March 23rd, 2007
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...
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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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July 30th, 2006
I'm on record in the comments as having said Pizzicato Five's pre-1994 material is of questionable merit. Well, I have to take it back a little, because I forgot completely about 1991's Hi guys! Let me teach you. It's an über-smooth instrumental set, with a jazzy groove and a relaxing downtempo lounge feel.
It was recorded as a soundtrack to a japanese tv show and is surprisingly hard to ...
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June 9th, 2006
Stopped by Pizzicato Five's 1994 american debut, Made in USA this morning. it's a compilation of the better songs that had already been released in japan during the group's 8 year existence. In fact, combined with the excellent Five by Five ep (released around the same time), this is P5's first stab at greatness. Pizzicato Five is a group that can take a simple idea and toy with it, ...
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May 21st, 2006
for the week ending may 20, 2006. stats: a superlative week here at tunequest. 394 songs played over 25 hours and 40 minutes. a further 5 songs were removed from the library for a net progress of 399, a new record. frankly, i'm surprised by the results. an afternoon braves game and a couple of extented meetings cut into my normal office listening time and i didn't ...
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aarhus symphony, babylon 5, can, chicago symphony, christopher franke, david arnold, david bowie, david newman, dennis mccarthy, dvorak, grooverider, hum, james bond, john barry, letters to cleo, louis and bebe barron, mahler, martin denny, matthew sweet, morton stevens, new york philharmonic, nirvana, pearl jam, philip glass, pizzicato five, poe, puffy, royal scottish national orchestra, sarah mclachlan, soundgarden, star trek, steve reich, symphony, the flaming lips, the simpsons, to rococo rot, trevor jones, vagn holmboe, william shatner
March 29th, 2006
i've done a fair amount of weeding over the past couple days and probably reduced the tunequest by a day as a result. some early pizzicato five (i like P5, but by her majesty's request is unlistenable) and some aphrodite (my love affair with drum and bass has largely run its course) didn't make the cut and were, well, cut. i also made the single largest removal to date: ...
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aphrodite, beth orton, delarosa and asora, fila brazillia, george shearing, john williams, moloko, peggy lee, phosphorous, pizzicato five, radiohead, shostakovich, silver apples, star wars, the chemical brothers, the emerson string quartet, the evil genius orchestra, u.n.k.l.e.
