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coldinthewater
great diverse library, definitely going to have to check some of these artists out
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Erkan-Yilmaz
Today is your 10th LASTFM ANNIVERSARY :-) ... Congratulations! ... May you be blessed with many more such musical birthdays, and all good things in 2019... I hope you had a good time with your family over new year! ... Greetings from Germany! ... P.S. I dedicate this track (youtube) to your birthday: ... genre: minimal/experimental -> ... "where is Rocky?" (with 100 beats/mins): ... https://www.last.fm/music/Erkan+Y%C4%B1lmaz/_/where+is+Rocky -> from album ("piano edition (album #2)")
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Erkan-Yilmaz
Hello from Germany, Jono! It's great to see you are here at lastfm for over 9 years by now :-) You are one of the lastFM dinosaurs!... How did your musical journey expand over these years? ... Also... all the best for your pending 0.309 million scrobbles milestone... How I found your profile? ... I just saw you as 1 of the top listeners of 鄧麗君 (Teresa Teng) last DOT fm/music/%E9%84%A7%E9%BA%97%E5%90%9B/+listeners?page=2
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Erkan-Yilmaz
Well, I changed music-wise, a lot. When I started at lastfm I basically threw out my music I listened analog... And from what I see in the stats: every 2 or 3 years, I am switching completely the music genres I listen to daily, rarely I listen to the old genres then... It's likely also influenced with me making music myself, I like since then more slowish, instrumental songs... What's your musical plan for this weekend?
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confetti__
Still periodically trolling your collection and finding something extraordinary every time. Feel free to recommend anything rad from any era or language at any time
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rainy-dog
Ah, I'm glad if I help anyone discover new music indirectly or otherwise. The new John Grant album's pretty good isn't it? It gets played a lot where I work so it doesn't reflect in my scrobbles really. Well, if you ever wanna tell me something you liked that you discovered from my collection one time, I'll try and recommend you something similar!
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rainy-dog
This year's had loads of great new ones hasn't it! I'm gonna have hard time whittling it down to a top 10 for work. Neko Case is probably gonna be on the list, Françoise Hardy, Marianne Faithfull, Yoko Ono, Dead Can Dance, Georgie Anne Muldrow, Robyn, Neneh Cherry are among the many contenders for me.
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confetti__
All of those for sure (well, I haven't heard of Georgie Anne Muldrow, but I'll be getting to that now). There's been so many this year, I can't even make a proper list because it's long and rambly even when I'm forgetting important ones. Anna von Hausswolff, Anna Calvi, Khadja Bonet and Jenny Hval's EP spring immediately to mind as 10/10 works of art for me, and as much as I'd be shy recommending something, I'd think would align with your tastes generally. It's been a good one and it's not over yet!
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confetti__
Oh and it's too early to stand by it firmly yet, since it was just released on Friday and I've only listened through once, but I think Josephine Foster's might end up way up there too.
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MacTavishSAS
Really amazing music library! I see familiar faces, but also lot of new ones, I still got lot of Japanese artists to discover, my favourites are Candies, Hiromi Iwasaki, Naoko Kawai and others.
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RussellChap
Hi I saw you shout on Claire Hamill's page and you're right, as I first time listener to her album 'Voices' it is, as you said, "...is weirdly ahead of its time".
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rainy-dog
Right? There are definite kind of contemporary reference points like Cocteau Twins but I think it even predates Enya by at least a year. To make an album entirely out of voice samples wouldn't be done again in a relatively mainstream Western context until Bjork's Medulla. And there are quite a few bands now that do that early 80s dream pop/ethereal/goth/high female vocals/reverb thing.
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RussellChap
It's funny you mention Cocteau Twins because there were moments on the album where it sounds very like them. I can't think of many, if any, vocals as instruments on albums.
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Surprised to check in and see everything in Japanese! Greatly intrigued tho, that's an area of music I'm completely unfamiliar with... I have literally no idea. Any specific songs/albums/artists you'd recommend as a starting point?
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rainy-dog
... 伊東きよ子 (Kiyoko Ito) who I get Françoise Hardy vibes from and 梶芽衣子 (Meiko Kaji) who most people will have heard via the Kill Bill soundtracks but she made several albums as well and they veer from traditional/enka-ish stuff to perfect examples of kayokyoku. 五輪真弓 (Mayumi Itsuwa) is another great folky one - I think she sounds a lot like early Joni Mitchell and 山本リンダ (Linda Yamamoto) is super fun and has a lot of short pop songs with crazy production.
