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Ghost

A collective of psychedelic-minded Japan music artists headed by guitarist Masaki Batoh, Ghost information commune-minded free-range psychedelia with equivalent debts towards the May/Amon Düül axis of Krautrock, aswell as West Coastline psych models like Blue Cheer and Jefferson Aircraft. Batoh was raised in Kyoto, where he went to a private …

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Mr. Children

Towards the casual American observer, it could seem that a lot of Japanese pop and rock and roll rings (barring extreme sound terrorists just like the Boredoms) are someplace in the axis defined by Shonen Blade and Puffy AmiYumi: from adorably incompetent pop-punk with twee lyrics to sugary Day-Glo bubblegum, …

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