hangry & angry
Just talked to Meikee Magnetic and he referred me to a girl duo I regrettably haven't heard of. Yet. The gothloli pop duo of hANGRY & ANGRY comprises two 4th generation Morning Musume members (okay, there's a reason why they eluded me so far, heh), 吉澤 ひとみ - Hitomi Yoshizawa (hANGRY) and 石川 梨華 - Rika Ishikawa (ANGRY) and if you ayrtonsenna your precious headmeat into the Top Secret video (above), you'll treat yourself all too well, that's some quite decent Jpop material and most probably their catchiest and cheesiest hit so far. Apparently, according to Wikipedia, they're on a payroll of a Harajuku fashion store of the same name, so they're basically a promotion unit.
Hangry & Angry is a brand of popular Japanese designer h.NAOTO. Illustrator GASHICON draws the gurokawa (grotesque-cute)-style characters "Hangry" and "Angry" who came from the H44 Star Nebula in order to save the world from global warming. They arrived in the present in their time machine dubbed "LOVE MACHINE." (via japanfiles)
And while you're busy clicking your way around the ladies, be sure to check out Gothuall label they released their first mini album on and the other band on it called GaGaalinG, that might be a kick for all you people out there into the lighter side of J-rock like Danger Gang and exist†trace - this band is actually fronted by MAIMING, a model you could mostly see in the Harajuku fashion mag KERA.
psychick warriors ov gaia: exit 23 (the drum club remix)
Psychick Warriors Ov Gaia is a group of techno music producers from the Netherlands. It is also known as Thee Disciples Ov Gaia and Sluagh Ghairm, one of its members was affiliated to Thee Temple ov Psychick Youth. The group released a number of records and CDs on the Belgian KK Records in the late 1980s and early 1990s. (via wikipedia) | Mysterious formation from Holland (Tilburg), specialised in blends of deep techno, subtle trance and ambient soundscapes, mostly redefining the adjective 'tribal'. At the end of 1992, Robbert Heynen left the group to concentrate on his solo project Exquisite Corpse. (via discogs)
tina root sings reaping beauty about bayonetta (and tina fey)
Last year at Comic-Con, everyone was talking about Bayonetta, this new game about a witch who comes back from hell and tries to find her way home. Beefy, Random and I wrote this song about how Bayonetta looks like Tina Fey and got Tina Root from the 90s industrial band Switchblade Symphony (back with the LA band Small Halo) to sing the hook which she wrote. The song was produced by Jason Bazinet from SMP. (download reaping beauty from mclars.com via kotaku)
2009, missing post #20: veqtor's new album
You must surely remember Veqtor from the London edition of The Dose and his weird, distorted ways of cochlear communication, halfway between jazz thinking, glitch and 8-bit tunes. Now he's got his new album, Parsuitel Orbitelum out for free download out on his label, OXO Unlimited and if you want to say goodbye to 2009 with insane chiptunes (Preprocessor is my fave but the beginning AG Racing is not halfbad for an 8-bit GTA cover song, either!), download the whole pack! I'd say Definite is the best-rolling song of all and anything's that's gone acidways needs some work on it, let those tracks be more strict, the basslines more tense, the wickedness is there already. Oh and those missing The Dose - we're there to promise you lovely little things in 2010. If we get there. (Below, a collaboration of Veqtor and Mathtiiaas Rosén, using a crappy cellphone, upsampled using geniune fractals, then run through max/msp+jitter patch. Stock footage from archive.org has been run through an atari2600 emulator being data-bent and repositioning the footage. Still rocking stuff, though!)
2009, missing post #18: teufels dreizack, yelworc on the rise
One of the new tracks by the accomplished German occult industrial/EBM group yelworC. Make friends with them, emerge in the depths. 2010 is bringing you more of those very sweet pits of modular destruction and despair. Order all the stuff you can get from them, their older materials were released on Celtic Circle Productions, the newer ones via Minuswelt Musikfabrik. All recommended. (And here's something older as well.)
