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i heard my first favorite pop music when i was a first grade, 1997 when we danced during our field demonstration in a soccer field and when i rode the school bus jeepney. my dad likes old rock music and my mom likes what she hears from tv or from her friends. when the first time watching anime on cable tv with opening and ending themes, i recorded some of rave master, gto, rurouni kenshin and other anime theme songs from animax and axn. in 2005, i explored more on contemporary music by listening and watching to western music and original pinoy music (opm) before i focused myself listening to more japanese music from anime in 2007 onwards deleting some of my recorded 20 second samples of mp3 and music video of contemporary music, anime theme songs, japanese music and opm in LG KU250 mobile phone. i received a newer phone in 2011 a Nokia C3-00, adding more western, japanese and opm music with voice samples of voice actors from internet, celebrities and politicians that i heard on radio and some 70 MB+ java games. i changed my taste in western music retaining only one pop group Backstreet Boys, one nu-metal changed to alternative-electronic rock band LINKIN PARK focusing more on 80's rock and heavy metal. in terms of opm i retain only two bands Eraserheads and Urbandub with the most percentage of it is japanese rock, heavy metal and pop due to my mobile phone only having 8 GIG memory external storage.

I really don't know if there's a topic similar to this, but if there is, whatever. Is there a time in your life that changed your view on music that made you want to explore more or that really took a turn on your music taste? (sounds to broad of a question, but meh). If not, then tell me what music you grew up with. For me there was a time when music really hit me on how amazing sounds could be. I was a kid and I liked many radio songs and basically anything with a catchy tune, though I loved the Tony Hawk game soundtrack, but who didn't as a kid. One day I stayed up late watching basic television. This show JBTV -an alternative music video show- showed up in which I took an interest of by its funny music videos. I stayed up at night the next day to watch it and it showed the song "Walking Shade" by Billy Corgan. I was like "damn this song is just to amazing"!! I just couldn't fathom why this song sounded so good. Then every night I stayed up to see what JBTV had in store. I slowly started to dislike the radio, thinking that if it doesn't sound as good as Billy Corgain, it can go rot in the ground. as they did Right now music is a big part of me, next with drawing and video games (:

