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Andrez Bergen is an expatriate Australian journalist, musician, DJ, writer, photographer and ad hoc beer & sake connoisseur who's been ensconced in Tokyo, Japan, for the past decade.

Under the alias of Industrial Form he dabbled with graf and filmmaking in the early 1990s, then set up indie electronic record label IF? in 1995, since which time Bergen's also made music under silly aliases like Little Nobody, Funk Gadget and Nana Mouskouri's Spectacles.

Bergen has written for fistfuls of diverse magazines like Mixmag, VICE, Geek Monthy, Impact, Anime Insider, Filmink and Australian Style, as well as newspapers The Age (Australia) and the Yomiuri Shimbun (Japan).

In April 2011 Bergen published his first novel, 'Tobacco-Stained Mountain Goat',...more


Just did an interview with the very cool people @ Madman Entertainment in my hometown Melbourne—with their opinions on all things Japanese including anime and Akira Kurosawa. It's up at Forces Of Geek.

Here's a sample or two:

"Australia has had a long history with Japanese cinema, TV and anime even if we didn’t always realise it at the time.

"For many years TV has been a window on Japanese cultur... Read more of this blog post »
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Tobacco-Stained Mountain Goat
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Andrez Bergen Robert wrote: "Thanks for accepting my friend request, Andrez." Cheers, Robert. Sorry, I only just noticed this!


Andrez Bergen Olivia *^*A Nerdy Girl*^* wrote: "The word stalker springs to mind... haha! ;)"

Be afraid - be very afraid... (oh, wait, that's from a movie!). ;)


Livvy The word stalker springs to mind... haha! ;)


Robert Thanks for accepting my friend request, Andrez.


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