{"id":123348,"date":"2024-08-12T10:32:15","date_gmt":"2024-08-12T14:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/panm360.com\/?post_type=dossiers&p=123348"},"modified":"2024-08-12T15:51:22","modified_gmt":"2024-08-12T19:51:22","slug":"tokyo-calling-polysics-with-helsinki-lambda-club-peanut-butters-fever-shimokitazawa-march-28-2024","status":"publish","type":"dossiers","link":"https:\/\/panm360.com\/en\/dossiers-360\/tokyo-calling-polysics-with-helsinki-lambda-club-peanut-butters-fever-shimokitazawa-march-28-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Tokyo Calling | Polysics with Helsinki Lambda Club, Peanut Butters @ Fever, Shimokitazawa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n


One of the world\u2019s most populous cities and certainly among the most interesting, Tokyo is a place where there is never a lack of worthwhile things to do, and that includes musical options in the countless \u201clive houses,\u201d or concert bars, peppered across the municipal map. Japanese musicians and fans have long demonstrated a thirst for sounds from abroad, and an informed respect as well, so quality rock, reggae, jazz, and much more can be found easily enough. For the foreign visitor, the distinctively domestic creations and interpretations are the most interesting. While tickets aren\u2019t cheap, the online reservation system is practical (and honourably devoid of treacherous supplementary fees), sound quality is taken seriously, early start times much appreciated, and the sheer energy of the local audiences astounding. Below are a quartet of musical events from early spring that PANM360 is pleased to report back on.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It\u2019s almost three decades now that Japan\u2019s purveyors of \u201ctechnicolor pogo punk” have been dishing out their mix of raucous garage rock and retro electronics (they\u2019re named in honour of a Korg synthesizer). You wouldn\u2019t know it, though, from the set Polysics<\/strong><\/a> banged out at the rather plain, mid-sized venue Fever<\/strong><\/a>, a bit off the beaten path in what\u2019s currently Tokyo\u2019s preeminent hipster neighbourhood, Shimokitazawa. The band is known from a severly elevated energy level on stage, and when that stage is in a part of town they clearly cherish and play in frequently, they\u2019re pretty hard to beat in that respect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Clad in their yellow jumpsuits and censor-bar sunglasses, the debt that founder and frontman Hiroyuki Hayashi and company owe to Devo is enormous, and they aren\u2019t reticent about it. They\u2019ve been covering, quoting, even collaborating with Devo throughout the years, though they\u2019ll certainly acknowledge inspiration from P-Model (Susumu Hirasawa\u2019s early new-wave band) and of course Yellow magic Orchestra, still venerated throughout Japan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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