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  • Arcade Fire in Tokyo

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    This is just nuts: on YouTube, the Arcade Fire‘s performance of “Wake Up” from the concert I saw last night! It was an awesome show, and made me like the band even more. This marked the final date of the “Neon Bible” tour, and I’ll just say that I really hope they make it back…

  • Polypunk at the Edge

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    Digiki has just released the latest episode of his Polypunk podcast (27), and this time in the form of a collaboration with the inaugural exhibition of Alin Huma‘s new gallery, Ginza the Edge. The first show, “EDGE 1: Photography,” opens February 15 at 18:30, and runs until the 29th (16:00-21:00 daily). More details in Digiki’s…

  • Matthew’s EP

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    Cody Norenberg, who I met a year or so ago when he came to an edition of a PauseTalk, sends me word of a new album he’s released under his Bernstein monicker. MATTHEW’S EP is being released exclusively through Beatport, but read more about the release here, and also check out the Bernstein MySpace page…

  • Kicking It with John Jay in TYO

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    John Jay, executive creative director and Partner at Wieden + Kennedy and founder of the W+K Tokyo Label, has been blogging from Tokyo for THE NEW YORK TIMES this week.

  • PingMag: Collect.Apply

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    PingMag interviews Hal Udell, of Kyoto-based Collect.Apply, a unit known for their terrific record label designs (Udell was a co-founder of the nineties UK electronica label Clear).

  • Neojaponisme: Martians Go Home

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    Neojaponisme has started posting episodes of “Martians Go Home,” a monthly radio column Keigo Oyamada and Kenji Ozawa (Flipper’s Guitar, with Oyamada of course later turning into Cornelius) did for FM Yokohama back in the days when they were just starting out their career.

  • Music Related Sale

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    Trevor has news of a Music Related sale over at the META no TAME blog, and it’s a damn good deal.

  • Underworld’s Book of Jam 2

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    Thanks to Yuki for pointing out that I make in appearance in Underworld‘s BOOK OF JAM 2: JAPAN, in the “Wayposts” section on page 47: SNOW, JEAN http://jeansnow.net An excellent blog to what is currently happening in Tokyo. Being a big fan of Underworld and all their creative work, this pleases me to no end.…

  • The Analog Girl in Time

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    Singapore-based The Analog Girl, who performed last year at Cafe Pause, is included in this week’s issue of TIME (Vol. 171 No. 4, Asian edition), as one of the “Asian Acts to Watch in 2008.” They even mention the Cafe Pause show! Also, she’s just released a new EP, SOMETIME NEXT GALAXY, which you can…

  • Casio Keyboard with Integrated Famicom

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    Jason DeGroot (6955) performed at the “Blip” festival in New York last month, and the MAKE blog gives us a peak at something that he’s been working on: a Casio keyboard with integrated Famicom. Seems like this is planned as a kit to be sold.