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@gabboman Fairly random observation and certainly not a complaint, but the particular DOONG that Wafrn uses reminds me of Watering A Flower, by Haruomi Hosono, nearly every time.
#haruomi-hosono #harry-hosono #DOOONG #honestly-it's-a-rather-pleasant-and-distinctive-sound -
We're a small bunch of friends that call ourselves a "crew" or in this case a "society", playing records, cd's, flacs at concerts and local internet radio, going to concerts and festivals, and hanging out playing music for ourselves. "Duizend baasheid" literally translated means "Thousand bossness", so I guess some youthful overconfidence was in place. Although, admittedly, we weren't that young anymore when we started getting together to play some tunes. Originally, we only played vinyl records, hence the "Wax" in our name. But the space in our houses is limited, as is the amount of money on our bank accounts, so we also buy and bring music digitally these days, e.g. bought from artists on #Bandcamp.
All this originated at local music venue #Ekko, in #Utrecht.
Since I [AB] felt that I did not want to continously post about music on my personal Mastodon account, I set this up for me and friends to geek about music more, without any reservations.
You won't find us posting any spotify links. Nor links from any other of the major streaming platforms. We don't like them.
Music that we will post will often be of smaller bands/acts that we think are awesome, have seen live, would love to see live, will never see live because they may be old and disbanded by now. And genre-wise, it will be mish-mash, although we certainly love our #PostPunk.Our profile picture is a number of Kaiju / giant monsters in front of Mount Fuji. We got this avatar assigned by Stranded FM when we started our radio show with them. Not sure whether this means we're regarded as a bunch of dinosaurs there, or whether it's just a sign of us being awesome. Our header picture is one of our play lists, that we typed on an old school type writer <3 available at Stranded FM's studio: 25 songs in three parts, split by dashes which indicate us talking, covering 2 hours. Bands listed range from Dutch musician #Machinefabriek remixing #Balmorhea's song "Remembrance", Dublin-based punkers M(h)aol #Mhaol, Montreal-based BIG|BRAVE #BigBrave to Japanese pop musician Haruomi Hosono #HaruomiHosono.
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We're a small bunch of friends that call ourselves a "crew" or in this case a "society", playing records, cd's, flacs at concerts and local internet radio, going to concerts and festivals, and hanging out playing music for ourselves. "Duizend baasheid" literally translated means "Thousand bossness", so I guess some youthful overconfidence was in place. Although, admittedly, we weren't that young anymore when we started getting together to play some tunes. Originally, we only played vinyl records, hence the "Wax" in our name. But the space in our houses is limited, as is the amount of money on our bank accounts, so we also buy and bring music digitally these days, e.g. bought from artists on #Bandcamp.
All this originated at local music venue #Ekko, in #Utrecht.
Since I [AB] felt that I did not want to continously post about music on my personal Mastodon account, I set this up for me and friends to geek about music more, without any reservations.
You won't find us posting any spotify links. Nor links from any other of the major streaming platforms. We don't like them.
Music that we will post will often be of smaller bands/acts that we think are awesome, have seen live, would love to see live, will never see live because they may be old and disbanded by now. And genre-wise, it will be mish-mash, although we certainly love our #PostPunk.Our profile picture is a number of Kaiju / giant monsters in front of Mount Fuji. We got this avatar assigned by Stranded FM when we started our radio show with them. Not sure whether this means we're regarded as a bunch of dinosaurs there, or whether it's just a sign of us being awesome. Our header picture is one of our play lists, that we typed on an old school type writer <3 available at Stranded FM's studio: 25 songs in three parts, split by dashes which indicate us talking, covering 2 hours. Bands listed range from Dutch musician #Machinefabriek remixing #Balmorhea's song "Remembrance", Dublin-based punkers M(h)aol #Mhaol, Montreal-based BIG|BRAVE #BigBrave to Japanese pop musician Haruomi Hosono #HaruomiHosono.
