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New Kyono Project: Wagdug

Kyono has announced a new project.

]]> Kyono has formed a new band, Wagdug Futuristic Unity, along with Nanba Akihiro, the bassist from Ultrabrain (ex High Standard). They'll have a single out in the fall, which will also appear on the soundtrack for the new Appleseed movie, Ex Machina.

Factory Archive

Factory will be replaying an old live performance.

]]> On episode 0304 of Fuji Television's music program The Factory, they will be airing an archival live performance of The Mad Capsule Markets as a tribute to the band's recent "hiatus".

The episode will be aired at 11pm on April 15th on Skyperfect TV, and then again at 2:45am on April 26th on Fuji TV (Kantou). Skyperfect refers to this as episode 150, and will repeat it at 4pm on 4/21 as well.

These are likely from Episode 22, which included Possess in Loop, Crash Pow, and Kami-Uta from August 29, 1998.

It might also include parts of an interview from episode 123 from March 10, 2004

DJ Kyono

Kyono will be DJ'ing at an upcoming event on 4/15 at Kobe's Troop Cafe

Band break up

It's april fools and all, but on the main page of MCM's site, they just announced that the band is breaking up.

]]> Actually, right now they're just 'taking a break', and doing individual activities. Maybe they'll get back together later? On Takeshi's site he says that he wants to get back to a point where he can make music the way MCM is supposed to. Neither Kyono nor Motokatsu have anything on their sites yet today.

Future info on Takeshi,
http://www.fuzzrezzweep.com/ (clothing brand)

Info on Kyono,
http://www.wagdug.com (clothing, design)

Info on Motokatsu
http://www.rhythmethod.jp (drum collaborative)
http://www.digitaltrap.com/ (clothing, design)
http://www.palmentertainment.jp (????)

I may put future info on the band members here, but otherwise consider this site to be on ice.

Motokatsu side project "Rally"

The name of Motokatsu's side project is "Rally" and their first recording will be on an upcoming Buck Tick Tribute Album.

New Motokatsu side project

Semi-announcement of new side project include Mad Capsule Markets' drummer Motokatsu.

]]> On his radio show "Teru Me", Glay's singer Teru released info about a new project he is involved in. More info, like the band name, will be released next month. For now, here's the line-up:

Motokatsu Miyagami (Drums) from THE MAD CAPSULE MARKETS
TERU (Vocals) from GLAY
Hisashi (Guitar) from GLAY
Koji Ueno (Bass) from THEE MICHELLE GUN ELEPHANT

Another Plug

Label, Shows, other stuff

They're moving and coming to a Donington Park near you!

]]> First off.. wow! After an indie release, Mad have spent their entire career on Victor. Over the weekend it was announced that they will be moving to Sony Entertainment.

Also, they will be playing at "Ozz fest stage" of DownLoad Festival on June 11th.

Finally, they'll be at SummerSonic this year again, August 13th and 14th.

Oh, and Positron's website has been updated.

Test your skills

How well do you know Digidogheadlock and Osc-Dis?

]]> Check out this site to see how many you can get right and how fast you can answer.

Mad cover in new Victor release

Punk/New Wave cover album

]]> " X CROSS THE STREET: JAPANESE PUNK AND NEW WAVE TRIBUTE", released from Victor on December 16th of 2004, contains a cover of Good Girl, by punk rockers NIA.

Here's a sample!

Bach fans unite!

Ever wonder what the original for "Bach Sleeps" is?

]]> Bach's Fugue for organ in G minor ("Little")

MAD book

100 page photo book from Victor Entertainment.

]]> They're selling it preorder at Tower Records Japan and HMV Japan. There are "only" 10000 copies available. It comes out March 16th. The book is only 500 yen, but Tower's shipping to the US is 2000 yen and to the UK it's 4000 yen!

I don't have an ISBN yet, but the it's from Victor Entertainment, the name is "Mad", and the catalog number is MAD1. Good luck folks!

This covers 15 years of Mad, it's a color book of photos hand-selected by the 3 Mad members. It's the first official book to be published about Mad, because they've always felt you can't understand them without sound. There is also a long interview with each of them. The book reviewers are making a big deal about the fact it has the design style of an English magazine. I can't gather whether it was actually designed overseas or not.

No word on the official page about this yet...