First things first, lets get that name out of the way - Fujiya's a turntable company, and Miyagi's the filmic Okinawan played by Pat Morita who instructs sullen white kids how to kick ass, get the girls and wax on/wax off. But while Fujiya & Miyagi presumably relish urban Japan's cultural they are in actual fact three guys from Brighton who met warming the subs benches for their respective Sunday League football teams.

Were they to go under the monicker of their own names (Steve, Dave & Matt) it's entirely possible that they would never have garnered as much interest? But then, that would probably depend on whether or not people have heard their fruits of their labour, their breakthrough 2006 album Transparent Things, a streamlined, minimal krautrocking dose of electro-funk that owes as much to German pioneers such as Can Neú as it does to the Warp Records rooster of the 90s. Their cause has been furthered still by the endorsements of influential heads such as DFA's James Murphy, the 'tastemakers' tastemaker. Now expanded out to a four piece with the addition of a drummer, and with a new recently released album, Ligthbulbs, to promote, they're returning to play Cyprus Avenue on Friday, September 19.

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