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This goes as well for me. My mother was all about the classic rock. You could say that I grew up on Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, LLed Zeppelin, Metallica, Megadeth, Nirvana and Jimi Hendrix. My father was on the other side of the spectrum and he focused a lot on funk and Motown. So on his side, I got introduced to Michael Jackson, Kool & The Gang, etc. My grandmother was also different and loves soul and R&B, so things like Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, etc. were commonly playing when I was in her house. However, both mom and pops listened to a few artists in common that all leaned toward the rock side of the spectrum. So things like Metallica's Black Album and Led Zeppelin's Physical Graffiti were common in my upbringing. I can't count how many times I've heard Kashmir, haha. This is probably why I favor rock and metal so much. A big problem with finding my own identity was two-fold: one, most of their music was on cassettes. Two, neither one of them listened to anything from the current music scene that I liked. My mom tried to remain relevant, listening to things like Epica, Pray for the Soul of Betty, and Evanescence but I didn't particularly like any of these bands. My dad and grandmother just hated all new music and won't follow anything at all, so they were no help either. When I tried turning on the radio or the TV, I was pretty much restricted to all things Disney-related because everyone was deathly afraid of my impressionable seven-year-old mind being warped by the "gangsta rap" trend that was booming in NYC. It didn't really help though because due to the neighborhood we lived in, it was omnipresent. I didn't have to watch TV to recognize the newest Biggie song, or to feel somewhat sad when 2pac got shot on my birthday (check it, he did!). So you can actually say that I listened to almost everything! So one day when I was seven, I went into the cafeteria for breakfast and ran into one of my friend's older sisters. She was currently on her "all Japanese music is superior!!!11!1one" kick and shoved Dir en grey into my ears. It was love at first listen! ... HAHA OK forget that bullshit. I laughed my ass off and asked who those faggy looking Japanese dudes were. She wasn't very happy at my remark but what I heard was so different than anything I'd ever seen before. When I finally got a computer to search for them, I found a few tracks from their Gauze album. That's when my exposure to VK began. As I say often, finding VK music back in the 90's was hard. Yeah, you could run into the big bands like Malice Mizer and Dir en grey if you searched for a little bit. But my Internet-fu wasn't very good and I couldn't find much more. My short stint with VK ran into an abrupt end when my old Micron computer pooped from having too many viruses (wasn't Windows 95 SO FUN?) so I was out of the loop for about six years. In that time, I tried to get into rap and failed miserably. Attempting to discover more rock music got me ridiculed from people who would insist that anything that wasn't made by black people "wasn't black music". Combine that with pressure to fit in, Nickelback, Napster shutting down, and an inability to find more classic rock bands (didn't realize the whole "trend" was over) or any localized tunes I heard out of anime shows and I ended up cutting myself off from music entirely until high school. In high school, I met up with a few people that loved Japanese music. Don't quite remember how that happened; I just know that one day we got to talking about it. Then I was introduced to VK again. That's when I went crazy. I had six years worth of music to catch up on, and the people I were around were indie-heads. So for about two to three years all I listened to was VK and I was proud of it. I borrowed CD's, was introduced to Limewire (which was pretty much Napster 2.0 at the time) and googled around about basically visual kei. Found a lot of bands that way, but nowhere near as many as I found here. I think I found Batsu once, clicked on two topics and saw how badly organized the site was and ran away. I didn't come across TW until late 2007 and early 2008. Signed up and was initially a lurker. What ended up making me a permanent part of the whole website was some dickweed named Brandon. It was around the time Jasmine You died and he said something along the lines of "well he died of nigger flu". Needless to say I verbally shoved a foot up his ass. The people of TW supported me. I kinda felt bad because I made Ito delete six pages full of drama (sorry about that <.<;;; ) but after that happened I was all "FUCK YEAH TW" and I became a permanent fixture here. And then THE CAT5 came along one day and was like "hey, you seem like a pretty open-minded fellow. Let's trade music!". And then the era of musical expansion began. He sent me tons of bands I'd never heard of before that were all Japanese. I had a HOLY FUCK moment. I always knew there was stuff outside of the visual kei scene but it wasn't like TW was a good place to find it. I devoured his mixtapes and then was hungry for more. The explosion was further fueled by Wind's uploads, who was responsible for introducing me to Touhou. I'll never understand to this day how I scrobbled 412 plays of Electric Red in one week. And then I thought to myself: "Is there more music like this abroad?". That's really when I began exploring every single genre from every country I could think of. And then about four years later (it's been four years already v____v) you have the eclectic mess that is Zess.

Lol. . . my past is starting to look really sad. . . I didn't care much for music up until I entered high school. Before, the only artists I really loved were Coldplay, Eminem, and various country, hip-hop, and contemporary Christian songs (pretty much the staple diet of the average Southern teenager with access to a radio). Both my parents were casually into your standard 70's and 80's pop and rock music (Journey, Styx, REO Speedwagon, etc.) so I think that's where my interest in that kind of music came from, but for the most part my father doesn't care all that much about music anymore and my mother only listens to Christian pop. When I discovered the internet and started playing video games and watching anime, I started liking the theme songs and that's what lead me to J-Rock. For a couple years I just listened to whatever band had the prettiest members or whatever was the most catchy and melodic artist, like Gackt and other visual kei. I'm pretty sure it was Luna Sea and Number Girl that officially altered my perspective on music forever. They really opened up my mind to other types of rock music and made me more appreciative of it. Now I listen to shit I never imagined I would be listening to. It's funny because my interest in Japanese rock has now caused me to become re-interested in English speaking music and not the other way around, haha.

