I just finished posting the whole soundtrack I wrote to @kory’s Wire Tripper on my Mastodon feed.
If you want to listen to it as DJ Tent Mode originally intended and have it loop forever and ever until you get zapped, here’s a link to the Sound Test cart.
There was a Korean punk band I like called 내몸에 꿀발랐수? (translates to “Did you spread honey on my body?”) who only had two songs on a sampler in 1999 and nowhere else and I’ve never seen or heard referenced anywhere.
It’s number 11 and 20 here:
My love for Lo Fidelity Allstars started in Frequency on the PS2 and I never stopped appreciating them. They made bangers until they stopped making music and then made even more good music as Kid Midnight. Their side project Technically Men put out a superb album full of anger, bile, and funk.
Their final album, Northern Stomp, came out in 2009 and didn’t make a huge splash but produced some of their best tunes. I present Smash & Grab World. My favorite track on the album (although I have difficulty not just listening to the whole album whenever one single track pops up).
I just listened to the whole album and can confirm: it’s a really good time!
I got my dad that Arhoolie Records 40th Anniversary set for his 70th and also digitized it for him if he wants to listen on his phone. Hopefully he digs it. It was a Brandon rec a while back and always kept the idea in my head.
Just wanted to pop in here and mention that I woke up this morning with specifically Tanguy Ukulele Orchestra’s cover of Suede’s Trash in my head. It’s odd, because I haven’t heard the song in any form that I can remember for a long time! I know it’s a stretch for this thread since folks here generally know T.U.O. but I’m not really sure if anybody remembers Suede? Anyway, I like the original Trash, but T.U.O.'s cover is kinda sad and beautiful and has a vibe all its own that I’ve always loved. Anyway here’s to random 6am earworms!
I love this track so much. There are many reasons why but I think my favorite is that it sounds like nothing I’ve heard of before or since. Enjoy!
Curious if anyone here knows of a Japanese emo band by the name of “Nei Naam”. I feel like anytime I search anything about them and their one album I get nothing. Either way it’s been a favorite for years now. Particularly love the last track “Shiroi Hitotachi”. Also pretty sure I’m the 1 monthly listener on Spotify lol.
Bit of a stretch with “nobody” here, but this shibuya kei/soul (misia-style) crossover artist does not seem to have any degree of popularity (her artist name being k. doesn’t make her easy to search, that’s for sure)
But I really like her stuff. One of those artists where you go into the record store and they’re like uhhhh no idea lol.
today I learned Haroumi Hosono made an odd soundtrack for an odd PS1 game
Thought the guy in that song sounded like one of the guys from m-flo and turns out it is! Will be trying to check out more of her because that song bangs.
I was reading about Japanese experimental music and somebody said in the comments something like “there’s your Philip Glass / Steve Reich minimalism, but then Taki Sugimoto is doing something totally different from that.”
So I listened to his album Chamber Music and…this is one of the funniest albums I’ve ever heard.
Gonna cross post this a bit. Managed to get the music out of this Artdink game that hadn’t seen any web existence until I payed out the ears and got hold of it. I think the music is rad - unique blend of light wispy semi bossa nova feeling electronic sound folding into some more driving beats.
https://archive.org/details/HANAMARU
This channel, Lost But Not Forgotten '80s, seems perfect for this thread. Kind of haunting how many of these songs seem like they could have been been hits or at least sort of well known and now sound uncanny and mysterious.