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Yagisawa-san, Florian, Alin, Takashi & me
Happy Birthday Countach!

Polypunk, bits and beats selected by Digiki started in August 2005 when I moved to Tokyo. Almost three years later, the podcast has been downloaded more than 50,000 times, without any promotion outside of this blog, and this month’s episode marks the thirtieth in the series. 30 episodes, almost 30 hours of music, hundreds of tracks, many genres covered, some old stuff, some new, nothing beat-matched but everything tight together by unexpected connections, appropriations, sense emerging out of contextual mash-up. May 2008: Welcome to episode 30. Thank you for listening.

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Season 4

Polypunk 029
Polypunk 028
polypunk at the edge
POLYPUNK SEXE

Older episodes can be found here

I’ll come out of my retirement to DJ at a very special event celebrating the birthday of Gallery Countach this saturday in Shinjuku.
7 PM to 1 AM, great place, friendly people, art, drinks; not a club thing. See you there.

All info here

Countach Birthday Party
2008/5/10
19:00-25:00
Entrance 1500 yen (1D)
at
Galaxy Countach
http://galaxy-countach.com

7-13-7 NishiShinjuku Shinjuku-ku Tokyo 160-0023
Tel：03-3367-2340
Map

Everybody needs love and adventure
Everybody needs cash to spend
?

Tokyo / Kyoto / elsewhere

Finally, here is the post you’ve all been waiting for: the 101TOKYO roundup!

First, some reviews of the fair, from PingMag (Focus on art) and BusinessWeek (focus on, wait for it, business - “moderate success”? hey we did sell around 1 Million USD of works for the first year, not bad in my book). Additionally, check ART iT editor Tetsuya Ozaki’s impressions of the fair.

Nick Currie, aka Momus, wrote a piece for Frieze magazine. Nick is one of the first persons I talked to when I started working on 101TOKYO, and his advice and suggestions have been valuable. Merci Nick!

If you are in Tokyo and interested in the inside story of 101TOKYO, and how a small group of people made this project happen in only a few months I would recommend going to Tokyo Art Beat TABTalk on Monday 4/28 at Gotanda Sonic. Agatha, Hiromi and Julia will give an account of the creation of 101, and I will be near too if you have questions, suggestions, or just want to meet us.

UPDATE: the talk is actually postponed, with a new date to be announced. I have no idea why the producer of the fair canceled the talk, but watch this space for a future announcement.

Details of 101TOKYO 2009 will be announced soon, in the meantime I’ll leave you with some photographic evidence of the first year of 101TOKYO. Check out our flickr photostream for a lot more.

April 2008. The new episode is Polypunk 029. Selected by Digiki in Tokyo. Communication, misunderstandings, and reinterpretations.

Listen (*.mp3)

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Polypunk group on Facebook
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Send your Polypunk vocals (hit ‘rec’ say ‘polypunk’ save it send it) I need some new voices for Polypunk.

For previous episodes (direct *.mp3 link)

Season 4

Polypunk 028
polypunk at the edge
POLYPUNK SEXE

Season 3

Polypunk 025
Polypunk love
Polypunk 023
Polypunk 022
Polypunk 021
Polypunk 020
Polypunk 019: CaliPunk selected by Shane Lester & Digiki
Polypunk 018
Polypunk 017
Polypunk 016
Polypunk 015
Polypunk 014 selected by O.Lamm
Polypunk 013
Polypunk 012 Digiki for OK FRED
Polypunk 011

Season 2 (2006)

Polypunk Mai selected by Mai Ueda
Polypunk 009
Polypunk 008
Polypunk 007
Polypunk 006

Season 1 (2005)

Polypunk OK Oyamada Keigo/Cornelius special
Polypunk 004
Polypunk 003
Polypunk 002
Polypunk 001

but I’m alive, really, just been very busy with a number of things.

