B-side madness
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petroniaFelix da Housecat - Rocket Ride (Freeform 5 Reform): the last single I bought. Singles that are three-four different club-length versions of the same song are fun, because they are actually good for something besides ripping i.e. you can put them on and dance like a fool for twenty minutes in your basement, provided of course that you like the original. XD I think this is the best remix out of the three.
Tsuji Ayano - Kimi ga ireba ii: Cedric got me the "Sakura no ki no shita de" single in Japan - v. nice of him, I think you'd agree. I posted the track and PMV a while back (upon reading the lyrics sheet I discovered the original record was produced by Tore Johansson), but here are the b-sides. "Kimi ga ireba ii" is essence of Tsuji Ayano, as if you were listening from inside her head as she sits on the steps of an afternoon playing ukelele and singing to herself.
Tsuji Ayano - Sakura no ki no shita de (Lumbini Remix): a thorough and quite lovely deconstruction of the original. String samples and accompanying piano lines are teased out and suspended in the air like wind chimes or soap bubbles, the vocal performance cut up and and rearranged by syllable into a schoolyard rhyme game for Nepalese children.
The remix is courtesy of one Takagi Masakatsu (website | Epitonic), a "digital multimedia" artist who has his works exhibited in museums un peu partout, made video installations for David Sylvian's last concert tour, and puts records out on Daisyworld (label of Hosono Haruomi out of YMO) and Felicity (what used to be Trattoria iirc - Spangle Call Lilli Line, Kaji Hideki, ALL SHIBUYA-KEI BACK IN THE DAY) - actually a sub-label thereof called W+K東京Lab. I heartily recommend that last site if you have a fast connection and an hour to waste on aesthetic play.
All his work seems to be in the same ambient, pretty, nostalgic Sakamoto Ryuichi vein. Another of his rare remixes is on - wait for it, ha - Yuki's "Joy" single. It's called the "Rama Remix", so maybe it has documentary recordings of Indian children instead of Nepalese.
In other news: dear saints, how did Suga Shikao get to be the theme music for XXXHolic. XD (from![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
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Tsuji Ayano - Kimi ga ireba ii: Cedric got me the "Sakura no ki no shita de" single in Japan - v. nice of him, I think you'd agree. I posted the track and PMV a while back (upon reading the lyrics sheet I discovered the original record was produced by Tore Johansson), but here are the b-sides. "Kimi ga ireba ii" is essence of Tsuji Ayano, as if you were listening from inside her head as she sits on the steps of an afternoon playing ukelele and singing to herself.
Tsuji Ayano - Sakura no ki no shita de (Lumbini Remix): a thorough and quite lovely deconstruction of the original. String samples and accompanying piano lines are teased out and suspended in the air like wind chimes or soap bubbles, the vocal performance cut up and and rearranged by syllable into a schoolyard rhyme game for Nepalese children.
The remix is courtesy of one Takagi Masakatsu (website | Epitonic), a "digital multimedia" artist who has his works exhibited in museums un peu partout, made video installations for David Sylvian's last concert tour, and puts records out on Daisyworld (label of Hosono Haruomi out of YMO) and Felicity (what used to be Trattoria iirc - Spangle Call Lilli Line, Kaji Hideki, ALL SHIBUYA-KEI BACK IN THE DAY) - actually a sub-label thereof called W+K東京Lab. I heartily recommend that last site if you have a fast connection and an hour to waste on aesthetic play.
All his work seems to be in the same ambient, pretty, nostalgic Sakamoto Ryuichi vein. Another of his rare remixes is on - wait for it, ha - Yuki's "Joy" single. It's called the "Rama Remix", so maybe it has documentary recordings of Indian children instead of Nepalese.
In other news: dear saints, how did Suga Shikao get to be the theme music for XXXHolic. XD (from
inarikami)
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Date: 2005-08-10 07:44 pm (UTC)I loves me some Felix da Housecat.
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Date: 2005-08-11 10:14 am (UTC)BTW, not sure if you already have it but PSB's soundtrack for Battleship Potemkin got leaked a fortnight ago. Sites report it as a "demo" version but methinks 68 minutes is a bit long for a "demo", and it's no live recording, either. Want me to upload?
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