Tujiko Noriko: Make Me Hard

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Mego release. Is this the new pop or old news?

― dleone (dleone), Friday, 13 December 2002 14:50 (twenty-three years ago)

It's much more amorphous feeling than her previous stuff. Like she began to write some songs but went way far out on a daydream tangent and left it at that. She's really good at capturing the moment where exhaustion and bliss come together. Her "glitch" aesthetic is also remarkably warm, I always imagine anthropomorphic computers/toys/microwaves singing along like in a 30's cartoon.

― Honda (Honda), Friday, 13 December 2002 15:12 (twenty-three years ago)

Of interest, I saw that Musique Machine have an interview with Tujiko Noriko.

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Friday, 13 December 2002 15:25 (twenty-three years ago)

i love it... What Honda Said(tm).
m.

― msp, Friday, 13 December 2002 16:36 (twenty-three years ago)

I still can't be sure. I bought it a few weeks ago, and a few of the songs are very nice... but for some reason, I really don't feel like hearing it again.

― OCP (OCP), Saturday, 14 December 2002 00:21 (twenty-three years ago)

I like what I've heard from her before. What should I download from the new album?

― Adam A. (Keiko), Saturday, 14 December 2002 00:53 (twenty-three years ago)

My thoughts. Excuse the poor writing.

http://www.stylusmagazine.com/musicreviews/tujiko_noriko-make_me_hard.shtml

― Todd Burns, Saturday, 14 December 2002 03:16 (twenty-three years ago)

four months pass...

I find her lyrics a tad twee for my tastes but the music is great!

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 8 May 2003 19:21 (twenty-two years ago)

what gygax said.

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Thursday, 8 May 2003 19:25 (twenty-two years ago)

:-D

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 8 May 2003 19:38 (twenty-two years ago)

it are a sunday afternoon WINNER! no as good as the first one but pleasantly nothingy

― bob snoom, Friday, 9 May 2003 08:07 (twenty-two years ago)

one month passes...

I'm in love.

― Cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 21 June 2003 14:06 (twenty-two years ago)

one month passes...

nabisco's pitchfork review of her new record says this is her first record, i'm thinking it's her 3rd or 4th.

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 25 July 2003 14:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Hmm, Make Me Hard wasn't even her first record on Mego. She had one CD prior (Shojo Toshi), as well as a 12". I believe she had one Japanese only release as well prior to her first Mego CD.

― dleone (dleone), Friday, 25 July 2003 14:09 (twenty-two years ago)

First full-length, I think I said -- I didn't fact-check this super-rigorously, but from what gathered (beyond just the AMG), the prior releases weren't LP-format.

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 25 July 2003 14:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Obviously I have not been able to find them, so I had to rely on discography descriptions. If they were wrong (and I trust Leone on this), sorry for the misinformation!

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 25 July 2003 14:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Shojo Toshi is definitely a full-length release. The title of her first CD is Keshou To Heitai (read at Forced Exposure), and is apparently full-length too -- never seen it though.

― dleone (dleone), Friday, 25 July 2003 14:44 (twenty-two years ago)

there is her new one coming out on tomlab which i've yet to receive in the post - apparently it's less glitch & more pop which doesnae seem like to bad an idea w/ tujiko. overexcited about that perhaps possibly

― bob snoom, Friday, 25 July 2003 14:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Noriko is now looking accusingly at me from her album cover. (If I turn it over, she has her eyes closed like she doesn't even want to see me anymore.) Ah, well: oops!

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 25 July 2003 14:54 (twenty-two years ago)

I wrote one, too!

It is a bit twee, but basically I really liked the combination of a nice poppy voice against laptop textures. And Pita as Phil Spector is great, as imaginary as it may be. I'm excited for the new one.

Is the Bjork's little sister view just unavoidable?

― elliott (ebb), Friday, 25 July 2003 15:50 (twenty-two years ago)

noriko tujiko reasonably offered discography - this may not work [php]

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 25 July 2003 20:17 (twenty-two years ago)

one year passes...

I have put this on again and it is great.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 17:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Track 8 is wonderful.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 17:45 (twenty-one years ago)

and no, I don't understand the lyrics.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 17:45 (twenty-one years ago)

i love this cd. i want more like it. Sylvian's Blemish is all i can think of. anyone else?

― JaXoN (JasonD), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 17:51 (twenty-one years ago)

gygax, did you ever figure out which Terre Thaemlitz cd you were talking about?

― JaXoN (JasonD), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 17:53 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm listening to this album by the band DILL, which is kind of a more abstract version of what Tujiko Noriko does. Lots of collage-effect production with electronics, but same pretty melodies over top.

