Motocompo

Japanese techno-pop revival group Motocompo shaped in 1996 like a trio of programmer Usui Nobuya (alias Dr. Usui), vocalist Chiho, and VJ Hisaya. Starting by offering home-produced cassettes within their community, the Tokyo suburb of Kichijoji, they drawn some local recognition as purveyors of the audio that recalled traditional’ 80s Japanese fresh wave like the Plastics and P-Model. Motocompo’s introduction in the traditional western suburbs of Tokyo coincided using the introduction of fellow fresh influx revivalists Polysics, and a lively fresh wave-influenced scene which was after that growing around Chiba University or college towards the east of Tokyo. In 1998, Motocompo, Polysics. and likeminded rings such as for example Skyfisher and Spoozys had been area of the compilation record Tokyo New Influx of New Influx 1998 in the recently formed Tinstar Information, which catapulted the motion in to the limelight. In 1999 Motocompo released another cassette, also on Tinstar, accompanied by the EP Tiny Lack’n’Roll. Their live profile continuing to go up in tandem using the “brand-new wave of brand-new wave” scene, using the music group supporting United kingdom/American/Japanese brand-new influx supergroup NiNa, and lastly launching their debut mini-album Desktop Romancer. By 2000, the brand new wave of brand-new wave motion was fragmenting, with Polysics putting your signature on to Sony; Tinstar Information shortly dissolved. Dr. Usui founded his very own Poplot label, by which he released Motocompo’s initial full-length record Krackerjack Party. Much less commercially effective than its forerunner, it nevertheless noticed the group’s audio move in a far more advanced, electro-influenced path, relying much less on a restricted selection of ’80s Japanese brand-new wave affects and sketching on more sophisticated Western european dance music within a audio that forecasted the later introduction of advanced, Daft Punk-influenced idol pop such as for example MEG, Aira Mitsuki, and Perfume. The group inserted an interval of hiatus following this, but surfaced with a far more fleshed out, mainstream pop sound in 2004 using the Parttime Battle and Dream Moves EPs. Paths from both of these EPs afterwards re-emerged in the 2007 full-length record Chiptop Lip area, which added even more guitars towards the electro audio while keeping Motocompo’s signature mixture of catchy, commercial-sounding melodies and creation, with ironic, frequently acerbic lyrical content material. Motocompo backed the recording with overseas trips within the U.K. and event looks in Thailand, even while carrying on to interact with and support Tokyo-based fresh influx, techno-pop and electro music artists. In 2008, Dr. Usui released a single mini-album having a harder electro audio, and in early 2009 the group started work on a fresh full-length recording.