Original sentence: They took their name from a Japanese comic, and contributed their first recording "Guitars Are Boring" to a compilation released by the Kazoo Club (based in Glasgow's notorious 13th Note and run at one point by future Franz Ferdinand singer Alex Kapranos)
Edited sentence: They took their name from a then-obscure Japanese comic, and contributed their first recording "Guitars Are Boring" to a compilation released by the Kazoo Club (based in Glasgow's notorious 13th Note and run at one point by future Franz Ferdinand singer Alex Kapranos)