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Samples

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One week left.


iTunes Single of the Week

ChocolaTommy is the single of the week on iTunes Japan. You can download it here for free (link opens iTunes). It’ll be gone in a week, so hurry!


Motion Pictures

We got the music video for Budou-shu Sanka yesterday. It is glorious.

We’re not allowed to show you yet, so to tide you over for the moment here’s the old video for Shojo B:

If that doesn’t play in stereo, here’s a link to a high-quality version.

Hopefully we’ll be able to show you the new one soon.


ChocolaTommy

If anyone can think of a better romanization for that, do please share.

The first single is in the process of being spread around. I’ve uploaded it to thesixtyone if you’d like to give it a listen.

Anyone who uses last.fm should help us centralize things by heading over to the Hidari entry and clicking the “Suggest a correction” link at the bottom of the right sidebar. The correct answer is “Hidari should link to ヒダリ.”

We got a sample of the album from the factory the other day. It’s real. It exists.


Pre-orders

I forgot to mention that you can pre-order Wine To Chocolate at HMV Japan. (You can also find it at Tower Records, but you’ll have to order in Japanese.) The shipping is probably ridiculous, but I’m not sure whether we’ll be selling the album in our store, considering what a pain in the ass selling Shippo is.

F.Y.I.


Wine and Chocolate

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Wine To Chocolate
Hidari
Bad News Records
March 4, 2009
¥1800

  1. ChocolaTommy
  2. Chōdo Ii Hutari
  3. Seishun Marina
  4. Sanpatsu
  5. Tsuzuki Wa Mō Ii
  6. Abunai Tasting
  7. Maybe Baby
  8. Kaban Ni Senkō Hanabi
  9. Urepearl☆
  10. Budō-shu Sanka

*That’s ‘to’ as in Japanese for ‘and’ (not ‘to’ as in the English preposition) and should, as such, be pronounced like ‘toe’.