--- Crawford Blair <mzui@...> wrote:

> From: "Crawford Blair" <mzui@...>
> To: "shibuya-kei Moderator"
> <shibuya-kei-owner@yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: [RE]Welcome to shibuya-kei
> Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 12:59:29 -0400 (EDT)
>

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Hi There,



I am a newbie to the list, I'm also a newcomer to shibuya-kei
music

and also to pico pop/nano pop/city pop and what other variations
that

may exist.



I first became aware of this kind of music I guess through The
Yellow

Magic Orchestra, whom I love very much but until recently their
CDs

have been hard to get hold of. After a bit of scouting around on
the

internet I found some postings relating some recommendations of

Japanese Music and I started downloading and exploring it.



Yes, I'm ashamed to say I have downloaded a lot of the music but
I

am buying a lot of it too and intend to replace all my MP3's
with CDs,

It's just very difficult getting hold of some of the material on
CD.

I'm finding E-Bay is pretty great so far for finding the right
cd's and I've been

buying some stuff purely on spec, which is quite exciting
because 90%

of what I've heard, I like.



Here is a list of what I've discovered so far:



Plus Tech Squeeze Box

Fantastic Plastic Machine

McDonald Duck Eclair

Takako Minekawa

Akiko Yano

Yoshinori Sunahara

Advantage Lucy

Nagisa Cosmetic

Aki Tsuyuko

Asa Chang & Junray

Buffalo Daughter

Cibo Matto

Cornelius

Hi Posi

Sushi Compilation 4004

Kahimi Karie

Migu

Polysics

Pizzicato 5

Shina Ringo

YMCK

Yukari Fresh



That's maybe a bit of a mixed bag, but I've been checking this

stuff out with no frame of reference, which is great fun!



My favourites are probably Plus Tech, Yukari Fresh, T. Minekawa

Akiko Yano, Y. Sunahara, Cornelius, Advantage Lucy. But I really

like all the rest, the only name I keep seeing that I didn't
like when

I heard was Denki Groove, it sounds a little too like commercial
dance

music to me, oh yea, Supercar were disappointing as well.



I have cd's coming to me in the post from Maher Shalal Hash Baz,
2 from Tomoe

Shinohara, Nobukazu/Assembler (and a seperate Childisc
compilation) none

of which I've heard, but I'm really looking forward to.



If anyone has any recommendations, please let me know, you can
see what my

tastes run to from the above list I guess.



Thanks in advance,

Crawford...



p.s. listening to the new Kasumasa Hashimoto cd which is lovely.





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