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Zigzo is celebrating their 20th anniversary with a tour throughout the year and an upcoming fan-voted best-of album to be released on July 1st - 20 years to the day when their first single 'Chi to Ase to Namida no uragawa happy' was released. The top 12 songs will be re-recorded and a new song will be added. The songs voted by the fans are: 1. Sleep 2. Chelsea 3. everlast 4. fukai mori ni ita 5. mou 2doto aenai kime he 6. Chi to Ase to Namida no uragawa happy 7. tonight, i will fall 8. white, daydream 9. Fashion Monster 2 10. warau tsuki 11. my problems 12. nani kara nani made More info here: 2019年7月1日(月)発売！！ ファン投票による ZIGZO BEST ALBUM （ ベスト12リテイク + 新曲1曲） http://zigzo.net/book/ http://zigzo.net/zigzo_best/ And, I'm quite happy with final selection as I personally voted for 5 or 6 of those tracks myself. I'm surprised fukai mori and mou 2doto came up at the top as those are some of my favorites after sleep.

I lived in New York my entire life up until a few years ago - since then I've missed so many J-rock / Vkei shows that took place there but the one that stings most is Morrie performing at those small intimate spaces. And now Kiyoharu doing his Elegy act alongside him! I was just listening to light / shade / elegy yesterday too. ~_~

Isn't the resilience of CD sales there tied to the fetishism of physical objects? Heck, it's why Vinyl is making a comeback elsewhere in the world. People want to value music beyond the simple files that they exist in on a harddrive. And bands should embrace bandcamp or direct sales. It's easy to host files or using file sharing services to distribute. However all of the stores, labels and whatever other middlemen probably wouldn't like that much.

Didn't know it was meant as a Julie song first. I actually grabbed the album Miscast with Senaka made... a while back but never gave the whole thing a proper listen. Jumping around on youtube, I've heard Sawada's 70s output which sounds very 70s-ish to my ears. Senaka made... feels like a detour from his earlier style. I'll have to check him out some more. Thanks for the heads-up!

ZZZoo is a super-group comprising of members from indie bands such as Z.O.A., Zeni geva, dip, Redrum, and Bacteria. Their first album was just released on bandcamp after having been only available with a download code when buying a t-shirt at their concert. https://thezzzoo.bandcamp.com/ This is definitely an album for fans of space-and-krautrock circa the 60s and 70s. Here are the liner notes from the bandcamp page: HUMAN ZZZoo 人間動物園（にんげんどうぶつえん、「民族学的展示」「人間の展示」とも）とは、19世紀から20世紀にかけて行われた、社会進化論や人種差別、進化主義、植民地主義に根ざした、野蛮・未開とされた人間の文化・生態展示のことである。。みたいなw wikiより HUMAN ZZZoo Human zoos, also called ethnological expositions, were 19th-, 20th-, and 21st-century public exhibitions of humans, usually in a so-called natural or primitive state. It became of theme for this album...maybe lol ZZZoo "HUMAN ZZZoo" 1.Henry（music : Kazuya Wakabayash） 2.Oscar（music&lyrics : Kazuhide Yamaji） 3.Reynard（music&lyrics : Kazuhide Yamaji） 4.Tereshkova（music : Kazuhide Yamaji） All Arranged by ZZZoo Kazuhide Yamaji : Gtr Seiichirou Morikawa : Ba&Vo DEN : Per KAZI : Dr Mitsuru Tabata : Gtr Kazuya Wakabayashi : Sax Recorded by ZZZoo at Studio Noah, Takadanobaba, Tokyo 5th January 2019 Mixed by ZZZoo at Mr.T-ST,Kodaira, Tokyo 11th January 2019 Thanks to Kiyohiro Takada

The newly reformed COCK ROACH have announced their new album「Mother」. The release date is to be announced and is tentatively slated to come out sometime in the fall 1.胎児の見る夢 2.Mother 3.電脳双生児顕微鏡狂想曲 4.ユリイカ 5.炎国 6.新進化論エレクトロニカルパレーダー 7.海月 8.花と瓦礫 9.Cosmo ballet 10.青い砂に舞う君の髪 11.死者の見る夢 http://cockroach.jp/archives/133 Track 4, Eureka, was a track originally released as a single by the band in 2016 shortly after they disbanded in 2015. The new lineup of COCK ROACH features the original vocalist and bassist with the guitarist and drummer being ex-members of me-al art. Vocals / Guitar : Jinpei Endo 遠藤 仁平 Bass: Yuya Honda 本田 祐也 Guitar: Ebisawa Hirokatsu 海老沢宏克 Drums: Honda Naoki 本多直樹

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munimuni just posted a new PV for New Order Love Song:

It is pricey to maintain a studio where he noodles endlessly while crushing the creative souls of everyone who works under him knowing the work will never see the light of day.

Wow, I might have to order Image and Eden in hopes that they actually properly remastered them to sound good. Those first albums Luna Sea-Image-Eden were so poorly mixed and mastered that the sound quality between them and Mother is like night and day. For the best comparison, check out Believe from Luna Sea's Singles compilation and then listen to the Eden version.

