ROCKING WITH THE GAMEBOY ADVANCE
FAMI-MODE is a chiptune event held yearly at Kichijoji. The kanji for MODE in FAMI-MODE is the same Kanji as the one for HATSUMODE which is the first temple visit to greet the new year with family and friends. The people visiting FAMI-MODE each January do something similar but 8bit fueled music is their temple and videogame subculture is their celebration. This year was also an amazing night but first off have a look at my new trailer!
Last Saturday I was there to shoot material for my upcoming TOKYO X CREATIVES series. TOKYO X CREATIVES will be a series of interviews with different creative people living in Tokyo and one episode will feature Sakagami Satoshi who is the man behind FAMI-MODE. The first episode of TOKYO X CREATIVES is scheduled for release in April 2012 and if you want more information about the shoot with Sakagami san I invite you to click here. Until TOKYO X CREATIVES is ready to launch you can enjoy the first of a series of trailers that I will be releasing in the coming weeks.
This trailer gives a short but intriguing glimpse of FAMI-MODE. The artist featured is OMODAKA and he performs a song called HIETSUKI BUSHI. On stage he used his mac, a gameboy advance, nintendo ds and psp.
Music is courtesy of OMODAKA: http://www.fareastrecording.com/mt/