Anybody care to discuss home stereo rigs?
I need one. Basically (very open to suggestions):
*2 channel stereo.
*No audiophile pretentiousness -- insanely expensive tube amps and pure unobtainium cabling seems unnecessary to me.
*Clean, neutral sound. Loud enough to serenade the neighbors with goa trance at 4 AM.
*Relatively compact -- will be used in a small bedroom.
*Componentized so parts can be replaced or upgraded as needed without buying a whole new setup.
Knowing next to nothing about audio kit, any and all input would be greatly appreciated.
I have an oldish Fisher Studio-Standard from the 80s or so. It has about everything you specified...most modular stereo equipment from the 70s or 80s will, though. Hit up the thrift store and see if they have anything worthwhile.
For silent listening - Sennheiser HD-555
For aloud listening - Sony home theater system
Hey I'm looking into getting into Japanese Hip Hop, but I don't know where to start, can anyone recommend some good stuff to start with?
tha blue herb
(and i presume you've gone through nujabes and the like)
Nujabes is a cool producer, and Shing02 is a cool rapper
America has a huge amount of shit pop music, and a small amount of some very creative stuff when you do a little digging (I'm not including all the legends, simply talking about 2008). Japan on the other hand has some pretty god-awful music too, but the ratio of shit:creative is a lot smaller.
try like Kawada Mami or Mizuki Nana, there really good!!!!
Sure, if you like being either pretentious in your own home, or manically depressed. Not one of you clowns thought about Shakkazombie yet?
Rip Slyme
Wakacast?
Shit off p2p?
OMG LEGIT?
Currently: Speakerboxxx - Bow Tie
Ganbou-Ki - Boris
Merzbow - Tape Dada
Electric Light Orchestra - I Can't Get It Out of My Head
Faith No More - Epic
Why the hell was my post that said "Polovtsian Dances" deleted?
What the fuck?
Lol never mind, this is the wrong thread.
Haco - Would You Like Some Mushrooms?
Betwixt & Between - City Of Traitors
NEVER ENOUGH OF THOSE HARDCORE BEATS!
Legion of the Damned by Legion of the Damned.
Do you listen to Japanese or Western music more?
Which one do you like more?
Those who listen to Japanese music, who would you say is more known in the West?
If you've been to any Japanese concerts, how are they different from concerts of Western musicians?
I don't listen to much Japanese music... only the Sex Machineguns and occasionally Onmyou-za... otherwise, I haven't found any good metal bands hailing from Japan, and thus my interests are drawn elsewhere.
>>34
Pretty much every genre of modern music was invented in the west. Japanese people just do their best to impersonate whatever comes out of Western Europe and America.
>>36
And they are very creative at that. Can't take that away from them.
Aye, that they are. Downright amazing sometimes.
Susumu Hirasawa is awesome, although I probably prefer P-Model to his solo career. "Sekai Turbine" though, what a song.
I was never able to get into FTB, but that album they did with Kuni Kawachi was great. Their singer sounds like bleeding Axel Rose though! A lot of those older 70s bands don't grab me - they sound too much like typical record collector / music-fan prog from any country. The main one I could never figure out was J.A Caesar - naff pretentious cult chant bonehead rock. He gets compared to Magma sometimes, but I like Magma...
That said, I like some Jacks, Hiro Yanagida, Happy End, Takeshi Terauchi, RC Succession, Hosono/Sakamoto/YMO, Sadistic Mika Band, Tomita etc. Speed Glue and Shinki are good too, I can't think of any 70s hard / blues rock bands that sound quite like them... there probably are, but I can't think of them. What would you say is good stuff with that Deep Purple and/or Japanese melodic influence?
Cmon, lets be honest, we all love Japanese culture here but is there really any genre of music which Japan can beat the west in? I honestly dont think so, im sorry.
America has a huge amount of shit pop music, and a small amount of some very creative stuff when you do a little digging (I'm not including all the legends, simply talking about 2008). Japan on the other hand has some pretty god-awful music too, but the ratio of shit:creative is a lot smaller.
I listen to both equally. As a long time musician, I can't say to myself or anyone else that I hate a type of music, I have to come to at least acknowledge it exist and there are some who like it. I listen to mainly rock/metal, mostly metal, but I do listen to Japanese music, that's like my secret type of music. I also listen to Jazz, classical, and the blues, and funk. I listen to almost anything.
>>1
Hey, cool taste.
Mine: http://www.last.fm/user/MossTrumpeter
Who else finds 80's music, with its synth, guitar, guitar solos, and general awesomeness superior to all this rap/hop-hip, emo, instrumental (lacking synth), and indie stuff we see today?
