Fantastic Plastic Machine

Fantastic Plastic Machine is the project of Japanese DJ Tomoyuki Tanaka. Much of his debut album The Fantastic Plastic Machine and its successor Luxury reflected a strong bossa nova influence; other tracks were representative of Happy Charm Fool Dance Music (see the Japanese pop/Shibuya-kei/HCFDM section of the introduction). On these two albums, songs tend to be dreamy; vocals were usually female, often in French or in British-accented English.

Fantastic Plastic Machine Links

Emperor Norton Records - Fantastic Plastic Machine - This page is on the site of Emperor Norton, FPM's U.S. distributor.

Bungalow Records - Fantastic Plastic Machine - This page is on the site of the German record label Bungalow (the European center of the Happy Charm Fool Dance Music genre), which distributes FPM's releases in Europe. In English.

Fantastic Plastic Machine Official Site - Launched after FPM's move from Readymade Records to Avex Japan.

Avex Japan - Fantastic Plastic Machine - Information on FPM from its present Japanese label.

Readymade Records (a.k.a. ********* Records) - Before departing for Avex, FPM was on Readymade Records, a label run by Pizzicato Five mastermind Yasuharu Konishi's and distributed by Nippon Columbia. The only FPM-related information that remains on the Readymade Site is a page on the November 2000 release Very Best of FPM in the Mix, with a track listing and audio samples.
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NOW Online article on Fantastic Plastic Machine - This May 1999 article in Toronto's NOW Online addressed Tanaka's vinyl habit and the role it plays in his sampling and composition processes.

This page created October 1999 - Last modified June 9. 2005