Brighton's electronica outfit Fujiya & Miyagi are named after a record player and the Karate Kid wise man.

"It just looked really nice written down," offers the distinctly un-Japanese vocalist/guitarist David Best. "And it was the only name we came up with."

Best and his musical partner Steve Lewis supposedly started making music because of their mutual hero-worship of world heavyweight wrestler Kendo Nagasaki and a shared interest in krautrock and early-Nineties electronica.

They've been compared to everyone from Can and the Happy Mondays to Kraftwerk and Talking Heads. These flattering comparisons, combined with Best's eclectic line in lyrics - "I've got a slow, a slow, a slow metabolism" - has won Fujiya & Miyagi an impressive legion of supporters.

Among the cheering ranks are DFA, Tiga, Andrew Weatherall, Chicken Lips and BBC 6 Music's Tom Robinson. As the band point out, "You can't go looking for that kind of feedback."

Formed in 2000, Fujiya & Miyagi spent their formative years in relative obscurity, releasing their 2003 debut, Electro Karaoke In The Negative Style, to frustratingly little notice.

"The first album was so slow, it didn't translate well live at all," Best explains. "So playing live, we kind of looked back on the stuff that we'd forgotten about, such as Bowie, Roxy Music, and Iggy And The Stooges."

However, lately they've seen a rise in popularity, due at least in part to very favourable coverage from the likes of the NME and Pitchfork.

Being the subject of an episode of last year's MTV2 documentary series, This Is Our Music, and having their song Collarbone feature in a Jaguar car advert hasn't hurt them either.

Their latest album, Transparent Things, named after a book by Vladimir Nabokov and released on Tirk, covers everything from office life to litterbugs, questionnaires and the defining moments of your childhood, as on the song Ankle Injuries.

"It's about walking to school as a kid and finding a porno mag in the middle of the road, and realising that a female's genitalia is different from a male's," adds Best.

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