Happy Valentine's Day! Here's a special Valentine's gift for you...

Call And Response Records presents 「チョコくれるのはいいが・・・、何を企んでるんだぁぁ！？！？」 ("Thanks for the chocolate… What's your agenda!?!?"), a compilation of covers by our musical friends of the song Paranoid by Black Sabbath. You can download it free (it's a hefty file at 114mb so may take a long time).

DOWNLOAD 「チョコくれるのはいいが・・・、何を企んでるんだぁぁ！？！？」 FREE HERE (114mb so might take a long time — sorry!)

I've written in detail about it over on my personal music blog Clear And Refreshing, so check over there if you want to read more about the background and information about the bands and tracks.

「チョコくれるのはいいが・・・、何を企んでるんだぁぁ！？！？」(CAR-75)

1. Fidel Villeneuve

2. ロア/Loa

3. 経立/Futtachi

4. Human Wife

5. Client/Server:Q

6. Abikyokan

7. うるせぇよ/Uruseeyo

8. Han Han Art, featuring Fukusuke (Owarythm/Nature Danger Gang)

9. Under

10. Artless Note

11. Umez

12. スロウマリコ/Slow-Marico

13. Trinitron (featuring Gloomy and Ryotaro Aoki)

14. Carl Freire

15. Kaki16. Loser & Ribbons

17. Oa (featuring Hatsune Miku)

18. Jahiliyyah

19. 人魂/Hitodama

20. Voided By Geysers

21. Tiny Tide

Hysteric Picnic live in Shibuya (February 12th, 2014)

Hysteric Picnic will play a show at the "New Vibration" event at Shibuya Home on Wednesday February 12th with industrial duo group A. New Vibration organiser Tomo will DJ alongside Ian from Call And Response Records. group A are back to their official lineup after sickness saw violinist Sayaka Botanic replaced temporarily by sax player Ryota Komori of Miila and The Geeks for our show at Koenji Ten last month. Hysteric Picnic are playing as a full band for the second time so it should be heavy and loud.

Date: 2014.2.12 (WED) 
Event: STYLE BAND TOKYO presents: NEW VIBRATION #17
Place: Shibuya HOME 
Time: 20:00 ～ 23:00 
Price: adv.1500yen / door.2000yen (including 1 drink)
LIVE:
- Hysteric Picnic
- group ADJ:
- TOMO (STYLE BAND TOKYO)
- Ian Martin (Call and Response)

Tententen: Paranoid (February 16th, 2014)

February's Tententen celebrates the release of Call And Response Records' Valentine's gift 「チョコくれるのはいいが・・・、何を企んでるんだぁぁ！？！？」("Thanks for the chocolates… what's your agenda!?!?"), an album of covers of Black Sabbath's "Paranoid" that will be available to download for free on the 14th.

Starring on the night (and hopefully on the album too) are avant-popsters Abikyokan and post-punkers Uruseeyo, while Ryotaro Aoki will be bringing his metal hammer to the decks.




Date: 16th Feb (Sun)
Place: Koenji Art Bar Ten/天
Time: 8:00pm-1:00am
Cost: ¥500+1 drink
Live:
- Abikyokan
- Uruseeyo/うるせぇよ
DJs:
- Ryotaro Aoki
- Gotal (Lo-shi)
- Ian Martin (Call And Response Records)
Expo:
- Liaisons Mètalliques

Fashion Crisis (February 2014)

Baby it's cold outside, as the philosopher Dean Martin once said, so come inside and get warm with us this Friday at Koenji One. We have a packed schedule of DJs and live music, all tastes catered for, as long as your taste falls somewhere within the loosely defined area of glam-industrial junk-noise astro-folk Kraut-skronk.

Place: Koenji One
Date: February 7th (Fri)
Time: 8:00pm-midnight
Cost: FREE
Live:
- Bank of Joy
DJs:
- Matt Schley
- Tommi Tokyo
- Kaname K
- James Hadfield
- Ian Martin