― dleone (dleone), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 18:01 (twenty-one years ago)

oh yeah, there's this band 1-0 that sounds kinda like this too. ;)

― JaXoN (JasonD), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 18:24 (twenty-one years ago)

I heard 1-0 was a cute japanese girl

― dleone (dleone), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 18:33 (twenty-one years ago)

How hot is Dominique Leone in person?

― JaXoN (JasonD), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 18:42 (twenty-one years ago)

sigh

― dleone (dleone), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 18:51 (twenty-one years ago)

I heard "1-0" changed their name to "o-0-1-0-o"

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 01:59 (twenty-one years ago)

gygax, did you ever figure out which Terre Thaemlitz cd you were talking about?

besides lovebomb or was there another one that we were talking about?

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 02:04 (twenty-one years ago)

anyone like "westernization completed" by AGF

― gaz (gaz), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 02:21 (twenty-one years ago)

i love this cd. i want more like it.

Maybe that "So" (Markus Popp + Eriko Toyada) record from last year...

― Nag! Nag! Nag! (Nag! Nag! Nag!), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 03:28 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

New Tujiko Noriko release "Blurred in my Mirror" - http://www.stylusmagazine.com/review.php?ID=3339

can anyone YSI something from this?

also - Aoki Takamasa + Tujiko Noriko "28"

― fandango (fandango), Monday, 5 September 2005 12:21 (twenty years ago)

oh and.. anyone like "westernization completed" by AGF

-- gaz

Yes. Me!

― fandango (fandango), Monday, 5 September 2005 12:31 (twenty years ago)

nine years pass...

the new album "my ghost comes back" is really excellent

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjnFpGCgXSY

― (曇り) (clouds), Wednesday, 10 December 2014 16:37 (eleven years ago)

This is marvellous, thanks!

― MaresNest, Wednesday, 10 December 2014 22:18 (eleven years ago)

ten years pass...

ok this is the greatest artist of all time

― ivy., Tuesday, 24 December 2024 16:57 (one year ago)

heard my ghost comes back for the first time a few days ago, shook me to my core, unable to listen to anything else, the music feels so slippery yet so in pocket

and every tujiko album i've heard since has been like just as much of a masterpiece? currently listening to gyu, the pop album she made with tyme., and last night i listened to the collab with nobukazu takemura, east facing balcony. just consistently amazing music that is never not as direct as it is unconventional

― ivy., Tuesday, 24 December 2024 17:00 (one year ago)

been a minute but I used to listen to gyu a lot, especially "tropic penguin". think it's time to go deeper, starting with a my ghost... revisit!

― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Tuesday, 24 December 2024 18:01 (one year ago)

For me too, I should dig out the collab '28', I love that record.

― Maresn3st, Tuesday, 24 December 2024 18:09 (one year ago)

Yes to all these posts and thanks for reminding me, I haven't listened to her forever

― badder living thru Kemistry (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 24 December 2024 18:47 (one year ago)

thank u to my last.fm recs which have been really doing it for me lately

― ivy., Tuesday, 24 December 2024 18:50 (one year ago)

crepuscule owned

― secretary of state for fractal pluripotencies (||||||||), Tuesday, 24 December 2024 22:27 (one year ago)

She’s performing at the Long Play festival in Brooklyn in May.

― The Whimsical Muse (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 25 December 2024 15:38 (one year ago)

solo: another perfect album? this is getting overwhelming

― ivy., Saturday, 28 December 2024 14:33 (one year ago)

played this live version of Robot Hero absolutely to death back then.. just ripped my heart out

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yVcLKXtoS8

caught her live around release of RATN but I'm severely behind. Appreciate this bump

― maf you one two (maffew12), Saturday, 28 December 2024 14:49 (one year ago)

I adore her, but I'm realising there's a lot of material I've never heard! I shall join you all in more Tujiko Noriko listening.

― emil.y, Saturday, 28 December 2024 15:58 (one year ago)

Seconding the love for Crepuscule. One of those soundworlds that seems to swell and mutate as you move through it.

― I would prefer not to. (Chinaski), Sunday, 29 December 2024 14:50 (one year ago)

love the kuro soundtrack too - its, well, _dark_

has anyone seen the movie? sounds really cool

https://boxd.it/ffPM

― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Sunday, 29 December 2024 18:10 (one year ago)

the poppy side of the so called onkyo-key?

― LightUserSyndrome, Monday, 30 December 2024 03:12 (one year ago)

four months pass...

Crepuscule is extraordinary. Album's like a life raft.

― I would prefer not to. (Chinaski), Thursday, 29 May 2025 13:34 (eight months ago)

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