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heard about em from this post on 'vain, selfish and lazy", and the only reference i could find to them here are some mp3 links by lovelace on one of the gmail/ysi threads. i've heard 3 and a bit tracks now, and, in a year of almost oppressive, err, 'joycore' (i'm thinking specifically of that new junior senior record - which i *do* mostly like, and that go! team record, which i don't), they really seem to be doing this europhic sample-heavy pop stuff exceptionally well. and since i'm contractually obliged to mention them: the avalanches. this is almost as good. they're japanese, i believe. too bad that the name reminds me of those modelling school ppl. spencer, you'd like this. what else should i know?

― jermaine (jnoble), Saturday, 15 October 2005 11:22 (twenty years ago)

All I really know is that yeah, they're Japanese, they sound like the Avalanches/Go! Team, they have one EP out and now (as of this summer) a great LP. I wrote about them here, but the mp3s aren't online any more.

Definitely one of the coolest debuts of the year.

― sean gramophone (Sean M), Saturday, 15 October 2005 11:52 (twenty years ago)

bump.

― jermaine (jnoble), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 21:20 (twenty years ago)

OMG, this is great! Everyone who likes the Go! Team should get this.

― Go, GO, GO!!!, Tuesday, 1 November 2005 17:00 (twenty years ago)

Yep, it's brilliant. Thanks to Sean for pointing me in the direction.

Are any of their records actually released in the West (specifically UK)? I've only found them on Soulseek.

― Buffalo Stan (Buffalo Stan), Friday, 4 November 2005 21:20 (twenty years ago)

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