Connect And Receive, October 2011

Even later than before thanks to my busier-than-usual real world engagements, but I didn't forget my rapidly dwindling listeners, oh no. This month's podcast only features four tracks but is in fact almost ten minutes longer than usual due to the crazy lengths that Nisennenmondai tracks run to.

It can be downloaded from its host at Archive.org

1. The Warm: Flask (From the 2007 album Fantastic Something)

2. Mir: TV (Unreleased)

3. Kaki: Schokoladige Disko (Unreleased)

4. Nisennenmondai: Mirrorball (From the 2011 live double-album Nisennenmondai Live!!!)

Zibanchinka Kyushu Tour (November 18th-20th 2011)

Zibanchinka are embarking on a three-day mini-tour of Kyushu from the 18th to the 20th of November, playing alongside a few Call And Response favourites, with me joining them as a DJ for the first couple of shows, and Nagoya's Sekaitekina Band will join us for the Fukuoka show.

Place: Fukuoka Utero

Date: 11/18 (Fri)

Time: 18:30

Cost: 1500yen (+drink)

LIVE:

- Zibanchinka

- Hyacca

- Sekaitekina Band

- tepPohseen

- 2907831

- 100fragments

DJ:

- Ian Martin (Call And Response)

Place: Kumamoto Navaro

Date: 11/19 (Sat)

Time: 20:00

Cost: 1500yen (+drink)

LIVE:

- Zibanchinka

- Kobayashi Dorori

- z/nz

- cynicalsmileisyourfavorite

- Markets

DJ:

- Ian Martin (Call And Response)

Place: Kokura UN

Date: 11/20 (Sun)

Time: 17:30

Cost: 1500yen (+drink)

LIVE:

- Zibanchinka

- Youkina Wally

- Jonathan's Dramatic Tits

- Yogi

- The Mamalede

Electric Riot (November 16th)

Youth is Wasted & Call And Response Special Free Party, in association with Chicks Riot:

Chicks Riot 2011 is hosting a series of art parties at Koenji Amp Cafe with artwork from a number of mostly female artists and different DJs and live acts curating each night's musical lineup.

ELECTRIC RIOT is a night of postpunk, new wave, 80s electronic, minimal wave, NDW, synthwave, technopop and krautrock, hosted by Tokyo DJ party Youth is Wasted and Koenji postpunk label Call And Response, and featuring the fantastic technopop/rap sounds of Ai Kobayashi.



Place: Koenji AMP Cafe
Date: 11/16 (Wed)
Time: 18:00-22:00 (maybe a bit later if we're allowed)
Cost: FREE
LIVE:
- Ai Kobayashi (ex.Miami)
DJs:
- NAH&SUE
- Tack Terror
- Komlaski
- Ian Martin

Full Chicks Riot details:

11/15 【Opening Party: Girls Pop Night!】FREE

-Band　V/ORDER
-DJ: SLF!! (The Lady Spade) / Tong-Chang (Cherry Times) / A-Yummy! / Katrine
-Start: 19:00

11/16 【Electric Riot Night!】FREE
-Band: Ai Kobayashi (ex.Miami)
-DJ: Ian Martin (Call And Response Records) / NAH & SUE / Tack Terror / Komlaski
-Start: 19:00

11/17 【Spade Night!】1000yen +1drink

-Band: The Lady Spade
-DJ: Uchiyama Yuniko / SLF!! / Katrine / and more

-Start: 17:00

11/18 【Riot Grrrl Night! 】FREE

-DJ　aki / Asucca (Watercloset) / A-Yummy!
-Talk
-Start: 19:00

11/19 【Cookie Cookie!】FREE
-Cookie Performance: steka and mjol
-DJ: aki / Helmet Underground&Riko

-Time: 14:00-15:30

11/19 Kichijoji Star Pine's Cafe【Chick's Riot 2011】
2,800yen adv/3,300yen door +1drink
-Band: The Girl / N'Shukugawa Boys / Kettles / The Let's Go's

-Fashion: Toko

-Live painting: Shibuya Girls Pop / Keiko Ogawa & Eimi

-Artwork: hipBORNtwin

-Cookies: steka and mjol

-Video: Slice Cheeze

-Open/Start: 16:30/17:00

11/20 【Closing Party: Indie Pop Night!】
1000円 +1drink
-Band: Girls Pancakes / Twinkle Twinkles
-DJ: Meganeth (Style Band Tokyo Tomo & Helmet Underground&Riko DJ team) / aki /A-Yummy!
-Start: 19:00