pretty cool topic actually, very interesting read! so here is me: i pretty much started off (and stayed for a veryvery long time) with my dads vinyl-collection which was mostly mid 60's to early 70 blue/rock (Hendrix, Cream, ledZep, RollingStones, Yardbirds) aswell as some Jazz, bigband, soul and ragtime stuff (Ramsey Lewis, Jimmy Smith, Chris Barber, Otis Redding etc..) only in very late high-school times, when indie rock was the big thing i adapted that aswell, because it was basically the same (white stripes, mando diao, qotsa...) after that (now college, studying classical music) i pretty much went with the flow as indie became more electronic and dance-oriented bands like that went to my book too (justice, boys noize, the presets, digitalism, doesitoffendyouyeah) while at the same time trying to find some heavier stuff like monster magnet and danko jones, while still trying to avoid the actual "metal" corner, which had this very cheesy and pretty stupid image (especially in the classical world) but probably being secretly pretty fascinated by that stuff. as a kind of metal starting point i guess i have to embarrasingly mention apocalyptica, which where kind of accepted to listen to (cellos'n shit) then something pretty important happend (i was about 20/21 i guess), a german eekly newspaper published an article about highschool bands and how they helped sort of "troubled" poor/immigrant youth to get past race-issues and whatnot and giving sense and direction and blabla, inspirational stuff i guess, but there was one small band (on the cover actually) that already looked kinda cool http://www.bandnet.de/files/fotos/2919/banner%5B1%5D.jpg and i looked them up online and also pretty much liked the stuff they did aswell (sort of numetal, gothic-hardrock probably) which led to the realisation that i pretty much envied them, some northern schoolkids can actually do cool stuff, while i'm stuck studying crappy classical saxophone, that can't be right. in the article it said they were listening to d'espairsray, DirEnGrey and Girugämesh... the next day i decided to quit saxophone (actually i still finished it, since i was already 7th semester, so that would've been quite a waste), bought a guitar and started writing music i actually like (and registered at tainted-world at the time) starting with the more popular stuff deg, despa, giru, mucc and gazette (alongside of finally listening to pantera, slayer etc) i later switched to a bit more underground stuff (thanks to zess, jigsaw and cat i guess, also that comes with studying audio-engineering pretty much) with one major discovery that was boris, which is one reason why i'm probably for the main part in the post-/stoner-/doom-metal/grunge and heavy rock area nowadays. that beeing said over the past one or two years i've pretty much opend up towards every musical genre there is, may it be ambient drone, noisecore, glitch, or on the other side of things kpop, singer-songwriter, touhou and similarly vntrve and cheesy stuff and everything inbetween, i try to find good things in every piece of music that i encounter, may it either be something interesting and new (or a fresh combination of things), or something well known, but very well executed. there's nearly always something worth appreciating to find. long post is long

At a very young age I already loved music and everything that came with it. Four year old me would often dance and sing in the living room to random songs on the radio whenever I wasn't at school. My mother tried to keep me away from it though, since my dad used to be in a band and was often gone from home because he and the band often played in small venues throughout the region. So I stopped being interested in music when I was around 7 years old. When I turned 12 I got an mp3-player and I listened to most songs from the radio, some Dutch hip-hop and other things. When I was 13 I discovered YouTube and found an AMV with a Nightwish song. Even though I had never before been introduced to rock music nor symphonic metal, this instantly clicked with me. My mp3-player soon became a mix of techno, electro-pop and symphonic metal. The techno and electro-pop disappeared after a while and more symphonic metal and hard-rock took their places. Bands like Nightwish, Fall Out Boy, Paramore, After Forever and Evanescence was what I listened to the most back then. Visual kei followed. A friend discovered An Cafe and became a big fan and tried to get me into them too. Before that I had already found out about NIGHTMARE, UVERworld, HIGH & MIGHTY COLOR and Gackt by myself (because I watched a little bit of anime at the time). I thought An Cafe were okay, but never fully got into them. I really got into abingdon boys school after that, and stayed closer to more darker bands (mid-2010, the time I discovered D) but after a while it turned into a mix of more serious pop-rock acts and some darker bands. Currently the amount of VK bands I listen to has sincerely decreased (pretty much limited to D, BUCK-TICK, Alice Nine and Kagrra,), but I'm currently still exploring the non-VK scene, so you can say my journey isn't quite over yet!

