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About Me

Our debut album, Your Freak Majesty, is now available online at CDBaby.com. Click the cover art and you will be magically transported to the purchasing portal. Or you can add things directly to your CD Baby shopping cart here:
You can also purchase it digitally from the following vendors:
iTunes
MP3 Extension
musicishere.com

kind words from around the globe (click the titles for links):
College Times Bands on Grand Profile, May 2007
New Times CD Review, May 2007
Flag Live Article, January 2007
Tucson Weekly CD Review, January 2007
Albuquerque Alibi Article, January 2007
Albuquerque Alibi CD Review, January 2007

check out the "music video" we made for your freak majesty:

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 1/11/2006
Band Website: emperorsofjapan.com
Band Members:
masa - keys, drums, bass, laptops, samples, chaos

tony - guitars, bass, vocals

matt - drums, bass, guitars, keys
Influences: radiohead, nirvana, queens of the stone age, death from above 1979, deltron, autechre, MF Doom, madvillain, madlib, aphex twin, herbie hancock, pixies, miami big amp bass, xiu-xiu, wolf eyes, merzbow, white stripes, mogwai, boards of canada, sigur ros, kyuss, matmos, misfits, hella, don caballero, necronauts, oh no not stereo, attack of the giant squid, seth gooby, rolling stones, sun ra, public enemy, danger mouse, chief beef, deerhoof, secret machines, menomena, el-p, MSTRKRFT, at the drive in, beck, the mars volta, godspeed you black emperor, broadcast, broken social scene, hot snakes, outkast, pearl jam, prince, the shins, sufjan stevens, tv on the radio, bjork, fujiya & miyagi
Record Label: Dark Black Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

recording studio - part 2

and the recording continues... this past week matt has actually been out of town, but that didn't stop masa and i from invading his house and doing our part to complete the album. it just goes t...
Posted by Emperors of Japan on Sun, 30 Sep 2007 09:04:00 PST

recording - week 1

we've officially begun recording Activator. it's quite a bit of work putting together an album - pretty much every band that's ever done it can attest to that fact. for those of you that a...
Posted by Emperors of Japan on Wed, 26 Sep 2007 11:09:00 PST

phlagstaph, we dearly love thee

chaka khan! flagstaff at the monte vista is always a treat - but flagstaff at monte vista when it's labor day weekend is extra special. like eating a piece of chocolate and finding out that ther...
Posted by Emperors of Japan on Sat, 01 Sep 2007 03:26:00 PST

tonight’s show

YES! we've completed the excellent show trifecta: 1) play well - very well - so well that you don't give a fuck when you screw up a little bit because you're having fun. 2) share the stage ...
Posted by Emperors of Japan on Fri, 31 Aug 2007 12:30:00 PST

shows and high hopes

it seems like we've had a slew of shows recently where the lineups have all been fantastic. this is a nice trend, since usually there's at least one band that throws a monkey wrench in...
Posted by Emperors of Japan on Thu, 23 Aug 2007 04:30:00 PST

flagstaff show - late addition

it's been bulletinized already, but we figured we might post a note on this here as well... we're playing a show up in flagstaff tonight (Saturday 8/11) at the mogollon brewery. we set this up j...
Posted by Emperors of Japan on Sat, 11 Aug 2007 12:39:00 PST

New Songs and the lost interview

howdy everyone. we're pleased to announce that we've got some demo versions of the songs from Activator recorded and we'll be posting them up on myspace so you can at least get a glimpse of the ...
Posted by Emperors of Japan on Fri, 03 Aug 2007 10:25:00 PST

albuquerquerquerquerque

everybody's been clamoring for a drunken post, so here goes. only one show remains on the tour - we've just wrapped up our albuquerque show and had a pretty good time. we wish the crowd co...
Posted by Emperors of Japan on Sat, 21 Jul 2007 02:20:00 PST

Notes from the road...

ah, touring. it seems that regardless of how many people come to see us, three things happen: 1) tony drinks a lot of scotch 2) chief beef rules 3) we stay up way too late after the sh...
Posted by Emperors of Japan on Fri, 20 Jul 2007 05:16:00 PST

Southwest Tour

hey all. we wanted to drop a quick note about the upcoming tour. we're back on the road starting wednesday with our friends chief beef. if it plays out like any of the other tours we...
Posted by Emperors of Japan on Sat, 14 Jul 2007 12:19:00 PST