Japan Invented the Future and Nobody Noticed
Genre: Electronic, Pop
In 1959, a Hawaiian lounge musician named Martin Denny recorded "Firecracker." It was exotica — tiki-bar music for Americans who liked their Asia served on a cocktail napkin. Nineteen years later, in a Tokyo studio stuffed with synthesizers that most Western musicians hadn't heard of yet, three Japanese men decided to cover it.
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