Queen of Japan is a German music trio from Munich, Germany,[1] known for its synthpop sound and cover versions of hits from the 1970s and 1980s.
Their version of "I Was Made for Loving You" (a hit for KISS) was featured on the award-winning short movie Icicle Melt starring Greta Scacchi.
A review for the CD Foreign Politics describes:You'd think that after the success of the sex-citing cover CD Head-Rush, (an album of full of electric-socket boogie-nights versions, which could be mistakingly [sic] described as electroclash) [...] the glitter-spangled threesome [...] would carry on playing the high-voltage karaoke-sex-machine for a generation who grew up between Saturday Night Fever & Flashdance, Repo Man & Alien [...] But Queen of Japan are not just your run-of-the-mill cheeky anarchistic electro-karaoke dandies [...but are instead] A tour de force in discology.
Their website features the following description "translated from the japanese by arakiha miho":The band naming their persons queen of Japan was not always in the threesome they hold to their beating hearts today [..] After many tours of hard sexual energy and costume change the queen of Japan became known well across country and town never giving in to a life of modest no glamour [...] Schools will replace sexual theory lessons with headrush album in order to save the money of tax pay.
Her vocal talents are also featured on the CD Miss Me, credited as "HP:CS" (Hans Platzgumer:Catriona Shaw), as well as with Electronicat.
More recently, he has collaborated with other artists and released music under such codenames as Convertible, Aura Anthropica, Cube & Sphere, Fingerfood, and Shinto.
Jason Arigato), Queen of Japan's bass player and co-producer, is from Bavaria and has a diverse portfolio as a musician and music producer.
He has worked as a sound technician for various bands including Chicks on Speed and Die Goldenen Zitronen, which is presumably where he and Platzgumer made their acquaintance.