11/21 【R&R Night】FREE
-Band: Charlotte (Merpeoples)
-DJ: Cherry Bomb

-Talk

-Start: 19:00

Telephone Club presents: The Stingrays (November 11th)

Postpunk/new wave party Telephone Club is back for its first event since January, this time playing host to Bristol new wavers The Stingrays, who will conclude their 2011 Japan tour here, backed up by electronic new wave eccentric Lihappiness, jittery postpunk trio Steiner, confrontational artpunk weirdniks Anisakis and no wave freakadelics LOVEBUYLOVE.

Guest DJs Satoko from Kichijoji garage rock/indie party Take Me Now and Kaname K of Trinitron/3TE1 will join me behind the decks to keep the beat between bands.

Place: Koenji Roots

Date: 11th November (Fri)

Time: 11:00pm-5:00am

Cost: 1500yen adv/2000yen door (+1 drink)

Live:

- The Stingrays (From Bristol, UK)

- LOVEBUYLOVE

- Steiner

- Anisakis

- Lihappiness

DJs:

- Satoko (Take Me Now)

- Kaname K

- Ian Martin (Call And Response)

Fashion Crisis (November 2011)

Fashion Crisis strikes again, with the November edition featuring the handmade live stylings of the magnificent Samm Bennett, who may (or more likely may not) end up sounding something like this:

On the decks, the usual crew will be augmented by guest DJ antics from all-girl DJ team 3TE1 (featuring N'toko promo video stars Haru and Kaname). Also not to be confused with this:

Place: Koenji One

Date: 4th November (Friday)

Time: 8:00pm-last train

Cost: FREE

Live:

- Samm Bennett

DJs:

- 3TE1

- James Hadfield

- Ian Martin

[Updated] Praha Depart & N'toko in Europe (October 20th-November 8th)

Tokyo's finest psychedelic postpunk Gypsies Praha Depart are on tour now in Europe with Slovenia's finest yacht-rap future sailor N'toko. If you're in the area, come and check them out at any of these dates:

Oct. 20 Menza, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Oct. 22 MC Pekarna, Maribor, Slovenia

Oct. 23 Le Kraspek, Lyon, France (with Zero Absolu)

Oct. 27 Moog, Barcelona, Spain (with Bardo Pond)

Oct. 28 La Boite Madrid, Spain (with Bardo Pond)

Oct. 29 Matadero Ekintzak Azkoitia, Guipuzkoa, Spain

Oct. 30 Gastiez, Vitoria, Spain

Nov. 5 De Onderbroek, Nijmegen, Netherlands

Nov. 6 Musikbunker, Aachen, Germany

Nov. 7 Hauptwache, Frankfurt, Germany

Nov. 8 West Germany, Berlin, Germany

[Extra Spain and Germany gigs now added.]

Praha Depart have a new EP/mini-album called Dot. available exclusively for fans on these European dates (Japan release is pencilled in for early next year). By way of a preview, here's the song Portrait Man:

Praha Depart: Portrait Man by callandresponse

N'toko: Superhuman PV

Can't believe this slipped through the blognet, and this will be old news for anyone who follows me on Facebook or Twitter, but there's an N'toko promotional video out there now, directed by the magnificent Matt Schley and filmed at the wonderful Koenji One, home of our monthly Fashion Crisis parties.

Matt and I came up with the concept, and we crammed the thing full of self-indulgent Easter eggs. I'm in there, looking fatter than I would have liked, as the unimpressed DJ. Matt himself and my Fashion Crisis collaborator James Hadfield are playing an unusual version of Othello, Trinitron vocalists Kaname K and Zana make an appearance reading a series of books and smoking a series of cigarettes respectively. Also making a brief appearance is Tokyo ambient noise weirdnik Dr. Daddy, as well as disco commander Harumi Ito, so thanks to all of them for their help.

Also a reminder that from next week, N'toko will be on tour in Europe with the excellent Praha Depart. There are still lots of free dates thanks largely to the apparent impenetrability of the Berlin and Paris live scenes and the flakiness of one or two promoters, so any last minute booking offers in Western Europe are gratefully received.