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We're a small bunch of friends that call ourselves a "crew" or in this case a "society", playing records, cd's, flacs at concerts and local internet radio, going to concerts and festivals, and hanging out playing music for ourselves. "Duizend baasheid" literally translated means "Thousand bossness", so I guess some youthful overconfidence was in place. Although, admittedly, we weren't that young anymore when we started getting together to play some tunes. Originally, we only played vinyl records, hence the "Wax" in our name. But the space in our houses is limited, as is the amount of money on our bank accounts, so we also buy and bring music digitally these days, e.g. bought from artists on #Bandcamp.
All this originated at local music venue #Ekko, in #Utrecht.
Since I [AB] felt that I did not want to continously post about music on my personal Mastodon account, I set this up for me and friends to geek about music more, without any reservations.
You won't find us posting any spotify links. Nor links from any other of the major streaming platforms. We don't like them.
Music that we will post will often be of smaller bands/acts that we think are awesome, have seen live, would love to see live, will never see live because they may be old and disbanded by now. And genre-wise, it will be mish-mash, although we certainly love our #PostPunk.Our profile picture is a number of Kaiju / giant monsters in front of Mount Fuji. We got this avatar assigned by Stranded FM when we started our radio show with them. Not sure whether this means we're regarded as a bunch of dinosaurs there, or whether it's just a sign of us being awesome. Our header picture is one of our play lists, that we typed on an old school type writer <3 available at Stranded FM's studio: 25 songs in three parts, split by dashes which indicate us talking, covering 2 hours. Bands listed range from Dutch musician #Machinefabriek remixing #Balmorhea's song "Remembrance", Dublin-based punkers M(h)aol #Mhaol, Montreal-based BIG|BRAVE #BigBrave to Japanese pop musician Haruomi Hosono #HaruomiHosono.
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We're a small bunch of friends that call ourselves a "crew" or in this case a "society", playing records, cd's, flacs at concerts and local internet radio, going to concerts and festivals, and hanging out playing music for ourselves. "Duizend baasheid" literally translated means "Thousand bossness", so I guess some youthful overconfidence was in place. Although, admittedly, we weren't that young anymore when we started getting together to play some tunes. Originally, we only played vinyl records, hence the "Wax" in our name. But the space in our houses is limited, as is the amount of money on our bank accounts, so we also buy and bring music digitally these days, e.g. bought from artists on #Bandcamp.
All this originated at local music venue #Ekko, in #Utrecht.
Since I [AB] felt that I did not want to continously post about music on my personal Mastodon account, I set this up for me and friends to geek about music more, without any reservations.
You won't find us posting any spotify links. Nor links from any other of the major streaming platforms. We don't like them.
Music that we will post will often be of smaller bands/acts that we think are awesome, have seen live, would love to see live, will never see live because they may be old and disbanded by now. And genre-wise, it will be mish-mash, although we certainly love our #PostPunk.Our profile picture is a number of Kaiju / giant monsters in front of Mount Fuji. We got this avatar assigned by Stranded FM when we started our radio show with them. Not sure whether this means we're regarded as a bunch of dinosaurs there, or whether it's just a sign of us being awesome. Our header picture is one of our play lists, that we typed on an old school type writer <3 available at Stranded FM's studio: 25 songs in three parts, split by dashes which indicate us talking, covering 2 hours. Bands listed range from Dutch musician #Machinefabriek remixing #Balmorhea's song "Remembrance", Dublin-based punkers M(h)aol #Mhaol, Montreal-based BIG|BRAVE #BigBrave to Japanese pop musician Haruomi Hosono #HaruomiHosono.
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We're a small bunch of friends that call ourselves a "crew" or in this case a "society", playing records, cd's, flacs at concerts and local internet radio, going to concerts and festivals, and hanging out playing music for ourselves. "Duizend baasheid" literally translated means "Thousand bossness", so I guess some youthful overconfidence was in place. Although, admittedly, we weren't that young anymore when we started getting together to play some tunes. Originally, we only played vinyl records, hence the "Wax" in our name. But the space in our houses is limited, as is the amount of money on our bank accounts, so we also buy and bring music digitally these days, e.g. bought from artists on #Bandcamp.
