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I'm a magazine publisher who lives between Tokyo and Rome writing about Japanese Pop Culture and technology.
Beside my own magazines my articles appeared also on
La Repubblica (Italian Newspaper), XL (Italian Magazine), Wired (Italia) and GAME LABO (Japanese). I also do consulting for Japanese companies interested in oversea Otaku market. I've been a techno DJ and musician till the mid nineties before starting to work as consultant for institutions and companies...
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Famison 8bit is going to release 5 CDs with Idolmaster songs reproduced in 8bit/chiptune. The first CD of this series will be released on 25 march and will be distributed by the Japanese cult label 5pb.Records. Hardcore chiptuners who are into Blip Festival maybe like rawness of classic chiptune, but I'm sure acts like Famison 8bit and YMCK (who recently signed with the super evil pop label AVEX) represent the next level of chiptune production with albums selling thousands of copies. Meanwhile, in the west, idiots like Justin Timberlake can steal chiptune samples, without giving any credit to the scene and thge original producers, since the genre is totally off mainstream radar...
