Man, these other guys post way too much.
Here's some Power Metal.
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256 vbr / 44mb
vedi
Last of my batch of Hosono albums for a while, this album has a mix of a lot of styles and sounds from across the world, it says on the cover "Omni Sound" and "The globe watch tour" and it certainly does live up to that. Few of the tracks are even sung in Arabic and French, it definitely does have that world music feel, though still keeping that signature Hosono sound.
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MP3 / 67MB
Shane
I love the majority of Takahashi's albums because you know exactly what you're going to get, great (electro)pop. (I can't say the same for his album covers though! They're a mixed bag.) Two amazing songs stick out on here, "My Bright Tomorrow" and "Are you receiving me?" This is labelled as a re-mix, but I think that's a typo, as I can't find an "original" version that exists anywhere. As with most of his albums, this has Haruomi Hosono and Ryuichi Sakamoto guest as studio musicians.
MP3 / 58MB
Shane
When auditioning for members they described themselves as wanting to be a Japanese Portishead, there is definitely elements of their music when you listen to them, but I think this band has their own unique sound too. Their music is very hard to find on the internet so I thought I'd share what I've got here, first up is the bands' debut EP.
MP3 / 23MB
Shane
Another album from electronic pop master Hosono, typical Hosono wackiness with this one, only 6 tracks long but it's very enjoyable. "Body Snatchers" is the stand out track for me, ends with a lovely ambient track "Dark side of the Star."
(This here is a special mix of Body Snatchers but it's almost identical to the version on the album)
MP3 / 65MB
Shane
Alternative rock/Punk. One of two albums (the other I'll also upload) that were released in 2008. This was one of the first Japanese bands I got into years ago, loved them then and I still love them now. I especially like the singer's raw and often aggressive vocals. The band have had many lineups since their debut in 1997, the only constant being the singer/guitarist Suzuki Yukiko.
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MP3 / 66MB
Shane
A little less than a year before The Night was released, Mark Sandman collapsed onstage due to various things, such as temperature at the time, and possibly getting stabbed in the chest working as a cab driver. Morphine broke up shortly after this happened.
Skip about a year, Twinemen's born. Named after a comic he wrote about balls of twine forming a band, they are composed of Morphine's previous two members and other members of Face to Face. They have a pretty unique sound but don't jump in expecting anything too replicated of morphine. It's different in many multiple ways. Hell, I even feel a fine amount of Treat Her Right influence in this.
MP3 / 103.2MB
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syst
Very catchy new wave technopop, if you like YMO or Yukihiro Takahashi's solo stuff or just general synth music you'll probably like this. Clever use of vocoder in some tracks.
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MP3 / 92MB
Shane
What could very well be my favorite song ever (De-Luxe) features on here....Debut compilation from my favorite shoegaze band, Lush. Extremely underrated and often overlooked when it comes to shoegaze, or just in general really. This compilation is essentially a collection of their first three EP's in reverse chronological order. A way of describing their music is ethereal (they even have a song called etheriel) and often dreamy vocals drenched in beautiful guitar melodies.
MP3 / 84MB
Shane
Electronic music from the 60s. I have absolutely no idea why these guys don't have more recognition than they have right now because in my opinion this is insane. The device they used to pull this off ("The Simeon", named after Simeon Coxe III) was, brilliantly enough, a bunch of oscillators stacked upon one another. This copy uploaded is a 1997 re-release of their first two albums.
Unless you've been living under a rock you know of Manchester legends Joy Division, and the band that succeeded them, New Order. But as a band that's essentially "New Order without Peter Hook" the majority of people don't even know about Bad Lieutenant, it's more of the same from New Order but less synths, more guitar. Joining the band is backing vocalist and guitarist Jake Evans. Seeing as New Order recently got back together (More or less Gillian joined BL) Any future material will be released under that name.
Songs about warlocks and curses. This guy was the vocalist on Hella's There's No 666 in Outerspace.
His entire amazing discography is available for free on his bandcamp page.
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MP3 / 148MB
D.
Really nice catchy technopop album from YMO singer/drummer Yukihiro Takahashi, this is his third solo album and it features all members of YMO on keyboards/bass. You can find this online for cheap, since for a Japanese record it was quite popular overseas. But it's under appreciated nevertheless.
MP3 / 46MB
Shane
There is technically no proper album cover for this, since it came on a poster as seen above. Though Last.fm uses the first one obviously since it's square.
An electrifying live set by the Welsh rockers. This is another must listen if you're even partially interested in the band as it shows off just how good they are live.
Recorded live at The London Garage 30th September 2009
Strictly limited to 500 copies.
MP3 / 96MB
Shane
Slowcore/Sadcore that reeks of traditional folk-rock influence. a bit of segue that adds interesting atmosphere...
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MP3 / 67.7 MB
syst
syst
If I ever want to space out and envelop myself in music, this is the album I listen to. The entire album feels like a single organic track that's constantly morphing. Each time I listen to it, I discover something new.
If you have any negative preconceptions about trance, put them aside and give this a listen.
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FLAC / 497MB
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MP3 / 161MB
D.
A recording of one of their live shows circa 2005, at the end of their tour for Tigers I believe. Found it on Archive, thought I'd put out a "canonical" type release for people to get not aware of that site, and to add some album art and proper tags to it. I think it's recorded v0 but I'm not 100% sure. Enjoy!
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v0 / 50.9 mb
vedi xoxo ;)
Every song is amazing, they have an excellent quiet/loud dynamic and stage presence at their live shows,they're even better live. They've even supported Paul Mccartney and the Foo Fighters on their latest tour,and have toured the world already which is quite a feat considering they formed in 2007. You can really tell that they are destined for greatness. I for one can't wait for their new album scheduled to be released this year.If you enjoyed this I have quite the rarity to share, their live album called First you have to get mad which is very hard to find nowadays, there was only a few hundred copies, I'll upload that in the near future. NOTE: This album features a few tracks that are re-records from their debut EP A balloon called moaning. (So check that out too) If you don't have a listen, you're missing out.
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MP3 / 97MB
Shane
The original Garnet release, was later re-recorded and re-mixed under the name Alternative Garnet. One of my favorite albums ever, every song is flawless.
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MP3 / 82.2 MB
Shane
I have no idea how to describe this band or how I found them, so here is a picture of them instead:
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MP3 / 103MB
D.
