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May 10, 2006
Golden Blur
Last week in Japan was what is known as Golden Week, which consists of three consecutive national holidays followed by a weekend, making for 5 days off in a row. If you also take Monday and Tuesday off, that makes for a full week off, plus two weekends, totaling to a 9-day consecutive holiday. While I didn’t take it to that level, 5 days off was still a nice break, and I spent it in a blur of live shows, drinking, music listening, and one sentou trip. Lives included Riow Arai + イルリメ, Digiki + many friends, and my friend Kei’s event with much live painting and music. Also there was DaDaKingz with a visual performance at the Apple store Shibuya with music by Underslowjams. I also ate good Thai food. And I’m also living in a beautiful hijacked apartment in Minami-Aoyama at the moment where a small gathering of friends one day cooked up a whole bunch of yummy gyoza and drank many beers. Gyoza movie and Digiki live movies (in which you can make out nothing save for a glowing apple logo) can be seen here.
Relinquish The Tracklist!
Additionally, over this break I was spoiled rotten by two major mixes from friends which are filled with stupidly ridiculously beautiful songs, almost none of which I know the identity of due to the fact that there are no tracklists on either compilation. This irks me quite a bit, and neither person has yet to respond to my request to relinquish the tracklist. One is Digiki’s Polypunk 007, which is readily available to the internet-connected public from his website. The other is エミリィ’s shamelessly romantic, warm, yet melancholy 19-song collection of songs that make me cry, only perhaps two of which are even halfway within my frame of musical knowledge. This compilation belongs to me and is not available even to the internet-connected public.
The third song in Polupunk 007 is so fucking awesome I don’t even know what to say. Track 1, 3, 6, and 14 (which is obviously Fishmans, though I’ve never heard it) of エミリィ’s comp are really hitting me hard right now. Some day soon these kids (who apparently have met each other in Paris perhaps three years ago at Toog’s house, and coincidentally are both simultaneously influencing my musical taste at the moment) will give up the tracklists, and I can explore the constiuent artists more, incorporating them into my own spectrum and maybe even stealing a song or two for my own podcast.
Thank you music, for bringing me up and even putting me down: All I can really say is at least you make me feel things deeply.
Posted by shane at May 10, 2006 01:29 AM