TODAY’S GUEST
Emi Kusano, Musician
今回のゲスト
草野絵美、ミュージシャン
PLACES WE WENT TO
Marubell-Do, Asakusa Area
Boutique Takenoko, Harajuku Area
Cafe & Bar Oeuf, Yokohama – Noge Area,
訪れた場所
マルベル堂、浅草周辺
ブティック竹の子、原宿周辺
博物館 カフェ アンド バー うっふ、横浜・野毛周辺
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Emi Kusano is the singer of the band Satellite Young, a “synthwave” music unit strongly inspired by the 80s, which she discovered through old music, clips and videos. We will follow her to Marubell-Do, a sanctuary of old photos of idols, singers and other celebrities, that still shoots 80s style photos to this day, before going to Harajuku and its iconic Boutique Takenoko, symbol of Japanese fashion and its “takenoko-zoku” fashion tribe.
We will discover more about Kusano’s vision of a “retro-future”, a past vision of the future she is trying to recreate through her universe, combined to modern technology, and how it drives our lifestyle.
Our last stop will be in the traditional district of Noge, in Yokohama, where we will head to Oeuf, a bar that features everyday performances ranging from juggling, pole dancing to tightrope walking.
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Satellite Young Official Website
http://satelliteyoung.net
Emi Kusano on Twitter
Tweets by emikusano
Marubell-Do Official Website (Japanese)
http://www.marubell.co.jp/promtop.html
21 Comments
Great episode! Love the way Emi blends fashion, photography, music end everything else in her own vision, sensibility.
They are so good, long live synths!
One of the last singers out there who continue to channel the golden era of the synthesizer.
Même quand on ne connaît pas la personne le sujet et les lieux restent passionnant.
Encore un super épisode qui ajoute des adresses sur le bloc-notes et des musiques dans les playlists.
Anne and Alex you two are amazing! Another great episode. Really digging SY's latest Album too.
Oh this is what I've been looking for! Thanks for introducing Satellite Young!!
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I've been a lot into synthwave, 80's anime, games and cyberpunk movies lately. I'm soo checking Satellite Young now!
OH DANG! I just found out about Satellite Young last week thanks to randomly following related artists from Mitch Murder's page on Bandcamp! I've had "Super Rouge" stuck in my head ever since – it sounds awesome! Emi is insanely cool and keeps popping up on collaborations with other incredible artists; I was listening to Nonai Muchoo just earlier today! 😀
Thank you for watching! Please check our music as well! LOVE by Emi.
Great episode! I discovered Satellite Young because of TocoToco and now I love them.
This one was so good!, she is so interesting and her music is amazing!
Aesthetics of PC music in Japan
She makes really catchy music.
emi is really on target when she talks about the roots of revivalism (80s pop culture in this case) mango millennials. they really have wide open access to all of history on the internet, and can dip into it faster and more effectively (and cheaper actually) than their parents generation could. I think 80s revival is very cool, but I am even more interested to see what other eras get reconstituted as contemporary culture…
No entiendo nada, pero me parece interesante xdxdxd
wish schools used this more in world history though. =;c. cause this be so good.
Super! I listening the "Satellite Young" about 1 or maybe 1,5 years. They are really great! Thank you for this nice documentary. Thank you for this interview with Kusano-san also. But one thing I noticed – you made this video like a retro looking – it`s very good idea. But please, don`t forget that we watching it on the modern LED LCD display which is not great with a contrast and color deep –
this video just looks uncontrasted, way faded and too bright. Please remember it for the future videos in this style. Thank you again.
Cheers and regards from Russia, Vladimir (electronic music composer, producer)
That was great!
Solid photography, wow.
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A ela é aquela pessoa que gosta de música dos anos 80 eu sempre curti