Fujiya & Miyagi Remix Contest
Notes from the Band:
It's not been easy to choose a clear winner - would it be possible for us to nominate two joint winners?"
Grand Prize Winners
Grand Prize
Merchandise from Fujiya & Miyagi and Deaf Dumb and Blind RecordingsACID Pro software
Sound Forge® software
Sony Sound Series Vital Drums: The Vitale Collection
Sony Sound Series Eclectica
Sony Sound Series Danceteria
Sony S2 Sports Walkman MP3 Player
About the Contest
"Transparent Things" is the title of a book by Vladimir Nabokov, and also the title of the latest album from electronica artists Fujiya & Miyagi on Deaf Dumb & Blind Recordings.Following the sell-out success of their first three Tirk 10" -vinyl-only singles, In One Ear & Out The Other/Conductor 71, Collarbone/Cassette single, Ankle Injuries/Photocopier, this latest album release compiles new versions of those six tracks, available for the first time on CD, with three previously unreleased scorchers: Sucker Punch, Transparent Things, and Cylinders.
If all the above made sense to you, then you're the kind of cutting-edge media-savvy electro hipster that will truly dig ACIDplanet™'s Fujiya & Miyagi remix contest. We've posted content from "Ankle Injuries." Enjoy.
About the Band
Fujiya & Miyagi are David Best (Miyagi, vocals, guitar, occasional but strictly non-progrock Moog), Steve Lewis (Fujiya, keyboards, beats, programming), and Matt Hainsby (Ampersand, bass guitar).The story of how they met and formed the band variously reports a mutual hero-worship of world heavyweight wrestler Keno 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.
And the name...?
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, 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, BBC 6 Music's Tom Robinson and XFM's John Kennedy.
A Few Fun Facts About Fujiya & Miyagi
- In a karaoke bar, they would perform Purple Rain, Let's Dance, and Wichita Line Man
- They would like Robert Wyatt to cover Cylinders
- Their favorite bands and artists are Serge Gainsbourg, Can, Captain Beefheart, David Bowie, Roxy Music, the Fall, Aphex Twin, Happy Mondays, Lou Reed/Velvet Underground, Beach Boys, Kraftwerk, Talking Heads, Eno, Wire, Smog, Prince and Louis Jordan
- Outside of music and football, their hobbies include reading Vladmir Nabokov (David), video editing/filming (Steve), and photography (Matt)
- Their funeral songs would be Serge Gainsbourg's Variations Sur Marilou (David), any blues song by Tony Martini and the Coasters (Steve) and, erm, French Kiss by Lil' Louis (Matt)
