Idolator
Japanese Moog enthusiast Takako Minekawa's bright pop takes its cues from Kraftwerk and Francois Hardy, and she adds an in-the-bedroom flair that's as cute as the cross-stitches in the "Milk Rock" video (above). The two tracks below are from her out-of-print 1996 album Roomic Cube, which is fetching quite a bit of money on the used market. The calliope-led "Fantastic Cat," told from the point of view of a tech-savvy feline, is ridiculously catchy, and the saucy "Klaxon!" drops into a speeded-up synth freak-out in the middle, but it has absolutely nothing to do with New Rave:
Takako Minekawa - Fantastic Cat [MP3, link expired]
Takako Minekawa - Klaxon! [MP3, link expired]
Takako Minekawa - Milk Rock [YouTube]
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Thanks for giving Takako the spotlight. I worked with her on her Fun 9 album. Great artist. She has stopped making music for a while to raise her child with Cornelius. Talk about a child prodigy.
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