Fragments:

- Went back to DJing for one night and won the iPod battle Tokyo with the Tokyo Fun Party team.
- Went to Juliana, the party I used to DJ, to realize I don’t want to return anytime soon. Maybe getting old(er).
- Talked music for a number of new projects. Always strange to get that kind of calls when I haven’t done any music in years, but I’m happy. Found some new Digiki fans (yes there are Digiki fans!)
- Did a Polypunk a long time ago because I knew I would be busy with 101TOKYO, and now listening to it and realizing it still makes sense.
- Worked very hard with Shane on Drag and Drop, our audio/visual project for the 101TOKYO FUN PARTY. Unsatisfied with the result (though people seemed to like it), had to leave my own party in despair. Said party was a blast (400 people, really great lineup). Wasn’t there.

And most importantly (99.9% of my time):

- Galleries, shows, nails, tears, frustration, satisfaction, exhaustion, relations, teamwork. And a success: we should be proud of 101TOKYO.
The fair turned out to be an amazing success for its first year, people came and spent time looking at great art (I’m really satisfied with our selection of galleries) and even bought some, we will have an official press release coming soon (people always want numbers, I tend to believe this project was more about getting a great team and working together). The whole project has been well documented and photos are coming.

And now:

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Pancakes is the new Digiki single, set for release on March 26 on all major online music stores (iTunes etc).

Pancakes features five different takes, variations, of the crepe theme, from the 2004 recording of the song with Mc Cat Genius and the 2006 version off Beat vacation, to a relecture by Carl Stone, the re-mix (literally) of Toshiyuki Yasuda and a more club oriented mix by Jean Nipon.

Five pieces, common ingredients, different results.

Pancakes is the first in a series of digital-only releases featuring material from the forthcoming Dense music remix album.

Digiki myspace
Dense Music website
TOKYO FUN PARTY website

DIGIKI - PANCAKES
FUN-1036

01 Pancaked again (Album version)
02 Pancaked again (Overcooked by Jean Nipon) [listen] (myspace)
03 Jeon Ju (Pancaked again Carl Stone remix)
04 Pancaked feat. MC Cat Genius
05 Pancaked again (Toshiyuki Yasuda remix)

Track 1 taken from ‘Beat vacation’ (TFP3615), tracks 2-3-5 taken from ‘Dense music’ (TFP3617)
1 written and produced by Antonin Gaultier / Digiki in Tokyo // 2 remixed by Jean Nipon in Paris // 3 composed, recorded and mixed by Carl Stone in the studios of Radio Free Nakano, Tokyo // 4 produced by Digiki in Paris, vocals and lyrics by MC Cat Genius, Columbia, MO USA // 5 remixed by Toshiyuki Yasuda in Tokyo

pancakes&donuts for life.

a TOKYO FUN PARTY release

March 2008. The new episode is Polypunk 028. Selected by Digiki in Tokyo. Art by Jiae Hwang. (Con)fusion des genres? expect the unexpected.

Listen (*.mp3)

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Polypunk group on Facebook
Get the tracklist
Send your Polypunk vocals (hit ‘rec’ say ‘polypunk’ save it send it) I need some new voices for Polypunk.

For previous episodes (direct *.mp3 link)

Season 4

polypunk at the edge
POLYPUNK SEXE

Season 3

Polypunk 025
Polypunk love
Polypunk 023
Polypunk 022
Polypunk 021
Polypunk 020
Polypunk 019: CaliPunk selected by Shane Lester & Digiki
Polypunk 018
Polypunk 017
Polypunk 016
Polypunk 015
Polypunk 014 selected by O.Lamm
Polypunk 013
Polypunk 012 Digiki for OK FRED
Polypunk 011

Season 2 (2006)

Polypunk Mai selected by Mai Ueda
Polypunk 009
Polypunk 008
Polypunk 007
Polypunk 006

Season 1 (2005)

Polypunk OK Oyamada Keigo/Cornelius special
Polypunk 004
Polypunk 003
Polypunk 002
Polypunk 001