217;m Yours!&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Aug 2012 00:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick ST. Michel</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I&#8217;m Yours!&#8221; is the third album to come out of the partnership between Japanese pop singer Miu Sakamoto and The Shanghai Restoration Project, an American outfit led by Dave Liang that merges traditional Chinese instruments with contemporary electronic music. They&#8217;ve been handling the production on Sakamoto&#8217;s albums since 2010&#8242;s gorgeous &#8220;Phantom Girl,&#8221; a delicate collection [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Her Ghost Friend &#8220;Looking For Wonder&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jul 2012 00:02:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick ST. Michel</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Something tells me Her Ghost Friend doesn&#8217;t believe in the concept of guilty pleasures. The duo of DJ Obake and singer Shinobu Ono create pop music with bouncy hooks that isn&#8217;t too far removed from the songs currently topping the Oricon charts. Her Ghost Friend&#8217;s brand of J-pop, though, is dotted with influences from hobbies [...]]]></description>
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		<title>√thumm &#8220;Mimoro&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jul 2012 00:01:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick ST. Michel</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Kansai-based trio √thumm&#8217;s music doesn&#8217;t just mix clashing styles together, but also touches on two cultural representations of Japan today. The group attracted attention around Kansai with two albums of maximalist techno-pop, futuristic numbers resembling the modern overload of Perfume, albeit without big-company money. Yet, like techno-pop forefather Yellow Magic Orchestra, √thumm (pronounced &#8220;root thumm&#8221;) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Various Artists &#8220;Ripple&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jul 2012 00:01:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ian Martin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[It seems that every indie scenester in Japan wants a piece of Nagoya these days. Buzz is growing around the city&#8217;s bands, and it&#8217;s fast becoming an essential first stop away from home for Tokyo artists and DJ events. One of the reasons for this new love affair comes from the efforts of the label [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Beauty &#8220;Love in the Heart of the World Shout&#8221; / Faron Square &#8220;Willys Heartbeat&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jul 2012 00:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick ST. Michel</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[At this time last year, Tokyo&#8217;s Cuz Me Pain label was a collection of artists recording dark and dreamy dance tracks from their bedrooms, and that got them a smattering of overseas attention from various music blogs. In 2012, a lot has changed. Various projects under the imprint&#8217;s umbrella have signed to labels domestically and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shonen Knife &#8220;Pop Tune&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jun 2012 00:01:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Robson</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Shonen Knife&#8217;s 18th studio album was released just a few days before the birth of my first child. Good timing, too, because its 10 tracks contain plenty of life lessons I intend to pass on to my beautiful baby girl. The title track is a paean to pop (as indeed is Shonen Knife&#8217;s entire 31-year [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mudy on the Sakuban &#8220;Zyacalanda&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jun 2012 00:01:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shawn Despres</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Nagoya five-piece instrumental rock band Mudy on the Sakuban&#8217;s &#8220;Zyacalanda&#8221; EP is their fifth release in as many years. The eight-track effort was produced by Yoshimitsu Taki, the guitarist for local emo/post-hardcore act 9mm Parabellum Bullet. Impressed with Mudy on the Sakuban&#8217;s output on the EP, Taki joined the group as a temporary sixth member [...]]]></description>
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		<title>0.8 Byo to Shogeki &#8220;Batikaru J.M. Yayayado EP&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jun 2012 00:01:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Robson</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Where the hell did this band even come from? Rocking the so-uncool-they&#8217;re-cool image that has served sonic soulmates Polysics so well, 0.8 Byo to Shogeki&#8217;s music piles up a violent barrage of cheap drum machines, minimalist guitar lines and batty boy-girl vocal interplay that is somehow twice as heavy as it has any right to [...]]]></description>
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