Tokyo Jihen - Watering KissMint TV Ad

This TV advertisement for Glico's gum Watering KissMint was actually released before the "Noudouteki Sanpunkan" PV, but I didn't find any YouTube link for it so that's why I didn't post sooner.

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It feautures Ringo eating a gum and then moonwalking her way to a couch, which makes perfect sense, and in the background we can hear a short clip of TJ's new song.

Tokyo Jihen - Noudouteki Sanpunkan PV

Hey there folks! It's finally here, Tokyo Jihen's new song/PV! As you remember from my last post, the song is called "Noudouteki Sanpunkan" (pretty unpronounceable, I know) or just "3min", the official english translation. The song's duration is 3 minutes by the way (surprise!).

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Anyway, I wasn't very excited about these Tokyo Jihen news, but the song is unexpectedly good. Maybe it's really just because I was expecting something bad, who knows. I do think the video is pretty good if not one of their best videos yet and altough the Michael Jackson references first seem out of place, let's not forget the funky groove and well, the fact that it could be a tribute to the deceased artist.
Still, I think the best approach to this is to just continue unhyped and hopefully get a decent B-Side and then an enjoyable album. The Adultish sound of this new song could also tell us something about the album, unless it's titled Variety 2. Remember how "OSCA" didn't tell us anything about the final sound of Variety? Exactly.

Thanks to all of my friends who linked me the video :)

Tokyo Jihen - New Single, Album and Tour

Exactly one month has passed since my last post, but finally here I am again. Through internetless times and busy weeks, I'm once again available to take care of this special place!

But for now I'm just going to "update" everyone on what has been "updated" some weeks ago: Tokyo Jihen's new moves!
First, we have a single released December of this year. It's called "Noudouteki Sanpunkan" (能動的三分間).


Noudouteki Sanpunkan
能動的三分間
Release Date: 2009.12.02
TOCT-40280　1,000円($11)
1 - 能動的三分間 (Noudouteki Sanpunkan)
2 - 我慢 (Gaman)

Ringo will be in charge of the lyrics for both songs, but only the lead track will be composed by her. "Gaman" will be composed by Ichiyou Izawa. As for translations, the first track means something like "3 Minutes of Activity", but the official translation from kronekodow is just "3min". The second track means "Endurance".
So if there was any doubt about the theme of this single, there shouldn't be any by now: Tokyo Jihen are into sports now.

And that seems to also be true for the rest of the album where this single will be included, altough there is no title or release date so far. But it should be soon, since there is yet another annoucement: a nationwide tour in 2010.



Tokyo Jihen live tour 2010 Ultra C is the name of this new tour, which will span 22 concerts, from March 26 to June 23. It will be used to promote the new album, but I'm not sure if there's going to be a DVD release of the tour, like what happened with 2007's Spa & Treatment tour. I just think it all seems too fast to be any kind of "big thing", like in the Dynamite Out days, where not 1 but 2 DVDs were released. This is my opinion tho, of course.

Anyway, to check the different dates of the tour, just head out to kronekodow's website. The News section in the english page is worth checking out.

That's all for now. See you guys next time!

PS - Most information found in this post was taken from Orenji's personal blog. Thanks!

Tokyo Jihen - COUNTDOWN JAPAN 09/10

According to the popular j-music website Natalie.mu, Tokyo Jihen will perform at this year's COUNTDOWN JAPAN, a yearly event that starts December 28 and goes all the way into the new year.
Tokyo Jihen were there in 2006 as well, where they performed a pre-Heisei Fuuzoku version of "Oiran" (which I love). Let's hope this year's performance will bring us something to be excited with. But on the other hand, I also hope they do announce some more stuff for this year, because December is still a little bit far away.
The band will perform on December 30 and you can check the other artists at COUNTDOWN JAPAN here.

Thanks for the news Orenji!

Shiina Ringo - 2009.08.26 - Seiteki Healing 4

Here are all the PVs from the Seiteki Healing 4 DVD, including the alternative PV for "Irokoizata". I don't know how long they will stay on YouTube tho, so this post risks getting useless in the future, I guess. Enjoy!

旬 (Shun)

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流行 (Ryuukou)

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色恋沙汰 (Irokoizata)

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色恋沙汰 (Irokoizata) Alternative

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To access this alternative PV you must change the video angle during the normal "Irokoizata" PV.

ありあまる富 (Ariamaru Tomi)

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都合のいい身体 (Tsugou no Ii Karada)

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丸の内サディスティック (EXPO Ver.) (Marunouchi Sadistic)

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Shiina Ringo - 2000.07.30 - Zazen Xstasy

I consider Zazen Xstasy to be one of Ringo's most important concerts ever. It was a one night show, only available to a restricted number of fans, and with a setlist composed of tons of B-Sides, instead of the cliché songs. Some of them had interesting new arrangements and overall the performances were great. Also, it was the first and only Ringo concert to be broadcast live through the internet, with the choppy video/audio quality of the year 2000. And someone ripped it.
For some time, that rip and other audience recordings where the only way for anyone to experience the greatness of this concert. However, as everyone knows, we got lucky and in 2008 EMI released a great quality DVD with the full concert... Or was it? Not really! For some reason they decided to cut one of the songs, "Haikei EMI-dono", which is a cover of Sex Pistols' "EMI".

