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TheTokyoConnection(AmericaVS.Japan) 2007SingleMix
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Title track to my 1982/1983 Cassette-Album; about the USA/Japan 'Tech War'.
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An Experimental Project (Lawrence Wise And The Cosmic Funk Orchestra), and a Loose Funky Jammer (OSMOSIS). 2 separate sides, the very same dude.
Hello. Lawrence Wise And The Cosmic Funk Orchestra/OSMOSIS is actually a One-Man Home Recording Project that has been my 'stress relief' (ha ha!), since about MAY, 1981. I'm from that first wave of DIY Cassette-Tapers ('analog'--and PROUD OF IT!). Hell, the majority of my material between '81 and '99 was done on the earliest large-model Casio Synthesizers (the MT-68, MT-400-V and MT-200), with a Yamaha thrown into the mix (on occasion). Recently, I've started posting my material on the web (after transfering it from cassette-tape to digital disc, and then to MP3---a very hard process, considering the AGE of some of the tapes). It was in these past 2 1/2 years on the web that I discovered that, despite the ridicule you're going to get, there IS an Audience for your music--no matter how different it is. I've been telling some of my friends and peers for years to NEVER get rid of ANY of their recordings, no matter how 'crappy' you were (of think you were), because having a 'Back Catalog' is a damn good thing. You MAY have been sitting on some GEMS, and not even know it. And, when I discovered that a 21-year-old jam I posted on MySpace recently ROCKED a lot of folks as far away as SCOTLAND and AFRICA (!), I felt pumped. It means that this was a 'dream' that came thru in the end.
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Genre
R&B Funk
Author
Lawrence Wise
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1983, 2007
Uploaded
June 09, 2007
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MP3 3.3 MB 128 kbps 3:39
Story behind the song
In a way, "The Tokyo Connection (America VS. Japan)" is STILL happening, but we seem kinda nonchalant about it. I mean, a lot of the Technology we take for granted has Japanese roots. And, their cars are STILL the best things on the road. Use to be (if you are of a 'certain age'), a 'Japanese product' was described as 'inferior'. Of course, that post-World War II attitude is 100% racist and wrong. Japan has ALWAYS been "the America of Asia", and that's been proven constantly time and time again. So, why this little 'protest song' (written and recorded at the very 'wise age' of 18, in April 1982!!)? Simple. "The Tokyo Connection (America VS. Japan)" is NOT a put-down of Japan, but (if you listen closely) of a very complacent 'supre-nation'--AMERICA, the Not-So-Beautiful. Translation: when your technology is more WASTEFUL than RESOURCEFUL, then it will NEVER be PERPETUAL. Case In Point: BRAND NEW American-made cars get RECALLED almost immediately, while HONDA had it's FIRST-EVER Recall of the Honda Accord just LAST YEAR (2006)------ for its 1992 MODEL!!! Damn, now THAT'S great technology. If the 1992 Honda was still on the road after 14/15 Years, and a brand new FORD can be recalled after only 11 months, then that says that the 'Tech War' goes to the nation who builds-to-last. Something America has (sadly) forgotten HOW to do, after 1978!!!! (Does anybody REMEMBER the Ford Pinto?!)
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