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    Viking's Choice: Japanese Prog-Rock, Heavy Shoegaze, Demented Dancehall

    On this week's playlist, Koenjihyakkei's operatic punk-prog opus gets a vital reissue, Lacing bursts a sweet melody through cloudy shoegaze and a Swiss-Togo duo injects noise into the riddim.
    by Lars Gotrich Sep 24, 2019 2 minutes
    Koenjihyakkei's 2005 album <em>Angherr Shisspa</em>, just recently reissued,<em> </em>makes progressive music simultaneously challenging and fun.<em> </em>

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    Between recent columns on and the , Viking's Choice has been uncharacteristically nostalgic lately, specifically for the music discovered while I was a DJ and music director for the student-run , from 2001-2006. After my punk/emo/hardcore years of high school, college was where I grew exponentially as a

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