Coming to Japan for a tour in november 2011 ( part of Japan Music Week ), we pretty much guarantee that you've never heard anything like The Tanuki Project. The Montreal electro-pop and visual art collective make slick dance music that pushes pop boundaries into amazingly strange territories.

The Tanuki Project is an electro - art rock - visual band founded by Nady (vox) and Legyl (machines, bass), including David Duclos (drums), VJ BlindMan and video director Etienne Tallard. They're qualified as indie dance scientists.

The group blend pulsing club rhythms with down tempo trip-hop beats and vivid imagery creating their unique indie electronic style, some visual electronic-dance art-rock lifting your music-cool status to abnormally high levels. Nady’s seductive vocals, Legyl’s addictive beats and hypnotic bass lines and David’s powerful drums are woven through their video projections, resulting in a well crafted visual and sound experience currently making a distinctive mark on the canadian indie-electronic scene. It's dance music for your ears, rump and mind!

Their live show can best be described as a mix of electronic music beats and hypnotic, almost other worldly projections. A surrounding audio and visual experience that transports audiences into the realm of the senses, this band must be experienced live to truly understand and feel the artistic and magical atmosphere they create.

Their debut album Playground for Everyone was released august 2010. Songs off the album were also featured in Browns shoes’ Celebrities for Charity videos, and Spring shoe company’s web ads in 2009- 2010.They'll play Canadian Music Week in 2011 and in 2010 they toured Canada at Toronto Fashion week, Festival Mode & Design in Montreal, showcases at Indie Week Toronto, COCA central regional conference.

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