Flipper's Guitar

'Flipper's Guitar' were a Tokyo-based Japanese pop band led and later duo by Keigo Oyamada and Kenji Ozawa. The band were influenced by the chirpy sound of British 80's Pop groups like Haircut 100, Exhibit B, The Style Council and Aztec Camera, as well as the fashionably eclectic sounds of early 90s Britain, from indie dance to acid jazz. The sonic experimentation of Brian Wilson was also evident in some tracks, Oyamada was later to state that his greatest influences were "the three Bs - Beck, The Beatles and the Beach Boys".

The group were an important part of the Tokyo Shibuya-kei scene in late 80's to early 90s, and Oyamada went on to produce work for Pizzicato Five and his close friend Kahimi Karie.

The band were show their influence on their sleeves, and their song titles often either namechecked their British artists influence — Goodbye Our Pastels Badges, Haircut 100, The Colourfield; the last album Doctor Head's World Tower treads the line between inspiration and plagiarism of Primal Scream's "Screamadelica", Madchester artists like Stone Roses, Happy Mondays and Neo-psychedelia music which much popular in the early 90's.

Following the demise of the band in 1993 the two members pursued solo careers, Ozawa releasing the album "The Dogs Bark But The Caravan Moves On" under his own name, and Oyamada recording under the name of Cornelius. It was as Cornelius that Oyamada gained a minor cult following outside Japan, as well as remix work for the likes of Blur, Beck, and the Manic Street Preachers.

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