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Panda music
Today we went to Enban in Kōenji, a café/CD shop with a space for live events. I went there to get a compilation CD-R of panda-themed songs, called ニーハオ！大熊猫君の巻 ("nihao! Panda-kun no maki").
I'm a bit in a panda mood lately (since seeing "Panda Kopanda", also yesterday I received a sonosheet of the theme song), and we found a mention of this compilation on a Web site last night.
This was a very good buy! At ¥800 the price is very low, and it ended up being quite entertaining! It consists of 21 tracks, mostly old Japanese songs transferred from vinyl, most quite groovy and funny. Since they're all about pandas, many have a sort of Chinese feel to them, and most of them sound like children's songs. The only thing is that there are no liner notes, so it's impossible to tell the names of artists or tracks.
The CD-R compilation is part of a series compiled by the shop's owner Taguchi Fumihito, available at ¥800 each.
Posted on January 10, 2004 at 21:56 | Tweet
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Looks like a cool place.
Posted by Jean on January 11, 2004 at 04:11
Yes it is! I'd like to see a live there sometime. The entrance charge is almost always 1000yen including one drink. Quite below the Tokyo standards!
However the place is tiny, so certainly not so many people can enter, especially if they don't remove the café's tables.
The CD shop is also cool but most is indies stuff I don't know about. I will probably try more of their CD-R compilations though since I really liked this one!
Posted by Patrick on January 11, 2004 at 10:10