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This article is also a guest post for Webomatica, who asked me to fill in for a day while he's in Japan. Appropriately, I think, I dove through my library and pulled out some of my favorite Japanese albums. Enjoy... :: Susumu Yokota - Symbol (2005) Yokota is a musician of the sonic contortionist variety, meticulously sculpting sounds and bending them to his will. Symbol features some delicately constructed mashups of classical ...

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Early tunequest page So I was in the middle of putting together a little write up about a couple pieces of Star Trek music, when two notable events occurred here at tunequest. In progress news, I crossed the sub-1000 songs remaining threshold yesterday while listening to Joe Hisaishi's score to Spirited Away. Hisaishi has composed music for nearly all of master Japanese director Hayao Miyazaki's animated masterpieces. The beauty and ...

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Today's song is the unaccompanied robot/computer vocalist for Nobukazu Takemura's single Sign (vinyl 12" version) from his 2001 album Hoshi no Koe. I first heard the original version of this song at a show in New Orleans in 2001. That show was my first real exposure to glitch music (a form of electronic music that has intentional "errors" in it or is entirely composed of error-like sounds, such as a ...

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As if to prove my previous post for me, the tunequest-pod offered me these selections today (in order): pearl jam-live at the fox theatre in atlanta (which i skipped because i had just heard a live show yesterday) vince guaraldi's oh good grief (a decent jazz album) sonic youth experimental jet set trash and no star (my first sonic youth ...

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Bouncing off my recent Mudhoney post, I'd like to bring up Nobukazu Takemura once again. I was recently given the pleasure of listening to his For Tomorrow disc, which like My Brother the Cow, was released in 1995, and is the accompanying single to the album Child's View. It strikes me that, even though the two records were released around the same time, Takemura's offering appears to have aged ...

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The note at the top of the page says that the site layout is currently broken in firefox. It turns out that I royally screwed something up while trying to "Improve" Things around here. As a result, I'll have to recode the site structure and css from scratch. Until then, sorry firefox users. I commend you for your independent spirit, but for now you'll have to scroll to the ...

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First off today, Jim O'rourke's i'm happy, and i'm singing, and a 1, 2, 3 , 4, which consists of precisely three songs of significant length, one for each of the phrases in the album title. O'rourke is a musical genius and I'm convinced that if he had lived 100 years ago he would have been a master composer. This album is a bit of departure for him. Principally known ...

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