Music review "Cero - Machi no Shirase"

Fishmans,Yura Yura Teikoku,Boredoms..
If you know these words,you are at home in classics of Japanese music.

Cero is now one of the most popular band in summer festival in Japan. Their live performance is not only highly polished,but also psychedelic and crazy sometimes. They are often featured by music festival like "fujirock","taico club",and so on.

The music style is hard to define.The essence of pop,dub,hiphop,exotic,fusion,psychedelic rock.
Their recent album is said to be affected by D'angelo and Robert Grasper and ATCQ.But I think their live skills is much better than that of Robert Glasper.

If you likes music like hiphop,soul,jazz fusion,dub,fishmans,yura yura teikoku,
you had better go to their live or buy cd.

Disk Union Shimokitazawa

Disk Union Shimokitazawa

location: 5min from Shimokitazawa station
open:11:00～21:00 (20:00 on holiday)
size: large class of all disk unions
records:
Hiphop ☆☆☆
Reggae ☆☆
Rock ☆☆☆
Jazz ☆☆☆　
World ☆☆
J-pop ☆☆☆
soul & rare groove ☆☆☆
disco 12inch ☆☆☆
house&techno ☆☆☆

record store tendency

If you want to buy a variety of records at cheap price,
Disk Union Shimokitazawa is one of the most recommended record store in Japan.

This is 1-story store,
but have a massive amount of records in wide range of genre.
So it is comfortable to dig across genres.

And there is a partition between main floor and club music floor.
You can do trial listening at both spot.

The price line is a little cheaper than that of Shibuya.

And when you get tired of diggin records,
there are many choices in shimokitazawa town.

You can take a walk,have a coffee,take a lunch,shopping at used clothing shop or used book store,or digging in another record store.

I recommend you to spend lwhole day to enjoy Shimokitazawa.

MAP

What I've gotten

Disk Union Ikebukuro

Disk Union Ikebukuro

location: 3min from Ikebukuro station
open:11:00～21:00 (20:00 on holiday)
size: middle class of all disk unions
records:
Hiphop ☆☆
Reggae ☆☆
Rock ☆☆☆
Jazz ☆☆　
World ☆☆☆
J-pop ☆☆☆
soul & rare groove ☆☆☆
disco 12inch ☆
house&techno ☆

record store tendency

Ikebukuro is the North gate of Tokyo to Saitama prefecture.
The city is as large as Shibuya and Shinjuku.

Disk Union Ikebukuro is very close to the Station.
This store is especially strong at world music,Japanese pops and rocks,
but is not so weak at other genre,as selling floor is not small.

According to the store location,4th floor of the building,
this union have atmosphere of secret place.
So if you have time,it is recommended to visit this store to get lucky finds.

MAP

What I've gotten