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 shibuya   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
shibuya'yi shibuya yapan en buyuk etmenlerden biride tokyu sirketidir.
shibuya istasyonun alt katindaki yiyecek malzemeleri satan dev marketten ust kattaki alisveris merkezinden yine istasyonun karsisindaki dev binadan ve onun yanindaki diger dev binaya kadar hemen hemen hepsinin sahibi olan bir sirkettir.
shibuya modasinin dogum yeri olan 109 binasi ^ichi maru kyuu" diye bilinir, da aslinda tokyu'nun binasidir zira 10 too, 9 kyuu olarak okundugu icin tokyu isminin sayiyla yazilmis hali olup tamami ile genclere yonelik giysi vesair satilir...
sozluk.sourtimes.org /show.asp?t=shibuya   (498 words)

  
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Hara, Takashi (Kei) Hara, Takashi (Kei)täkä´shē hä´rä, 1856-1921, Japanese statesman, prime minister (1918-21).
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www.encyclopedia.com /searchpool.asp?target=Shibuya-kei   (317 words)

  
 Shibuya-kei - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Shibuya-kei music first gained popularity in the Shibuya district of Tokyo, from which it took its name.
The style was favoured by local businesses, including Shibuya Center Street's HMV Shibuya, which sold Shibuya-kei records in its traditional Japanese music section.
Increasingly, musicans outside of Japan, such as Britain's Momus, France's Dimitri from Paris, and the U.S. artists Natural Calamity and Phofo are labelled Shibuya-kei.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Shibuya-kei   (259 words)

  
 THE HISTORIOGRAPHICAL INSTITUTE THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO
Shibuya Jo-Shin was to become two years hence the first chief of this illustrious line of warriors.
As has been shown in the Introduction, the Shibuya were of the great Taira stock, which de- scended from the Emperor Kwanmu, who reigned between 781 and 806.
The first Shibuya, Taira no Shigekuni, took his family-name from the sho of Shibuya, near Kamakura, in the kuni of Sagami, in which he held a shiki, serving the sho-gun as his immediate vassal.
www.hi.u-tokyo.ac.jp /IRIKI/ETXT/eng_text13.html   (2663 words)

  
 kei news :: Uptimebot.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
zijn moeder is een kei in het geven van tegenstrijdige boodschappen.
kei hotaru meaning: firefly keisetsu no kou the fruit of diligent study, firefly snow means to study in such poor light as cast by fireflies...
kei meaning: valley, gorge sekkei noun snowy valley keikoku noun valley, ravine, canyon error corrected 7 30 04 unclear etymology.
www.uptimebot.com /blogsearch/kei   (321 words)

  
 Shibuya-Kei Downloads - Download Shibuya-Kei Music - Download Shibuya-Kei MP3s
Shibuya-kei -- literally, "Shibuya style" -- was the name given to the like-minded pop musicians who emerged from...
Though she now resides in Paris, Japanese singer/songwriter Kahimi Karie is still linked with the stylish, ultra-hip look and sound of Tokyo's Shibuya district, which also inspired like-minded artists such as Fantastic Plastic Machine, Pizzicato Five and Cornelius.
Keigo Oyamada) had a lot to do with jump-starting Karie's career in music; during the early '90s she was a music photographer and he was her boyfriend at the time.
www.mp3.com /Shibuya-Kei/genre/343/subgenre.html   (2086 words)

  
 Cornelius Japan Music Review - W. Dire Wolff
In fact, the club scene and music shops in Tokyo's Shibuya area has continued to produce and promote a variety of original artists with their own unique styles.
The bridging of western musical ideas of Japanese musical artists with the international cultural scene of Tokyo's Shibuya district is what has actually sustained Shibuya-kei as a musical genre.
With his boyish good looks and low key public personage, Cornelius easily plays into a rock star profile that draws a young teenage audience in Japan.
www.wdirewolff.com /JapCorn.htm   (1806 words)

  
 BiBaBiDi: 11.14.2004   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Marxy, who is now my idol, has been writing about the legacy and history of Shibuya Kei music.
Anyway, I have mostly been listening to American music recently, but his posts have made me pull my old CDs from the shelf, dust off their covers, and pop them back in the CD player where they once used to reside for a good part of a couple years.
Masnfield is one of Konishi's "olg guard of Shibuya Kei music." Readymade Records has been trying to hold the new guys back, and because of this, I boycotted their records for a while.
bibabidiboo.blogspot.com /2004_11_14_bibabidiboo_archive.html   (2056 words)

  
 neomarxisme: Comment on The Legacy of Shibuya-Kei Part Six   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The old shibuya bands are mostly dead, I agree, and the memory is still fresh and their shadow is long.
Well, in the other direction: the sushi sampler from bungalow (and there is a shotclub-sampler from shibuya, that presents the younger Japanese generation of artists), did not bring the european influence on japan back to europe, but has been seen as a funny and exotic bonbon from an outer planet.
On the other hand and to come back to the theory of knowledge and sub-culture or protest-movement from a global point of view: there is an increasing manga hype in germany, and parallel a raising popularity of the (awfull!!!) commercial scene with Hamasaki, Dir en grey and so on.
www.pliink.com /mt/mt-comments.cgi?entry_id=258   (1710 words)

