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Come with me to Sennichimae, in the Namba district of Osaka. We're in the Misono building, a decayed 1950s office block housing a faded hotel, tacky cabaret and sleazy sento, now increasingly a magnet for funky young art and music people.

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On the second floor there's this bar run by Isao Sano, otherwise known as breakcore eccentric Ove-Naxx (photo by Filastine):



Ove-Naxx is part of the same extended breakcore family as the Adaadat people (he's recorded for the label, and looks scary on their website) and therefore connects to Joe Germlin, and therefore, more tenuously, to me (I'm also a part-time Osakan via Hisae, though we haven't yet been to the Misono Building on our annual Osaka trips).

Creative abuse of the Akai MPC 2000 sequencer-sampler is a core part of this sound -- Ove-Naxx even has a track called Once Upon A Time in MPC. But he adds something Residents-like, an underground-from-the-underground whackiness I find appealing. Since I'm scribbling Scotlands at the moment (as well as a ton of journalism -- including a semi-serious piece about Matsuri-kei for Playground), I'll just embed a couple of Ove-Naxx films here, starting with Ovekeyashiki and Donga's Monsta Circus:

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And here he is doing something more conventionally breakcore-ish -- and masturbating over his audience, at least in spirit.

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I guess Osaka always was a little more uninhibited than Tokyo. Something in the water.

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Date: 2008-09-26 04:51 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] seripop.livejournal.com
that second photo rules!!1

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Date: 2008-09-26 05:52 am (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)

a free album!
http://www.mediafire.com/?yczwm2mjfwx


hey mom,
when i was posting this, it gave me the usual: Please confirm you are a human below.
well.. the word they wanted me to type was materially
"post-materialism" should be the code, right?

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Date: 2008-09-26 10:23 am (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
Alternatively buy a few comedy sound fx cds and an old drum machine you can't really work.

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Date: 2008-09-26 10:52 am (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
Momus, I would love to straddle you and allow you to penetrate me slowly, while you pinched my nipples.

best wishes
Mitsuko

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Date: 2008-09-26 10:03 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] microworlds.livejournal.com
O________O

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Date: 2008-09-26 12:19 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
Ask your doctor before using Ovenaxx. Side effects include bloody stool, blurry vision, kidney failure and in rare cases some have experienced sneezing.

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Date: 2008-09-26 03:27 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
Jason Dresden

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Date: 2008-09-27 04:50 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] junkerr.livejournal.com
since I haven't seen it on here yet:
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