J.O.Y. Sunplus Released: 10/2004 Label: DFA Catalog #: 2135 Rating:  Not Yet Rated Rate This Record

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The Japanese band J.O.Y. consists of the two creative forces of K.U.D.O (Major Force West, Skylab, UNKLE) and Kan Takagi (Major Force, solo artist) as well as helping found Ape Sounds Records, an offshoot of the iconic clothing label A Bathing Ape. For the first J.O.Y. single, SUNPLUS, KUDO and Kan enlisted the help of another Japanese legend, Yoshimi P-We of the Boredoms / OOIOO. The results were one of the most off-beat, drum heavy pop songs DFA had heard in a while.  Tim Goldsworthy, one half of the DFA as well as a founding member of UNKLE and Mo Wax Records (and collaborator with Major Force West) jumped at the chance to be reunited with his old mates, once he heard the track. Tim, along with DFA partner James Murphy, remixed the track into something even more sideways than the original, replaying drums and guitar and creating a strange dream-band, where Bjork fronts the Slits in no-wave heaven This single was originally released on Ape Sound Records earlier in 2004, but few copies have managed to find their way out of Japan.