All this originated at local music venue #Ekko, in #Utrecht.
Since I [AB] felt that I did not want to continously post about music on my personal Mastodon account, I set this up for me and friends to geek about music more, without any reservations.
You won't find us posting any spotify links. Nor links from any other of the major streaming platforms. We don't like them.
Music that we will post will often be of smaller bands/acts that we think are awesome, have seen live, would love to see live, will never see live because they may be old and disbanded by now. And genre-wise, it will be mish-mash, although we certainly love our #PostPunk.Our profile picture is a number of Kaiju / giant monsters in front of Mount Fuji. We got this avatar assigned by Stranded FM when we started our radio show with them. Not sure whether this means we're regarded as a bunch of dinosaurs there, or whether it's just a sign of us being awesome. Our header picture is one of our play lists, that we typed on an old school type writer <3 available at Stranded FM's studio: 25 songs in three parts, split by dashes which indicate us talking, covering 2 hours. Bands listed range from Dutch musician #Machinefabriek remixing #Balmorhea's song "Remembrance", Dublin-based punkers M(h)aol #Mhaol, Montreal-based BIG|BRAVE #BigBrave to Japanese pop musician Haruomi Hosono #HaruomiHosono.
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #JamzSupernova
Haruomi Hosono:
🎵 Hurricane Dorothy#HaruomiHosono
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Here's a fun interview with Japanese innovator #HaruomiHosono https://www.discogs.com/digs/features/haruomi-hosono-on-50-years-of-musical-innovation
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With performances from Creepy Nuts to Mrs. Green Apple, the Music Awards Japan kicks off with a celebration of J-pop's past and present at its inaugural event in Kyoto. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2025/05/29/music/music-awards-japan/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #culture #music #musicawardsjapan #yellowmagicorchestra #jpop #creepynuts #mrsgreenapple #yoasobi #awich #chanmina #eikichiyazawa #haruomihosono #kazefujii #hikaruutada
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[This guest post was written by wbwolf about number 1030 on The List. The album was submitted by wbwolf and avi_miller.]
At one point in time, there was a serious debate in Japanese music whether rock music should be sung in Japanese or English.
1970 was a major inflection point. Rock had started get a wider audience in Japan, but it was through the Group Sounds fad that was starting to wind down by that point. Group Sounds was a way for production companies to use their staff writers, dress up the band in a matching outfits, but in the end, not that much different from other pop offerings. At least that was the feeling of musicians that looked to the American and European rock scenes.
The argument was that rock did not fit the cadence of Japanese language, so it worked best in English. Several early albums by other artists were done entirely in English. However, the members of Happy End felt rock music could be sung in Japanese and still have the characteristics of the overseas bands they admired. Their first two albums, especially 風街ろまん (Kazemachi Roman) proved to be a turning point showing that it was indeed possible.
The album itself is a concept album, collectively painting a portrait of Tokyo in the period of time from immediate postwar period to the rapid growth just before the 1964 Olympics. In an effort to clear the wreckage caused by war and modernized the city, much was lost in the process. This is lends the album a slightly wistful air, about innocence and youth lost now in the modern, Westernized metropolis; the Westernization is a double-edged sword.
