Wednesday, December 3, 2025

Plus-Tech Squeeze Box -- A Day in the Radio

 

A day in the radio? Oh, here I thought that I was going to have to put on my English teacher's hat once more to rectify a prepositional issue.

But then, I figured out that this was a track from the 2000 album "Fakevox" by Japanese duo Tomonori Hayashibe(ハヤシベトモノリ)and Takeshi Wakiya(ワキヤタケシ)who are collectively known as Plus-Tech Squeeze Box. They first got together in 1997 and have released a couple of original albums including the aforementioned "Fakevox". Their genres of choice happen to be electronica and Shibuya-kei, and "A Day in the Radio" is a good example of the two genres put together like a Reese's Peanut Butter Cup

Hayashibe was responsible for both words and music, and it starts off like something for a Nintendo video game but then explodes into a cute Day-Glo danceable (privately, if you wish) ditty. From the sounds of it, I would have thought it ideal as a theme song for some zany gag-filled anime.

3 comments:

  1. Plus-Tech Squeeze Box?!!? What a name for a band! and this the style of this song is over the top!

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    1. I can only imagine how much sake Hayashiba and Wakiya must have imbibed before they got that name.😁

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