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ryanmurakami wrote:Nice! The Cops Are Inside Us are on the sampler, and the next issue will have an interview with them. What bands did you hang out with?
Man, I'm shitty with this forum stuff.mp143 wrote:ryanmurakami wrote:Nice! The Cops Are Inside Us are on the sampler, and the next issue will have an interview with them. What bands did you hang out with?
I hung out mainly with the guys from unripe, the cops, off season, and matreshka. I was also in a couple bands out there. Who did you interview from the cops? I was thinking about repressing a few of the out of print stuff from those bands. And matreshka just realeased a new ep I think you would dig.
Been preaching Japanese stuff to the world for 10 years... :-/Corgi wrote:Yay. J-skramz is finally getting some attention.
Thanks for the love, you should have it by now. And I'm really digging the new anne hero stuff.riderofbrohan wrote:<3 meatcube
<3 jscreamo (omg stubborn father!)
cannot wait for my hardcopy
They've been doing this stuff for a really long time, almost as long as everywhere else. Sawpit was an early Japanese emotional hardcore band that released stuff on Ebullition in the late 90's. Unlike most places, you can purchase hardcore/screamo/whatever at record stores in most every major city in Japan. Because of the way stuff is distributed, you can go pick up the new Orchid album or envy album. So it was a lot easier for people to find stuff. Also, screamo bands have been touring in Japan for a long time.damicore wrote:How did Japan reach screamo? The only way I can think of is through the interwebz as I did (I'm from Argentina) but the japanese side of internet is so obscure and is so distant from ours, westerner's.
This is certainly interesting to me, Gauge Means Nothing and Nitro Mega Prayer were awesome.
Do you know a band called Sonoray? A friend of mine sent me their demo and told me they were from Okinawa, you might know him. His name is Nathan? According to him he would have been pretty much the only white kid at shows.mp143 wrote:ryanmurakami wrote:Nice! The Cops Are Inside Us are on the sampler, and the next issue will have an interview with them. What bands did you hang out with?
I hung out mainly with the guys from unripe, the cops, off season, and matreshka. I was also in a couple bands out there. Who did you interview from the cops? I was thinking about repressing a few of the out of print stuff from those bands. And matreshka just realeased a new ep I think you would dig.
brianutatx wrote:You are just a wiener rock apologist. Down with wiener rock occupation and down with Topshelf!
Yeah, I'll definitely have copies. And, unfortunately, you kind of have to know where to go to find the really good record shops. I'm not sure what's in Tokyo these days, but Allman was the best (run by the guy from HG Fact). You should be able to find a lot of stuff at Disk Union shops, though. HMV or Tower has a pretty limited selection.CitizenOfUlysses wrote:Won't have money or an address to which you can mail this for about another month and a half, but def will order then (if you've still got em and all)! this looks p sweet dude, will probably be studying abroad in japan in another year or two for a bit so this is cool.
also it's funny you say this as when I was in Japan last year I hit up 3-4 record shops looking for an envy record (literally any envy record) and couldn't find anything ;_; I did find some random little hole in the wall 90s indie record shop in shibuya. that place was hidden pretty well.
Phil wrote:Do you know a band called Sonoray? A friend of mine sent me their demo and told me they were from Okinawa, you might know him. His name is Nathan? According to him he would have been pretty much the only white kid at shows.mp143 wrote:ryanmurakami wrote:Nice! The Cops Are Inside Us are on the sampler, and the next issue will have an interview with them. What bands did you hang out with?
I hung out mainly with the guys from unripe, the cops, off season, and matreshka. I was also in a couple bands out there. Who did you interview from the cops? I was thinking about repressing a few of the out of print stuff from those bands. And matreshka just realeased a new ep I think you would dig.
Man, that EP is so good. I've thought about getting some more, just wasn't sure if anybody wanted them. I will send some emails out tonight.spudnik wrote:sweet! im getting this now!
and ryan any chances you'll restock kiji's he gave a wonderful performance?