- Discogs: はっぴいえんど (Happy End) – 風街ろまん (Kazemachi Roman; literally “Windy City Romance”)
- Songlink: はっぴいえんど – 風街ろまん
- Wikipedia: Kazemachi Roman
#1001OtherAlbums #1970s #はっぴいえんど #folkRock #HappyEnd #HaruomiHosono #Japan #psychedelicRock
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I've been taking a deep dive into Kankyō Ongaku! While I was previously familiar with a few 80s #Japanese #ambient #music albums, such as those by #HaruomiHosono & #HiroshiYoshimura, I didn't know all that much about how they came about. That's now changed after listening to the excellent #BBC radio doco "Tranquility Inc - The Great New Ambient Wave" by Elizabeth Alker (who hosts the well worth checking out weekly show Unclassified). Besides being an alternate non-western thread of ambient / environmental music, the relationship between commercial interests and art was very different to what we're used to - more like renaissance art patrons than the consumer-oriented "product" of today. Well worth checking out! https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000xdwh
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Cosmic ! - all vinyl mix - https://hearthis.at/emuziek/cosmic/
#HaruomiHosono #Supersempfft #RolfTrostel #HaraldGrosskopf #KlausSchultze #RainerBloss
#OrchestralManoeuvresInTheDark #OMD #RüdigerLorenz #TriAtma #Brain #Explorer #krautrock
#YellowMagicOrchestra #YMO #ThierryMeyer #Mobieus #Plank #Neumeier #Zenamon #SergioFerrarsei #LoveSpirit #Reichmann #Arpadys #electronica #vinyl #cosmic #synthwave #komsiche #minimal #MastodonMusic #MastoMusic #MastoRadio #Music #MusicHistory #Musodon #dj -
[This guest post was written by wbwolf about number 85 on The List. The album was submitted by avi_miller. Note: Japanese names follow Japanese order, family name followed by given name.]
If there is any Japanese artist that belongs in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, it’s Yellow Magic Orchestra. They were one of the bands that helped shape synth-pop. Along with Kraftwerk, they were cited by Afrika Bambaataa as one of the early influences on hip-hop and electro. And the band started as a one off.
In the mid-1970s, Hosono Haruomi (formerly in Happy End), put out a series of solo albums that explored orientalist themes, both from within Japan and from outside. Hosono, along with his Tin Pan Alley production group, would work with top studio musicians in Japan. In 1978, Hosono put out Paraiso, which was credited to Hosono Haruomi & The Yellow Magic Band. One track of that album, “Femme Fatale” features Takahashi Yukihiro, former drummer for Sadistic Mika Band and Sakamoto Ryuichi, a classically trained keyboard player and arranger. All three had become interested in electronics and fusing them with Asian melodies. Over the course of 1977 and 1978, they worked on a number of projects along a similar theme: Pacific, along with Suzuki Shigeru (Tin Pan Alley) and Yamashita Tatsuro, based around the theme of the ocean; and Cochin Moon, fusing Indian ragas and electronic music.
Around the time Sakamoto was working on his own solo debut album, Hosono had the idea to do a one off studio project aiming at an overseas market. Hosono, Sakamoto and Takahashi recorded Yellow Magic Orchestra in 1978. In early 1979, the first album was remixed and released internationally. The success of the band both in Japan and overseas moved them out of the studio and into a full fledged band.
Ironically, the follow up Solid State Survivor was not released internationally until much later. Tracks from the album would be released on the international version of X∞Multiplies, a 1980 mini-album collaboration with comedy group Snakeman Show. But upon release in Japan, Solid State Survivor was a huge hit, selling over a million copies (a rare feat in the country), along with two top 20 singles.
The cover sets the tone of the album, with Hosono, Sakamoto and Takahashi dressed in red jumpsuits, seated around a table with two mannequins. The rear sleeve has them carrying the mannequins away from the table. There is a bit of tongue in cheek here.
The theme of the album is still Japan, but Japan of the present and near future. The album is divided into two pieces. Side A is instrumentals, leading with “Technopolis”, an ode to Tokyo. In a way, it was anticipating the cyberpunk themes of a technically advanced Tokyo being a major center. “Absolute Ego Dance” features wordless vocals by Sandii, who would go onto her own international career with Sandii & The Sunsetz. “Rydeen” is one of the most famous YMO songs, covered numerous times.
Side B is vocals. Lyrics are all in English, written by Chris Mosdell, an English writer based in Tokyo. The side leads off with “Behind The Mask”. Sung using a vocoder, the lyrics use the imagery of a Noh mask to evoke the facelessness of modern society. This song was released as a single in the US and UK. Michael Jackson would write his own lyrics to the song, and it was intended to be included on Thriller, but royalty payments couldn’t be agreed upon, so it was dropped. Greg Phillinganes and Eric Clapton would each record Michael Jackson’s version in the 1980s. Jackson’s recording would finally surface on his 2010 posthumous album.
