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The early 2010s saw a shift in Japan's indie music community. Blogs and fledgling social media platforms allowed any creator to reach an audience, whether at home or outside of their borders. Across the nation, a new wave of Japanese bands and artists crept out of the digital shadows, embracing online possibilities allowing them to share their art. Tokyo quartet möscow çlub encapsulated the free-wheeling sound and ethos of this era through their songs, shared online so anyone could access them and open to a wide variety of sounds, from feedback-soaked indie-pop to sci-fi-indebted synth-pop. They emerged from the internet, but also boasted the chops to bring this music to life on stage in the capital, connecting the two worlds.
Their 2013 collection Station M.C.Ç.B. gathered songs möscow çlub first shared online into one place, offering a document of this period in Japanese indie rock while also highlighting the project's eclectic and fun approach to songwriting. A decade on, fastcut Records is proud to reissue this snapshot of the early 2010s on vinyl and cassette. Today, all music is "internet music," but the songs featured here crystalize a time when this idea was new and freeing, while also showing the versatility of one of Tokyo's finest indie-rock projects of the period.
Consisting of 12 works originally shared online, Station M.C.Ç.B. served as a summary of sort of where möscow çlub was at upon its release. The four-piece outfit dubbed their creations "nerdwave," both due to the synth-touches dappling their music and the attention to sonic detail going into these tunes. möscow çlub were sonic omnivores, creating melancholy rock songs such as "daisy miller pt.2" and "Radio Vietnam" one month, before busting out the floor-focused funk of "peoples potential unlimited" or the sunny dance ecstasy of "Pacific 724."

All of these were genres capturing the attention of like-minded creators across Japan in the early 2010s, with möscow çlub synthesizing them all together into one place.
A decade later, Station M.C.Ç.B. still stands as a testament to möscow çlub's musical versatility and curiosity, characteristics making them one of the most invigorating bands from this period of Japanese indie rock. Today, though, it's also a time capsule for a specific moment in the country's rock community, when new realities made young creators feel like anything truly was possible.