Word: psychedelia
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...boasts various musical influences. At their best, the band recalls the later Beatles, with cooing backup vocals and songs about sunshine. But this similarity is fleeting as The Sunshine Fix goes deeper into its own brand of psychedelia. This band doesn’t rock or roll, and lacks bite despite a toy-box full of effects. Still, the trip through Doss’ imagination is a curious...
...mothers used to warn their kids about, the types known pejoratively as furyo, good-for-nothings, or asobi-nin, partyers, who would never get jobs in big companies and would never wear business suits. Their lifestyle, in short, is perfectly suited to the laid-back ethic embodied by freewheeling psychedelia. "It's the result of affluence," says Mariko Fujiwara, director of research at Tokyo's Hakuhodo Institute of Life and Living. "The families who are willing to pay have made (children) reluctant to settle for something that requires a lot of hard-ship and work." Now, these psychedelic rangers...
...many kids, the nippo-psychedelia movement allows for a welcome experimentation that is also transforming the music scene, from trance to underground rock. Ken Matsutani, manager of independent rock-music label Captain Trip Records, says he notices a telling change in his industry?namely, more mainstream acceptance of bands that were once the exclusive cultural terrain of social outsiders. Captain Trip handles a number of psychedelic, '60s-inspired acts, but Matsutani says he isn't used to any of them doing very well outside a small community of die-hard rock fans. But that has changed with the recent success...
...result of all this is a community imprinted with a paisley pattern of psychedelia, a social fabric tie-dyed with a new rebelliousness and swirled with a growing sense of social malaise. "Some kids like to come up to my office to chat," says Muneo Ogishi, owner of the Elephant's Egg, a chain of Tokyo head shops that sells magic mushrooms. "They say they're using the drugs to try and meditate." It seems Japanese youth are looking for something, although it is still unclear exactly what. It is certainly not the social consciousness that drove the original hippy...
...This time around, the easy listening kitsch of Moon Safari has been retired in favor of a dark machine-age psychedelia, undercut with a healthy dose of tongue-in-cheek humor. The opening track Electronic Performers sets the tone: amid distorted guitars, orchestral flourishes and spectral choirs, disembodied robot voices sing of love and desire...