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• Plus-tech Squeeze Box Song
• Tomonori Hayashibe

Demonstrate their command of the musical motifs of the Shibuya kei genre and seamlessly incorporate them into their own techno-pop style, with their catchy songwriting style a lead feature in the creation of the neo Shibuya kei subgenre. Covers a wide range of sounds and does a good job of incorporating 's eclectic musical tastes into a single recorded production, but as a first album, it also leaves itself open to charges of self-indulgence, with tracks like 'Test Room' providing meandering electronic filler to an otherwise melody-orientated pop album.

'Early Riser' is the lead track off the album thanks to its connection with British TV series Adam & Joe Go Tokyo, bit it's also a notable track for it's combination of pop-punk song structure, contemporary techno-pop recording techniques, and quirky intermissions. The second half of the album is heavily oriented towards techno-pop-styled pop songs, but lacks the originality and intensity that marks the best work of, with songs like 'Clover' demonstrating the more subdued side of the band's work but earlier tracks like 'A Day in the Radio' providing a more accurate representation of the group's music.

Jan 17, 2006 I have looked high and low for video of PLUS TECH SQUEEZE BOX and this is all i have found, so far.This is a 'live' performance of PSB's song EARLY.

Plus-tech Squeeze Box Song

Tomonori Hayashibe

With 13 tracks averaging not much more than two minutes each, Japanese electronic pop duo 's second album is a dizzyingly intense roller coaster ride through a two-D world of Saturday morning kids cartoons, with song titles like 'Fantasie C dur P.491-Generalprobe-' and 'Hoky-Poky a.la.mode.' Telling you at once everything and nothing about what are about. Is a frantic cut-and-paste of multiple vocalists, thousands of samples, and dozens of melodic ideas, with none given more than about 20 seconds to assert itself before skipping to another, like a child with ADHD, a two liter bottle of coke, and a remote control. Musically, there are snatches of funk, pop-punk, techno pop, disco, bubblegum, hip-hop, hillbilly banjo, and electronic jazz all played at what feels like ten times the normal speed, with the album's conceptual origins going back to the '90s Shibuya-kei style of artists such as and, but also to Japanese new wave and neo-new wave bands like the and. While this musical sugar overdose is undoubtedly an acquired taste, the way it sticks to its central artistic concept, avoiding self-indulgent excursions and reining itself in at under half an hour, leaves you breathless at the finish and hungry for a second listen rather than simply exhausted.