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| Contents of Incoming folder 1: examined anew by Zseni 10/23/2004, 7:27am PDT | ||||
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- not worf it :( anime dorks only :(/- Arashiro Beni - Infinite: Standard dance pop. +...ish Dead Can Dance - Dead Can Dance (1984), Within the Realm of a Dying Sun (1987), Aion (1990): These dudes sure do miss the Crusades. A little too goth for ambient or new age; a little too ambient and new age to be goth. DCD sits an uneasy fence, but if you need background music for your Vampire: The Masquerade full-costume weekend, you should go download this here ass-covering. It's hard for me to really get down with this stuff, since I already get down with medieval music and I generally don't like it better because there are synthesizers involved, but I also get down with goth, and DCD makes a more intelligent grasp for fusion than I'm used to seeing, too. So I sit on the fence too with these guys. ++ AFX - Hangable Auto Bulb: Awesome, some of his best work, unrelentingly Aphex Twin however. More in the way of Ambient Works 85-92 than anything else. + An Suk-seon, Pak Byeong-ch'eon - Mi-eum: Korean traditional. Reminds me of Japanese Noh music, but rather more...funky in the vocals. It's different, in a good way. + Arto Lindsay - Salt: I'm kind of a fan, and Arto's usual rich soundscapes are here, but with a much more definite and hard dance edge in the beats than I've ever heard from him before. I like Noon Chill better as an album, but Salt isn't nearly as serious either. + Average White Band - Average White Band: You know that "Play That Funky Music White Boy" song? The band that does that is called Wild Cherry. But the original funky white boy band was Average White Band, hailing from Scotland and England, and they don't take a single thing seriously where funk or lyrics or anything else is concerned. If you like your funk without the screaming guitar riffs or politics and with an extra helping of fun, you will probably like AWB very much. +, just not for me | Radio Caroline - Dead Groovy Action: Japanese surfer-rock with gravelly singer. Defiantly retro. Fun. If blasphemists were remaking Sonny Chiba movies, Radio Caroline would probably get a phone call. :( / + / - Kagrra - Kotodama: I have really mixed feelings about this because it's like average-plus J-rock. There are enough out-of-the-ordinary touches to keep me interested, but not enough to excuse entirely how all the rest of it is totally average J-rock. These guys are burning up the rockers at ThePPN. Probably will remind most white people vaguely of Blue Oyster Cult with a singer who likes to slip into falsetto for no particular reason. :( / + Kou Shibasaki: various singles and albums - Pleasant dance-pop overall, but I'm really loving the song Kagerou off the Ikutsuka no Kara single and will probably, upon further exposure, soften up to some other pieces. Kagerou is a lovely dramatic song with Chinese traditional touches which would probably make a killer end credits song for an RPG that didn't suck. :( mihimaru GT - mihimarhythm: CHEERFUL SUNNY CHEERFUL urban pop. Music for Volkswagen commercials in Japan. :(/+/- Mikami Chisako - fundamental ride: another one where I think you probably have to figure it out yourself. There is an obvious grab here for Annie Lennox's later solo work. After an extremely promising first three seconds, the rest sounds like the kind of thing hip moms would like to get caught listening to. I don't really like it, but I can see how it would be eminently likeable. + Misia - mother father brother sister: Her first album, a little bit less polished than the first one. Plenty of Pizzicato 5, a little bit of hip hop. The songwriters/production team too seldom let her cut loose with the full capability of her voice, which is pretty, capable. :( / - Orange Range - hana: I hope these guys are pretty. Government issue standard boyband pop. - for the music, + for the sociology| Oricon weekly Japanese singles ranking (top 30): there's a dude at ThePPN who releases these compilations weekly, and, like a photoblog, they are interesting snapshots of other countries' ordinary everyday lives. In Japan in would appear that most people like crap. There is an Asian Kung Fu Generation song in there for last week though. I love AKFG. :( otsuka ai - Daisukidaiyo: Girlishly-voiced pop ready for the panty-looking pederasts of Japan. The title translates to "I love you very much." Contents follow as you might expect. Well at least they don't take it completely for granted that you'll love it no matter what, pederasts. :( Pierrot - Discography: It's rude to sum up a whole band's work in a few sentences, but it's J-rock, so that's kind of really all it takes. If you like J-rock, Pierrot is just about between L'Arc En Ciel and Dir En Grey on the hard-n-heavy scale. If you don't like J-rock, Pierrot is not the place to start. I like a couple songs in here but mostly just burned off the whole thing to CD. Nice background music for fighting games. + Goran Bregovic - Songs For Weddings And Funerals: Bunches of intersting reinterpretations of traditional Balkan music. Bregovic is famous for being a bridge artist, the kind of guy who works with Brian Eno and Bill Laswell but also gets down with the commoners in his little shameful backwater hole. I like this album a lot! It has a nice clean modern sound, but the music has the soul and depth of traditional roads well-travelled. |
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