Fashion Crisis (October 2014)

Regular Fashion Crisis DJ James Hadfield is off to the mother country this Friday, but there'll still be no shortage of musical goodies for you to enjoy. Guest DJs this time round are DJP (from The Mornings), long-term friend of the event Ayaco, and Battle Princess (from Tacobonds).

Place: Koenji One
Date: October 3rd (Fri)
Time: 8:00pm-midnight
Cost: ¥500+1 drink (FREE before 9:00pm)
DJs:
- DJP (The Mornings)
- Ayaco
- Battle Princess (TACOBONDS/transkam)
- Ian Martin

"Dancing After 1AM" release tour final event, Nagoya KD Japon, March 15th

After the October Tokyo release party and January's successful Kyushu tour, there's one final promotional event for Dancing After 1AM, this time at the lovely KD Japon in Nagoya (seriously, it's a contender for nicest, most intimate venue in the country). There are four bands, three of whom featured on the album and one of whom is among my favourite bands in Japan. It's also the first event I've ever been involved in in Nagoya, so I'm obviously very, very excited about this.

The compilation featured a track by Nagoya band Pop-Office, who will of course be taking part in the event, while Tokyo's Tacobonds, who missed the October party due to UK tour commitments, and Fukuoka's macmanaman, who missed the Kyushu tour because the drummer was on tour with another band, are also both playing. Finally, we've invited one local special guest band, the brilliant Freedom, to take part. Although they didn't feature on DA1AM, they were one of the standout bands from last year's Ripple compilation of Nagoya music (on which Pop-Office also featured), and they're one of the best bands in the city, so it's a supreme pleasure and honour to have them.

Date: 3/15 (Fri)
Place: Nagoya KD Japon
Time: 6:30pm open / 7:00pm start
Cost: ¥1800 adv / ¥2300 door
Live:
- TACOBONDS (Tokyo)
- macmanaman (Fukuoka)
- Pop-Office
- Freedom

New Call And Response compilation album this autumn!

Call And Response Recordsは9月下旬～10月上旬に日本のポストパンク/オルタナ/ニューウェーヴなバンドを集めた、コンピレーションCDをリリースします！

Call And Response Records are preparing a new compilation of Japanese postpunk, new wave and alternative music for late September/early October release.

CDタイトルは「Dancing After 1AM」。東京はもちろん国内における、現在のインディー/アンダーグラウンドシーンからのエキサイティングなサウンドが集結。

Entitled "Dancing After 1AM", it will feature some of the most exciting sounds of the current indie/underground scene from Tokyo and around Japan.

リリースパーティは2012年10月6日(土)に東高円寺二万電圧(Higashi-Koenji 20000V)で開催！She Talks Silence、Hysteric Picnic、Anisakis、Extrudersほか出演予定。さらにこれらのバンドに加え、Tacobonds、Pop Office、The Mornings、Otori、百蚊、New House他の新音源がコンピCDに収録されます。

A release party will be held at Higashi-Koenji 20000V (Den-Atsu) on October 6th, featuring She Talks Silence, Hysteric Picnic, Anisakis、Extruders and more. In addition to these bands, the album will also feature new recordings from Tacobonds, Pop Office, The Mornings, Otori, Hyacca, New House, and much more.

今後さらなる詳細をアナウンスしていくのでお見逃しなく！

Keep your eyes on this space for more details to be announced over the coming month!

Telephone Club New Year Party (Sunday, January 22nd)

As I've already mentioned in my previous post, Dutch new wave duo Anatopia are currently in Japan and ready to kick off their tour at Shin-Koenji Club Liner tomorrow. Call And Response will hold an event of our own for Anatopia before they shoot off to Osaka and Kyushu next week.

Taking the form of a kind of mini-festival in the warehouse-like underground cavern that is Kichijoji GOK Sound, the event will also feature a raft of Tokyo postpunk, new wave, garage and indiepop bands, with DJ team Youth is Wasted playing tunes in between live performances.

There's no compulsory drink order and you're free to bring your own beer in with you, although we'll try to have cheap drinks available inside as well. It's going to be a blast!

