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Fujiya & Miyagi

Fujiya & Miyagi is an indie band from Brighton, England. The band was formed in 2000 by multi-instrumentalist/backup vocalist Steve Lewis and guitarist/lead vocalist David Best, teammates in an amateur soccer league who shared similar tastes in music; specifically, a fondness for 1970‘s experimental Krautrock bands like Can and Kraftwork and minimalist 1990’s electronica. The duo derived the band’s memorable name from Mr. Miyagi (an aging martial arts master from the fictional Karate Kid movies) and the Fujiya company, a Japanese manufacturer of record players and audio equipment.

Though the band largely flew under the radar in its early years, Fujiya & Miyagi began to attract attention in 2003 when their first record - entitled Electro Karaoke in the Negative Style, released on UK independent label Massive Advance - began to receive favorable reviews in indie publications. Though far from becoming the next Arctic Monkeys in this respect, the internet did play a large role in putting Fujiya & Miyagi into the spotlight. Bassist Matt Hainsby joined the band in 2005, just in time to begin recording the band’s second record, Transparent Things.

Transparent Things (named after a book by Vladimir Nabokov, a Russian-American novelist who also penned Pale Fire and Lolita) was released in the UK in 2006, and reissued worldwide with an additional bonus track in 2007. The album’s relaxed, downtempo synthesis of electronica and disco didn’t disappoint fans, with tracks like "Ankle Injuries" (which sounds curiously like Yankee Hotel Foxtrot-era Wilco) and the stop/start funk of "Collarbone" stealing the show. Transparent Things was the band’s first album on Tirk Recordings (Love Supreme, Greg Wilson), their current label.