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Brighton, United Kingdom (2000 – present)
Fujiya & Miyagi are an English band formed in Brighton in 2000. They are currently signed to Gronland Records in the United Kingdom. They are self-described as being heavily influenced by 70’s krautrock bands such as Can and Neu! as well as early-90’s electronic music artists like Aphex Twin. The origins of the band’s name come from a character in the movie The Karate Kid as well as the brand of a record player.
The story of how they met and formed the band variously reports a mutual hero-worship of world heavyweight wrestler Kendo Nagasaki (from Wolverhampton, and like the boys from F&M, not a Japanese cell in his muscle-bound body), and a shared interest in krautrock and early-nineties electronica discovered while warming the subs bench during Sunday league football
Origins of the band’s name are explained by them here:
David: “Miyagi was taken from the film ‘The Karate Kid’ and Fujiya was the name of a record player. It just looked really nice written down. And it was the only name we came up with”
Fujiya & Miyagi produce a sound that has been located by the music and media fraternity as somewhere between Can, the Happy Mondays, Alabama 3, Kraftwerk and Talking Heads. This, combined with David’s eclectic line in lyrics: ” I’ve got a slow, a slow, a slow metabolism” , has won them an excited legion of supporters, among whom may be counted DFA, Tiga, Andrew Weatherall, Chicken Lips, Damo Suzuki and BBC 6 Music’s Tom Robinson.
The story of how they met and formed the band variously reports a mutual hero-worship of world heavyweight wrestler Kendo Nagasaki (from Wolverhampton, and like the boys from F&M, not a Japanese cell in his muscle-bound body), and a shared interest in krautrock and early-nineties electronica discovered while warming the subs bench during Sunday league football
Origins of the band’s name are explained by them here:
David: “Miyagi was taken from the film ‘The Karate Kid’ and Fujiya was the name of a record player. It just looked really nice written down. And it was the only name we came up with”
Fujiya & Miyagi produce a sound that has been located by the music and media fraternity as somewhere between Can, the Happy Mondays, Alabama 3, Kraftwerk and Talking Heads. This, combined with David’s eclectic line in lyrics: ” I’ve got a slow, a slow, a slow metabolism” , has won them an excited legion of supporters, among whom may be counted DFA, Tiga, Andrew Weatherall, Chicken Lips, Damo Suzuki and BBC 6 Music’s Tom Robinson.
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Lightbulbs
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Uh/One Trick Pony
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Electro Karaoke In The Negative Style
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appreciatedmutt wrote:
Wow!, this is an amazing vid http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5Aix07MLHE
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oOBunny wrote:
Their albums are really fantastic! But i just get two pieces of them, who could tell me where i can download their albums?!...Thanks... <3
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Ilenbudiristio wrote:
i love the transparent things and i feel okay
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dalmascan wrote:
unbelievably contagious stuff; i've always loved them <3
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stevenprins wrote:
Collarbone <3
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Tzimoun wrote:
I love Transparent Things!
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Grenouille_ wrote:
Collarbone
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Jharod wrote:
Saw them live @ Fnac festival in Paris, unbelievingly good!
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danydaniella wrote:
I downloaded goosebumps by mistake (haha) but I began to love this band <3
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tentypeffka wrote:
Collarbone - LOVE IT ! :S
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Jazzdjur wrote:
Neu-Kraut!
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Shafaak wrote:
LOVE and nothing but!
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Superbeast187 wrote:
Uh rules!
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ouzo-portokali wrote:
I really enjoyed your music on Friday night in Athens synch! Thanks!
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third_escalante wrote:
Seriously! Collarbone ROCKS.
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third_escalante wrote:
First time I heard Collarbone, I. just. froze. and sat listening. like a cat. looking intently at the fishbowl.
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joniswed wrote:
first time her collarbone tripped over my shoelaces (8) <3
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joniswed wrote:
fuckin' Awesome! =]
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Rulparapel wrote:
Oh my!
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SecondeNature wrote:
Live le vendredi 05 juin 2009. Festival Seconde Nature, à la fondation Vasarely, Aix-en-Provence. + d'infos sur www.secondenature.org
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TRANSPARENT THINGS - THE LYRICS
1 Aug 2008 | from blog.myspace.com/fujiyaandmiyagi
PHOTOCOPIER – LYRIC BY DAVID BESTa photocopier hums yellow magic orchestrai'm just monkeying around with your furnitureyou're losing you're losing your bodily fluidsi got so i got so so monosyllabicyo. …
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24 Jan 2007 | from blog.myspace.com/fujiyaandmiyagi
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