#seitekishoujo

that ego wrappin fuck me up

Miles Davis - Blue in Green

James Blake - No More Than A Road

Actress - Lost 

Madlib - Distant Land

Shinichi Atobe - Butterfly Effect

Ego Wrappin’ - Oiboreinu no Serenade

Zazen Boys - METAL FICTION

Taeko Ohnuki - 4:00 AM

I always look forward to what you have to say.

I hope that is Pegasus’ voice actor.

ALEX NO.

The hero in you jumped when you heard this was someone you knew. It makes you a kind person.

Tokyo Jihen: When I was a teenager, a friend of an acquaintance of mine posted the The Lady Is A Tramp video on his facebook wall because he’s a drummer and Hata absolutely tears it up in that video. I clicked it because of the hot Japanese woman with the guitar on the thumbnail, and thus begun a really long and complicated set of feelings towards a woman I was totally enthralled by, and yet pretty baffled by. It took me a really long time to get into her voice. I’ve been a SOIL&”PIMP” fan for much longer too so Ringo kept popping up on my radar - that televised performance of Karisome Otome DEATH JAZZ version kept popping up on my YouTube recommendations (it’s gone now) and she did My Foolish Heart  ~ Crazy On Earth ~ with them too. I knew stuff like Koko De Kiss Shite and Honnou too just through general japanese music culture osmosis. I don’t like Koko De Kiss Shite very much though so I didn’t give her much more thought. At some point in like 2012 I watched Sakuran with @circlesonmyhorizon and then bought Heisei Fuuzoku that night cause I liked the score more than anything else about that film. Then I bought Karuki Zamen Kuri No Hana, which is like the best album ever recorded by someone who isn’t an old/dead black guy. I guess once you’re into Ringo you’re into Jihen, so that happened.

ZAZEN BOYS: I beat up this drunk guy in a bar once and he kept yelling weird japanese phrases about the impermanence of the world and the subsequent return of his libido. I didn’t know what he was talking about so I googled it and it led me to his band, who kinda suck tbh.

(Weekend was in YouTube’s related videos to Number Girl - NUM-AMI-DABUTZ. I was clicking around randomly trying to learn about Japanese music. Nothing too exciting.)

Blonde Redhead: Another band who I guess have always just kinda been on my radar. I definitely listened to Fake Can Be Just As Good at some point in history. In the late 2000s/ early 2010s I was really into electronic hip hop, especially the whole Los Angeles beats scene, Flying Lotus and Stuff. I got super excited by the prospect of Nosaj Thing’s second album, Home. The album’s pretty disappointing but it did feature the absolutely beautiful Eclipse//Blue, which features the vocal talents of none other than Kazu Makino. I really dug her vocals so I thought I’d give Blonde Redhead a shot. I basically spent all of 2013 crying and listening to Misery is a Butterfly.

ONE ARTIST OF MY CHOICE:

Uhh, I got into The Mars Volta when I was like 12 years old because my dad burned me a bunch of albums that his colleague thought I might like, among them Deloused in the Comatorium (as well as every Muse album, De La Soul’s Best Of and The Mouse and the Mask by Dangerdoom). Then I forgot about them for a few years. When I was like 15 I decided to lift part of the main guitar part of Televators for my music assignment so I loaded it up on YouTube for a guitarist friend to tell me the notes, and then I decided to see what they’d been up to. They’d just released Goliath as a single and that was like the best song ever when I was a teenager. It’s not cool to like them any more but I still do. Incidentally during this same slacking session I heard Lovely Bloodflow by Baths and that became my favourite song for a while.

Asian Kung-Fu Generation: I saw the PV for Loop&Loop on some random music channel using On Demand on my cable box. I thought it was super catchy.

Baths: I believe Baths came from my roommate, Sean. He probably showed me Aminals or something, and I instantly enjoyed the vibes.

Supercar: I got Supercar as a recommendation from my friend Alan, who I had met on the instant music pillows fan forum.

Cornelius: I found Fit Song’s PV from youtube, and I explored him in more detail from there.

I answered for the cabs already, so I’ll pick a different artist.