Place: Kichijoji GOK Sound
Date: 22nd January (Sunday)
Time: 16:00-23:00
Cost: 2000yen

LIVE:
- Anatopia (from Amsterdam)
- tacobonds
- Tessendoriko
- Praha Depart
- Hysteric Picnic
- Girls Pancakes
- tantan to tantan

DJs:
- Youth Is Wasted: NAH & Sue / Tack Terror / Komlaski / Gosuke
VJ:
- Terada (HUH)

Connect And Receive, July 2011

It can be downloaded from its host at Archive.org.

This month's tracklisting is:

1. Hyacca: Hanazono (from the 2009 album Hanazono and the 2011 compilation Style Band Tokyo Vol. 1)

2. tacobonds: This Count (from the 2011 album No Fiction)

3. Praha Depart: Kyo no Nagare (from the 2009 album Uou Saou)

4. Zibanchinka: Nagisa no Hors D'oeuvres (from the 2011 album Hatsubai Chushi)

5. Puffyshoes: Anata ni Muchuu (from the 2010 compilation Valentine's Candies)

6. She Talks Silence: Fragment (from the 2011 album Some Small Gifts)

Telephone Club (January 22nd 2011)

Call And Response's first live showcase of the year, rocking those screechy, distortion-loving no wave sounds. It's damn good stuff, but then I would say that.

Place: Koenji Penguin House
Date: 1/22 (Sat)
Time: 7:00PM Open / 7:30PM Start
Tickets: 1800yen + drink (adv) / 2000yen + drink (door)

LIVE:
- otori - Indecently young and talented post-punk/no wave shrieksters.
- Mir - Synth-based merchants of new wave bleakness.
- tacobonds - Leading lights of stop-start Tokyo avant-power-prog.
- Uruseeyo - Poetic minor chord distortion addicts.
- Saba - Another of Tokyo's youngest and most virile noisemeisters.

Telephone Club (July 17th 2010)

Live music and pre-recorded sounds transmitted via the medium of compact disc to your ears, courtesy of some of the finest musical brains in the metropolis of Tokyo, this Saturday in Koenji.

Place: Koenji Penguin House
Date: 7/17 (Sat)
Open/Start: 6:30/7:00 P.M.
Tickets: 1,800 adv/2,000 door

Live:

tacobonds - Explosive post-punk band, who have been tearing up live spaces in Tokyo and beyond for years. The sound of rock & roll being broken on the wheel.

Puffyshoes - Dirty garage punk poison delivered in the form of honey-sweet 60s girl group melodies. The best tunes, played on instruments wielded like weapons of mass destruction.

Steiner - Sharp-edged, 80s-influenced post-punk, recalling Gang of Four, Einsturzende Neubauten, and The Pop Group, like a disco under the shadow of nuclear war.

Uruseeyo - Losing themselves, like a punk rock Dylan, Uruseeyo are raw power, spat out in a machine gun rattle of sprawling, poetic fury.

DJs:

Fresh from Koenji's regular Fashion Crisis events, James Hadfield of Metropolis fame and Ian Martin of Call And Response Records will spin tunes from the darkest recesses of their record collections, but better than that sounds.

Koenji Pop Festival (October 10th 2009)

It's anniversary time again for C.A.R. with the fourth annual Koenji Pop Festival, as usual featuring a wealth of musical debauchery amid fountains of low quality alcohol. In total there will be ten bands performing, including three from the southern rock and roll Eden that is Kyushu, augmented by a wealth of local talent.

Along with a number of familiar faces like MIR, tacobonds, The Mornings, ruruxu/sinn (pronounced "lulue-shin"), Grouncover. and Zibanchinka (地盤沈下), the event will also feature Fukuoka instrumental trio Me I Sashimi (ミー愛さしみ), the fierce and sexy Hemay (悲鳴), the glam rock/kayoukyoku stylings of Momoiro Ageha (桃色アゲハ), not to mention old co-conspirators Abikyokan, who return to C.A.R. to dazzle you with their science.

Info and artist links below:


Place: Koenji 20000V
Date: October 10th 2009
Open: 16:00　Start: 16:20
Cost: 2,000 yen + 1 drink adv. / 2,300 + 1 drink door

Live:
■MIR
■The Mornings
■Hemay (悲鳴)
■Zibanchinka (地盤沈下 -- From Kagoshima)
■ruruxu/sinn (From Fukuoka)
■Abikyokan
■Groundcover.
■Me I Sashimi (ミー愛さしみ -- From Fukuoka)
■Momoiro Ageha (桃色アゲハ)
■tacobonds