And also, Baki's first solo album still has one of the best non-X Japan piano works by Yoshiki:

Sadly, I think his 25+ years of trawling / living in Hollywood has warped his career. It's been all about these shitty B- and C- productions for years now. I mean despite some basic conversations between Toshi and Yoshiki, a horror movie, Saw IV, tangentially gave them the reason to come back for good. Surely for every one of these project we see him work on, there's been 20 times as many parties, events, and meetings that he attended to hob-knob with various producers and socialites in the Los Angeles scene. He has long enjoyed doing this than actually spending time alone composing and refining music with X Japan. A quick Getty Image search will show you exactly what he's doing despite the occasional "I've been working 24 hours straight" Instagram post to troll the fans into telling him "Take care of yourself Yoshiki-sama!" https://www.gettyimages.com/photos/yoshiki?groupbyevent=true&family=editorial&phrase=yoshiki&sort=best#license Hence we will have the XXX4 soundtrack before the new album ever materializes.

I've actually been quite a fan of his covers over the years and discovered some jpop gems I would have otherwise never have known about. This album could be interesting if he goes for older classics rather than something recent. His cover of Inoue Yosui's Senaka made 45fun on the Emily EP is syrupy goodness that was a complete 180° turn to hear compared to what he was just doing months earlier when SADS paused the first time around.

Although it hasn't been confirmed the album title seems to have changed to the name of his upcoming 2019 tour. 光る曠野 - Hikaru kōya - Shining Wilderness Most likely that the album would be released for sale during that tour. http://morrie.jp/

I totally missed that. Awesome !

Thanks, I totally missed that while looking through the page! Now i just have to figure out whether or not to by some god and death stars stuff too

Nice find. Does anyone know if zoisite sells internationally anymore?

There's a bootleg!? Where/how can I find this?! I love me a good bootleg - those 93/94 shows get more spins than memoire nowadays.

Interesting. While I'm not fan of Sam L or odd guest appearances this somehow works for me. If it brings a little more exposure to Meev on English language media then it has served its purpose.

A buying/shopping service should have no problem obtaining if the only catch is that it is mail order in Japan only. As Jigsaw says, at least it's being released instead of just being seen by a few hundred or thousand people at the concert. The question is - will they try to keep the setlist in its entirety or will it be some sort of a chopped up digest version of it leaving you wanting more?

Wow, I wish other bands from those days release more shows like this. L'arc, Luna Sea, Kuroyume, Zi:Kill! I'm sure the bands / management have plenty considering the bootlegs that exist but they're probably stranded forever in a sea of licensing issues

This was either a title from Tatsu, who likes using English words in almost convincing ways, or Baby who is anti-authoritarian with his reggae inspired lifestyle. Btw, for the Gastunk fans here, see what Baby does when he isn't thrashing away with Tatsu and Pazz:

Running to the Sun Fighting Mad Cold Blood Dead Song Red Indian's Rock Fastest Dream

After 8 years of dormancy, Gastunk had a comeback one-man live on March 24th 2018 performing classics from all of their albums and singles and in particular the track 'Shout' from their self-titled EP which hasn't been performed since the mid 80s. This concert in its entirety will be released on DVD on February 6, 2019. Included with the DVDs is a CD of 15 select tracks from the gig. https://gastunk.com/view/56 GASTUNK 2DVD+1CD BOX set MAD INDIAN RECORDINGS DQB-9005 / ¥7,000 + 税 2019.2.6 on sale!! Distributed by SPACE SHOWER NETWORK INC. 【収録内容】 DISC-1 （DVD） DOCUMENT REAL TALK BY GASTUNK ※各メンバー・インタビュー収録。 ※2017.7.2に新木場STUDIO COASTで行われた「FUÜDOBRAIN MUST DIE」のGASTUNKのライブをダイジェストで収録。 DISC-2 （DVD） THE RUNNING MAD BLOOD IN A DEAD INDIAN'S DREAM ! @LIQUIDROOM 黙示録 Night Sight Light The Eyes Fastest Dream Mr.Gazime In The Fire Deadman’ s Face No More Trouble Running To The Sun Breeze Calls The Vanishing Signs Fighting Mad Waiting In The Sky Moon Child Blue Peter Revelation Devil Sex Shout Leather Ship Smash The Wall Dead Song Husk Red Indian’ s Rock Geronimo The Birth Of Stars Warbird （全27曲 / 収録時間 : 未定） DISC-3 （CD） LIVE AT LIQUIDROOM BEST SELECTION The Eyes In The Fire Deadman's Face Running To The Sun Breeze Calls Waiting In The Sky Devil Sex Shout Leather Ship Smash The Wall Dead Song Red Indian’s Rock Geronimo The Birth Of Stars （全15曲 / 収録時間 : 未定）

I'm here again and super excited about this release! I was expecting a full length too. They've got enough songs for another album or two already. And despite cheaper recording methods (home studios, DAWs, etc) most bands can have at their disposal, they really want to give this release their proper due with the art and that probably affected the amount of tracks they could record. If you reduced that 32 page booklet down to a 1 page double side fold-out could've gotten us maybe a song or two more on that album. That said, I'm really going to have to buy my copy from Disk Union for the extra!