Auntie BEEB Radio 4 aired the radio drama over three days called "A Tok yo Murder" on Tuesday.
I would say its rather "Orientalist", especial in the drama's ending music* and choice of the overly-cute Japanese announcer. Listen to the last 10 seconds of the dialogue of Part 1 and 30 seconds of the closing credits with "Asian"* music.
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*Asian-esque gamelan style music in not Japanese any more than Turkish belly dancing music sounds like Irish folk songs.
After a decade-long run on TV, Stargate's SG1 is going to movies (in this case direct to DVD).
Stargate: The Ark of Truth (IMDB.com) .
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For more information see my full report at: Japanese ‘Heavy Metal’ earthquake early warning
March 20, 2008 08:55 PM PDT
ON FIRST DAY OF SPRING...
February 14, 2008 09:50 PM PST
Japanese robo-cutie, "Hatsune Miku," sings national anthems of France, Germany, Netherlands, Italy, UK and USA in a amazing Japanese accent. Since Miss Miku is a Yamaha-created synthesizer software product,VOCALOID2, she "sings" the lyrics as they transcribed into Japanese syllables and charmingly twisted.
Hatsune Miku here.
February 12, 2008 07:48 PM PST
Schlockmeister filmmaker Quentin Tarantino says he wants to someday make a third "Kill Bill" epic, this time following the story of the "Bride's" daughter.
MINI MINI LOVE by Kanai Katsuko, circa 1967.
MINI MINI LOVE
January 25, 2008 07:56 AM PST
Here are two, super-simple, 3-second, Torchwood ringtones in case my previous audio files that I posted were too long (too large) to fit on your mobile device.
Source: Torchwood, season 2, episode 02 "Sleeper" ripped from stereo HDTV.
January 24, 2008 08:21 PM PST
If you want to use the Torchwood theme as your ringtone, the following might be some help.
1st. Each brand of cellphone requires a different type of format for a ringtone. To find out which ringtone format your cellphone uses, refer to your manual, webpage, or call your cellphone provider.
2nd. Note that my LONG the 53-second theme to Torchwood in the MP3 format is most likely too long for your cellphone. Above is a short 10-second version of the Torchwood theme in the MP3 format that my Japanese cellphones will accept.
3rd. Please note that you can convert my Torchwood 53-second MP3 or my 10-second MP3 , and then format it to your cell phone's specific ringtone format using this free service from media-convert.com:
January 01, 2008 12:03 AM PST
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Which WITCH DOCTOR do you like the best of the following four versions?
No. 1:
No. 3: podcast's MP3 is the better but less famous cover version recorded in late 1958? by the mysterious "John Morris" who has no information about this cover on the Internet that I can find (Can anyone help?).
No. 3:
No. 4: "Alvin and The Chipmunks" .
December 31, 2007 03:48 AM PST
Thanks to the time-traveling wonder of the International Dateline, it's already New Years Eve here in Tokyo.
Yes, welcome to 2008, the year of the Rodent/ Rat/Mickey Mouse!
In the 12-year cycle of the Orient [Wikikipedia] , the Year of the Rat is thought as a year for go-getters with charm. In other words, it's gonna be a real Mickey Mouse Year. See a mousey photo of me enjoying the new year at my 3Yen website .
And enjoy starting off this funky Mickey Mouse kind of a year with my MP3 of the "The Mouse" by Señor Soul from his 1969 album of gumbo-funk, It's Your Thing.
December 27, 2007 08:20 AM PST
Japan's inmates dislike unstylish pajamas
Thu Dec 27, 5:39 AM ET, Yahoo! News (Reuters) TOKYO ---- Japanese prisoners dislike their unstylish pajamas, feel their cells are too small and want better meals, a government survey has found...inmates...found their vertically striped grayish pajamas to be unfashionable. Close to half said the colors were bad, and 44 percent said the design was ugly...more .... Gee, I don't know about this but I always thought that being "Bananas-In-Pajamas " was the cheery and stylish...See the YouTube below.
December 22, 2007 06:06 AM PST
Well, the attack of the Konzak's Christmas Clarence Gooey Duck in English and Japanese all started for me with today's post on the WFMU's "Beware of the Blog."
