Years ago, in my teens, I used to have a 7" single of theirs, I think it was Firecracker, which I bought cheap at a market stall. I think I found it because I was really into the band Japan, and then David Sylvian recorded with Ryuichi Sakamoto.
Asperities by Julia Kent, via BandCamp. "Utilising looped cello, electronics and found sounds, Kent creates a world where the technological and the organic merge in perfect symbiosis, the layers of sound peeling back to reveal a beating, bloody human heart at its centre."
Thanks so much for the heads up - I liked it so much I bought the company! (Joke for folks of a certain age). I'm a sucker for this sort of thing, lower register instruments - playing live against loops etc.
- but never really listened to Yellow Magic Orchestra before . . .
Neither have I - Thanks !
I am gobsmacked by the idea folks haven't heard YMO previously. I wonder is it an age thing or a geographical thing? I can appreciate that Americans may have only heard the Clapton version of 'Behind the Mask' but for 10 minutes there YMO were marketed as the Japanese version of Kraftwerk.
Yes, I too am surprised folk on here (most of whom I generally assume to be near-omniscient when it comes to music) do not know them. They are one of obligatory references when describing the origins of various electronic genres. On the other hand, that does not even for me mean that I have listened far into their catalog.
NP, and related:
HAT (Haruomi Hosono, Atom Heart & Tetsu Inoue) - DSP Holiday.
Sort of Hawaiian meets laptop. I bet @amclark2 would like.
I am gobsmacked by the idea folks haven't heard YMO previously. I wonder is it an age thing or a geographical thing?
- For my part I don't think there's any rational reason. They were very much hyped in Denmark back in the days and my age isn't an "excuse" It just didn't happen . . .
Mixed bag of Gov't Mule, some Dub Side Of and a chunk of The Georgia Bootleg Box, which I break up just because of its size and there are multiple versions from different shows (both still available at eMu at fetching prices).
Asperities by Julia Kent, via BandCamp. "Utilising looped cello, electronics and found sounds, Kent creates a world where the technological and the organic merge in perfect symbiosis, the layers of sound peeling back to reveal a beating, bloody human heart at its centre."
Thanks so much for the heads up - I liked it so much I bought the company! (Joke for folks of a certain age). I'm a sucker for this sort of thing, lower register instruments - playing live against loops etc.
When Cello + Laptop was going around a couple of weeks ago I ran across Julia Kent. Do you know the Portland Cello Project? There are a few more albums in addition to the BandCamp albums which i like better (Homage and Thousand Words). Check your usually music sources.
I don't know why I never listened to YMO; I am a bit young, but that hasn't stopped from knowing other way more obscure bands from then... I think I just always wrote them off as just a j-pop group that I meant to explore and never got around to. I never came across anything really selling them either; there was never really any big articles in any magazines I read... Like for a comparison when Neu got reissued for the first time, you couldn't throw a stone without reading something about them...
Wait it's Hex Enduction Hour! How have never read it closely enough before to see it's Enduction!!!? I guess the auto-correct in your head can be pretty bad too.
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I am gobsmacked by the idea folks haven't heard YMO previously. I wonder is it an age thing or a geographical thing? I can appreciate that Americans may have only heard the Clapton version of 'Behind the Mask' but for 10 minutes there YMO were marketed as the Japanese version of Kraftwerk.
NP, and related:
HAT (Haruomi Hosono, Atom Heart & Tetsu Inoue) - DSP Holiday.
Sort of Hawaiian meets laptop. I bet @amclark2 would like.
It just didn't happen . . .
- Totally brilliant !
When Cello + Laptop was going around a couple of weeks ago I ran across Julia Kent. Do you know the Portland Cello Project? There are a few more albums in addition to the BandCamp albums which i like better (Homage and Thousand Words). Check your usually music sources.
Sublime experimental pop from the Beach Boys / Brian Wilson collaborator . . .
- from 1968
I don't know why I never listened to YMO; I am a bit young, but that hasn't stopped from knowing other way more obscure bands from then... I think I just always wrote them off as just a j-pop group that I meant to explore and never got around to. I never came across anything really selling them either; there was never really any big articles in any magazines I read... Like for a comparison when Neu got reissued for the first time, you couldn't throw a stone without reading something about them...
(Emusers link)
I admit I've never listened to YMO too. I'll follow up. Coincidence that a few minutes ago I also put on some John Coltrane, for me:
Wait it's Hex Enduction Hour! How have never read it closely enough before to see it's Enduction!!!? I guess the auto-correct in your head can be pretty bad too.
Oh Man ! ! ! . . . . (releases February 5, 2016)
Amanda Palmer - Who Killed Amanda Palmer, this is NYOP on Bandcamp quiet surprised and rather delighted
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