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Monday, Oct 20th, 2003 at 6:58 pm
There’s a unique sense of overload for the first-time visitor to Tokyo. Intricate layers-upon-layers of ever-shifting urban culture crush the hapless tourist, who’s invariably pressed up against the very bottom layer like a stuffed pheasant under glass.
If this is you, get on the web and check out “Cyberjapan”. Online since 1995, it’s designed and edited […]
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Wednesday, Aug 6th, 2003 at 9:25 pm
Japanese culture, it would seem, has always contained a rich vein of magic, mysticism and mind power running through its myths and legends. Is there any connection between this tradition and modern-day UFO sightings? According to Junichi Kato, Director of OUR-J (The Organisation of UFO Research, Japan), there is.
OUR-J’s web site documents some interesting parallels […]
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Friday, Jan 3rd, 2003 at 11:46 am
by Simon Sellars
Do you remember ‘hardcore’?
As a style of dance music, it’s become a historical footnote, the sound of rave’s innocence: primitive, immature music for immature people. Supposedly we’ve all grown beyond that — haven’t we? Only gurners and E-monsters listen to hardcore, these days — apparently. England’s dance music press would have you believe […]
