Haruomi Hosono
― damo tsu tsuki (r1o natsume), Tuesday, 4 August 2009 14:52 (fourteen years ago) link
Paraiso is really good. Tropical music with a bizarre electronic twist. Very odd and affecting, and quite catchy as well.Cochin Moon is an early electronic classic. Really neat stuff.His Nokto de la Galaskia Fervojo soundtrack is chilling, it's minimal (as is a lot of Hosono's stuff) but very cold and moving. Love it.
― frogbs, Monday, 15 November 2010 19:26 (thirteen years ago) link
so glad this was revived. just found a mediafire folder with all the albums and needed some guidance.
― brotherlovesdub, Monday, 15 November 2010 21:58 (thirteen years ago) link
really loving these stripped down live versions YMO have been playing this year
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NTnIJ61z1w
― missingNO, Saturday, 25 December 2010 03:16 (thirteen years ago) link
Love the synth trumpet!
― Naive Teen Idol, Sunday, 26 December 2010 17:47 (thirteen years ago) link
Whoah, YMO doing "Thank You For Talkin' to Me Africa"!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWPbDsPYxZM&feature=related
― Naive Teen Idol, Sunday, 26 December 2010 17:48 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEZ3VxGWwjM
excellent video (if you can ignore the camera effects). kinda weird to see a shorthaired 70's Hosono funking out by himself. they really did keep it tight though.
― frogbs, Tuesday, 30 October 2012 12:23 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0adjDQyYSI4
― Late night with Amazing Bo (MaresNest), Sunday, 31 March 2013 23:48 (eleven years ago) link
amazing find
― original bgm, Monday, 1 April 2013 00:20 (eleven years ago) link
i think cindy crawford is in one of those!!
― frogbs, Monday, 1 April 2013 02:10 (eleven years ago) link
hah, she is! I caught her posing dramatically with a piano while randomly skipping around.
― original bgm, Monday, 1 April 2013 04:38 (eleven years ago) link
Somebody really needs to write me a good, thorough examination on YMO and the Japanese New Wave (400 pages at least). I like the process of rooting around and finding out little bits and pieces of information but I need some cultural CONTEXT dammit!
― Late night with Amazing Bo (MaresNest), Monday, 1 April 2013 16:42 (eleven years ago) link
I'm thinking that Nick Kent (the guy who runs technopop.info) could probably do something like that. YMO are interesting enough to warrant their own book but Japan is such a small country that all that stuff really ran into each other at some point. Like there's 3 degrees of seperation between pretty much every one of those bands. Most of it is probably through Harry Hosono, who seemingly appeared on everything that came out of Japan from 1976 to 1990 or so.
― frogbs, Monday, 1 April 2013 17:42 (eleven years ago) link
Too true, Hosono is a walking infographic.
― Late night with Amazing Bo (MaresNest), Monday, 1 April 2013 17:50 (eleven years ago) link
a book like that would leapfrogbs to the very top of my reading list, for real
― your holiness, we have an official energy drink (Z S), Monday, 1 April 2013 17:51 (eleven years ago) link
it's weird how popular ymo seem to be when reading about them, but every time i've asked a native japanese if they've heard of them, they haven't. maybe it's a generational thing?
― 君ちゃん (clouds), Monday, 1 April 2013 18:16 (eleven years ago) link
I've experienced this a couple of times with some Japanese aged under thirty or so, although they seem to know Sakamoto for some reason.
What's interesting is that if they are aware of YMO they're often interested that a westerner would be bothered listening to 'old' Japanese music, or even Japanese music period.
― Late night with Amazing Bo (MaresNest), Monday, 1 April 2013 19:19 (eleven years ago) link
yeah it seems like japanese don't have the same retromania that americans do, but i have no idea really
― 君ちゃん (clouds), Monday, 1 April 2013 19:40 (eleven years ago) link
― Late night with Amazing Bo (MaresNest), Monday, April 1, 2013 5:42 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I've not felt the urge to write about music much over the last few years, but I *really really* want to write a longform piece on Jun Togawa. Never going to happen without a rudimentary knowledge of Japanese, though.
