by joostay
What I was up to last weekend – and the next few to come…
Categories: Daily Life in Tokyo, Traditional Festivals & Matsuris • Tags: art, asia, blog, blogging, buddhism, design, japan, japanese, justin egli, life, music, photography, photos, religion, traditional, Travel blogger, travel writer, video, writing
by joostay
Dropkick Murphys talk to IKIMASHO! about playing Japan, Asia & beyond…
Categories: Art Music & Culture, YOUTUBE SESSIONS • Tags: asia, belfast, blog, china, Dropkick Murphys, fukuoka, ireland, japan, japanese, justin egli, music, northern ireland, photography, punk, runnin riot, se asia, tokyo, travel
by joostay
Because what else would you be doing on a Saturday morning?
Categories: Art Music & Culture, Bizarre/Unique, Daily Life in Tokyo • Tags: abba, abban, asia, bizarre, blog, culture, ikimasho, japan, japanese, justin egli, kawasaki, music, photography, tokyo, travel, weird
by joostay
Jughead, founding member of Screeching Weasel, talks about the band’s classic album. I turned 35 last month. That means I’ve been listening to punk rock for 20 odd years. Of course I listen to all sorts of other stuff now, but it was punk rock specifically that shaped my teenage years. Green Day’s dookie exploded in 1994 – and although it is slightly mainstream and cliched to admit, it was through that record that I decided this was the type of […]
Categories: Art Music & Culture, Daily Life in Tokyo • Tags: blog, chicago, design, guitar, ikimasho, interview, japan, japanese, jughead, justin egli, lookout records, music, photography, pop punk, punk, punk rock, screeching weasel, tokyo, travel
by joostay
Just like a soup in a pot we are what?! Bubbling Hot.
Categories: Art Music & Culture, Daily Life in Tokyo • Tags: asia, blog, bubbling hot, culture, design, ikimasho, japan, japanese, justin egli, music, nights out, pato banton, photography, reggae, shinagawa, tokyo, travel, uk
by joostay
Celebrating the newly born spirits of the darkness with the biggest taiko drums in Japan.
Categories: Art Music & Culture, Daily Life in Tokyo • Tags: 2016, art, asia, design, drum, drumming, festival, fuchu, japan, justin egli, kurayami matsuri, music, photography, taiko, tokyo, travel
by joostay
Check out my video for the new BENDING WRONGS track, Computer Controlled Hamster. Using never-before-seen archive footage it tells the true story of how during World War 2, Allied forces secretly built a number of Computer Controlled Hamsters (CCH) that were dropped behind enemy lines to help win the war. [Music: BENDING WRONGS // Visuals: IKIMASHO!] soundcloud.com/monty_81
Categories: Art: stuff I've drawn, Bizarre/Unique • Tags: acid, aphex twin, bending wrongs, bizarre, colin montgomery, culture, design, electronica, hamster, history, idm, industrial, justin egli, music, surreal, video, visual art, war, weird, world war 2
by joostay
Musical depravity in zero gravity. From Cornwall to the cosmos with the Penryn Space Agency.
Categories: YOUTUBE SESSIONS • Tags: afx, amsterdam, aphex twin, braindance, colundi, cornwall, culture, electronica, house, ikimasho, japan, music, radio, rephlex, squarepusher, techno, tokyo
by joostay
Anklepants delivers his infection selection for Ikimasho! Ikimasho! cordially invites you to meet Anklepants – the first of many faces of Dr. Reecard Farché, the devious mastermind and shapeshifting convict bred deep in the darkwood of the Australian bush that later absconded to Rise to the Summit of the übergründé. Born in 2008 but producing music in many forms for over a decade beforehand, Anklepants has steadily released over 20 singles, EPs and full-length albums on his own Qwerty Records imprint, with […]
Categories: YOUTUBE SESSIONS • Tags: animatronics, anklepants, art, bizarre, breakcore, culture, design, electronica, film, idm, ikimasho, japan, mechanical, mic, music, robot, sex, star wars, surreal, tokyo, travel, weird