Next is a robotic take on “Daytripper”. Much like Devo’s version of “Satisfaction” or Flying Lizard’s “Money”, it uses synthesizers and a drum machine to create a choppy sound. “Insomniac”, again using a vocoder and again touches on the isolation, this time late at night. Finally, the album closes with the title track “Solid State Survivor”. Despite the more uptempo music, the lyrics have a sense of dread, underscoring the isolation and facelessness of modern society.
Overall, this album is a great place to start with Yellow Magic Orchestra, and Japanese popular music in general. YMO would continue as a band until 1984, but all continued to do solo work and would occasionally collaborate with each other. Sakamoto would go on to be an Oscar winning composer. YMO, both as a group and members individually, had a major influence on Japanese popular music that is becoming more appreciated around the world. This album is but one example of that rich tradition worthy of exploration.
- Songwhip: Yellow Magic Orchestra – Solid State Survivor
- Discogs: Yellow Magic Orchestra – Solid State Survivor
[Alt text for accompanying image: The album artwork is a photo of the three band members wearing red jumpsuits, seated around a table with two mannequins, one also wearing a red jumpsuit and another wearing a see-through blue dress. The background is yellow, with the band name (just “Yellow Magic”) in grey font at the top and the album name in smaller font along the bottom.]
https://1001otheralbums.com/2024/04/07/yellow-magic-orchestra-solid-state-survivor-1979-japan/
#1001OtherAlbums #1970s #electro #HaruomiHosono #Japan #RyuichiSakamoto #synthpop #YellowMagicOrchestra #YukihiroTakahashi
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Here's an extraordinary track from the late #YukihiroTakahashi 40 years in the making! Featuring #SteveJansen #HaruomiHosono #MarcoMachera #MasamiTsuchiya #HajimeTachibana https://soundcloud.com/istevejansen/impossible-until-it-happens
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'As ignorable as it is interesting:
A journey through the world of ambient music'https://www.economist.com/podcasts/2023/12/30/as-ignorable-as-it-is-interesting
#podcast #ambient #music #AmbientMusic #chillout #MixmasterMorris #IrresistibleForce #TheIrresistibleForce #BrianEno #NewAge #ErikSatie #Hosono #HaruomiHosono
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Quick #Shfl update for the week with a #HaruomiHosono guide from #AndyBeta plus reviews from him and #RickAnderson. More reviews including my next batch next week! #music https://news.theshfl.com/p/shfl-update-1122
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Quick #Shfl update for the week with a #HaruomiHosono guide from #AndyBeta plus reviews from him and #RickAnderson. More reviews including my next batch next week! #music https://news.theshfl.com/p/shfl-update-1122
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Quick #Shfl update for the week with a #HaruomiHosono guide from #AndyBeta plus reviews from him and #RickAnderson. More reviews including my next batch next week! #music https://news.theshfl.com/p/shfl-update-1122
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Quick #Shfl update for the week with a #HaruomiHosono guide from #AndyBeta plus reviews from him and #RickAnderson. More reviews including my next batch next week! #music https://news.theshfl.com/p/shfl-update-1122
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Quick #Shfl update for the week with a #HaruomiHosono guide from #AndyBeta plus reviews from him and #RickAnderson. More reviews including my next batch next week! #music https://news.theshfl.com/p/shfl-update-1122
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One thing I love about Mastodon is the ability to just upload music!
So here's a #chiptune cover I made of Haruomi Hosono\細野 晴臣 - Sportsmen
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#TBT #1980 Parents bought me my first radio in 1979, I immediately tuned in to #Detroit's #WDRQ and #CKLW and this is what I heard. IMHO It's not #YMO's finest moment, but for many of us this is where it all started. 🎶 🇯🇵 ❤️ #RyuichiSakamoto #YukihiroTakahashi #HaruomiHosono #YellowMagicOrchestra
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With the recent passing of Yukihiro Takahashi I've had a few people asking for the tunes they must listen too. Whilst I have extras to add this YT video is a good place to start....
#YMO #yukihirotakahashi #haruomihosono #ryuichisakamoto
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmL8Ft-LCzY
