Blog - Weekly revue: 2012 week #32 (August 4 to August 10)
Weekly revue: 2012 week #32 (August 4 to August 10)
Outing: - Last weekend was Tanabata matsuri in Asagaya, held every year around August 8. The arcade mall that goes south from the station gets packed with people who go to look at the papier-mâché sculptures made by each shop. Many are good (some not so good) attempts at recreating some famous characters.
Music event: - On Wednesday was a free event at small club The Room in Shibuya, organized by label Vivid Sound, and featuring a sized-down version of Sally Soul Stew, DJ Hase Hajimu, and also singer Nakano Aya (album "zurui hito" produced by Hase Hajimu)! "Sally Small Stew" featured Sally Kubota with Lemon and Nakamori Yasuhiro, and they played 5 songs including 2 Wada Akiko covers. :) Had a lot of fun!!
- AND, there I got to meet 3 members of the Scooters!! Thanks to super-kind Sally for introducing me! I even got a photo of me with them, which I'll refrain to post because they don't aren't wearing their wigs, ha. :) They were all so nice!! By the way, Sally plays bass on all songs on the Scooters' new album "Une Manche et La Belle", and there will be a show on October 10 at Shibuya WWW.
New music: I've been all over Chiroline ver.2's album "Chit Chat Chiroline" this week. I've had it on repeat a lot! Chiroline was a band that had a few releases in the mid-to-late-80's produced by Okada Tohru (Moonriders, now of CTO LAB.). Now Okada-san formed a new band of 4 different young girls, made them record covers of the old Chiroline songs and adding some new ones too. This new album had the help of other members of CTO LAB., and also contains a new song written by The Aprils' Imai Kentarō, and one by Urbangarde too! Great stuff!!
Music release news: Okada Tohru, Recto Berso, TRI4TH, Rocketman
Playlist: Dorian, novaFASE, Aprils, coltemonikha, Cotton Candy, CTO LAB., Sally Soul Stew, New Castle, Chiroline ver.2, Scooters, "Motivation - Driving Sweets"
Tech: - Following my "mixi Check for Flickr" user script for Flickr from last week, I made a "mixi Check for Twitter". :) This one adds a neat "mixi Check" button on all retweetable tweets on the PC Twitter site! It works nicely for Firefox and Chrome, so try it!
(Side note: I'm especially happy to have been able to adjust the mixi Check icon's color to fit any Twitter page's theme, by calculating and rendering the icon's color table on-the-go. This had me look into the GIF89a and data URL scheme specs.)
This week's video:
Perfume "Spending all my time", new single coming August 15! This track with English lyrics sounds more like capsule to me than the usual Perfume. Weird and cool clip too!
DadaD "Mermaid". Here's a good new clip from latest album "mission passion".
Posted on August 11, 2012 at 01:45 | Tweet
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