  
 Nipponico - Shibuya kei
Shibuya è per Tokyo ciò che il Greenwich Village è per New York.
Shibuya kei (lo stile Shibuya) è l'espressione di ciò che pensano della musica i frequentatori del più trendy shopping district della capitale.
In poche parole, lo Shibuya kei è la musica pop occidentale così come viene riflessa dagli occhi della moderna società giapponese, un lavoro di cucito dolce e semplice come gli occhi ammiccanti delle adolescenti giapponesi.
www.nipponico.com /dizionario/s/shibuyakei.php   (111 words)

  
 Interview: The transformer - Japanese pop musician Cornelius - Interview
In Shibuya, there are a lot of record stores, lots of lights, younger people going record shopping, and fast food and ice cream places.
It's the kind of music people would buy at record stores in Shibuya.
KO: When I was in junior high and high school, I lived in Shibuya.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1285/is_12_28/ai_53368760   (1232 words)

  
 INSIDE JoongAng Daily   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
This from-dusk-till-dawn event, whose promotion posters were plastered in hip places around town like the Hongik University area for weeks, ended up as a huge success, with the rather expensive 50,000 won ($40) to 60,000 won tickets all sold out.
Tanaka as Fantastic Plastic Machine, or FPM, has been a club scene figure, whose style belongs to what's dubbed "Shibuya-kei," referring to a chic mixture of lounge, French pop, bossa nova and soft rock, which gained popularity especially in Shibuya, in the western part of Tokyo.
Along with other musicians like Pizzicato Five and Cornelius, FPM takes a key position in the Shibuya-kei.
joongangdaily.joins.com /200501/11/200501112156139039900091009101.html   (544 words)

  
 Click opera - Shibuya-kei is b-b-back?
Then again, I did once say that Shibuya was the place where all trends would one day be invented and revived simultaneously (mathematicians have calculated that that day will arrive in 2013).
One of my favourite jet-lagged memories of Shibuya is wandering around after a couple of years away and suddenly being surrounded in a convenience store by a huge group of ELG types, all dressed in virginal white and some sporting angel wings.
I hadn't thought of Shibuya kei, but then again, those P5 and Cornelius albums never disappeared from my CD rack.
www.livejournal.com /users/imomus/50965.html   (2900 words)

  
 Nipponico - Judy and Mary
Il loro primo debutto fu nel 1993 e da allora sono diventati fra i più popolari gruppi di alternative rock in Giappone.
Musicalmente lo stile si avvicina molto a quello dei Ramones, mentre le liriche seguono maggiormente lo stile Shibuya kei.
Dopo l'uscita dell'ultimo album (un doppio live), i JAM hanno dichiarato alla stampa musicale che dopo quasi 10 anni di carriera si scioglieranno per un tempo indeteminato, ma promettendo di ritornare sulla scena musicale.
www.nipponico.com /dizionario/j/judyandmary.php   (271 words)

  
 neomarxisme: The Legacy of Shibuya-Kei Part Two
All of these acts had a similar interest in a slightly-more elitist European mode of music, and the media christened the group of performers "Shibuya-kei." The musicians themselves never formally associated themselves as a movement, but the label stuck.
Another explanation for the term "Shibuya-kei" is that the artists used to shop for import records in Shibuya, but this is not true.
Although later Shibuya became the vinyl center of Tokyo.
www.pliink.com /mt/marxy/archives/000243.html   (1683 words)

  
 shibuya - Auctions   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Shibuya Aerial Kit for Wing Mounting - $1.70
Dimitri From Tokyo [Paris]- Shibuya Connection EP house - $5.12
Shibuya High Pressure Water Jet Deflasher UBL2001A - $17,449.99
www.cereva.com /s/shibuya/index.html   (132 words)

  
 Glasgow Herald Column
The epicenter of global retro culture is Shibuya, the trendy shopping district of west Tokyo which gave Shibuya-kei (literally 'Shibuya style') its name.
When they get to Shibuya, the schoolgirls speak their own slang, embrace their own fetish status, and shop deliriously in celebration of their new-found freedom to choose its cutest expression.
A key element for the post-Shibuya-kei artists is their conceptual ambition: it isn't just about chasing dreams of 'classic perfect pop'.
www.imomus.com /jpop.html   (2824 words)

  
 ok city ok - Free Music Downloads - MP3 Downloads - Download.com Music
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Key point: "She gets mad and makes that kabuki face.
music.download.com /okcityok/3600-8592_32-100477008.html   (614 words)

  
 Technorati Tag: shibuya
On November 2-3 the Nokia Mobility Conference 2005 is taking place in Barcelona, Spain.
Convergence across all areas of mobility is the key theme.
This page shows blog posts, photos, and links that have been tagged shibuya.
technorati.com /tag/shibuya   (585 words)

