March 30, 2004

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The Mad Capsule Markets. After charting Top 10 singles in their homeland, they've warped overseas to see if Europe and America are ready for their style.

Mad Capsule Markets Analysis Report

Hypothesis:

In an alternate universe, a half century forward, club youth are tiring of whatever mutation it is that technology has enabled pop to become. Following the common cycle, all ears tune to old school: this time, digital rock.
Ignorantly or artisticly, the bands on the forefront of the trend create a curious amalgamation of every genre from the turn of the millennium: punk, jungle, hardcore, techno, drum and bass, pop, rap, and many others.
The genre takes on the name of the raging club drug, Betaphenethylamine. Secretly they each mistakenly cherish the thought that they are dancing to the music grandpa and grandma used to sweat to.

Conclusion:
Japan is a bridge to an alternate universe. A band of this description already exists: The Mad Capsule Markets. After charting Top 10 singles in their homeland, they've warped overseas to see if Europe and America are ready for their style.

Term Definitions:

Crazy Pill Bazaars (紅麗死異薬売店), n. (1) Fan site for the Japanese rock group The Mad Capsule Markets. (2) The web page you are curretly viewing.

Crap Czar (糞王), n. (1) Administrator of Crazy Pill Bazaars. See also 毛唐野郎.

Mad Capsule Markets (狂楽売店), n. (1) Japanese rock band. (2) Distributors of Betaphenethylamine.

Betaphenethylamine (???), n. (1) In William Gibson's Neuromancer series, an artificial beta-receptor drug which affects the nervous system directly. (2) Term Crap Czar uses to refer to the music style of the Mad Capsule Markets, bringing together Gibson's imagery of dark industrial future Japan and the apparently drug-influenced name of the band. (3) Digital punk hardcore Pro Tools drum and bass rap industrial jungle rock techno pop destruction.

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