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Sunday, February 23, 2025

Fantastic Plastic Machine -- Please, Stop!

 


Ahhh...the wonders of Supermarionation on LSD! You may be confused or terrified from watching the above video, but there's no doubt about the music fronting it. It's been over three years since I've posted anything by Fantastic Plastic Machine (the last one being for "Take Me To The Disco" in September 2021), but it's time to bring the illustrious Tomoyuki Tanaka(田中知之)back to KKP with his "Please, Stop!".

Another track from his debut 1997 album "The Fantastic Plastic Machine", "Please, Stop!" joins "Dear Mr. Salesman", "Steppin' Out" and "Bachelor Pad" as fellow tracks covered on this blog. However, it's the only one that doesn't have anything written about it in either the J-Wiki or Wikipedia articles on the album. And to be honest, it's basically the same hip-swiveling sample repeated over and over again although listeners will also get that urge to shake up some martinis. It's telling me just to lay back on the lounge sofa in my leisure suit and wait for an especially dry one to come my way.

2 comments:

  1. Now, this is some wild music it reminds me a little of the Pizzicato Five for some reason, but I think this is even more ハイテンション or 激しい

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    1. Hello, Brian. Yeah, P5 and FPM collaborated a fair bit, if I'm not mistaken. I think "Dear Mr. Salesman" was one example.

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