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Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
May 22, 2015
Budamunk's 'The Corner' makes a play for local hip-hop heads
Back in 2008, a beat-making competition called Goldfinger's Kitchen was held in Tokyo's Shibuya district. In each round, contestants had 15 minutes to chop and flip a given sample on an MPC sampler as the crowd watched. When the 15 minutes were up, the contestants played back what they had created to see whose beat rocked the crowd the most. As soon as Tomonobu Kanno's off-kilter kicks and snapping snares blared out of the speakers, there wasn't a head in the crowd that wasn't bobbing.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / Japan Pulse
May 17, 2012
I'm too sexy for my sutras
Monks gone wild? Not quite, but Buddhism is indeed trying out new ways to reach the next generation.

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