morita doji - 'good bye'

sad japanese psych femme-folk written about a friend who passed away. beautiful playing, beautiful arrangements, beautiful voice. you may not understand the stories being told but you can clearly understand the emotion.


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yellow magic orchestra - 'solid state survivor'

yellow magic orchestra are a synth pop band who have some of the most amazing melodies ever processed through early sounding synths. completely ahead of its time, innovative yet also catchy catchy catchy.

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戸川純 - '玉姫様'

the file name says 1994 but it was released in 1984. jun togawa is a japanese new wave singer who tried to flip the idea of a typical jpop star of that time. she's almost like an asian laurie anderson in that it's equal parts music and performance art.

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antique pony - 'gay ghosts'

weirdo art rock that merges dissonance, spoken word and sound collage with a pop sensibility, all condensed into a cohesive 20 minutes.

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east link - 'east link'

garagey psyched out noise rock from australia that features members of total control, uv race and a bunch more. very sick and catchy guitar lines that always stay on the side of originality with really tight songwriting throughout. there's not really much to the tape but what's there is very effective and accessibly entertaining. plenty of maxed out guitar tones and fuzzed out production values to satisfy.

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yeast culture - 'yeast culture'

yeast culture are an 80s band who used field recordings, ambience and noise to create a special blend of soundscapes. the source of recordings mainly consisted of things they found around the islands in Puget Sound. they have a very conceptual way of composing including the recording of things such as trees and water, to live electric plasma, empty industrial sites and historical military forts. very DIY, artistic and underground seemingly.

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black sun roof - 'feral'

new record from matthew bower of skullflower fame under a new alias for his sunroof! collective. extended dark ambient jams that reminds me of a dense black metal record mixed with outsider shoegaze and the usual noise bower is associated with.

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