a dead nexus of disparate grooves... Supercar

スーパーカー SUPERCAR were (one of) the best band(s) in Japan in the Millennial era. They began with a garage rock sound, diversified by having two singers, Miki and Kouji. The sound transformed into a strongly electronic style in the years before the band’s end. Check out their OOYeah!! album here... Now, the former main musicians and singers, Miki Furukawa(フルカワミキ) and Koji Nakamura (中村弘二、aka Nyantora, ニャントラ), continue to make music which has taken Supercar’s later electronic sound as their starting points. The other members, Ishiwatari Junji and Tazawa Koudai, are also still active, but I’m not sure what labels their music is under / what bands they joined... Anyway, you can hear Nyantora's continuation of the late Supercar style on his 99-00 album.

Here's the seriously cool vid for Nyantora's Taitan, directed by Toshio Iwai, famed artist and creator of the DS game Electroplankton.

And here's the PV for Strobolights, one of Supercar's most purely electronic pieces, courtesy of divx.stage6.

(I'll get a vid of Miki up soon :)

^ Kouji