Music post
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petroniaWhich I should've made on Saturday, but never got around to. ^^;
Kahimi Karie - Harmony Korine
It's a bossa nova, and yes, it's about Harmony Korine. Sort of. Kahimi's trademark wispy lolita-ingénue whisper over sweet, downtempo shibuya-kei electronic noodlings - which only serve to set off the scathing irony of the Momus-penned lyrics, assuming you can understand them at all for Kahimi's accent in English (Franco-Nipponese, and if there exists an inherently sexier accent I haven't heard it yet).
...I posted this so I would have an excuse to tell the world that Kahimi Karie is a member of the JPOP Superspy Assassin Sentai I'd write fic about if I wrote RPF (which I don't, and now you begin to apprehend why), along with Guitar Wolf [stratocaster katana], Gackt [guns] and Tetsuya Komuro [team leader, talks to the others through web uplink]. She'd be, like, the electronics expert and master of disguise.
Panjabi MC - Challa
A long track, from the album, and nowhere near the bhangra dancehit territory of Mundian To Bach Ke. I like it, though; it's trip-hop, chilling out somewhere between Delerium and Tricky.
Jack Johnson - Times Like These
Acoustic guitar surf pop; 60's music in construction and lyrical mood, done over for the new millennium. He has a knack for the short and note-perfect, Jack does - the above track is 2:22.
Belle and Sebastian - Le Pastie de la Bourgeoisie
Because I feel like it. Why not? You can dance to this, actually, but it would have to be a geekzoid sort of dancing. XD
Tommy february6 - Can't Take My Eyes Off You
You know how it goes: the guitary-er the main project, the synthy-er the side project. Thus we have Tomoko from the highly acoustic The Brilliant Green, doing Frankie Avalon by way of the Pet Shop Boys - and are the Japanese even allowed handclaps and octave basslines as referential retro, considering they didn't finish with the 80's until about 1997? The execution is perfect, though, pure frothy electro champagne, and of course the song itself defines Perfect Pop Moment.
Gotan Project - Una Musica Brutal
And of course this, because I should. XD For the people who didn't figure out the MP3's been sitting in my temp folder for a month, assuming any exist...
KAHIMI KARIE: Tokyo is always changing, changing, changing. But always changing is not change. You know?
Kahimi Karie - Harmony Korine
It's a bossa nova, and yes, it's about Harmony Korine. Sort of. Kahimi's trademark wispy lolita-ingénue whisper over sweet, downtempo shibuya-kei electronic noodlings - which only serve to set off the scathing irony of the Momus-penned lyrics, assuming you can understand them at all for Kahimi's accent in English (Franco-Nipponese, and if there exists an inherently sexier accent I haven't heard it yet).
...I posted this so I would have an excuse to tell the world that Kahimi Karie is a member of the JPOP Superspy Assassin Sentai I'd write fic about if I wrote RPF (which I don't, and now you begin to apprehend why), along with Guitar Wolf [stratocaster katana], Gackt [guns] and Tetsuya Komuro [team leader, talks to the others through web uplink]. She'd be, like, the electronics expert and master of disguise.
Panjabi MC - Challa
A long track, from the album, and nowhere near the bhangra dancehit territory of Mundian To Bach Ke. I like it, though; it's trip-hop, chilling out somewhere between Delerium and Tricky.
Jack Johnson - Times Like These
Acoustic guitar surf pop; 60's music in construction and lyrical mood, done over for the new millennium. He has a knack for the short and note-perfect, Jack does - the above track is 2:22.
Belle and Sebastian - Le Pastie de la Bourgeoisie
Because I feel like it. Why not? You can dance to this, actually, but it would have to be a geekzoid sort of dancing. XD
Tommy february6 - Can't Take My Eyes Off You
You know how it goes: the guitary-er the main project, the synthy-er the side project. Thus we have Tomoko from the highly acoustic The Brilliant Green, doing Frankie Avalon by way of the Pet Shop Boys - and are the Japanese even allowed handclaps and octave basslines as referential retro, considering they didn't finish with the 80's until about 1997? The execution is perfect, though, pure frothy electro champagne, and of course the song itself defines Perfect Pop Moment.
Gotan Project - Una Musica Brutal
And of course this, because I should. XD For the people who didn't figure out the MP3's been sitting in my temp folder for a month, assuming any exist...
KAHIMI KARIE: Tokyo is always changing, changing, changing. But always changing is not change. You know?
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Date: 2003-09-23 11:19 am (UTC)alas, i shall probably have to wait till the weekend. have got class tonight till 9pm, after which point i shall probably go home and collapse until the morn. d'oh.
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Date: 2003-09-23 04:27 pm (UTC)(you rock hardcore for putting these up. ^.^)
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Date: 2003-09-23 06:47 pm (UTC)whoa, it's been awhile since i listened to kahimi karie music :O
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Date: 2003-09-24 08:51 am (UTC)oh, and kristina asks if she may to be on the music filter. it's only right, really, given how much she has jabbed and poked me into downloading some tommyfebruary6 mp3s >_> (and she has been a v. important collaborator on teh soundtracks, so she is teh music h0, add away ^_~)
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Date: 2003-09-24 08:58 am (UTC)o_O;
(I thought I was posting to the friendslist in its entirety. *pokes lj*)
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Date: 2003-09-24 09:10 am (UTC)uh, you may have and kristina just missed the entry. XD i'll go poke her XD
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Date: 2003-09-24 09:24 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-09-24 10:37 pm (UTC)I have another cover version of "Can't Take My Eyes Off You", done quite differently (more retro-camp than pop-electronica), and it's been a very interesting aural exercise to listen to them one after another. *grins*