Jim Gaerhart - Clarence The Geoduck (MP3, 5:53)... The Geoduck clam , pronounced "Gooey Duck," is the giant clam of American Northwest coast, with a profoundly phallic shape of the siphon, has led to the belief in Japan and China that the shellfish has aphrodisiac properties. This lead to recording a Japanese version of the Gooey Duck Song by harpmaker-storyteller Ron Konzak of Washington State. The group "Pierymplezak" (Ron Konzak, Bob Dalrymple, Judy and Jerry Elfendah, et al) released the song in 1972 as a 45 single by "Acme Music" (GNP Crescendo, #468). The novelty song was popular hit in the Seattle area and it's still a standard tune found in Cub Scout song books.
I trimmed down the nearly six minute long Christmas promotional single to just the English and Japanese versions of the song, which I've posted here on Aodomatic an iPod-ready, MP3 format (3:08 minutes) of the tune.
You can also watch and listen to the Goggle video of Konzak's Gooey Duck Song (Geoduck) Seattle Songs (2 min 29 sec)
And be sure to check out Ron Konzak's konzak.com website .
October 12, 2007 12:03 AM PDT
Happy Crappy," that teaches English, hee, hee.
r ish spelling, refer to my other website ‘HAPPY CRAPPY!’ — Japanese TV
You can visit the official Happy Crappy! website. Better yet, you can listen and download to the star of the show, JunJun-chan, singing the Happy Crappy! theme song here (MP3, 2.9MB, 1:23 minutes).
September 11, 2007 10:05 PM PDT
Here's the group Athlete busking the song "Tokyo" in front of the Design Museum on the Thames river to support "Crisis ", 15 Nov, 2006.
September 09, 2007 02:55 AM PDT
Mao Inoue gets Panky, Panky, Panky with her creepy toy monkey.
"Panky" is a chocolate snack from Meiji Corporation. See the official Japanese website .
August 31, 2007 08:22 PM PDT
Here's a funny MP3 rip (2.5MB) of a YouTube video from the " Lovely Complex " Japanese TV series.
MP3 link here. )
It's the Umibozu Song performed by Susumu TERAJIMA (he is really a actor who specializing in playing yakuza and is not a singer per se). In the video he poses as a wannabe gangsta rapper, "Umibozu Umi-Bozu - Japanese sea monster .
Anyway...With scantily clad girls gyrating against him as he sings inane lyrics, this TV segment is a funny parody of lame-o rappers.
August 17, 2007 08:33 PM PDT
the new video by US band Spoon with the Japanese Keepon robot prototype which the featured on the 3Yen last March in japanese-beat-bot
The video features Keepon's dancing and bopping in geek groundzero, Akiba in Tokyo to the new tune of Spoon, Don't You Evah .
And, thanks to Creative Commons Attribution, here's Don't You Evah as a low-fi MP3 (7 MB) of the audio of that YouTube.
August 15, 2007 04:10 PM PDT
THE WORLD'S DORKIEST MUSIC Radio Taiso - the morning exercise music of Japan - Joi.Ito.com
July 23, 2007 01:52 AM PDT
"Burqa Blue" is the title of this song inspired by the traditional Afghani dress, the burka, a symbol of enforced Islamic marginalisation of woman. The lead singer Nargiz and her friends appear in this video boogieing in their blue burkas in Kabul Afghanistan.
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June 25, 2007 10:58 PM PDT
Gigantor (aka Tetsujin 28-go, literally “Iron Man #28) was the first “giant robot” of Japan. The original manga by Mitsuteru Yokoyama was published in 1958 which was later made into several anime cartoon series, the first in 1963.
Listen to Gigantor's Japanese vs English theme music MP3 (4.5MB) here.
Read more about the "Gigantor erection in Kobe Japan"!
June 24, 2007 10:34 PM PDT
Yerrow Submarien Ondo - by Akiko Kanazawa,
enka/minyo version of the Beatles "Yellow Submarine" in MP3 (750KB) format. Enjoy.
May 17, 2007 11:16 PM PDT
Via the always neo-Japaneseque PinkTentacle.com , below is a video of the Japanese group "Hifana"-- artists KEIZOmachine! and Juicy who do belly dance percussionists and now electronica for their sampling, scratchy breakbeat, hip-hop tunes.
