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Fujiya & Miyagi | Electronica from....Brighton, England?!
(Source: Flavorpill - Earplug - Electronic Music News - Brighton Beats Memoirs: Fujiya & Miyagi leave their day jobs in the dust - July 19, 2007 - HERE)
Introducing FUJIYA & MIYAGI....wait...wtf!?!...what do you mean they aren't Japanese boys making electronica? Er, no...rather, "we're pretending to be Japanese" says "Miyagi" (aka. David Best, vocals and guitar).
The story goes that the trio ("Fujiya", "Miyagi", and "Ampersade"; aka. Steve Lewis, Best, and Matt Hainsby) from Brighton, England met from a mutual hero-worship of world heavyweight wrestler Kendo Nagasaki, and a shared interest in early-90s electronica.
How did they come up with their Japanesque name? "Named for a Japanese turntable and the Karate Kid master, Fujiya & Miyagi play "exquisite corpse" with '70s psyche rock, '80s post-punk, and '90s electronica. Their US debut, Transparent Things, echoes Can, Wire, Happy Mondays, and LCD Soundsystem. Head-nodding form follows hip-swaying function: lean, modernist bass lines pulsating at steady metronomic tempos as melodic synthesizers swoosh over droll, muttered lyrics...F&M prepared to quit their white-collar day jobs and hit the road on their first US tour" (from Earplug...check HERE for full interview by Earplug's Jorge Hernandez)
Videos under the cut...
* Review of album Transparent Things, by Dorian Lynskey - Friday May 12, 2006 - The Guardian @
arts.guardian.co.uk/.
* Fujiya & Miyagi MySpace @ www.myspace.com/fujiyaandmiyagi.
* Official website @ www.fujiya-miyagi.co.uk/.
* "ANKLE INJURY"
* "COLLARBONE"
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