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[ Clouds of the West's
"Glass Radio" playing ]

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♪♪

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♪♪

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-When you're listening to vinyl,

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I mean, you have to be
physically present.

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You have to clean the record
when it goes onto the turntable.

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You have to drop the needle.

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When it's done,
you have to get up,

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move the tonearm over, flip
the record, clean the record,

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and then drop the needle again.

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And so it requires you
to be present in the space

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in a way that sort of a,
a never-ending playlist doesn't.

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-♪ The youngest of them all ♪

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-So we are in the hi-fi room
at Shibuya Hi-Fi.

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This is a space
that is dedicated to listening,

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so people listen here.

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We pride ourselves
in helping people

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kind of tune out the noise
of the modern world.

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People come in,
they have a cocktail

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in the lounge out front,

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and then they come back here,
kick off their shoes --

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so when you come
to Shibuya Hi-Fi,

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make sure you wear nice socks.

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For 40 minutes,
you're really spending time

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with people you may
or may not know,

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and you're listening to a record
that everyone loves together.

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-This is it.

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Our band is called
Clouds of the West.

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-We do about 80 records a month.

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You can kind of
look at our schedule,

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and it sort of takes you through
a tour of recorded music.

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If there's anything that we love
and sounds good, we'll play it.

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♪♪

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-♪ If I see the world aflame,
I will do it ♪

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-We've got one of
the most amazing sound systems

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that you'll find
in this town or anywhere.

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That's a Technics
1300G turntable.

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The amplifier that we have

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is a Luxman 505uXII
hand-assembled in Japan.

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We've got two sets of speakers
in the hi-fi room here.

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The smaller ones
are ATC SCM50s.

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The larger speakers
in the corner are Klipschorns.

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They were built
by Paul Klipsch himself.

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Klipschorns are known
for their bountiful bottom end.

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I mean, you can listen to
a Bud Powell piano record

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on there, and it's astonishing.

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You can also listen
to Led Zeppelin IV,

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and it's thunderous.

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So it can get down to some real
kind of nuanced, soft music,

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and it can get as loud
as you want it to get.

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[ Clouds of the West's
"All I Want" playing ]

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I think of all the artistic
forms of expression,

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I mean, music is the one that
we all seem to have in common.

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You can just feel a beat.

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The music is what appeals
to people,

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but it's also the act
of listening to music

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that really resonates
with people.

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[ Clouds of the West's
"All I Want" playing ]

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♪♪