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I mentioned my CD shopping trip in Japan yesterday.  Here’s the full list of what I bought.  Some of this stuff is by bands that I know pretty well, and some of it is by bands I hardly know at all.  I think Tornado Tatsumaki and Kitchen Gorilla are the only two bands that I haven’t heard anything by, though.

This list is in totally random order, by the way.

• Spangle call Lilli line, Nanae :  The only album I’ve heard by this band is their new one, Isolation (and that one only once so far), but I hear about them a lot.
• advantage Lucy, Station :  An early-ish (2000?) album.
• Tornado Tatsumaki, One Night Robot Kicks The Rock :  I know nothing about this band except that Ken M of Japan Live named as part of his “alternative pop Trinity” along with Spangle call Lilli line and advantage Lucy.  (Actually that’s a lot of the reason I picked up the Spangle CD too.)
• The Kitchen Gorilla, Soup :  Another Japan Live recommendation, from his best of 2007 list.
• capsule, L.D.K. Lounge Designers Killer :  And yet another Japan Live rec!  What I’ve heard by this band has been all over the place, so I’m curious to hear what a full album sounds like.
• Mix Market, Shiawase no Elephant :  I already own their earlier album Chronicle, which I got from JapanFiles.  Fun Japanese pop-punk.
• Macdonald Duck Eclair, The Genesis Songbook :  Another JapanFiles discovery, I love their EP Many Many Sweets.  That one’s weird hyper blippy pop music, sung partially in French.  I imagine this will be largely the same.
• Pop Chocolat, リズマ (Rhythm) :  Probably the purchase I’m second most excited about out of this lot, I had the song “Sayonara no Hi” stuck in my head for half the trip (until I heard a half hour of Perfume tracks at the Tower in Akihabara, at which point I had Perfume stuck in my head for days).
• advantage Lucy, Have A Good Journey – the best of advantage Lucy 1996-2000 : This was actually the advantage Lucy CD I was really looking for, since pretty much everything I own by the band came out more recently.  I didn’t find it on the first day of CD shopping, though, so I bought Station that day – kind of a bummer, since the two CD’s share four or five tracks.
• Swinging Popsicle, Swinging of Eden [Tokyo Style] : I love this band, and was hoping to find more stuff by them, but this mini-album was the only one I didn’t already have (mind you, I think I visited a grand total of four stores).  Definitely the album I’m most excited about here.
• Waffles, Cinematic : I love what I’ve heard off this band’s MySpace page, so I’m looking forward to this.

Whew!  That’s really way too much music.  I actually don’t like to buy this much at once, as it almost guarantees that a few things will slip through the cracks, and not get enough listening time. And I was actually already swimming in new music before I left, having downloaded a bunch of stuff off eMusic and JapanFiles to listen to on the plane flight out.  But it’s not like I visit Shibuya every day, either.