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Welcome to MH! I hope you enjoy it here!

I've been a fan of Little Dragon since 07 and a fan of Ms. Yukimi Nagano for just a bit longer. She's one of my absolute favorite female vocalists! I first heard her through many of the jazz/nu-jazz collaborations she's done (stuff with koop, hird, sleep walker, jafrosax, etc) and fell in love with her voice. While I personally prefer her voice in a jazz setting, Little Dragon is still very dope - though often a bit too left-field or minimal for my liking.

Take care, friend~

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW Rei Harakami was damn near genius... R.I.P man

Greetings and welcome to MH! Hope you enjoy it here! If you have any questions/concerns, feel free to ask me or any of the other mods!

Greetings and welcome to MH! Hope you enjoy it here!

Greetings! Welcome to MH! I hope you enjoy it here!

Thanks, doe. From what I can hear, I like it on the first listen better than a good amount of their recent material. It's still mediocre, but I can dig it...

Great! I've always been fond of this band - they're quite charming ;]

Will there be any more PVs for this album?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOrD5kqyov0

This will likely be one of the best Japanese rock releases of the year - you heard it from CAT first

wow, this sounds pretty dayum good. A VK-JAZZ-ROCK SONG THAT'S ACTUALLY GOOD

I'm damn near a textbook pisces

Welcome! :]

You're an invaluable member of MH, Trombe. Sad to see you go, but all of your hard work has been appreciated.

None. I have plenty enough melanin! ^^

The new lostage album just leaked 2 months early, and they're nowhere near as popular as DEG...So I wouldn't be surprised if the album is already online.

Heyyy. I didn't even notice you were a member here, haha. Welcome to MH! I'm one80 btw ;]

Yes! And if you ask me it's way better than their debut, which I also liked a lot. Glad to hear it! Gonna check into that ASAP. ;] It's like you said the other day - there's so much music out there that you can't keep up with everything! ;]

WTH!!!??? There was a new Blood Ceremony album this year!!!??? @___@ and I will have to update my thoughts on this year so far too...

I wish I was as enthused as Herpes right now, but the first listen left me a bit cold. The only real standout for me is track 8 so far - I love it when they get r&b-ish and funky (unlike herpes, I loved their song "FAIR" on the last album"). I'll have to revisit this album a bit later. It's a solid effort as always and definitely better than "variety", but it may have to do a bit growing on me.

I think I've seen Doe loving this band over at last.fm. Anyways, sounds pretty dope - we'll have to give their album a listen.

In the past, we've usually been opposed to segregating the download forums, but with the recent surge in non-VK enthusiasm, I'm thinking that some kind of reform might not hurt.

Filesharing is a double edged sword. Most of the people here wouldn't even know about or listen to the stuff they do now if it wasn't for filesharing. On the other hand, it can affect artists to a certain extent. However, if we're strictly referring to Japanese music, you have to understand that many Japanese bands have no intention of marketing their albums to foreigners like us (unless they release some kind of overseas edition). So for the most part, we're not a huge part of the equation. As for a solution? I wouldn't worry about that. People are gonna share music regardless of the consequences. It's human nature. Music IS meant to be heard after all. So I suggest that you simply do what *YOU* can to support the artists/bands you like and leave it at that. Personally, I'm ALL for buying albums (especially from indie/underground acts - major labels can mostly kiss my ass), but I'm also a proud and shameless pirate. edit: and like cheesy said, most bands don't get much (if anything) from selling CDs. The major labels make it look like file-sharing is "wrong and evil" only because it's a form of music distribution that they can't profit from and have absolutely no control over. So the "war on piracy" is really a huge farce. If they were truly concerned with piracy, they'd do something about google - the largest music search engine there is. Yet they'd rather target all the private music trackers that basically do the same thing lol.