Noriko Sekiguchi, better known as Poison Girl Friend, is behind some of the most lustrous downtempo, trip-hop, and late-night pop music in post–economic bubble Japan. The Yokohama-born artist was inspired by the British clubs she visited in 1989 and soon began utilizing a drum machine to make her own pop music. By 1990 she’d returned […] The post Nineties Japanese trip-hop artist Poison Girl Friend finally comes to Chicago appeared first on Chicago Reader.