― Patrick South (Patrick South), Thursday, 2 November 2006 07:01 (seventeen years ago) link
It's great! "Epilogue" should reduce many a grown man to sobbing.
― LC (Damian), Thursday, 2 November 2006 12:06 (seventeen years ago) link
with "Taiso" birthing Nick Rhodes perhaps even more than Richard Barbieri ever could
Clearly I meant "Light in Darkness" here.
― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Thursday, 2 November 2006 13:20 (seventeen years ago) link
― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Thursday, 2 November 2006 16:52 (seventeen years ago) link
can someone recommend some other Haruomi Hosono projects aside from YMO (solo or otherwise)?
― amateurist, Tuesday, 4 August 2009 14:49 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (ten years ago) link
amazing find
― original bgm, Monday, 1 April 2013 00:20 (ten years ago) link
i think cindy crawford is in one of those!!
― frogbs, Monday, 1 April 2013 02:10 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten years ago) link
Too true, Hosono is a walking infographic.
― Late night with Amazing Bo (MaresNest), Monday, 1 April 2013 17:50 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten years ago) link
oops, XP
― Late night with Amazing Bo (MaresNest), Monday, 1 April 2013 19:47 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten years ago) link
and yeah, togawa is really fascinating. would read all of these imaginary books.
― original bgm, Monday, 1 April 2013 21:54 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten 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
^^ this song will always be special to me, my first YMO was a pretty odd compilation album which had this and this was the song on it I really got obsessed with. though for a while I thought the lyric was "you got to shake it and break it"
― frogbs, Thursday, 1 February 2024 15:30 (one month ago) link
I think Hosono would be happy with that mishearing, Frog.
Here, for reference / to satisfy the completist in me, is a copy & paste of user handle qomolangma's translation of Kimi ni Mune Kyun for Genius. I would've kept the unforgettable onomatopoeia and rendered the title as "My Heart Goes 'Kyun' for You' -- but Qomo's "I've Got a Crush on You" gets the spirit across, and anyway, anybody interested in an English version of the lyrics will already have the four letters KYUN written across their heart.
... (cheers, qomo)
I've got a crush on you! During this summer of desirePlace your hand on my shoulder.I've got a crush on you!"Have you noticed?" I asked that timidly.
A line dance that moves like a rippleIt's just a plain waste of timeA high voltage glanceas things get heated up
I've got a crush on you!We printed out a photo of our summerWe're just getting sunburntI've got a crush on you!To me, this is uncharacteristically platonic
The cruel sea breezemeasures the distance between our heartsThe yearning I felt when you momentarily lowered your glance felt so wonderful
(the Italian bit)
I've got a crush on you! "I love you." I can't say that out easily.
But you often see thatin Italian movies too.
I've got a crush on you! "I love you."I can't say that out easily.I've got a crush on you! We run along the beachAs we get shrouded within the shadow of the fog
― TheNuNuNu, Thursday, 1 February 2024 15:42 (one month ago) link
listening again to Naughty Boys now that I know some of the lyrics, and yeah can confirm it's still the best pop album ever made
― frogbs, Saturday, 3 February 2024 04:58 (one month ago) link
I haven't done a proper reckoning in a while but I think it's crept into my all-time top ten.
Really interesting stuff in the Gem collection, thanks all! Gave my first listen to Ongaku Zukan as well -- wonderful. So much reggae! (which for me is a huge plus.)
― TheNuNuNu, Saturday, 3 February 2024 06:50 (one month ago) link
I didn't realize how awesome the lyrics to Camouflage and Mass are. Good, more reasons to adore BGM.
― TheNuNuNu, Friday, 9 February 2024 03:00 (one month ago) link
I'm definitely interested in the BGM lyrics, I know someone translated the middle section of "U-T" and it was very weird and meta. I can't find it now though!
― frogbs, Friday, 9 February 2024 04:36 (one month ago) link
Here's the UT bit, edited for clarity.
...
Hosono: Hello, I'm your host, Hosono. Appearing on the show today are Yellow Magic Orchestra's Yukihiro Takahashi and Ryuichi Sakamoto. Welcome, gentlemen.
Takahashi: Thank you.
Sakamoto: Thank you.
Hosono: First, I’d like to ask Mr. Takahashi...
Takahashi: Yes?
Hosono: Do you know the word U•T?
Takahashi: Well, I know YT, but this is the first time I've ever heard of U•T.
Hosono: Is that so? Well, then, Mr. Sakamoto, what does the word U•T mean?
Sakamoto: It means otherwordly existence.
Hosono: Is that so? By the way, Mr. Takahashi's drumming on this song is amazing, isn't it?
Takahashi: Yes. It is amazing.
Hosono: Yes. Well then, will you listen to this song when it comes out on BGM?
Takahashi & Sakamoto: Of course not!
― TheNuNuNu, Friday, 9 February 2024 09:36 (one month ago) link
Gradated Grey and Key back to back are just unbelievable.
― TheNuNuNu, Saturday, 17 February 2024 02:51 (one month ago) link
Today I heard my way into the Simoon bassline. I don't think I'll be able to notice anything else about the song ever again.
― TheNuNuNu, Thursday, 21 March 2024 20:21 (one week ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9l79HgXvxP8
― Maresn3st, Thursday, 21 March 2024 21:53 (one week ago) link
^^ hah, just coming to post that. it's from the same guy who did that "what's on the Genesis floppy discs" video which I know some ILXors liked.
― frogbs, Wednesday, 27 March 2024 17:49 (yesterday) link