And I've sampling sampling samples of in Hifana iPod-ready, MP3, 6.8MB, 4:15min with CD cover art and liner notes.
MP3 link HERE.
May 13, 2007 09:26 PM PDT
Tom Waits , Guano Apes , and Alphaville have both written different songs titled and about the curse of being musically "Big In Japan." There's even a punk band called Big in Japan.
However in this case, after 30 years, a teen jazz trio called the "Dapele Brothers" have become "big in Japan" and the whole world is now taking notice.
"Maudlin" + "Shortened Suite" (MP3, 3.2MB, 1:32 min.)
Alternative link here. ]
Read the-rest-of-the-story about this a teen jazz group, Dapele Trio, that took 30 years to make a hit here .
May 08, 2007 07:07 PM PDT
Japanese octopus-dumpling soda MP3, “Gagged Gizzard Goo ” by Otto Von Schirach.
Read the rest-of-the-story about Japanese octopus-dumpling soda in the comments of my 3Yen.com website.
May 02, 2007 06:38 PM PDT
As a companion piece to my previous post "Blast-from-the-past: Jeanette" , here's 1:13 minute clip the original soundtrack of the movie, which has a bit of Spanish at the end.
Also check out the Japanese connection and anime here .
May 02, 2007 09:27 AM PDT
On YouTube I found a film clip containing this remarkable song, "Porque te vas" by somebody called "Jeanette."
After a bunch of poking around, I that Jeanette Dimech was sort of a one-hit-wonder from the 1960s and this song was her claim to fame. The film clip is a scene from Carlos Saura's 1976 film Cria Cuervos (Raise Crows, a Cannes Film Festival winner) where Jeanette's "Porque Te Vas" plays.
"Porque Te Vas" has been covered many times without the lo-fi charm of the original. Below is a Japanese anime mashup of the original song recorded in 1974. The anime below is called Midori ho Hibi , which a pun on the Japanese "Golden week" holiday happening now in Japan (Read full details here).
Enjoy the iPod ready MP3 (5MB) of the original recording of 1974 song although with the hamster noises of the 1976 film.
April 13, 2007 07:59 AM PDT
Happy Friday the Thirteenth at Seven Springs!
Happy Birthday, Jimmy
February 11, 2007 06:53 PM PST
Sometimes I'm left dumbfounded by Japanese TV commercials such as this one for Shigekix's "Ah!Brain " candy.
Yes, that's what I said... BRAIN CANDY. "Mmmm, brains."
Ah!Brain is a brain-stimulant sour candy that's is supposed to make your brain GENKI /peppy with BCAA (Branched Chain Amino Acids) that stimulate your brain cells to give you more moments of "Aha!" You can order super-duper Ah!Brain from J-List.com .
Listen to a short, 15-second version of the Aha!Brain "song here.
Shigekix's official webpage for their TV commercials.
READ MORE HERE ABOUTBRAIN CANDY.
February 05, 2007 10:59 PM PST
Since I'm such a cadillacing kind of guy ...I got real exited when I found the new cadillacing music music video by Joan Jett on mycadillacstory.com.
As watched the Joan Jett music promo started to think, "Why all the Cadillacs in her video?"
I'm sure the extra money from GM helped, but the rest-of-the-story was that for years, her producer's Cadillac served as touring vehicle and record label HQ:
So, what the hell.... I remixed the sound of Joan Jett's new music video, "Change the World" with the rest of her Cadillac story interview into one MP3 podcast here that you listen to or right-click to download (MP3, 7.6MB, 5min 34sec) -- Joan Jett interview.
Alternatively, just listen to the song without the interview here (MP3, 4.4MB, 3min 13sec) "Change the World" --Joan Jett.
View the the original interview video Joan Jett's Cadillac Story here on mycadillacstory.com.
February 05, 2007 05:54 PM PST
DO YOU FOLKS LIKE COFFEE?
NOW .
Dethklok -- MP3 (848KB, 34 sec).
aaaaahhhahahahaah scream for cream
February 04, 2007 06:07 PM PST
Wookiee Impersonator Arrested for Battery
iWon News - Feb 3, 7:57 AM (ET), LOS ANGELES (AP) - A man dressed as Chewbacca was arrested after police said the street performer head-butted a tour guide operator in front of Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood...The tour guide, Brian Sapir, told the Los Angeles Times that he asked the Chewbacca impersonator to stop harassing two young Japanese tourists when the actor exploded in anger.........more on the Wookiee story here... Listen to my remix of the Chewbacca song by Supernova from the 1994 movie "CLERKS " here in iPod-ready, MP3 format (2.1MB, 1:30min) .
