Category: Music

Asakawa Maki – Perfection on vinyl!

Avant-garde /ˌavɒ̃ˈɡɑːd/ Favoring or introducing new and experimental ideas and methods. Used as a synonym for “Modernism”, nowadays this term denotes a throwback to the second half of the twentieth century. The origin of...

We love Citypop, we dance to the Plastic beat!

Formed by the characters邦 (Kuni – country) and 楽 (Gaku – music); 邦楽 (hogaku) is the term used to indicate Japanese music. Since the Meiji era with the introduction of western instruments, Japanese artists...

Bubblegame Crisis – Konya wa Hurricane!

Battle Angel Alita in 1993, Armitage III in 1995, Ghost in the Shell in 1995, and Chobits in 2000; these four visual opuses are probably the best examples of Japanese cyberpunk. Influenced by the...