A big thanks goes out to my good friend Patrick for the amazing cassette that he won on the Japanese Yahoo! auction site, and then converted to MP3, which is what I’m enjoying right now. Called 524′S WORLD OF TWIST, it was a very limited tape (only 100) that was sent with orders from the Readymade website. It’s a compilation of very groovy tracks selected by Yasuharu Konishi (524, pronounced go-ni-shi in Japanese, is the name of one of Konishi’s labels, and a name he uses for some of his mixes), basically sounding like the type of stuff that he usually plays at his monthly event at the Organ Bar in Shibuya.
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Jean Snow lives and breathes design and pop culture in Tokyo -- sustained by an unhealthy addiction to magazines and frequent visits to his favorites cafes. He has reported on these obsessions for the following online/offline publications: Time, Inside (Australian Design Review), Gizmodo, Gridskipper, Kotaku, Tokyo Q, Superfuture, OK Fred, Arthur Frommer's Budget Travel, I.D. (International Design), Metropolis, Azure, MoCo Loco, Kateigaho International Edition, Game|Life, and The Japan Times. He also manages the gallery space at Cafe Pause.
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Fab tune by Marilyn Maye on that tape. Any chance I could get a copy?
The track or the whole album? It it’s just the track, then I could email it to you.