With my friend, Fanny, before going to the venue where the competition is being held.

I grew up in a house with proto-metal parents, by proto-metal I mean all that early classic rock that influenced modern day metal bands. So Deep Purple, Sabbath and etc. Some stoner rock too. So I was pretty grounded in rock based music at that point. Even though I was too young for the grunge explosion in Seattle, that also solidified by taste in rock music since that was the cool thing the older kids are into. Got into punk because I wanted something more aggressive and badass, metal later because I wanted something EVEN MORE aggressive and badass. I was introduced to VK but I hated it at first. Typical VK fans who don't know what genres are showed me a poppy Malice Mizer song and told me that was Japanese metal and I laughed in their face. It was basically Gackt prancing around like a pussy and being the elitist metal/punk kid I was I couldn't take it seriously. Then eventually I saw the Bara no Seidou concert and thought it was the coolest thing ever. Did some internet digging, soul seek and that bullshit and found Aliene Ma'riage and Derp in herp and HERE I AM.

Right, my Father was playing Black Sabbath, Hendrix, Madonna and C-Pop when i was growing up. And I watched lots of (now vintage) anime and tokusatsu shows too. By my Youth I started to get into Urban, Britpop and Industrial Metal. Circles of friends helped to developed this one. So basically my music taste formed like that. Are liquid and ever changing, since I basically pretty open minded to new sounds.

