Techno Pop Triple Play

August 11, 2009 7:38 PM

Three Japanese Techno-Pop Bands rock it back-to-back-to-back on a kid's show.[SLYT]. The bands, in order, are P-Model, Hikashu, and Plastics. You're welcome.
posted by SansPoint (22 comments total)

Epic load time... but I stuck with it and was entertained. It's kinda like watching The Warriors, but in an alternate universe.
posted by doubleozaphod at 7:50 PM on August 11

Oh wow. I completely love P-Model and the Plastics. Great find.
posted by Item at 7:50 PM on August 11

...and now I love Hikashu.
posted by Item at 7:52 PM on August 11

Good shit!
posted by ElmerFishpaw at 8:00 PM on August 11

That P-Model song is pure awesome.

Thank you.
posted by sapo at 8:06 PM on August 11

oh how fucking awesome
posted by Kattullus at 8:08 PM on August 11

Wow, this is great. For those who don't know, that's a young HIRASAWA Susumu (he did the soundtracks for Paranoia Agent, Paprika, and Millennium Actress, among about a billion solo records) fronting for P-Model. His solo stuff is more atmospheric, but definitely worth checking out if you like P-Model.
posted by vorfeed at 8:18 PM on August 11

The first song reminds me of XTC's "Science Friction". (I'd link to it, but YouTube seems to be having issues today.)
posted by The Tensor at 8:18 PM on August 11

Nth-ing the awesomeness of that P-Model song. Can anyone recommend an album or two?
posted by evadery at 8:31 PM on August 11

evadery

Their two best records are "In a Model Room", and their self titled album. Enjoy.
posted by SansPoint at 8:40 PM on August 11 [1 favorite has favorites]

Ah that was great.

How did music like that end up at Sandii and the Sunsetz?
posted by awfurby at 8:46 PM on August 11

This is yet another thing that makes me realize how unoriginal (not bad, just not original) most current underground indiepop is.

I love this, by the way. I thought the last band was really great too.
posted by nosila at 8:50 PM on August 11

Anybody know what year this is from? Or anything else about the bands? A SLYT does not fully satisfy!
posted by ericost at 9:33 PM on August 11

Top top top top top secret!
posted by gimonca at 9:43 PM on August 11

Wikilinks
* P-Model - techno-pop band started in 1979 by frontman Susumu Hirasawa
* Hikashu (song: "20 Seiki no Owari ni" -At the End of the 20th Century-) - renowned underground "avant-pop" collective
* Plastics - a short-lived new wave music group prominent in the late 1970s and early 1980s

One YT comment states 1979's techno, Young Hirasawa so cute. Another comment states it was in 1980 in japanese nacional TV program for children.
posted by filthy light thief at 9:49 PM on August 11

Ah yeah - the opening credits superimposed over the bands after the hosts intro them say "Summer 1980 - what is technopop?"
posted by awfurby at 11:57 PM on August 11

Drummers:80's Pop :: Bass Players:Naughties Indie Rock
posted by bardic at 1:48 AM on August 12

Yes this is awesome.
posted by Jofus at 4:54 AM on August 12

Oh God Oh God That Rules.

Soulseek -- take a search. Plastics. P-Model. Hikashu.
Don't fail me now!
posted by Rumpled at 6:08 AM on August 12

Nice find and three great bands from one of the most interesting periods of Japanese pop. Plastics and P-Model can start to sound a little same-y after a few songs, but Hikashu experimented a bit more. John Zorn put out a pretty good compilation of Hikashu a while back on his Tzadik label.
posted by p3t3 at 7:02 AM on August 12

So awesome. Thanks SansPoint. I'd never seen these three before, but I would totally marry them.
posted by RokkitNite at 7:11 AM on August 12

Wow, this is amazing.
posted by Unicorn on the cob at 9:48 AM on August 12