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For convenience's sake, I'm collecting into one post working links (mostly mediafire) that I've uploaded for people. List will be updated as uploads are requested. Please take if you wish:

Full Albums

Fujifabric - Fujifabric
First full album by Fujifabric, whose influences range from jazz to progressive rock to discopop.

Humpback Oak - Ghostfather
Singaporean band Humpback Oak's moody intimate second album. Try this if you like Red House Painters.

Jacky Cheung - 吻别 (Farewell Kiss)
An absolutely classic totally retro offering from the plain but soulful heavenly king.

John Waters - A Date With John Waters
The incomparable John Waters's second compilation album featuring motown, blues, vaudeville, 1950s easy-listening, gay pop and more.

Memories of Matsuko OST
Songs from Tetsuya Nakashima's dazzling and melancholy musical-melodrama-comedy-movie.

My Little Airport
(Two Mini albums: Because I Was Too Nervous At That Time; and The OK Thing To Do On Sunday Afternoon Is To Toddle In The Zoo). Hong Kong tweepop indie outfit, batty lyrics in Cantonese and English.

Number Girl - Num~Heavymetallic
I like this album a lot.

Soil & "PIMP" Sessions - Pimpoint (Part 1)

Soil & "PIMP" Sessions - Pimpoint (Part II)
Newest record from energetic jazz outfit Soil and Pimp Sessions, indefatigable as ever.

Sound Fragment - 世界是噪音的花园(The World is a Noise Garden)
Beijing band, sometimes called the Chinese Radiohead, though I don't find the comparison useful.

Shugo Tokumaru - Night Piece
Multi-instrumental, multi-talented Tokumaru. Go for this if you like The Books.

Sloth Love Chunks - Shikakui Vision
Number Girl's Nakao Kentaro's Goonies-named band. They belt it out too.

Tokyo Kid Brothers - Throw Away the Books, Let's Go Into the Streets
Insane 1971 musical staged by Tokyo Kid Brothers, the dance and music troupe among whose members numbered J.A. Seazer, Shuji Terayama, Kazuki Tomokawa, Kan Mikami, Yutaka Higashi and more.

Yasashii Jikan OST
Hokkaido... snow... coffee... Kuramoto Sou scripted drama, and Nino of course.

Yang Yi - 内部参考 2004 (Internal Consultation 2004)
Beijing old uncle folk singer, sarcastic sociological lyrics and all. Person I uploaded this for said, "我听到喷鼻血."

Zazen Boys - Zazen Boys II
Oh, Mukai. I like this the best out of the three eponymously-titled releases. Shiina Ringo floats in and out throughout as backup vocalist.

Single Songs

Mixes

Asian Mix
Song List: 1) Sparta Locals - Urara;  2) Tokyo Jihen - Shuraba;  3) Mr.Children - Fake;  4) The Back Horn - Mirai; 5) Faye Wong - Cold War ("Silent All These Years" cover);  6) Sun Yanzi - Yan3 Lei4 Cheng2 Shi1;  7) Jay Chou - Mi2 Song4 Xiang1;  8) Quruli - Highway

Western Mix
Song List: 1) Arcade Fire - Keep the Car Running;  2) TV on the Radio - Staring at the Sun;  3) Coltrane Motion - Pi is Exactly Three; 4) Iron and Wine (feat. Calexico) - He Lays in the Reins;  5) Kepa Junquera - Maitia Num Zira;  6) Bjork - So Broken (live version);  7) Schneider TM (feat. Kpt Michigan) - The Light 3000;  8) Ken - The Shadow of Your Smile

Shiina Ringo's latest single, this time the end theme for Sakuran, uploaded for a friend, reposted here. Yousendit link, get it while it is fresh!

Her duets with her brother seem to have a sort of dance-hall feel. You can just see them doing the jazz-hands or high-kicks by the time the chorus comes round for the 3rd time. Weell, I'm probably talking out of my ass since the only other duet I've heard her do with him was "Tamanegi no Happy Song," on the Mori-pact disc of Utaite Myouri, and I never really got into the Mori-pact disc. My favorite duet she's done is with Kusano Masamune, "Haiiro Hitomi," the first song on the Kame-pact disc. He is totally transformed from "that SPITZ guy" and they sound so good together.

This single also features an interesting remix of "Karisome Otome." This version is instrumental and sounds to me like it's channelling Astor Piazzolla, pretty cool. Here's the original:

TV on the Radio doing their usual "wall of sound" thing, Kepa Junquera squeezing wistfulness out of his trusty trikitrixa, and from The Curse of the Golden Flower, Jay Chou with 菊花台, unexpectedly nice.

Please take if you like.

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