Orbital: The Hartnoll bros’ second coming Posted on March 20, 2012 by dangrunebaum “These days everyone’s spoiled. We’ve got too much technology.” – Paul Hartnoll Metropolis, Mar 19, 2012
Gabez: Silent comedy gets the Tokyo treatment Posted on March 16, 2012 by dangrunebaum “We Japanese respond to comedy because we’re so serious in daily life,” Hiroshi says, pointing to forms from 600-year-old kyogen to contemporary owarai. “But Gabez jokes around all the time.” Metropolis, Mar 14, 2012 Photo by Dan Grunebaum.
Shuichi Hidano: The taiko virtuoso is banging the drums of change Posted on March 7, 2012 by dangrunebaum ““My elders were really angry at my cross-genre experiments,” Hidano recalls. “They said, ‘That’s not taiko.’” Metropolis, Mar 6, 2012 Photo by Cedric Leherle.
Ken Ishii: Out of the dark and into the daylight for Japan’s biggest techno DJ Posted on March 4, 2012 by dangrunebaum The electronic music innovator says he almost lost the will to create after 3.11, while working on his new album Music for Daydreams. Metropolis, Mar 1, 2012
