"Dancing After 1AM" compilation album update

Call And Responseによる新たなコンピレーションCD「Dancing After 1AM」は予定通り、リリースに向けて制作進行中！
徐々に音源も集まってきてまして、早速Pop Office、Anisakis、Puffyshoes、She Talks Silenceの素晴らしい完成版トラックが到着しました！
Work on Call And Response's new "Dancing After 1AM" compilation is ongoing, and parts of it are starting to come together. Excellent tracks from Pop Office, Anisakis, Puffyshoes and She Talks Silence have already been delivered with more currently being mixed.



また、熊本からcynicalsmileisyourfavorite、小林どろり、東京からはMirとスロウマリコ もコンピ参加決定！
さらに、鹿児島からアングラ・スーパーグループの経立(Lubic Cave House、Wood、地盤沈下のメンバーによるバンド)や、東京シンセパンクトリオのJebiotto!の音源も収録されます。経立とJebiotto!はコンピリリースパーティーにも参加します。
In addition to the bands already announced, cynicalsmileisyourfavorite and Kobayashi Dorori from Kumamoto will feature, as well as Mir and Slow-Marico from Tokyo. Kagoshima underground supergroup Futtachi (featuring members of Lubic Cave House, Wood and Zibanchinka) are also taking part, as are Tokyo synth-punk trio Jebiotto!, both of whom will play the album release party at Higashi-Koenji 20000V on October 6th.


これからも引き続き詳細や参加バンドなど、お知らせしていきますので、お楽しみに！
There are still some details to be finalised, and more bands to be announced, so keep your eyes on this space!

Event: Koenji Pop Festival ("Dancing After 1AM" release party)
Date: 10/6 (Sat)
Place: Higashi-Koenji 20000V
Time: 16:00-23:00
Cost: 2000yen adv/2300yen door
Bands: She Talks Silence / Hysteric Picnic / Extruders / Jebiotto! /
Anisakis / Futtachi (Kagoshima) / + more
DJs: Tomo (Style Band Tokyo) / Methyl (Twee Grrrls Club) / Ian Martin
(Call And Response Records)

Event: Youth is Wasted presents: Dancing After 1AM After-Party
Date: 10/6 (Sat)
Place: Koenji One
Time: 24:00-05:00
Cost: FREE!
DJs: Youth is Wasted (NAH&Sue, Gosuke, Komlaski) / Masatoo / Juan Hasegawa

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!

Fashion Crisis (August 2012)

Fashion Crisis' August party promises an eclectic selection of cosmic sci-fi trance-hop courtesy of rap Olympian N'toko, lo-fi broken idol eccentrica from Shouchou and more from DJ Methyl's bag of tricks. James and Ian will back them up with their usual seamless blend of folk-noisetronica, EBM and mutant disco scuzz.

Date: August 3rd (Fri)
Place: Koenji One
Time: 8:00-last train

Cost: FREE
Live:
- N'toko
- Shouchou
DJs:
- Methyl (Twee Grrrls Club)
- James Hadfield
- Ian Martin

N'toko / Jebiotto! / Kaki - Kyushu tour July 20th-22nd 2012

Call And Response are on tour in Kyushu this weekend, with three dates featuring N'toko including one with Kaki and two with Jebiotto!, as well as a couple with Ian DJing. The Fukuoka date also features isLAICHELS, the new band of Shuichi Inoue of Folk Enough, RIM, a tribute band to Call And Response legends Mir, old friends Fake Girl Nott, electronic noiseniks Deltas, and discopop duo Amorphous. A whole lot of new faces will join us in Kitakyushu, including Hynouma, who seem fascinating in a messed-up Amon Duul II art-psych sort of way, while Cultos from Kumamoto, a new band featuring a couple of old pals I'm excited to see, will join us for the final date.

Any Kyushu people around at this time, come and check out our shit, man.

Date: July 20th (Fri)

Place: Yakuin Utero, Fukuoka

Time: 6:30pm

Cost: 1500 + drink

Live: N'toko (Slovenia) / Kaki (Slovenia) / Deltas / Fake Girl Nott / Amorphous / RIM / isLAICHELS

DJs: Emix / Ian Martin (Tokyo)

Date: July 21st (Sat)

Place: UN Kokura, Kitakyushu

Time: 6:00pm

Cost: 1500/2000 + drink

Live: N'toko (Slovenia) / Jebiotto! (Tokyo) / Hynouma / Tarjeeling / Uchuu Service / Spectacles

Date: July 22nd (Sun)

Place: Navaro, Kumamoto

Time: 8:00pm

Cost: 1800/2000 + drink

Live: N'toko (Slovenia) / Jebiotto! (Tokyo) / hwyl / Dia Syndicate / Cultos

DJs: Ian Martin (Tokyo) / Zana Caroline (Slovenia)

Telephone Club (Friday, July 13th)

July is birthday month at Call And Response, with Ian, N'toko and Zana Caroline all celebrating their special days at round the same time. This party also counts as a sort of tour opener with N'toko and Jebiotto! heading off to Kyushu the following weekend for some shochu and mentaiko-fuelled adventures.

The A and B studios will feature live acts while the G studio will be staffed by CAR's good friends from Youth is Wasted. It's OK to bring in your own drinks, or you can buy them from the studio staff pretty cheaply anyway, so come along and enjoy!

Place: Koenji DOM Studio (A, B & G studios)
Date: July 13th (Fri)
Time: 24:00-05:00
Cost: 1500円
LIVE:
- N'toko
- Jebiotto!
- Satoru Ono Band
- Kyu-shoku
- Lihappiness
- LOVEBUYLOVE
- Mars & Eye
- Kaki
DJs:
- Youth is Wasted (NAH&SUE, Komlaski, Gosuke)

Fashion Crisis (July 2012)

July's Fashion Crisis welcomes our good friends from Slovenia, N'toko and Zana. N'toko will be behind the decks, possibly playing some combination of glittering electronic dancefloor smoothness and grimy floor-humping sick-hop, while Zana's dark electropop alter ego Kaki will be performing live.

Joining them and regular DJs James Hadfield and Ian Martin will be a solo live performance from disco butterfly Canopies & Drapes.

Date: July 6th (Fri)

Place: Koenji One

Time: 8:00pm-last train

Cost: FREE

Live:

- Canopies & Drapes (solo)

- Kaki

DJs:

- N'toko

- James Hadfield

- Ian Martin

NEW RELEASE: N'toko, "Fight Like a Girl" (CAR-83)

N'toko: Fight Like a Girl (CAR-83)

1. Time Machines

2. Fight Like a Girl

3. Smash

4. Snob (Featuring Volatile)

5. Mass Appeal

To coincide with his return to Japan for the summer, Slovenian electro-hip hop musician N'toko has a new EP available for free download via Call And Response Records, featuring five new songs recorded over the past six months. The Fight Like a Girl EP evolved out of a series of experiments with new production ideas and the result is a work with a more laid-back sense of exploration and adventure, smearing his characteristic synth-based sound across the songs like Nutella over toast one moment, forcing it through brutally tight bottlenecks the next. As with most of N'toko's English-language work, the lyrics duck and weave, spinning through a chicane of stream-of-consciousness wordplay, sci-fi imagery and surreal collages of seemingly random images, all combined with a sense of wit and playful disregard for convention.

All music by N'toko, except "Snob" by Volatile. All vocal recording, mix and mastering by Igor Vuk, except "Snob" mixed by Volatile. Released by Call and Response Records.

Download the entire EP via Mediafire: http://www.mediafire.com/?pk4c1wkgtbd6c1x

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