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Fujiya & Miyagi
Alternative / Electronica



Brighton, South
United Kingdom

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Member Since12/15/2005
Band Members
Steve Lewis://
Fujiya, Beats, Programming,
Synths, Backing Vocals://

David Best://
Miyagi, Vocals, Guitar, Korg://

Matt Hainsby://
Ampersand, Bass Guitar,
Backing Vocals, Korg://

Lee Adams://
Drums://


Manager [Martine McDonagh]://
info@fujiya-miyagi.co.uk://


[UK PRESS] info@inhousepress.com
0161 228 2070
[UK RADIO & TV] ewan@peergroupmusic.com

[UK ONLINE] info@createspark.co.uk

[USA RADIO] dan@terrorbird.com

[USA PRESS, TV & ONLINE] kip@tellallyourfriendspr.com

[EUROPEAN PR] Mareike@groenland.com



[USA/Canada/South America]
info@windishagency.com

[UK/Europe/Japan/ROTW]
greg@elasticartists.net
Influences

2003
Electro Karaoke in the
Negative Style
CD Album
Massive Advance (madv003)


May 2006
Transparent Things CD Album
Tirk Records (Tirk017)


March 2007
Transparent Things
European version with bonus
track (CDGRON59)
available now as mp3


January 2007
Transparent Things US version
with bonus track
DD&B Communications


December 2007
Electro Karaoke in the
Negative Style
Reissued album Strange
Tongues Records (FM001)


August 2008
Knickerbocker Single
UK ONLY-Full Time Hobby
7-Inch Vinyl/Digital Release


September 2008
Lightbulbs Album
Full Time Hobby, DD&B,
Groenland
Vinyl/CD/Digital Release

Serge Gainsbourg
MF Doom
Vivian Stanshall
Project Jenny Project Jan
Kraftwerk
Aphex Twin
Brian Eno
Record LabelUnknown Indie
Type of LabelIndie


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Imagine that Fujiya & Miyagi are mask-wearing technicians dissecting music, keen to magnify particles of sound to create a pulsing antidote to the ordinary. They speak in tongues, using language as a rhythm, picking words that sound good, rhyming ‘jigsaws’ with ‘carnivores’.

Their songs are incisive snapshots of real lives that make household appliances sound threatening. They are steeped in vintage music from evocative krautrock to deep soul, with wafts of early Human League synth, Floydian Englishness and the throbbing groove of Tom Tom Club, all filtered for modern times.

In total, Fujiya & Miyagi don’t really sound like anything. Instead, they sound like everything condensed into perfectly arranged three minute chunks of infectious pop music, a strange hybrid of James Brown on Valium and Wire gone pop. Or maybe Serge "Gainsbourg with a PhD in electronics backed by David Byrne’s Eno-produced scratchy guitar mixed by MF Doom. It’s Darwinism gone mad.

Formed in 2000 as an electronic duo of David Best (guitars and vocals) and Steve Lewis (synths, beats, programming), they released Electro Karaoke In The Negative Style two years later, a minimal electronic set it hangs eerily on Best’s distinctive whispered vocal. Adding bass player Matt Hainsby in 2004, they released a series of ten inch EPs that took them to the hearts of fanzineland. Gathered together these parables of personal injury, both physical and mental, made up three quarters of the well-received (Pitchfork, NME, MOJO, etc) album Transparent Things in 2006. Named after a Nabokov brain dump on the relationship between the past and the present. It sums them up.

A Regal seven-inch, Uh, further concentrated their sound. A set of vocal ticks, a funky bass and a storyline about a relationship as prickly as two porcupines, it made small talk sound sinister over an infectious groove. It was the perfect set up for their third album, Light Bulbs – imagine 11 classic ideas clicking on above your head, now with real drums in places, courtesy of Lee Adams, and the picture is complete.

Fujiya & Miyagi stay away from lyrical themes that have been done to death. Using old synths to punctuate their beautifully-observed anecdotes on romantic triumphs and disasters, heroes and villains and the world at large, their rhythms palpitate to produce modern symphonies like no-one else. Light Bulbs is a journey littered with fragmented images, anecdotes from the sublime to the ridiculous, blurry stories that you feel you shouldn’t have overheard. Each track an aural contamination set to itch your inner ear every waking moment.

“I’ll never be Big Maybelle,” says David Best of his unique singing style. True, but as a stylist fronting a band inspired by their evolution, plundering the past but set in the future, Fujiya & Miyagi’s Light Bulbs carves a niche of its own. This is truly contagious music, a completely unique take on modern pop music that’s completely their own.

-Dave Henderson, Summer 2008





FUJIYA & MIYAGI'S NEW ALBUM IS NOW FINISHED AND WILL BE RELEASED IN JANUARY 2011. MORE INFO SOON.



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Jul 29 2010 2:47 AM

Check out Fujiya Miyagi performing "Ankle Injuries" on Fearless Music TV. It airs in NYC tomorrow night, -May 29th-, at 12:30am on Fox 5. 

Not in NYC? Not a problem! 