REVIEW & free talking Calmando Qual “闇を貫く激情の輝き”(Yami o Tsuranuku Gekijou no Kagayaki) "Your world is an endless universe; nobody can stop you" The latest Calmando Qual single, created based on their new visual concept. Its tracks carry a message that appeals to the trembling emotions in the space between negative and positive, and a hard sound that will make your heart race! Sharpen your five senses and bring the sixth to life...! CD Playlist: 01. 闇を貫く激情の輝き (Yami o Tsuranuku Gekijou no Kagayaki) 02. CRUSH! 03. モノクローム ( Monochrome) 04. deep sea DVD Playlist: 01. 闇を貫く激情の輝き (Yami o Tsuranuku Gekijou no Kagayaki) (PV) At January 30, 2013 Calmando Qual finally released a new single. This time they give us 3 full songs and one special instrumental song. This time we are introduced again by 2 songs who are composed by Maya. CRUSH! and Deep Sea is his work. Yami o Tsuranuku Gekijou no Kagayaki is composed in a session so the credits goes to everyone. Monochrome is composed by Tak. This single also comes with the PV! This time we have 2 very powerful songs and 1 song who really will touch everyone’s heart, even those who never listened to Calmando Qual will love the song. Yami o Tsuranuku Gekijou no Kagayaki and CRUSH! are played very powerful, however the meaning behind the lyrics are completely different. Yami o Tsuranuku Gekijou no Kagayaki: this song has a beautiful message and does tell you to live on no matter what, you should stay at the ground. Also that you should dream and not to forget to smile! The melody is powerful and very Vkei-ish. I really feel that this song also can be liked by those who never ever did try to listen to Calmando Qual. Somehow the melody is perfect the song really does fit. But it’s really a pity that they didn’t make a STORY PV of this song. Could be a wonderful concept for PV. But more about the PV later. CRUSH!: The message behind CRUSH! is very different, It’s more an angry song, angry about people who are stupid and who are just copy each other. This lyric is written in a very old style I remember that Hibiki wrote that kind of lyrics in the past. But I really think that Hibiki did do a very good job, the lyric really does fit to the melody of CRUSH! Also Tak and Kenka do also a good job by playing this song once again perfectly. Haha yes also you Maya, good job by making this song. This song would be also perfect to play live! Good way to get the fans dance… ehh Dance?! I mean.. to move!! (lol) Monochrome: This song, this melody, it’s beautiful. Tak’s way of playing on his guitar really though your heart. Also the words of Hibiki go through your heart, it’s really sung with so many feelings. You really fall in love with this song at the first moment… there are no doubts. But this song would even fit perfect for a funereal... ehhh? Why? Because the lyric is about; “that words won’t reach someone anymore because he/she sleeps eternity…” however I keep you waiting, I won’t spoil yet. Please read the lyric yourself. So yes, it has perfect melody and also a perfect lyric. A lyric with many pain and suffering… just as the name “Calmando Qual”. This song really makes me cry. Deep Sea: Actually the concept of this single would be about “Rumble Fish” so SEA/Underwater WORLD or something. This is the SE of the CD. Special song, it's instrumental. However even if a concept is “underwater/sea world” doesn't mean that you need to add underwater sea boat sounds. So that kinda not really though me at all… Tak’s guitar is once again special and beautiful. But it's really a pity that there are so many extra sea sounds are added into this short song, because guitar solos of Tak are always the most beautiful with not much extra added sounds. Or don't you think so Tak?! Also would also be more cool if it had a connection with the first song! Also what do we got this time? 1 song who tells you to live on and that you should smile and dream! 1 song who kick off your angriness. 1 song who really goes through your heart and let you cry! 1 song who is instrumental and… let you think that you are underwater in the deepest of the sea. Well before I head on, I really want to add something to Monochrome. Because I’m sure that many people will love this song, I also want to bet that many of you will cry after reading the translation of the lyric!. However I’ve wrote this review long before the release date, so if you read this before the release date then please don’t forget to check my translation after January 30. So keep an eye on my activity! I’ll will notice you when I’ve added the translation. AT: http://calmandoqual.webege.com/ The Lyric will be posted soon! Alright let’s go to the PV: Did everyone watched the PV? What do you think about it? What are your feelings? For me it’s really again a PV with a band standing on the same place just playing and jumping a bit around. Not really enjoyable to watch over and over. I’m someone who really love story PV’s. However since that part can’t though my heart I’m looking at different parts. This time the PV is made by someone who does make VKei PV’s more often by: Akio Yokoyama. And yes I can see it. However I don’t really do like many shots. Of course they are beautiful taken. But for my idea some shots are to near if it was a close up. Or just not far enough away, so that some parts just where cut off the screen. And you also actually see lot of shots of feet and guitar. Also the blurry zooming video effect… it’s a pity! So yeah.. I missed lot of good shots who could be there, but who aren’t sadly there. But of course it doesn’t make a PV that bad! But it could way more special if there would be a real good concept. So guys please next time go out and make something cool and special! However it’s for everyone different there are lot of people who really love this kind of concepts. But I’m just not a fan of it. But should I like everything?! However I would love to read your honest opinion about the PV! Because not only my meaning counts! But the meaning of everyone! So let hear your voice!!!! Ah… the PV on the DVD is smaller and lesser quality, than the version on youtube. Well, since high quality is on youtube I don’t mind it! Alright as extra CD design… “Design by Kiwamu” & “Drawings by Hibiki”. Did you know that the photo who is used is the toilet door of the music studio?! (Fun to know isn’t?) The design is nicely done. Good way to give the right impression of the single! It’s a pity that it is a two sided booklet . but I guess I can live with that?! Alright how many stars I gonna give this single? Let’s see…. Price: CD 1890 yen – DIGITAL ~€4 $4 I think its a good price. Also for a hard copy. Single duration: 16,18 minutes I think it’s a good duration for a single. PV rating: You know why, but it's very personal Favorite song: Monochrome Album Art rating: If there were no design trapping mistakes I would give it 5 full stars. So actually it is 5 stars My rating of this album: It’s a perfect single, however because of “deep sea” It couldn’t get the full 5 stars . you also can discuss this at: FACEBOOK BUY: CDbaby don't klick on by MP3 just put them seprated into your basked if you only want to pay 4 dollar ITUNES however change it to your store of your country

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