80s music: pwn
synth: pwn
guitar: pwn
guitar solos: pwn
general awesomeness: pwn
yeah, pretty much.
>>3
excessive hair spray: pwn
aquanet ftw
Hair metal, check.
New wave, check.
Michael Jackson, check.
But also, lots of very, very crappy pop, check.
Just so you know, we had good stuff in the '90s and now in the '00s too -- you just have to keep in mind that most of the mainstream crap will probably not be what will be remembered. And there was stuff that sucked horribly back in the 80s to the point that just watching some videoclips can make you drown in your own tears.
Music from the 80's was fuck awesome.
If you've only begun to observe Hip Hop and Indie "today" then you've been living under a rock, those genres were present in the 80s too.
I do think XTC and the Talking Heads are awesome, though.
There's no way in hell that 80s music is superior to the music of the 70s, 90s, or today, but I have been enjoying it more these days. A lot of it has a very eerie quality to it: the synths and drum machines used were still rudimentary, and the overwhelming "fakness" in the music sounds rather spooky at times. It's hard to explain exactly, but listen to the early Talk Talk albums and you'll sort of catch my drift. It sounds ghostly. I find this noisy/creepy element charming, and the pop music of today cannot recreate the sound, no matter how hard some bands try.
The 80s was also where noise and industrial music really took off. There was Throbbing Gristle in the 70s, but we saw Nurse with Wound, Current 93, Hanatarash, Coil, Merzbow, Whitehouse, etc during the following decade. Though a lot of their best albums were released during the 90s...
So yeah, the 80s was pretty awesome. I need to explore it further.
Synth drums are awesome incarnate, and even emo music was good in the 80s.
>>7
If the hip-hop rap was like it usually was back then, it would be great. I'm tired of black guys in Escalades yelling about drugs, guns, bitches, hoes, pimps, and how they live like high society even though they're at about the lowest level of society possible. And all the rich white kids who think these people are great role models.
>>8
For the purpose of debate, what makes 70s, 90s, and 00s music better than 80s?
>For the purpose of debate, what makes 70s, 90s, and 00s music better than 80s?
The 70s were an unrivaled explosion of creativity. Progressive rock, krautrock, punk, post-punk, and various experimental landmarks were all birthed in that decade. As far as I'm concerned it's where music started. I like some jazz from the 60s, but the 70s was when SHIT GOT REAL.
The 90s is remembered for grunge and boy bands for some reason, but it also gave us a ton of great music. I don't think as many awesome bands started during this time, but a lot of already existing bands gave us their best material in the 90s, especially as far as noise and other assorted experimental genres go. This was also a golden era for hip hop, with all those classic albums like Liquid Swords and Illmatic being recorded.
The 00s are a brave new frontier for music. Genre labels are fragmenting, hits are few and far between, and there will most likely never be another "classic". Music has been placed into the hands of the common man, and people are both listening to and making sounds that are much more in line with their personal tastes. Basically, there is something for everybody in this decade, as long as you know where to look.
Does anyone know of any MP3 digital download services for Japanese music, as ITunes has little to nothing in this regard.
I'm looking for S-Word's One Piece album and possibly a couple of Nitro Microphone Underground efforts for now and with the CDs very expensive (in the $25 and up range), MP3s seem like the way forward.
So if anyone knows of such a service with which it is possible to purchase the music with a UK Credit/Debit card then it would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers
aznmedia.net
jpopsuki
I like music with nice crisp vocal. (I don't really know what that meant, but most of my songs are nice, smooth, clear, ("crisp and pure" as i categorize them, personally.) However, as long as the music have soothing effects, it's nice (:
Enya
Enigma
Noa
Actually a lot of New-Age music.
Whao, thanks alot!
i'm real young, like 15 years. so my lyrics will probably suck. ass. i'm new to this so idk about bridges and shit.
well i know what they are i just don't know how to use them myself.
but still i'd like some opinions xP it's really short. any suggestions?
i imagine it to be like...hiphop rnb...
thinking back, maybe
i should've known from the start
about the games you'd be playing
that would damage my heart
you never knew baby
how i felt about you
and honestly i already knew
you'd fall out soon too
. . . . . .fuck that i quit.
eh...no. I thought it'd be hopeless.
>>13
Well if you don't work on it it sure is hopeless.
Writing is a skill you need to practice, much as drawing or music writing. Your first pieces will probably not be good. And even after that, the first drafts never are good.
Very few good songs are written over a night.
Lately, I've been listening to alot of underground hip-hop, but the only groups I have are cyne and the 2 nujabes album. Is there anymore underground hip-hop/trip hop worth listening to?
Saul Williams