Go to http://www.fearlessmusic.com/channels/ to see the ever growing list of cities that broadcast Fearless Music. 
Simone Joy Finocchito

Simone Joy Finocchito



Jul 29 2010 2:45 AM

i really like ur music! cheers from rome!
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pao pao

pao pao



May 13 2010 10:48 AM

Thanks for the add! i'm actually listening to transparent things right now.
Nick

Nicholas Metcalfe



Apr 26 2010 1:40 PM

Favourite band at my local.  Awesome! 
Cannot wait for 2nd May
Susan Rom

Susan Rom



Apr 26 2010 1:40 PM

hey guys,

thanks very much!! great music!!
susan rom
Fredrick Carlsson

Fredrick Carlsson



Apr 26 2010 1:40 PM

Thanks for the add! i just recently discovered your music on a Neu Tribute-album.
SCHAATZ

SCHAATZ



Mar 26 2010 12:17 PM

::: NEW REMIX SONGS
STARS & LOVE LOVE XxXx:::
Brigitte BASTARD

Brigitte BASTARD



Mar 26 2010 12:17 PM


 

small planet

small planet



Mar 26 2010 12:17 PM

hi. new song. "who´s behind the wheel". love from brasil
Apple juice Production

Apple juice Production



Mar 26 2010 12:16 PM

Hello, Remix de Flesh & Blood Kids de WE ARE ENFANT TERRIBLE en écoute...comme ça pour le plaisir !! Apple juice se modernise...viens voir le résultat !!
J-weze™[ifresh™](F.B.L.A){imagine me}

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Online Now!


Mar 26 2010 12:16 PM


Stoping by to say
(:h3iii:)



Nicollette Varanelli

Nicollette Varanelli



Mar 26 2010 12:16 PM

Thank You for being my friend! i so appreciate having you!!! You got it going on!! It's amazing what we can accomplish with desire, hard work and believing in ourselves!! If you get a second i'd appreciate you check out my version of Etta James classic AT LAST!!!
7D

7D



Mar 26 2010 12:16 PM

Best wishes
from 7D !



 



Rui Martins

Rui Martins



Mar 26 2010 12:16 PM

Hi Fujiya & Miyagi!

DIMESLAND- the new project of Drew and Nolan Cook (RESIDENTS).
I did the images...

Bernardo Pereira

Bernardo Pereira



Mar 26 2010 12:16 PM

OUT NOW

Beatport
JunoDownload
DjDownload
Mixmag
iTunes
Traxsource
Napster
eMusic
7Digital
Fnac
Chika Austin ♥ I am a Horror ♥

Chika Austin ♥  I am a Horror ♥



Mar 26 2010 12:15 PM

Hey!

Que tal chikos!

Un grandisisisimo saludo :)

muy buena su musika

pasen una muy buena tarde

Besos y Buena Onda 
PRIMA! Platten

PRIMA! Platten



Mar 26 2010 12:15 PM

OUT NOW: PRIMA005 - DIN A2 - Switch+Run EP VIA LIFETIME RECORDS



THOMAS ATZMANN (Hey, Bronco!):
Nice rocking tech-house-tunes!

PELLE BUYS (Sender Rec.):
Switch is my favorite!

CHANNEL X (Stil Vor Talent):
Full support!!!

NIKO SCHWIND (Autist/Stil vor Talent):
Beautiful Ep...I play Switch!

CLICK | CLICK (KASSETTE):
YEAH! Nice and groovy productions! FULL SUPPORT!

DANIEL BRUNS: (Nachtagenten):
Yes, nice one.The Original is cool for me, will play!

TYLER STADIUS (Trax):
Cool tracks. Funky, twisted & tight beats. Should work well.






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Mar 26 2010 12:15 PM

Hey! Thanks again for being our friend. Make sure you have a little listen to our album Songs For Abandoned Buildings and our EP Gravity. If you like it, please follow the link on the player to buy it from itunes so we can play a town near you! Don't forget to give us a review on itunes when you buy it :)
Giles Winterton

Giles Winterton



Mar 26 2010 12:15 PM


Hi Fujiya & Miyagi, thanks for being a friend.



Chrissy

Chrissy



Mar 26 2010 12:14 PM

LOVE LOVE your fun, original sound!!! Hoping you come to Canada - preferably BC :D
Gonna go check your calendar...

Play on...!

xo Chrissy
Cinematica

Cinematica



Jan 27 2010 8:27 PM

Hi Fujiya & Miyagi!
Our "Sounds" EP will be released on the 8th of March.
Cinematica

Penthésilée

Penthésilée



Jan 18 2010 4:12 PM

Thank you Radio Nova : what a great discovery!
all the best!
Cinematica

Cinematica



Dec 22 2009 11:14 AM

Hello Fujiya & Miyagi!
We’re loving the tunes!
"Take Control" now uploaded from the Sounds "EP".
Cinematica.
Books for Amnesty, Brighton

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Nov 16 2009 10:10 AM

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November 21st at the Brighton Unitarian Church (near the Theatre Royal)
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November 21st web

Tickets at the Books for Amnesty Bookshop, £5 for the evening gig (from 7pm) Free for the afternoon (12-4:30)
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