The Signal Music Weblog

The Signal: EP062 - This time out, we have a not-so-secret theme. Friend-of-SignalStation Ray introduced us to a slew of Japanese bands and, since we're away from the home computer, we thought it would be an interesting challenge to pull together a mix from only that source material.

The image is courtesy of Flickr user Okinawa Soba, who has a bunch of cool images licensed under Creative Commons. I put the image together using two of his originals. The linked download page will only be up for a limited time. Track list is in the id3 tags. The hidden ingredient is love. Notes are below the cut.

Let me know if you dig it.

Follow up:

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2. For your mid-winter pleasure, a perfect summer jam.

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4. & 5. Almost stereotypically indicative of a sort of high energy noisy Japanese pop that I love in small doses. I hope two tracks in a row isn't too much for you. It can be an acquired taste.

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7. I had been introduced to these guys before but didn't like them. I think maybe I wasn't listening on headphones. They're doing some interesting stuff under all that heavy fuzz. Their Wikipedia page is an interesting read as well, if you're interested.

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11. Ha! I even managed the expected cover version of something!

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I don't really know these artists yet, so I don't have much to say besides that I like these tracks. I hope you like at least one of them, so your time isn't wasted.

What do you want for nothing? Rubber biscuit?