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  • Kiiiiiii Rock Komaba!

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    This afternoon, after catching a Resfest program in Harajuku, I was off to the Tokyo University Komaba campus to watch a performance by Kiiiiiii — who I’ve been meaning to see for what seems like ages now. Oh man, what a show! I’ve rarely seen that much energy on a stage. The whole Kiiiiiii thing…

  • Shorts #02

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    I didn’t wake up early enough to catch the RESMIX Korea program this morning, but I made it to Shorts #02, and really enjoyed a lot of the shorts presented. Stefan Nadelman — director of last year’s great TERMINAL — was on hand after the program to talk about his contribution this year, ONE STEP…

  • By Design

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    This afternoon I went to the Laforet Museum for the Resfest‘s By Design program. I never miss this, and again this year I was not disappointed. MK12, probably my favorite MG (motion graphics) group out there, had 2 entries — finally giving me a chance to see the Funkstorung video they made in all its…

  • Kiiiiiii at Komaba

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    Tomorrow (Sunday) is the big school festival on the Komaba campus of Tokyo University, and Kiiiiiii will be performing, along with Spank Happy (Halcali was supposed to perform also, but they pulled out). Kiiiiiii will hit the stage from 3:50 to 4:20. The show is free (or something like a donations welcome kind of thing).

  • Uniqlo in the US

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    And now, you Americans will feel the wrath of Uniqlo. Fast Retailing Co said Thursday it will set up a subsidiary in the United States this month to start sales of its Uniqlo-brand casual clothing in the country. The United States will be the fourth foreign market the company has entered following Britain, China and…

  • Resfest 2004

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    The JAPAN TIMES has an article up on this weekend’s Resfest. Tokyo became a stop in 1999, one of the first beyond the original five cities. Japan also has been a major source of contributors. Last year saw Junji Kojima and Kentaro Kobayashi’s “Japanese Tradition (Relationships)” win the Audience Choice Award. This time, look for…

  • iTunes Japan

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    Well, it’s about time we got some solid info on a release date for the Japanese iTunes store. Apple plans to open up its iTunes Music Store to Japanese customers by March 2005, the Nihon Keizai newspaper reported on Thursday. The paper said that Apple aimed to offer more than 100,000 songs with an emphasis…

  • Jon the dog

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    Reading the following entry on Jon the dog at REALTOKYO reminded me of the first time I heard about this artist, from a show Patrick had attended (I think it was with Emi Necozawa). Jon the dog is actually a girl, but how she wears her dog’s costume and sings absurd lo-fi folk pop songs…

  • The Planet: Transport

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    Julian Gatto, who was one of the people involved in the “Aqui Uzumaki” exhibition earlier this year (also spawning the excellent SONIDO UZUMAKI compilation on Music Related), lets me know that he has a new show that starts today at the Uplink Gallery. Organized along with 360 Records, it’s called “The Planet: Transport,” and it…

  • Psionic Distortion

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    The JAPAN TIMES takes a look at the “Psionic Distortion” exhibition that’s taking place at SuperDeluxe. It covers underground manga, with works from artists that were associated with the old GARO magazine (the image above is by Kago Shintaro). When Missouri-born artist and curator Tim Evans first flipped through the dog-eared pages of an old…