Watch the YouTube video of the Chewbacca song .
January 28, 2007 08:18 PM PST
'Hitachi tree' bringing owner $4 million
Honolulu Advertiser: Friday, January 26, 2007 ...more... I made an MP3 remix of the old 1970s and the present day Happy Tree song of Hitachi Japan. Enjoy the dorkiness.
Watch the latest version here on YouTube performed by the Japanese group, INSPi, has performed "image-advertising" song called "Hitachi No Ki" - Hitachi's Tree.
For more details and information about Hitachi's Happy Tree, see my 3Yen website.
January 14, 2007 10:24 PM PST
Microsoft sent this wacked tape to their retailers to explain the benefits of Windows 386. Boring until the 7 minute mark when the production is taken over by crack-smoking monkeys.
Goggle video , 12 min 5 sec.
planet Earth and Japan at globee.com
January 04, 2007 07:35 PM PST
CORNHOLIO is God! And here is my special new MP3 remix of just the audio of Cornholio's song ready for your iPod (1.2MB, 80 seconds).
And here's a YouTube video of one of great moments in TV history, hee, hee.
December 31, 2006 11:26 PM PST
The Japanese neo-psychedelic-noise rock group, "YURA YURA TEIKOKU" performing "Soft Death (I am gifted in math). " Their Japanese website --"Yura Yura Teikoku (ゆらゆら帝国)-- is not half as fun as their English site where you can download free MP3s in their hi-fi versions or their myspace site with full of songs. You might think you know somethin' about Japanese underground, however YURA YURA TEIKOKU butt reams The 5678's, Miminokoto, et al.
This recording is live radio so there's an Emergency Alert System in the middle of the song, which is perfectly fitting because 2007 is the Year of the Wild Boar in Japan (more info here).
December 19, 2006 01:38 AM PST
This song was discovered in the ancient Syrian city of Ugarit in the 1950s but have only be decrypted into music in the past few years. The tablets containing the song notation were about 3400 years old.
The song is written in cuneiform markings of the Hurrian language. The music is a complete religious/cult hymn and it's the oldest preserved song with notation in the world. AND, that makes my podcast the WORLD'S OLDEST MP3, hee, hee.
More info at:
sheet music for the oldest song in the world
robo-handjob
October 24, 2006 09:49 PM PDT
Visit and watch the anime dorks do Toryanse ."Japan...where the the traffic lights sing" Technorati Profile .
October 24, 2006 09:44 PM PDT
Listen to my podcast remix of the ubiquitous sound of Japan----musical pedestrian crossings--in this case near Kyoto station. (streaming or MP3 format, 2.2MB, 1 minute 34 seconds)
Most larger crossings in Japan play this electronic tune, called Toryanse (通りゃんせ ) when it's safe to cross. Ahh, Japan...where the
The children's song Toryanse literally means "Please Let Me Pass" in Japanese. However, it's really just plainkimoi/ creepy in its melancholic minor key--- especially so when you think about the words:
For the full lyrics and more info, go to: "Toryanse " in Wikipedia .
For good laugh, watch the video of language-study dorks in the States doing the Japanese kindergarten song and dance of Toryanse .
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October 23, 2006 10:02 PM PDT
Here's the first-available MP3 recording the the theme of "Torchwood" --- the hot new BBC television spin-off of Doctor Who, the science-fiction staple for decades. "Torchwood" is an anagram of "Doctor Who" but it's based in an almost real world as the Torchwood investigators as they use alien technology to hunt down criminal both human and alien. The program also slips in alien gender-bending. Jolly good fun.
You can use the "torrents" YouTube to watch it now. Then...
For more info, visit the official BBC3 Torchwood website.
October 08, 2006 07:37 AM PDT
Here's a little fun from Japan's public broadcaster, NHK, ---the girl "idol" group "Vanilla Mood" (バニラムード) doing the "Mission Impossible" theme in a sexy, classical music style. Watch and listen to the
YouTube video here.
