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Current gear: Warwick Corvette Standard 5-stringed bass Kasuga - unknown 80:s lawsuit model bass Ibanez RG550 guitar Torque T1001EB bass combo Korg Monotribe Dream gear: Rickenbacker 4001 or 4003 bass (or a good quality Japanese knock off ...may have the chance to grip one soon). Various random drum machines, keyboards and synthesizers and stuff A big fat modular Moog or Buchla system would be nice, but yeah, they're a bit out of my league to say the least. Also, finding an old WASP at a somewhat reasonable price would be awesome! All this of course require I stop spending all my money on records and booze and crap

Haha, well spotted! AFAIK these aren't related with each another, so I suppose it's just a coincidence. Is this some sort of famous Japanese cityscape, or did these guys just pull out the same stock image for their picture sleeves?

Got a box of records in the mail yesterday - yay! Couple of duds as usual, but here are the keepers: Plugging a few more holes in my collection of 90:s VK compilations with "Zeroism" and "Turn Over Peacock Version". Neither are super-essential or anything, but what the hell... gotta catch 'em all "今夜 Goodnight Tonight" is a mild ass bomb! Hard-hitting power pop with some definitive sleazy bar vibes. Nounashi approved, of course! This was released with two covers, I think the one I've got is the more common one. FIGHTING CORPORATION BAND is, like so many others, yet another Nounashi recommendation. Hard to describe really ...catchy as hell, but also pretty fucking stupid at the same time. SEIEI JACK (or SEXEI JACK EXHIBITION or THE JOKE PROJECT ...impossible to tell which is the proper band name) is utterly demented. Sounds like a japanese take on THE RESIDENTS circa "Third Reich 'n Roll" but sloppier and (possibly) even weirder. WHOOPEE! is post-ロンメル (not to be confused with the metal band). Details here: http://blog.livedoor.jp/nounashi/archives/1964751.html Really, really good bubblegum pop with vocoders and synth toms! Way better than expected. Together with SEIEI JACK one of the best blind buys in quite a while! And finally, I mustered up the balls and cash to splurge out for a looooooong time want of mine.... 十万馬力 - "Medical Mystery Tour"!!! :rock: :rock: :rock: Very rare private press, looks like the band was a bunch of students or something. I like to think they were a bunch of medical students (hence the name) who got together and just recorded a record for the hell of it. But yeah, I don't really know anything about the group at all - except that they totally shred!! All kinds of songs ...scorching lo-fi punk, straight ahead power pop rockers, semi-ballads that morph into a guitar fuzz fest. It's all very shambolic and trebly and homemade and underproduced... and.. and.. completely wonderful ~♫

Haha, of course!! How could I forget about SODOM? Maybe the most fucked up of them all ...oh yeah, ZOA also:

Old school Japanese goth bands had WTF-inducing vocals on lock. For example: SADIE SADS - Angora NUBILE - Spyral Totem Toler Than East Poll AUTO-MOD - Deathtopia (couldn't find "時の葬列" on YT which IMO is a better example of vocalist Genet's goat-braying antics) Finally - a personal all time fave ...sweetest and creepiest vocals you'll ever hear:

In the mood to celebrate the end of the working week with some ghost songs

First batch of a loooooong awaited shipment of records. Will hopefully receive the other parts within the month. Slowly but surely working my way through these. As per usual there's a couple of duds and a couple of nice surprises (hey, it turns out "Green Speedway" by THE JANET had more than one good song!). Grabbed THE PX by mistake. Thought it was the same band that put out this great synth-pop single, but it wasn't. As it turns out it's quite nice (albeit very cheesy) 80:s new wave though, so it's getting filed. たかぎあすか is great organ-driven power pop recommended by AJAPA-san who runs the Nounashi blog. LOUIS is some sort of super-wimpy blend between power pop & rock 'n' roll ...I like! Mainly got it since I saw Nounashi guy included it on a mix and I figured it'd had to be at least somewhat worthwhile 田山雅充 is some oyaji folk-rock bullshit I enjoy for unknown reasons. The highlight for me is definitely the MERSEY BEAT - "Silent Reaction" 12". 500 copies pressed in 1988 - however the record company screwed over the band and only gave them their free copies and insisted they'd buy out the rest of the edition (which they of course refused). Supposedly only 30 copies hit circulation. Even though I do think that a couple of more copies eventually slipped out (mine is the 7th copy I know of), it's still something I thought I'd never even see for sale - much less own - so I'm obviously super stoked!