― emil.y, Monday, 1 April 2013 19:42 (eleven years ago) link
If you want to blow the mind of a 40+ Japanese person, tell 'em you love Ippu-Do or Guernica.
― Late night with Amazing Bo (MaresNest), Monday, 1 April 2013 19:43 (eleven years ago) link
I know a lot of big music nerds who have no idea who Kraftwerk are, for instance...some people just don't really care about anything older than they are
― frogbs, Monday, 1 April 2013 19:46 (eleven years ago) link
You know, I heard an phone interview on Resonance last week with Akiko Yano (interspersed with some of her music), it was a show called Clear Spot. Maybe you could speak directly to Jun herself? If she speaks Eigo of course.
― Late night with Amazing Bo (MaresNest), Monday, 1 April 2013 19:46 (eleven years ago) link
emily - have you read this?http://www.groundzeromongkok.com/2010/12/memory-and-gender-in-music-of-jun.html
― frogbs, Monday, 1 April 2013 19:47 (eleven years ago) link
oops, XP
― Late night with Amazing Bo (MaresNest), Monday, 1 April 2013 19:47 (eleven years ago) link
Frogs, yeah, it's a good piece (and I love the toilet ad it links to), but I want more! I guess really I want something book-length, with a really good biographical content as well as analysis.
― emil.y, Monday, 1 April 2013 19:51 (eleven years ago) link
basically, a book version of this would be the most amazing thing:http://park10.wakwak.com/~techno/jgenealogy.html
― original bgm, Monday, 1 April 2013 21:53 (eleven years ago) link
and yeah, togawa is really fascinating. would read all of these imaginary books.
― original bgm, Monday, 1 April 2013 21:54 (eleven years ago) link
Wow - I need to hear that Akiko Yano Resonance show.
― That elusive North American wood-ape (Capitaine Jay Vee), Monday, 1 April 2013 23:49 (eleven years ago) link
CJV - I imagine it'll turn up in the Resonance 104 Soundcloud page if you check there in the next few days.
― Late night with Amazing Bo (MaresNest), Tuesday, 2 April 2013 12:37 (eleven years ago) link
found it!http://www.mixcloud.com/alberto-umbridge/akiko-yano-broadcast-on-resonancefm-25th-march2013/
― original bgm, Tuesday, 2 April 2013 14:37 (eleven years ago) link
Japan is such a small country
It is?
― Step not on a loose unforgiving stone on a pyramid to paradise (Tom D.), Tuesday, 2 April 2013 14:42 (eleven years ago) link
Not in terms of population, but in size - like in the US, in the 70's you had the Detroit scene, and the New York scene, and the Nashville scene, and the Chicago sound...in Japan it kinda feels like everybody knew each other and played on each others' records.
― frogbs, Tuesday, 2 April 2013 14:59 (eleven years ago) link
Of course theres no book about any of this so I'm just guessing here. Didn't Takahashi and Hosono produce or otherwise appear on all the YEN records stuff, which made up a large portion of Japan's new wave scene?
― frogbs, Tuesday, 2 April 2013 15:01 (eleven years ago) link
http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m8sc3sC5F91qz9lsso1_500.jpg(sakamoto being cool)
― your holiness, we have an official energy drink (Z S), Wednesday, 3 April 2013 00:36 (eleven years ago) link
http://chinmai.net/~ichiyanagi/img/060403/ymo.jpg
― many machines on ilx (MaresNest), Sunday, 29 September 2013 20:10 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YjYEJ9WHt4
― many machines on ilx (MaresNest), Thursday, 24 October 2013 21:54 (ten years ago) link
awesome!
― clouds, Friday, 25 October 2013 13:59 (ten years ago) link
(cuts off halfway through, but you get the idea)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkPeDQKRpEk
― not a lunch that is hot (snoball), Friday, 25 October 2013 14:28 (ten years ago) link
The syndrum break in that BBC version is proper!
