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Party People

Long awaited Nomiya Maki's new album "Party People" is out! Of course I got my copy on Tuesday night and have been enjoying it. The album has 10 tracks, one of which is a megamix of all the others, so depending on my mood I'll prefer to listen either to the 9 songs separately or the megamix.

The concept being an 80's revival, the whole definitely has a strong 80's feel with a lot of synths, handclaps and some vocoder. Living up to its title, "Party People" is pretty much fully danceable! Aside one or two exceptions the album was recorded in a same studio by a same engineer, so it sounds very uniform while the large numbers of guests give each track their personality.

The album has a bunch of good surprises such as Maki singing in duet with Kikuchi Naruyoshi (Spank Happy) with even a verse in Thai! Oui Oui also covers tATu's "Not Gonna Get Us", and while I really couldn't care less about tATu, it works, and I can't wait to see them perform it live!

So far my favorite tracks include "Yamate Line" (produced by Yamo (formerly of Kraftwerk)), which comes up just in time as I pass by Shinjuku station in the morning, p&art sasanoooha's "odoru 'oshare techō'", "Princess & Prince Of The Frog" by GTS, Futon cover "High" (with Kikuchi-san), and the great mood-setter opening track "Party Girl".

The tall limited edition package is also very nice! Inside the cardboard sleeve with sparkly design is contained the tall case which holds the regular-size booklet and CD. The booklet is stuck to the inside of the case, and can only be opened while the CD is not in place. On one side of the accordion-folded booklet are several pictures of Maki wearing different hats, on each of which stand the tiny artists who collaborated to the album. The other side has all lyrics and liner notes.
If you're going to buy the album, get it now so that you get this limited edition.

While I was at Tower Records Shinjuku's information counter asking about the Futon album, which I also bought, some client was brought a huge box containing about 40 copies of "Party People"! He was inspecting each closely one by one and putting some on his pile and some rejects aside. I was tempted to ask him if he was related staff or just a crazy fan, and also whether the copy I was holding was good or a reject.

Maki's Party People Party will be held on October 28th at ageHa, I've got my tickets and I can't wait!!

Posted on October 13, 2005 at 11:14 | Tweet |

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