Hey Mr DJ play that song
May. 24th, 2008 | 11:27 pm
Spent a fun afternoon today down at the unbeatable KFJC radio station, playing cassettes and singles (and a few CDs and CDRs) from my collection of Japanese underground music. Thanks to Dan for allowing me to take over for a few hours, attempting to play almost entirely bands that nobody has ever heard of. But I did have to start with "Amerika" by YBO2 from the Alienation album, as that one holds a special place for me as an early wake-up call that there was some seriously amazing music to be found in Japan, a couple of years before I made it over there. (I'll remind folks here that I am working to keep my Japanese music blog active, now at http://ongakublog.wordpress.com)
And after the radio show we went and got some fantastic Indian food. Now that I think about it I'm not sure why we didn't go get Japanese food for dinner, but since it was delicious we must have made the right choice.
And after the radio show we went and got some fantastic Indian food. Now that I think about it I'm not sure why we didn't go get Japanese food for dinner, but since it was delicious we must have made the right choice.
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NaAlMiMo doesn't have the same ring to it
Oct. 30th, 2007 | 11:04 pm
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morbidloren is going to spend November doing NaNoWriMo I need to keep busy too. I thought about writing another novel, but I feel bad about the two I have that need to be edited and finished up. So I considered subverting the purpose of NaNoWriMo and finishing one of those. But really that's not what I need to finish up right now. So I'm going to call November NaAlMiMo even though it's not nearly as clever and pronounceable: National Album Mixing Month. Yes, I'm going to finish mixing all of the albums that I have in progress. That includes two Numinous Eye albums; one collaboration with Dubmarronics and friends; and one collaboration between Numinous Eye and Suishou no Fune. If I finish those, then I have at least one other collaboration that needs artwork and packaging to do as a CDR release, and perhaps one other solo guitar album. So we'll see if I can accomplish that and maybe even get another Numinous Eye release underway in the recording stages.
We also have a show coming up: Mammatus, Up-Tight, Numinous Eye at the Cafe du Nord in San Francisco on Nov 20! Yes, Japan's amazing Up-Tight are coming back over, and this will be their only west coast show. Deep, dark Velvets-esque psych-drone punctuated by phenomenal outbursts of incredible fuzz guitar. Not to be missed. Mammatus are likewise imposing: Santa Cruz's masters of prog-heavy-rock-psych-something, great stuff.
And lastly, on Nov 10 sometime around 3pm I will be playing guest DJ on KFJC radio. If you're at all into old experimental/noise/stuff, check it out and maybe think about recording it. Several hours' worth of old cassettes from the 80s will be played, including (I think) SPK, Test Dept, Vivenza, Master/Slave Relationship, Smersh, Odium, Ramleh, Club Moral, and much more. Many great rarities that need to be dusted off and played again.
morbidloren is going to spend November doing NaNoWriMo I need to keep busy too. I thought about writing another novel, but I feel bad about the two I have that need to be edited and finished up. So I considered subverting the purpose of NaNoWriMo and finishing one of those. But really that's not what I need to finish up right now. So I'm going to call November NaAlMiMo even though it's not nearly as clever and pronounceable: National Album Mixing Month. Yes, I'm going to finish mixing all of the albums that I have in progress. That includes two Numinous Eye albums; one collaboration with Dubmarronics and friends; and one collaboration between Numinous Eye and Suishou no Fune. If I finish those, then I have at least one other collaboration that needs artwork and packaging to do as a CDR release, and perhaps one other solo guitar album. So we'll see if I can accomplish that and maybe even get another Numinous Eye release underway in the recording stages.We also have a show coming up: Mammatus, Up-Tight, Numinous Eye at the Cafe du Nord in San Francisco on Nov 20! Yes, Japan's amazing Up-Tight are coming back over, and this will be their only west coast show. Deep, dark Velvets-esque psych-drone punctuated by phenomenal outbursts of incredible fuzz guitar. Not to be missed. Mammatus are likewise imposing: Santa Cruz's masters of prog-heavy-rock-psych-something, great stuff.
And lastly, on Nov 10 sometime around 3pm I will be playing guest DJ on KFJC radio. If you're at all into old experimental/noise/stuff, check it out and maybe think about recording it. Several hours' worth of old cassettes from the 80s will be played, including (I think) SPK, Test Dept, Vivenza, Master/Slave Relationship, Smersh, Odium, Ramleh, Club Moral, and much more. Many great rarities that need to be dusted off and played again.