  
 SHiBUYA - Texter - Plus-Tech Squeeze Box - Fakevox   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
För ett tag sedan äntrade ett band mitt pojkrum och lät mig ligga sömnlös flera nätter i rad med melodier klingandes i bakhuvudet och stirriga ögon blickandes upp i taket.
Bakom detta står frontmännen Tomonori Hayashibe och kompanjonen Takeshi Wakiya som med hjälp av sångerskan Yuppa And Wanta skapat något som inte kan placeras inom något specifikt block.
Något som resulterat i en ljudbild som är helt fantastisk, en ljudbild som låter precis så som jag vill att tvåtusentalets Shibuya Kei skall låta.
www.shibuya.se /visatext.php?id=47   (472 words)

  
 neomarxisme: Comment on A Eulogy for Zest Records   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
popped into a design shop in shibuya a couple of days ago and they were playing early kahimi karie.
I mean stuff closer to Shibuya kei than DJ culture.
I still couldnt tell you much about shibuya kei, maybe after I read the 6 part series...
www.pliink.com /mt/mt-comments.cgi?entry_id=701   (2991 words)

  
 The Shibuya-kei/Nakame-kei experience? - Japan - tribe.net
You can find them in Harajuku, Shinjuku, Shibuya, Roppongi, pretty much anyplace you find other white people.
As near as I can tell, Tenement is a bar at 2-39-4 Ebisu, somewhere to the southeast of Shibuya Station.
Unless I hear otherwise or get hopelessly lost, that's where I'll be on the afternoon in question.
www.tribe.net /thread/a22e8286-1c3b-4edf-a981-5c5c8b2ec032?tribeid=0a7c90bb-3b95-4dea-8b44-2444232df4e4   (779 words)

  
 Fusionanomaly Wiki - shibuya kei   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The Japanese pop phenomenon known as Shibuya-Kei exploded forth from the ultra-trendy Shibuya shopping district of west Tokyo, an area home to some of the most fashionable and best-stocked record and clothing stores in the world.
Shibuya-kei -- literally, "Shibuya style" -- was the name given to the like-minded pop musicians who emerged from this consumer culture, a group of young Japanese weaned on a steady and amazingly eclectic diet of Western pop exports; the result was an unprecedented collision of sights and sounds, with trailblazing acts like ?
Pizzicato Five drawing on disparate influences ranging from the lush ?
www.fusionanomaly.net /wiki/index.php/shibuya%20kei?   (162 words)

  
 英語で読む日本: 2004-09-29
The Sendai High Court ruled Tuesday that prosecutors misappropriated state-allocated investigation funds, but rejected a demand by a citizens' group to disclose details of the funds' use, upholding a lower court ruling.
Thoughts on Shibuya, as Momus spends his last day in Tokyo.
Now, my first reference to Shibuya-kei on my website came in September 1998, when I declared Shibuya-kei dead.
www.rollinjapan.com /log/20040929.html   (444 words)

  
 Shibuya kei Joshi Pro Wrestling 2/ TV Series   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Shibuya kei Joshi Pro Wrestling 2/ TV Series
This show (aired on TV Asahi in the midnight timeslot) is from a new 21st century project called "Shibujo".
In this volume, Maya and Yuki come back from lessons in fight taught by the legendary wrestler Abdulah the Butcher, and meet another aggressive girl named Yuri in Shibuya.
www.cdjapan.co.jp /detailview.html?KEY=KSXT-24232   (144 words)

  
 Fantastic Plastic Machine: Beautiful: Pitchfork Review   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Beautiful's equal emphasis on melody and production, though, marks a new level of sophistication that finally makes Shibuya-kei worthy of the analogy.
The practically inspirational "Beautiful Days" is a duet that benefits from a strong main melody and sashaying keys, which carry the minimal production.
The song evokes the work of the underrated, oft-forgotten Chicago DJ Steve "Silk" Hurley, right down to the strident string flourishes.
www.pitchforkmedia.com /record-reviews/f/fantastic-plastic-machine/beautiful.shtml   (546 words)

  
 jeansnow.net - A Guide to Design and Pop Culture in Tokyo
Interesting, I havent read his blog for a while.
I dont know anything about current ’shibuya-kei’ (or whatever kei is happening now) music, so I should check the mentioned artists !
I think one reason I had such a Shibuya kei day is that I took my exhibition tips from jeansnow.net, and Shibuya-kei lives on big style here!
www.jeansnow.net /2004/09/29/dawn-of-the-shibuya-kei-dead   (355 words)

  
 Shibuya-Kei recommendations? - www.ezboard.com
Oh yah, and he means a form of J-Rock.
The stuff that people typically refer to as Jrock is Visual Kei, etc.
I think Nick is probably the person to ask since he pretty much introduced me to the genre.
p078.ezboard.com /f7thstepfrm10.showMessage?topicID=151.topic   (457 words)

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