So what I've got here is the rip of the web streaming of the concert, which contains MC parts excluded from the DVD and also the Sex Pistols cover. But as you can guess, the audio quality is pretty crappy (and from what I saw of the video, that one is crappy too), so fortunately I also got hold of a audience recording bootleg of the "Haikei EMI-dono" song which sounds so much better.

I think the better option here is to keep the web rip because of the MCs (unless you don't care about those things) and then put "Haikei EMI-dono" along with the DVD rips of Zazen Xstasy (which I don't provide), in the order I will show bellow.


Tour: 座禅エクスタシー (Zazen Xstasy)
Venue: 嘉穂劇場 (Kaho Theatre)
Date: 2000.07.30
01 - 時が暴走する (Toki ga Busou Suru)
02 - 積木遊び (Tsumiki Asobi)
03 - 眩暈 (Memai)
04 - 少女ロボット (Shoujo Robot)
05 - リモートコントローラー (Remote Controller)
06 - MC1
07 - 茜さす帰路照らされど… (Akane-sasu Kiro Terasaredo…)
08 - 拝啓EMI殿 (Haikei EMI-dono)
09 - アイデンティティ (Identity)
10 - 病床パブリック (Byoushou Public)
11 - アンコンディショナル･ラブ (Unconditional Love)
12 - MC2
13 - サカナ (Sakana)
14 - 歌舞伎町の女王 (Kabukichou no Joou)
15 - 弁解ドビュッシー (Benkai Debussy)
16 - 浴室 (Yokushitsu)
17 - マイラグジュアリーナイト (My Luxury Night)
18 - シドと白昼夢 (Sid to Hakuchuumu)
19 - ストイシズム (Stoicism)

Download (MP3 v5)

You might be wondering why there is no "Nihon ni Umarete", and that's because it wasn't broadcasted in the web streaming.
Anyway, here is the "Haikei EMI-dono" from the audience recording bootleg, which sounds very good.

Download (MP3 160CBR)

PS - Starting this Saturday I'm going to be internetless during a month (maybe), so this is probably my last post till then. See ya!

Shiina Ringo - MY FOOLISH HEART PV + News

Okay, this was unexpected. So it seems SOIL&"PIMP"SESSIONS released a PV for the Ringo featuring song, "MY FOOLISH HEART ～crazy on earth～×椎名林檎". That said, there's no Ringo or apples on the video, at all. Leave a comment if you can see any reference to our lady please!



Thanks to my friend Orenji for the heads-up!

Update: According to the SOIL&"PIMP"SESSIONS website, there's a new arrangement of "MY FOOLISH HEART" called "MY FOOLISH HEART～Crazy in Shibuya～" which was released today on the japanese iTunes store and also as Chaku-Uta (ringtone).



If you have access to it, don't waste time and go buy the song, because it's a limited time release!

Shiina Ringo - 1999.08.12 - Tamentai Telepathy

Tamentai Telepathy, or 多面体テレパシー (meaning Polyhedron Telepathy), is another Space Shower TV special program about Shiina Ringo. First broadcasted two months before the release of the "Honnou" single, it's a hour long interview with Ringo, mostly shot in b/w. There are some clips of her PVs and other kinds of footage, but it's mostly b/w. The highlight of this whole interview is that Ringo has a realistic (toy) gun with her and at some points waves her carelessly around. Reminds me of her "Yokushitsu" performance at Ringo EXPO 08.
Anyway, like any other Ringo interview, it's a bit useless without an english translation, something I would like to provide but can't. Maybe one day...

Download (MP4 H264 352x262)

Shiina Ringo - 2000.08.30 - Kyuudan Recycle

Kyuudan Recycle, or 糾弾リサイクル (meaning Blame Recycle), is a special program made and broadcasted by Space Shower TV, first airing some weeks before the release of Zecchoushuu. Like the name implies, it's a "recycling" of old interviews, mainly Tamentai Telepathy and Yuuhatsu Orgasm. At the end of the program there's the PV for "Yattsuke Shigoto" along with a small Zecchoushuu ad.
Sadly, there is no english translation of this, so I guess it's not very useful to us non-japanese fans. I wonder if anyone out there is available to translate these kinds of interviews? Because I got a bunch here.

Download (MP4 H264 320x240)

Shiina Ringo - MY FOOLISH HEART

I didn't use the full name of the song because I didn't want to have a huge post title. Anyway, here's a YouTube video of the song "MY FOOLISH HEART ～crazy on earth～×椎名林檎", from SOIL&"PIMP"SESSIONS latest album, 6.

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I think the the second half gets better. It doesn't feel like a Ringo song, but it sounds pretty nice. I like SOIL&"PIMP"SESSIONS anyway.