March 11, 2004
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Polysics
We saw Polysics last night at the Knitting Factory – our third live music experience in LA after Los Straitjackets & Thievery Corporation - and what a night it was. These guys are awesome. Amazing still, the support for this band in a small club on a school night.
Review of Polysics by sidewinderzine :- “…frantic new wave antics… electronic minimalism… abrasive angular pop… punk rock energy…. and the lo-fi blips and bleeps of your hastily discard atari 2600. “
On the flyer, it’s “…DEVO meets the Matrix”. Music aside, it was a fun spectacle. The lead singer/guitar player was a real livewire, screaming in Japlish at the audience. Our favourite was the keyboard/vocoder player. While the other band members jumped around in a frenzy, her movements were completely robotic and timed to the music: from the pom-pom shaking to the headbanging,and vocoder singing. Yeah! Live music performances should be more visually-entertaining!
Added to Wishlist: Polysics DVDVPVDVLIVE DVD (Music Videos)
Polysics are from Japan & are touring the USA this month
RE: our previous blog entry about the Osaka Pro wrestlers… there’s a great editorial on the FPU website on the history of Japanese masked wrestlers.
“…A group of lucha art media elite including Rafael Navarro, Mort and Chin of “¡Mucha Lucha!” and novelist Christa Faust sat ringside as the Osaka contingent melded perfectly with SoCal local promotion Revolution Pro.” - Mr Unknown
Aw thanks, Mr Unknown.
Random Links
Iona Rozeal Brown’s “Shinto-Hip Hop” paintings. From this article:
Brown, who is African-American, has always felt a certain kinship to Japanese culture. As a child, she grew up familiar with Japanese theater and was a fan of martial arts movies. She felt it even more when she visited Japan. Most astounding were the ganguro girls, who darken their faces, and the Japanese youth who dress and act like b-girls and b-boys and hang out at hip-hop clubs.
Music to Make Models By - at BasicHip.com this week. We’re downloading!
Bardot A Go Go - is a documentary about Sixties French music. Can’t wait to see this. (link via robot action boy)
