Plus-Tech Squeeze Box are a studio laboratory manned by the musical duo Hayashibe Tomonori (keys, programming, etc.) and Wakiya Takeshi (guitar, bass, etc.), who first teamed up in 1997. They create a mixture of pop, lounge, hip-hop, bigbeat , electro, jazz, and techno in odd combinations that usually flies by at high speeds. The sound is exhilarating and sometimes even disorienting. While only a cult band at this point in Japan, their striking sonic signature has given them a far reaching profile. Their debut album
Fakevox was released in October 2000, and later licensed to the UK indie Sur La Plage. In the UK it received airtime from legendary UK DJ John Peel, and reached #10 on London’s Xfm’s listener driven chart. Also “Early Riser”, a track taken from
Fakevox, was selected for a Coca-Cola TV commercial aired in the UK and France, and the group were featured in the BBC program
Adam and Joe Go Tokyo. In Japan Plus-Tech Squeeze Box, in addition to making their own albums and tracks on various compilations, are much in demand for remix work. In June 2004 they released their second album
cartoom!, which featured album artwork by Chip Wass, an illustrator best known for his work for
Nick at Nite and animator Hanna Barbara. The album featured different female singers on each cut, under the premise that the members were experimenting with and blowing up singing robots. As the title of their album implies, their music is sometimes thou...
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Plus-Tech Squeeze Box are a studio laboratory manned by the musical duo Hayashibe Tomonori (keys, programming, etc.) and Wakiya Takeshi (guitar, bass, etc.), who first teamed up in 1997. They create a mixture of pop, lounge, hip-hop, bigbeat , electro, jazz, and techno in odd combinations that usually flies by at high speeds. The sound is exhilarating and sometimes even disorienting. While only a cult band at this point in Japan, their striking sonic signature has given them a far reaching profile. Their debut album
Fakevox was released in October 2000, and later licensed to the UK indie Sur La Plage. In the UK it received airtime from legendary UK DJ John Peel, and reached #10 on London’s Xfm’s listener driven chart. Also “Early Riser”, a track taken from
Fakevox, was selected for a Coca-Cola TV commercial aired in the UK and France, and the group were featured in the BBC program
Adam and Joe Go Tokyo. In Japan Plus-Tech Squeeze Box, in addition to making their own albums and tracks on various compilations, are much in demand for remix work. In June 2004 they released their second album
cartoom!, which featured album artwork by Chip Wass, an illustrator best known for his work for
Nick at Nite and animator Hanna Barbara. The album featured different female singers on each cut, under the premise that the members were experimenting with and blowing up singing robots. As the title of their album implies, their music is sometimes thought to be suitable for cartoons, and in fact in their track “Jellyfish Song By The Jellyfish Band” was licensed for the soundtrack to the US made Paramount film
Spongebob Squarepants in November 2004.
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