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Athletica
''Athletica'' is a 1997 EP by Takako Minekawa. ''CD Universe''. Retrieved 2016-07-07. The Japanese-only release was recorded between Roomic Cube and . The sound is similar to those records, but more experimental. The Athletica EP also has another version of "Fabie", but it's pretty different, this one having beats reminiscent of early '80s hip-hop, complete with TR-808 beats. For this EP, Takako enlisted the help of ex-A.D.S. (Asteroid Desert Songs) guitarist, Yasuo Takai. The album has more beats than Takako's u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Takako Minekawa
is a Japanese musician, singer, songwriter and writer. Career In her childhood, Minekawa acted in film and television. Minekawa's first musical venture was playing in Lolita, a band she formed with several college friends. Afterwards, she performed under the alias Mamene Kirerie in the duo Fancy Face Groovy Name with Kahimi Karie, backed by Flipper's Guitar, and under her own name in the band L⇔R. Minekawa debuted as a solo performer in 1995 with the release of her first album ''Chat Chat'' by the Japanese label Polystar, followed later in the year by the extended play, EP ''(A Little Touch Of) Baroque in Winter''. With her second studio album, ''Roomic Cube'' (1996), Minekawa began pursuing a more refined musical style rooted in influences from bossa nova, French pop music and experimental electronic music. It increased her popularity in Japan, while also crossing over to listeners in North America, where it received airplay on college radio stations. She released her third ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roomic Cube
''Roomic Cube'' (subtitled ''...A Tiny Room Exhibition'') is the second studio album by Japanese musician Takako Minekawa. It was released on May 25, 1996, by Polystar. The album was released in the United States on February 18, 1997, by March Records. ''Recubed'', an EP consisting of remixes of tracks from ''Roomic Cube'', was released by March and Emperor Norton Records on July 7, 1998. The ''Roomic Cube'' track "Fantastic Cat" came to prominence in 2006 when it was featured in a Miller Brewing Company beer advertisement featuring a man on a bicycle descending down a hill. Critical reception In 2011, ''Roomic Cube'' was included in ''LA Weekly''s "beginner's guide" to Shibuya-kei music. Track listing Personnel Credits are adapted from the album's liner notes. * Takako Minekawa – performance, arrangement * Buffalo Daughter – performance, arrangement, production * Kenichi Makimura – executive production * Tadashi Matsuda – mixing, recording A record, recording or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cloudy Cloud Calculator
''Cloudy Cloud Calculator'' is the third studio album by Japanese musician Takako Minekawa. It was released on December 10, 1997 by Polystar. The album was released in the United States on November 17, 1998 by Emperor Norton Records. Minekawa played almost every instrument on the album and wrote, produced and arranged nearly all its songs. Minekawa toured in the United States to support the album. The EP ''Ximer... C.C.C. Remix'', released on September 23, 1998 by Polystar, features remixes of tracks from ''Cloudy Cloud Calculator'' by various artists. Critical reception Heather Phares of AllMusic described ''Cloudy Cloud Calculator'' as one of Minekawa's "finest and most unusual moments" and "highly inventive, restrained pop". Christian Bruno, writing in ''Metro'', referred to the album's songs as "wonderfully cute, all-synthesizer musings". Track listing Personnel Credits are adapted from the album's liner notes. Musicians * Takako Minekawa – vocals, acoustic guitar, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shibuya-kei
is a microgenre of pop music or a general aesthetic that flourished in Japan in the mid-to late 1990s. The music genre is distinguished by a "cut-and-paste" approach that was inspired by the kitsch, fusion, and artifice from certain music styles of the past. The most common reference points were 1960s culture and Western pop music, especially the work of Burt Bacharach, Brian Wilson, Phil Spector, and Serge Gainsbourg. Shibuya-kei first emerged as retail music from the Shibuya district of Tokyo. Flipper's Guitar, a duo led by Kenji Ozawa and Keigo Oyamada (Cornelius), formed the bedrock of the genre and influenced all of its groups, but the most prominent Shibuya-kei band was Pizzicato Five, who fused mainstream J-pop with a mix of jazz, soul, and lounge influences. Shibuya-kei peaked in the late 1990s and declined after its principal players began moving into other music styles. Overseas, fans of Shibuya-kei were typically indie pop enthusiasts, which contrasted with the tende ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asteroid Desert Songs
An asteroid is a minor planet of the Solar System#Inner solar system, inner Solar System. Sizes and shapes of asteroids vary significantly, ranging from 1-meter rocks to a dwarf planet almost 1000 km in diameter; they are rocky, metallic or icy bodies with no atmosphere. Of the roughly one million known asteroids the greatest number are located between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, approximately 2 to 4 astronomical unit, AU from the Sun, in the main asteroid belt. Asteroids are generally classified to be of three types: C-type asteroid, C-type, M-type asteroid, M-type, and S-type asteroid, S-type. These were named after and are generally identified with carbonaceous, metallic, and silicaceous compositions, respectively. The size of asteroids varies greatly; the largest, Ceres (dwarf planet), Ceres, is almost across and qualifies as a dwarf planet. The total mass of all the asteroids combined is only 3% that of Earth's Moon. The majority of main belt asteroids follow slig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
