WaqWaq Kingdom - Hakke Yoi (Official Music Video)

’Hakke Yoi ’ release on 11th July 2023 taken from : WaqWaq Kingdom - Hot Pot Totto (album out on 22nd September 2023 from Phantom Limb) Pre Order: Music Video byJodyyy Surfs ( ) Hakke Yoi (はっけよい) roughly translates to ’put some spirit into it’ and is shouted by referees during sumo wrestling matches to get the wrestlers back into action. The Kami (神 :God in Japanese) are sanguine and carefree as they travel the universe when suddenly chaos strikes and they are sent plummeting to the physical realm. Here they are sucked into the rat-race by the corporate, hallucinagenic frogs. Unaware of their corruption, the Kami turn wicked and competitive. The sumo judge with his third eye powers brings the Kami to the secret sumo realm to show them what they have become. The judge hosts a sumo match to show them their new, wicked nature. Defeated, all of the negative energy is released and the kami return to the spirit realm, cleansed and connected, with a new found spirit, Hakke Yoi. Follow WaqWaq Kingdom : Facebook: Instagram: Follow Phantom Limb : Facebook: Instagram: Twitter: Acclaimed Japan “minyo footwork” duo WaqWaq Kingdom - aka Shigeru Ishihara (DJ Scotch Egg / Seefeel) and Kiki Hitomi (ex-King Midas Sound) - return with feverishly joyous new album Hot Pot Totto, a bubbling hot pot of dance music that responds to ecological anxiety. “Two words are conjoined: hot pot and ottotto,” vocalist Kiki Hitomi tells us. “Ottotto is the Japanese equivalent of “oops”, or said when someone nearly falls over but manages to get their balance back: “it was dangerous but now we are safe!” Combined with the heady brew of their musical styles (“like a psychedelic Nabe hot pot: melting traditional Japanese Minyo with Jamaican dancehall, footwork, dub, techno, tribal polyrhythms and Super Nintendo soundtracks”), producer Shige Ishihara’s time in East Africa working with local musicians, and the dayglo hallucinogen of the duo’s visual aesthetic, WaqWaq Kingdom’s thumping, thrilling, irresistible third release is a unique ride. Treated voice, floor-shaking beats, and dizzying, transforming colour palette are tied to heart-quickening BPMs. Thematically - despite its ostensibly celebratory impact - Hot Pot Totto addresses the world’s grave ecological state. “Now our earth is on the way to catastrophe, as global warming becomes a serious problem through humanity’s fault. We are on the edge,” Hitomi writes. “We need to get back on the right track.” The ottotto of the album title refers to this experience - the need to get back on track. However, this is not lamenting music: it is fiercely defiant, full of colour and rapture, maintaining an optimism that we can. The album’s lyrics refer to humanity’s sacrifice of our planet for our own material gains, centring around key line “Turn disaster to our advantage / good fortune and happiness will come to those who smile,” offering not regret but encouragement and empowerment, alongside addictive neon alien sonics and relentless vibrancy. (Lyric & Transration in English） ホンマにお手上げなのは 地球で人間じゃない (It is the planet and not human that is really in trouble) 悲鳴を上げた山と海の絶滅アニマル (Extinct animals in mountains and ocean have been screaming) もおええって、どれだけ満たせば満足するの (How much more is enough to satisfy you?) 底なしの煩悩 (Bottomless human’s worldly desires ) 対決　( the worldly desire vs the worldly desire) ハッケヨイ(Hakke Yoi: In Sumo wrestling when just before the fight, the judge says Hakke Yoi to start the fight) どこでテストができるんか　ちゃんと 教えて欲しい (I just need you to tell me where I can do a (Covid 19) test / we wrote this song during the beginning of the pandemic) インターネットで検索しても、情報古すぎ (Searching on the internet, but the information is too old.) 散々待って　順番きたら　子供はダメだと (I waited a long time for my kid to get tested, and when it was our turn, they said no kids allowed for the test here) おー手あげ　ヤー おー手あげ　ヤー (I give up, I raise my hands) キリキリマイや 　ギリギリマイや (we are on the edge) コロナで　汚職が丸見えや (Corruption in full view from Corona) あああ　愛を語れよ 政治家 (Yo politicians. Speak of love, do politics from your heart) あああ　雨土と共に　浄化 (Purification with the rain and soil) おおお　王蟲の目玉も真っ赤っか (The eyes of the king bugs are bright red, too ​) (Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, Miyazaki film there is the huge bugs called OHMU. When they get angry , their eyes turn into red. They represent the anger of earth) だだだ　大地の怒りが　クー、クー、クーデーター (Wrath of Earth. Earth causes a Coup d’état to mankind )