An Insight Into Japan’s Idol Avante Guarde

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As many visitors to my almost award winning, world famous, now ex-food blog know, I have been writing a lot about Japanese music recently – well, mostly about Babymetal TBH – and have totally got into a lot of other Japanese bands. One of which is the fascinating Neconomidol (or Necronima).

Anyway, I had the opportunity to catch up with Ricky Wilson, the band’s producer, who explains what it’s like to run an idol unit and how the outer fringes of Japanese music work.

It’s very interesting, that’s all I can say.

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Why BABYMETAL Are Going To Take Over The World

2014-03-15-babymetal.gifI am one minute and twenty seven seconds into the track Death by Babymetal and my brain is having trouble making sense of, well, everything on my laptop screen. I think  I see three small Japanese teenage girls dancing and singing along to one of the most brutally heavy death metal riffs I have ever heard; I feel a combination of 90% confusion, 2% terror and 8% something along the lines of sdkjfdjkfhdhds. Exactly. I am in fits of giggles, shaking a bit and maybe dribbling… a bit. What I am obliquely trying to say is that I have heard nothing quite like Babymetal. Continue reading