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DJ Baku on MySpace; interview at Tiny Mix Tapes; his new album Japadapta comes out in Japan next week.
Bonus over-the-top press release from last year:
From Tokyo Japan, this amazing turntablist / producer is hands-down, DJ Krush's protege and has deep ties with DJ Kentaro, all the roughest Shinjuku freestyle MC's, and psycho-garage band Guitar Wolf. DJ Baku (pronounced "Bah-Koo") the rightful heir to the unique Japanese aesthetic of production, DJ'ing, turntablism started by Krush 20 years ago. "It's a perfect match for our digital-analog-dubplate vinyl slayer N2O Records imprint. Just this year we've been obliterating all- genres by pressing everything from Omar Rodriguez Lopez' Mars Volta solo projects to Indie Dubstep of 6BLOCC to Japanese Pop & Punk to hardcore Kingston Reggae to Mad Capsule Markets solo collabo's and the hyper-cool Tokyo electro-rockers Boom Boom Satellites. We are introducing the 'Mixture' sound to America from Japan and back with music and feature film anime collaborations," explains N2O Records label creator Nate "N8LOC" Shimizu, now at 130 records released in their mobile- suit mission to "break the genre binding" barriers. "We've been doing it for a decade, but now we can do it on a multi-lingual global Death-Note viral scale with ill-mech-warrior Japanese artists like DJ Baku and Uzumaki, mixed in with the Famima-fresh-factor big steps beyond mash-up," says N8LOC.
[Speaking of Boom Boom Satellites, has anyone seen any vids to their songs? I can't listen to What Goes Around Comes Around or Moment I Count without craving a good action vid -- someone must have used them for a Matrix vid at some point, right?]
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The Wikipedia entry that I linked to about Suzuka was pretty harsh on the anime adaptation (I haven't read the manga). I remember it fondly in part because it was the first series that I watched in real-time, downloading the fansubs that were released within a day or so after each episode aired in Japan. I wouldn't put in my top ten favorite series, but I really liked the titular female character.
And Suzuka had some really lovely, moving scenes of the kind that I only really see in Asian television dramas and anime. The latter have a way of lingering on these complex, immersive, even poetic emotional moments that Western media -- even a show like Friday Night Lights -- tend to hold at a distance and cut away from quickly.