Boom Boom Satellites [JPN]

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BIOGRAPHY

Boom Boom Satellites were a Japanese electronic music duo consisting of guitarist and vocalist Michiyuki Kawashima and bassist and programmer Masayuki Nakano. While their music can be mostly classified as big beat or nu skool breaks with heavy jazz influences, they are famous for the heavy usage of electric guitars in their music, and the final product often has a strong rock or punk influence. They are currently signed to Sony Music Entertainment Japan, with whom they have released all of their albums in Japan.

HISTORY

Kawashima and Nakano formed the band in 1990, having met at university and debuted in Europe as a rock unit in 1997. According to an interview, the name originated from a song by Sigue Sigue Sputnik.

In 1995, the group's music debuted in Japan on a compilation album released by Torema Records, also affiliated with Untitled Records. Belgian record company R&S Records released their first single in Europe later that year. Kawashima and Nakano also appeared in the European magazine Melody Maker, where they were lauded as the combination of The Chemical Brothers and The Prodigy. R&S Records released their first album, 7 Ignitions/Auto Re-Birth, on April 1, 1998, and the group performed at a large music festival the following June. The group then returned to Japan. Boom Boom Satellites toured with Moby for three months in the United States some time afterwards, and artists such as Garbage also requested remixes from the group.

DISCOGRAPHY

Albums:

Out Loud (1998)
Umbra (2001)
Photon (2002)
Full of Elevating Pleasures (2005)
On (2006)
Exposed (2007)
To the Loveless (2010)
Embrace (2013)
Shine Like a Billion Suns (2015)

Singles, EP's:

Boom Boom Satellites (1997) (Demo album)
Joyride (1997)
"4 A Moment of Silence" (1997)
"Dub Me Crazy (Ver. 02)" (1997)
"Push Eject" (1998)
7 Ignitions/Auto Re-Birth (1998)
"On The Painted Desert - Rampant Colors" (1999)
"Fogbound" (2000)
"Sloughin' Blue" (2000)
"Soliloquy" (2001)
"Blink" (2002)
"Light My Fire/Soliloquy" (2003)
"Spine/Dive for You" (2004)
"Easy Action" (2005)
"Back on My Feet" (2009)
"Kick It Out (feat. Tahj Mowry and Flo Rida)" (2009)
"Broken Mirror" (2012)
"Another Perfect Day" (2012)
"Drifter" (2013)
"Nine" (2013)
"Only Blood" (2014)
"A Hundred Suns" (2015)
"Lay Your Hands on Me" (2016)

Compilation albums:

19972007 (2010)
Over and Over (2010)
Remixed (2012)

MORE INFO https://www.discogs.com/artist/1401-Boom-Boom-Satellites