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The Japanese Popstars Mix It Up A Little

The Japanese Popstars Mix It Up A Little

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The Japanese Popstars have announced they’ll be remixing the Ting Tings’ new single, ‘Be The One’. The Northern Irish band, who release their debut album, ‘We Just Are’, on 28th July on Gung-Ho Records, met the Manchester duo at last weekend’s Oxegen festival.

Elsewhere on the remix front, The Japanese Popstars have been busy adding their electronic touch to bands including The Music (’Drugs’), Grand National (’Cut By The Brakes’), Shinichi Osawa (‘Star Guitar’), and Tong & Spoon (’Gas Face’).

You can see the video to their new single, ‘Rise Of Ulysses’ (released on 8 September) below. It features licensed footage from the cult cartoon series, ‘Ulysses 31’…

Monday, July 21st, 2008 at 2:57 pm
The Japanese Popstars - We Just Are Preview

The Japanese Popstars - We Just Are Preview

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The Japanese Popstars are riding a wave of great live gigs, major festival bookings, and media praise off the back of their recent single, EP1. In their debut album, We Just Are, they have a collection of 12 tracks that will really take them places!

Native to Northern Ireland (any fetishists expecting cute Japanese girls can leave now), and consisting of Declan McLaughlin, Gary Curran, and Gareth Donoghue, The Japanese Popstars are signed to bespoke indie label, Gung-Ho Recordings (Gus Gus, Zoo Brazil) in the UK, and Beatink in Japan (home of Underworld, Aphex Twin, Cinematic Orchestra).

The Japanese Popstars’ only parallel with rock music is that they’d built up a sizeable live following before releasing their first major single - some might even say cultish, judging by the amount of clips…

Saturday, June 14th, 2008 at 2:32 pm
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