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Marxy

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About Me

Marxy is w. david marx. Marxy is an American living in Tokyo, Japan. Marxy’s debut album kyoshu nostalgia was released by New York City’s Beekeeper Records in 2005. His follow up "forty years from now" will be released in may 2008 on NYC’s Music Related. Marxy wrote, performed, and produced all the songs on the album. The Marxy ep beaus in disarray is still available on Music Related ’s creation-centre web imprint.
Marxy writes articles and does translation for such magazines as GQ, Harper’s Magazine, Theme, Tokion, The Fader, Beikoku Ongaku, and OK Fred. He is also the Chief Editor of Néojaponisme .
Marxy grew up below the Mason-Dixon line on a diet of college rock and Oldies radio, early NES games, Montessori education, The Wonder Years, Laugh-In, The Monkees, The Monkees, Lancelot Link Secret Chimp, forced piano lessons, cassette tape copies of CDs, cheap electric guitars with poor wiring, four-track recorders, books on Mondrian and Marinetti, Kumon kanji drills, Chicklets, Gopher-era internet, Tom Lehrer on long car trips, Milles Bornes in French class, old-style Legos, pleated pants, Lodenmantel duffel coats, Teaberry gum, and homemade chocolate egg creams.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 5/10/2006
Band Website: neomarxisme.com
Influences: Pointercoward, Kred Krupp, Lil' Monsta, Cannonball Rum, Grouching Towards Bethlehem, Töchtertag, Cannonbal Rum II, The Only Time is Making Time, Gaddis, Kiiiiiii, Quentin Fourteenhundred, Faust, Rkxzksd05, Two Kinds of Screwdrivers: Flathead and Phillipshead, things that sound like but are not limited to The Banana Splits, Autumn Weather that Reminds Me of Going Back to School (first album only), Plus-tech Squeeze Box, Franz Ferdinand (the archduke, not the band), Les Paul (the guitar, not the guitarist), the Episcopal hymnal
Sounds Like: Conceptual pop music without all the redundancy and endless guitar solos. And more broken 80s analog synths.
Record Label: Music Related / Beekeeper Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

new album FORTY YEARS FROM NOW out soon

More news soon, but my new album is finally about to be available for public consumption:Check the following for more info:http://musicrelated.net/forty-years-from-now/Marxy
Posted by Marxy on Wed, 09 Apr 2008 10:31:00 PST

new MARXY ep - "beaus in disarray"

http://pliink.com/cc/ctracbeaus in disarraya six-song free ep by marxyavailable on creation-centre (music related)
Posted by Marxy on Wed, 29 Nov 2006 12:53:00 PST

MySpace

I hadn't realized there was an English version of MySpace. Excuse my tardiness.
Posted by Marxy on Thu, 11 May 2006 01:40:00 PST