2009, missing post #9: dhc meinhof and the shizit
I've sort of grown to like this DHC Meinhof, a Polish digital hardcore band on D-Trash Records, but the nicest I could tell you about them is that they're a shameless rip-off of Atari Teenage Riot. Which is not exactly a bad thing after all - after the tragic departure of Carl Crack you either went for the slightly (or significantly) different stuff of Alec, Hanin and Nic or you've tried to find something more harsh and less professional in the digital hardcore scene. So the Meinhof ends up in a gapfilling position, however bad this sounds. For them. (You don't think so? Oh. Check Will You Ever Learn.)
And if you missed out some comets just like I did, time for you to know - The Shizit has a new album out called The Shizit - downloadable free of charge from archive.org! (Thanks to Gargaj for the then-lifesaving link!)
2009, missing post #8: the shamen
Too bad I found The Shamen only on the very last week of this year (apart from their very, very bad live recordings such as this one) - turns out they have more connections to cyberpunk and my time spent online than I remembered. Hyperreal, one of their 1990 singles, apparently gave birth to hyperreal.org, a long-lived site formed around music, chemistry and rave culture and their Axis Mutatis album (from 1995) actually gave its name to a cyberpunk community site (sort of) that serves a different Japanese site now under the same domain. (For more cyberpunk digital communities, check Project Cyberpunk and its links.)
2009, missing post #5: principles of geometry + antivj
AntiVJ has been working on a new format for French retro-futurist electronic producers Principles of Geometry. Using stereoscopy (technology used in IMAX cinemas to watch visuals with 3D glasses) they produced a 50min long real-time journey through space. An exciting experience and a real visual counterpart to the band's space/epic soundtrack. (via antivj, music at myspace/principlesofgeometry)
2009, missing post #1: everything is made of cheese
Beardyman, one of the world's best - if not the outright best - beatboxer on his 2008 Northern tour. (via hardergeneration, on a magical triple-nine date)
cover galore: the sun always shines on tv
Morten "jósvádájú" Harket és barátai megírták a slágert a huszadik század igazi feng shuijáról, értsd, ha keleti oldalról süt be a nap, nyugati oldalra helyezd a tévét, ha ablakból süt be, ablakkal szemben helyezd, ha lakást tervezel, úgy huzaloztass, aztán csak egyszerhasználatos sláger lett belőle. Egyszerhasználatos. Nincs egy videomegosztón egy olyan felvétel sem, ahol Morten "jósvádájú voltam" Harket jól énekelné ki a kritikus részeket (amúgy tudom a többiek nevét is, olvasok Wikipédiát, volt nemstandard tiniújságból pixeles A-HA plakátom, bekaphatjátok), a feldolgozások pedig még siralmasabbak, az 1985-ös verzió volt a legjobb, mégis összegyűjtöttem egy csokornyivalót (az öt darab), hogy megtudjátok, mit nem szabad. Egy-két kivételtől eltekintve.
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planetdamage.com's best music finds of 2009
2009 zenei aranymazsolái, részeg éjszaka maradványa ez a töredék is, az ötlet persze tökéletes, miket kezdtünk el hallgatni idén, amik amúgy nem is annyira új anyagok már - földönkívüli civilizációk bódult isteneitől poszt-grunge szennydívákig, hipnotikus brit space-technótól dzsunkatempóra himbálózó dubstepig visz a lista, videoklipekkel megszórva. Az év legjobb anyagai később jönnek, ha egyáltalán.
To all of you who speak English, just click this. Inside: a few bands I came to love in 2009 from Goth to space techno, sprinkled with lots of videos and MySpace links. If the magical harmony of Hungarian vowels do not instantly bestow you the meaning, fear not.
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minus 012, fridge baby moodsetters and the second way out
Adrianne Curry, first winner of America's Next Top Model posts naked picture of herself playing World of Warcraft. (via kotaku)
Urban freestyle teenager romp in a generously Finnish manner, timetravelling without moving back to the end of the nineties, the fuzzy door between warehouse couture and street physical bubble aura manipulation, as presented by the nightshift of the Pacebreaker radio crew.
The webstore of Warren Ellis and his accomplices, including the unholy "Where's My Fucking Coffee" device.
blasted mechanism - destiny? play and see
A perem, amire napok óta kapaszkodunk. Van amúgy olvasóm, aki beszél portugálul? (Az egy nyelv, amúgy.)