― MaresNest, Friday, 25 October 2013 15:28 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GncUycY9N34&list=PL2D3C508F366E5AD3&index=3
― MaresNest, Tuesday, 22 July 2014 17:16 (nine years ago) link
Confession, I have gone since about 1998 thinking that the record is called 'X∞Multiples' but it's *not* it is 'X∞Multiplies' what the fuck? I have a tour poster and everything, I feel so stupid.
― The 5 FPs (MaresNest), Tuesday, 11 November 2014 21:10 (nine years ago) link
For your ignorance you must relinquish your tour poster to me!
― brimstead, Tuesday, 11 November 2014 21:12 (nine years ago) link
i thought it was "multiples" too until recently
― tribe? de la? no "humpty dance?" (clouds), Tuesday, 11 November 2014 21:15 (nine years ago) link
I have owned two copies of this album for about a decade and also thought it was 'X∞Multiples' until 5 minutes ago so you are not alone
― soref, Tuesday, 11 November 2014 21:15 (nine years ago) link
xp
Thankful, seriously!
― The 5 FPs (MaresNest), Tuesday, 11 November 2014 21:17 (nine years ago) link
It's like finding out that Dark Side Of The Moon is actually called Dark Slide Of The Moon or something.
Brimstead, I just had a look on Ebay because some guy was selling the same poster there for quite a while and they weren't expensive, but not at the minute unfortunately.
― The 5 FPs (MaresNest), Tuesday, 11 November 2014 21:19 (nine years ago) link
one joy of "multiplies" is that i can (mostly) understand the japanese sketches and they're fucking hilarious
― tribe? de la? no "humpty dance?" (clouds), Tuesday, 11 November 2014 21:23 (nine years ago) link
It's their Neu2
― The 5 FPs (MaresNest), Tuesday, 11 November 2014 21:26 (nine years ago) link
There's another DVD/CD release from Lyon that I'm guessing came out around the same time as the London Meltdown gig, not sure if the set lists differ much, or the lineup even.
Three years later they were doing a more straight ahead (for them) YMO set some of which is on YT and you can probably still buy somewhere - https://www.discogs.com/release/8467134-Yellow-Magic-Orchestra-Live-In-San-Francisco-2011
― Maresn3st, Friday, 17 May 2024 08:48 (one month ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Erp2P_zNG1A
Yet another for the "great live versions of Gradated Gray" folder. Hosono/Takahashi harmonies are the best. Incredible YT drumming.
― TheNuNuNu, Friday, 17 May 2024 15:19 (one month ago) link
I'm sure you'll like the Sketch Show stuff, they play a lot of it in those live shows so you probably know some of the tracks. I was surprised how well those albums held up actually, I kinda thought that glitchtronica pop sound was something that you could always tie back to the early 00s but it still sounds amazing
Technodon is an album I really didn't care for when I first heard it, it makes way more sense in context of their 90s solo albums though. like don't compare it to the other YMO albums, compare it to say Medicine Compilation. you could tell their styles weren't really jiving at this time but it actually sounds pretty great, I mean for me the big revelation was simply hearing it on a nice system where the bass really came through
― frogbs, Friday, 17 May 2024 20:05 (one month ago) link
also I kid you not the reason why I listen to Technodon so often is because the place I work loves to give out these mint chocolates called "Frango" which always makes me think "Pocketful of Frangos"
actually there are a few good advertising jingles in there. Be a Subaru Man
― frogbs, Friday, 17 May 2024 20:16 (one month ago) link
y'all are making me feel like I should give HASYMO another go. I don't mind that sound and I always found the recordings to be fine but... I can't imagine ever wanting to listen to HASYMO instead of regs YMO versions of any of those songs either. maybe this is the year it clicks tho!
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Monday, 20 May 2024 21:09 (four weeks ago) link