Saturns Apep | tl

Tokuoka Yoshinari (born on July 15th, 1978) and Takuya Miura (born March 5th, 1984) comprise DEPAPEPE, a Japanese two-man acoustic guitar duo. The duo formed in 2002. They released three indies before their major debut, which collectively reached sales figures of about 100,000. They made their major debut in 2005 with their album "Let's Go!!!", and ranked within the top 10 of Japan Oricon's Instrumental Artist Debut Chart. The band's name was cobbled together by combining the Japanese word for 'overbite', 'deppa', because of Miura's overbite, and the name of Tokuoka's previous band 'DERUPEPE'. .

Saturnshine initially began as a side project for Christian Mesiano during the winter of 1998. It provided a vehicle for his love of early 80s new wave pop and early 90s dream pop as well as environmental soundscapes, ambient music and film scoring. In 1999, the first self-titled "Saturnshine EP" was recorded. Shortly thereafter, Saturnshine was put on hold to work on several other band related projects. In 2001, the second Saturnshine EP, "Tomorrow’s City", Today, was recorded. Once again, Christian began playing guitar in another band. After that fizzled out, like they all usually did, it was finally time...