Music, you say? Mint[s].

Let's get this out of the way

Anyway, this. This little picturebook of an album is quite enigmatic. Expectant little me thought it was going to be a lost avantpop grail. It was Japonaise, even! Not to be, in my canals.

Not for me, for the matter. True Children's muzak, with little pretension. A saving grace is definitely the packaging, however. As nice a digipak as I have ever seen. Come and enjoy the kaleidoscope vert.

That was fun. I don't really have much else to say, which kind of defeats the purpose of even writing.

Images!

PФіSОП GiЯГ FRiєИD.............. Shyness

Let's take this path and beat it, a different serving of sorts. A new adventure as meteoric as they come, and it only comes sweeter in between the gaps of times. Speaking of come, this album. I originally came upon it on youtube, where some fren uploaded the whole album to it. Now why is this here? Well, the album itself was only available on P2P connections at 192 kbps, and lord knows what the Tube does to that already relatively paltry bitrate. So I imported it, from ebay. Very much smooth sailing, from the great landmass China. From across the Pacific to my ears... 

Wonder what that looks like

...and my ears were happy, this is nice early 90s electropop/trippy hops. As mentioned in the previous post in whatever epoch I posted that one in I posted a song from this toxic significant other. Expect the same stuff here, with more features from the ultraconformist mOmUs. Speaking of, this roman's sound is reminiscent of young St. Nick's textures around the same time this was released (93). I find that to be an, uh, underrated period in Momus' disco-graphy--Voyager, Hippopotamomus, Timelord. Great stuff there.

I
 wonder
if people wonder
about me when I do stuff
like ordering albums that are
already easily accessibl
e
in cybers
pace

To that, to wit, tu quoque, I say:

Because I do enjoy having them, even if they are eventual coaster candidates.
In a more sepia-serious tone, some albums just need the archival treatment that I (try) to provide. That is:
Full scans
FLAC rips (though they may seem excessive)
and uploads you can trust

Shutters to sink, I cover my ground. Funny thing, I already uploaded this to jpopsuki a few weeks ago... Hope you guys enjoy it as much as they probably don't.

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detritus Among us

The video Google didn't want you to see/hear/sense... At least that's what I've gathered from the copywrong claim. I made this as a fun little project after getting a bit more into this musician, the pOiSon GiRlFRienD (or however idiosyncratically you wanna spell it). She's worked with Momus, a musician I respect greatly,  in the past and it shows in both her name and a bit something in her sound. Obviously, her name is a callback to the excellent "Poison Boyfriend" album released in the middle of the incredible "Circus Maximus" and "Tender Pervert". Released in 1992, this track christened "Melting Moment" resembles the tender pervert's sound at the time with albums like Voyager, Hippopotamomus, and a bit later with Timelord... At least that's what my deceiving ears tell me.

With this little video of mine, I actually bothered to give motion to my haphazard sub-photoshop smatterings of modernist articisms; motion I though appropriate to the songs "melting" fracas nature. Anywhom, this was to be the given description on the aforementioned project to give a bit of flavor to my adoring subscribers. Enjoy the mishmash:

Beautiful bit 'o Japanese electro artpop by noted a Momus collaborator... I decided to spice up the video a bit with some fancy effects, I had some fun with it. A hodgepodge of werks by the man Max Ernst animated and appropriately melted.

good tidings...

Shawn Rudiman / Arne Weinberg - Chord Control

Yeah, there's more, to make this vanity press feel less like a vanity. Not in vain, however! I'm not sure if I mentioned this in my last post, which I should know given that it's less than a click away, but I'm not the biggest connoisseur of the Electronic proclivities. I've lived in the cave too long, neglecting the cavern-like rave clubs in favor of the musty stalactites of the experimentalists domain. But I've been giving Techno and House more of a shot in recent years, specifically those of the ambient and minimal variety. Osmosis through vidja gaem backings help a bunch, of course, though I have been finding myself enjoying this kind of stuff on its own quite a bit.

Now, down to brass tracks. Rudiman makes a style hearkening to the thumpings of old in Detroit, despite being from my hometahn of Pittsburgh. "Pittsburgh-Tech" doesn't ring many bells. With my limited knowledge, that's not the typical kind of self-deprecation exhibited my many mind you, I can only say so much of this record. I'm not a club-goer, nor am I so much within the "in crowd", if that exists anymore. With this in mind I can atleast say that this is some danceable stuff, with nice dub flourishes. Arne Weinberg is another DJ, and makes some fine tracks here too. Cool sampling certainly. 

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...think less

Risaeðlan ‎– Ívar Bongó

This one might have found its way onto my other blog if it just stood a bit more off the line, where it might have got hit with a train. I'm not quite sure, I had something going in my mind but I could not quite work it out. Basically, what I'm trying to communicate is that this is a bit too 'normal' for me. Which is strange. This is a strange record, with odd folk elements, quirky instrumentals, and yelps for vocals. Almost touches at Family Fodder, just less anglo-franco. I'm not sure. This is definitely a weird album, and maybe there was a whole "nýtt-wave" analog in Iceland to America and Albion's translated agitator and Germany's NDW and Japan's technopop exposures. Maybe I'm just desensitized to all the slightly off and obscure records I see at local record shops which just barely miss the mark for me. You might like it, though. Who knows? I don't know anything and I got this far. Only one way to find out:

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