For comparison, here is the MP3/podcast of just the audio of the "Mission Impossible 3" themes taken from the film's soundtrack---looking at Vanilla Mood's theme is a lot easier on the eyes (and ears) than Scientology-freakazoid Tom Cruise.
October 06, 2006 02:14 AM PDT
Today the charming folks at Japan's public TV broadcaster, NHK, have decided to haul everyone (10 million households) into court to force them to pay $127 to $343 USD for JapanInc's Stalinist version of TV. I'm so pleased I just needed to hear the "Happy Happy Joy Joy" Song by Ren-&-Stimpy.
I realized that there isn't a cleaned-up audio version on it the Net. So, today I remixed and made a tightened-up a version of it from the TV show's animation I found on YouTube.com which you can watch here . I cut out most of the cartoon's loud crashes and sound effects. Enjoy, Happy Happy Joy Joy!
September 27, 2006 08:27 PM PDT
Halloween is only a month away, my "friends" sent me these videos of the "Tarako" Japanese TV commercial.TARAKO via YouTube
Basically, it's a song about "Tarako," which is a cod roe topping for pasta. Yum! I explain all the details about TARAKO on my regular website, news.3Yen.com ,.
In order to exorcise the noise demons(c) in my head of those girls "Kigurumi" singing on that Japanese TV commercial (and a promo music video) I had to make this sick remix. Enjoy---2min 49sec.
September 25, 2006 06:22 PM PDT
Here's a short Japanese TV segment called "The Patrolman's Love Call" -- a children's safety song for teaching kids how to call the police and also about the prevention of prank calls.
Rob Pongi's video which he has subtitled in English and edited down just for your pleasure:"Patrolman's Love Call" (1-minute video)
Although Rob calls this is "very artistic and poignant," it's actually just a satrical Japanese TV segment from the "The Black Wide Show." However, the Japanese announcer explains that this safety song went to No. 4 on the charts in 2001!
September 18, 2006 09:33 PM PDT
YouTube - Restored Milwaukee Road Steam Engine
I made an edited MP3 postcast (45 seconds) recorded from the above YouTube for the sounds of the old Milwaukee Road No. 261 steam locomotive.
It's a real cool sound but... Didn't anybody notice in the video that behind the stream locomotive there was a modern diesel pusher engine doing all the work, meh.
September 17, 2006 07:06 PM PDT
It's is a sure sign of fall.....screaming in the streets!
Here's my recording of a Japanese street festival in font of my house on the seedy side of Denenchofu, Tokyo. Also I added a slight background generated by the Tenori-On(cm) device/computer toy---Japanese Theremin for the 21th Century--- created by Toshio Iwai, a Japanese installation artist.
September 16, 2006 07:47 PM PDT
Podcast for the kid in you... Robert Service's poem, "The Cremation of Sam McGee," tells the tale of two gold miners in the Yukon and one man's "last request" hee, hee. Kids like me love the creapy ending.
Dan Pinkwater and NPR' s Scott Simon on Weekend Edition Saturday, August 19, 2006 .
September 15, 2006 06:19 PM PDT
The Japanese group "Schadaraparr" popularizied hip-hop in Japan at the start of the 1990s, and now they have moved on to retro techno. Listen to this remix MP3 podcast of just the audio from their new single “Disco System" taken from a YouTube music video: YouTube - Schadaraparr video: “Disco System”
Schadaraparr and their Japanese robot play as parts of a Rube Goldberg-ish machine, which is actually a copy of the highly popular “Pitagora-Switch” children's TV show of Japan's national broadcaster NHK.
WTF does Japanese " “Pitagora-Switch” aka pitagorasuichi mean?
Japanese engr ish for "Pythagoras Switch."
"Literacy is overrated because it's no longer necessary." --via
September 10, 2006 07:49 AM PDT
Here's my edited version of Swedish Chef sketch, Episode 120, of The Muppet Show in which he decorates chocolate cake. When the cake starts to complain in Japanese--- "Eeee-yo chap-su!" ---the Swedish Chef takes his "Cakenschmoozer" (baseball bat) and ...
After the Japanese Cake audio, I added a collection of the Swedish Chef's signature, song "Børk, Børk, Børk, Børk." Jim Hens
