Tag Archives: Japan

Song Of The Day – Low Tension (1991 version) by Soichi Terada & Manabu Nagayama

From the compilation album “La Ronde” (1991)

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Essential Listening: Best of Jan Jelinek

It all started with a Secret Thirteen mix in 2014. Before this I’d never heard of Jan Jelinek, and truthfully, the only reason I even gave it a chance was superficial – the disparate track list, and that I recognized … Continue reading

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Thankfully Blue Eye Samurai overcomes all the limitations of cultural projection and appropriation

Need an escape from the grim coverage of Israel victimising Gaza, or, on the benign end of the grim spectrum, that sad melter on your street covering their house with Christmas tat and lights in early November? Well Blue Eye … Continue reading

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The last days of Trump?

This was the most pressing question I had towards the end of his now infamously incoherent press conference. What we can be certain of – it provided everything his detractors and his supporters wanted. Ponder the plot synopsis sans Trump … Continue reading

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Coronavirus can be lethal, but all it’s done is place me in an anti-social, nihilistic bubble

Initially I was blithe about Coronavirus, ‘Oh what’s this, another strain of that bird flu or that Sars thingy? So what?’ For a layman such as myself underestimating Covid-19 at the start was defensible. Doing so now is absolutely fucking … Continue reading

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