Told y'all BABYMETAL is serious business!

BABYMETAL = serious business

You might want to check out the bands on the NAGOMU label run by the vocalist from Uchouten. It was sorta the epicenter for odd & quirky releases in the Japanese music scene of the 80:s. Bands like PICKY PICNIC, MINCA PANOPICA, BACHIKABURI, MIN & KLINA-MEN etc.etc. There were also some oddities in a maybe less manic way being released by the Yen/NonStandard/Alfa Records labels which were spearheaded by the guys from YMO. Usually more with more electronic focus on the music. Stuff like APOGEE & PERIGEE for instance (featuring Jun Togawa on this track):

Returning to PAVLOV'S DOG as I tend to do semi-periodically. Discovered whilst rummaging through my fathers old record collection he graciously donated/dumped onto me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQBhMhJO34I "I used to see light in your eyes But I don't see it anymore And all those promises you made to me I don't need them anymore I used to waste Hours in bed And I came to close to follow Follow you down I used to phone you thousands of times And now you never seem to call And all the songs that I've sung to you I don't sing them anymore I used to waste Hours in bed And I came to close to follow Follow you down And I'm leaving cause I'm all over you And do you think that's fine And I don't mind Do you think that's fine And I don't mind at all Cause she came shining She came shining"

Whew! Just scanned through the whole tread and I'm relieved that the VK inspired band I played in aren't mentioned anywhere as of yet! To what little credit we had, I think we were pretty much the first VK-inspired band formed in Sweden. Had a bunch of original song which where deftly not preserved for posterity (at least none of the good ones were). Either way - we weren't cool enough and nobody liked us, so that sorted our "career" pretty efficiently. Still - I learned a whole lot of things during the experience ...mainly lots of stuff to avoid and what not to do when you're in a band Fun times overall though ...I get my portions of nostalgia, though I have to admit that playing out live at crowded bullshit conventions with crap equipment being scrutinized by not-very-approving DEG fangirls is something I can live without these days. The best gigs were when we played for mostly non-VK people ...had we toned down our shitty makeup and started to sing in English or Swedish, maybe something would've come out of it. Who knows! But on the other side - how h4rdc0re is that? There exists at least one video up on YouTube of our horrendous escapades, but I'll keep that a secret for now. Uglymouth is forbidden to chime in on this question

I'd heard a few songs on MTV back when they were actually playing music, but I was more or less introduced to THE PRODIGY when I found "Music for the Jilted Generation" is a wastebasket in high school, haha! Grabbed "The Prodigy Experience" after that and was totally blown away. Bought "Fat of the land" when it was released and was thoroughly disappointed. Couldn't deal with any of their newer stuff after that. Still love their first album though. Total vitamin/amphetamine injection ...1000% party record!

It's the "Memories" EP by KAKERA (Protex Records, 1984) Great lo-fi punk!! Dudes seem to have put on pretty intense live shows: "ROCK! してるかー?"

Haha, thanks! The one white one's a total trooper ...had it since I was a kid! Don't think I've even changed the battery in it for like 2 years or so, but it just keeps on ticking.

My meagre ass collection ...lots and lots of holes to fill (LUNA SEA, EINS:VIER, more comps. etc). Haven't been actively collecting much VK for the past couple of years - time to rectify that during 2015! (most of my ridiculously small tape collection comes from Rarezhut, of course ...thanks a bunch Biopanda!) The gloriously unsorted 7" boxes: ...and LP:s, 12":es, 8":es, 10":es and some flyers and shit (notice the nice slant, slowly but surely warping the raerz):

Something between an EP and an album ...around 6-8 tracks or ~ half an hour in lenght or so.

I like all formats, but have found myself to be more partial to singles & EP:s recently. Partly for practical reasons. I blind buy a lot of stuff, so if a record turns out to be a one-sider at least 50% of it is good when it comes to singles (compared to 1/10:th or 1/12:th for an album). Plus they don't take up as much space & shipping is cheaper (for vinyl at least). Also, singles & EP:s are the preferred choice of bullshit bands that never made it big and faded away into obscurity ...which is my favorite type of band Mini-albums and demo tapes are cool as well!

Cool!

In pretty constant rotation for the past couple of days...