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rainy-dog
The kayokyoku sound kind of overlaps with the beginning of the idol phenomenon, and that opens up a whole new tin of worms of incredibly prolific cute singers who were marketed for their looks and personality more than singing talent (but the songs are often amazing and I find the lack of vocal ability often really charming) so I'm just gonna talk very briefly about some idol highlights: 桜田淳子 (Junko Sakurada) for me the quintessential 70s idol, 山口百恵 (Momoe Yamaguchi) who was even more popular and "took over" her career half way through and became pretty much the first female pop singer in Japan to have an independent "bad girl" image and songs - but didn't really oversell her sexuality or cuteness, she also did some amazing rocky concept albums. 中森明菜 (Akina Nakamori) debuted in 1982 and is a lot of peoples' favourite idol (maybe mine too) because she was sort of a successor to Momoe - very independent and sultry - her album 不思議 ("Fushigi") is actually a dark dream pop masterpiece...
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rainy-dog
...南沙織 (Saori Minami) is another favourite, maybe the first singer to be marketed as an idol in 1971 but she tried to move away from that with mature folky pop songs. 小山ルミ (Rumi Koyama) before her was maybe the proto-idol, and is very fun. やまがたすみこ (Sumiko Yamagata) also changed the direction of her own career a little bit to make more interesting albums, as did 斉藤由貴 (Yuki Saito) 20 years later with her amazing, beautiful album "Moon". Ahh, there's so much to touch on! I haven't even talked about the amazing 'new music'/city pop singer-songwriters like 松任谷由実 (Yumi Matsutoya), 大貫妙子 (Taeko Onuki), ラジ (Rajie), 亜蘭知子 (Tomoko Aran), 吉田美奈子 (Minako Yoshida - Japanese soul/funk), 竹内まりや (Mariya Takeuchi), コシミハル (Miharu Koshi - also veers into synthpop jazz, chanson and opera) and more who are all really worth getting into. There you go, a little summary ha.
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confetti__
Thanks so much! I've made a note of all of these, and I'll definitely track down as many as I can and give them a good listen in time. Given your library as a whole I'm inclined to trust any recommendations you have to offer :-) Even if (especially if!) they're not a style I'm familiar with, I'm always looking to branch out. It'll also be a learning curve for me in terms of Japanese culture, about which I know very little. How do you find all of these artists, if you don't mind me asking?
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rainy-dog
Japanese music unfortunately has an awful presence on most Western retailers (online and otherwise). I was able to get some Ayumi Ishida, Naomi Sagara, Saori Yuki and a couple of others via iTunes. The Nippon Girls compilations on Ace Records introduced me to a lot of names. eBay has been great for getting some vinyl, which I collect (in Japan, pop music is/was taken a lot more seriously and given amazing beautiful packaging when it got released physically. Gatefolds, obis, big thick booklets full of glossy pictures, sophisticated artwork concepts; the kind of thing usually reserved for "serious" music in the West). But for the majority of stuff, research (books and websites and google translate), torrents and jpop80ss.blogspot have been my best friends.
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rainy-dog
That's an interesting question - and warrants a different answer than simply asking what my favourites were or what I listened to the most. "Fushigi" by Akina Nakamori from 1986 - to release something so incredibly strange that sounds nothing like your previous popular work when you're only 21 and you're obstebsibly a packaged pop star takes incredible guts - and the fact that it's brilliant is a bonus. "Espresso" by Rajie from 1985 is on my list for its daring reverby production and mature concept. "Orgel" by Sumiko Yamagata from 1975 is another concept-ish album from an ex pop-star I found this year with really beautiful and timeless production. One of the prettiest ways I've heard melancholy captured on an album. "No. 17" by Kyoko Koizumi from 1900 is the earliest I've ever known an album from outside the U.K. dance underground scene to adopt some of its production styles and pull it off. It could almost be a Saint Etienne album.
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rainy-dog
"Cryptograph" by Asami Kobayashi (1984) - fun and daring cover choices; "Sexy Robot" by Penny Tohyama (1983) and "Communication" by Junko Yagami (1984) - 2 of the funkiest post-disco albums I've heard come out of any country; "Betty" by Kyoko Koizumi (1984, her 2nd appearance on my list) which is a perfect pop album full of synthesisers sounding the way I like them best; "Hide'n Seek" by Miho Nakayama (1989) whose production almost outclasses the Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis's style that it's aping; "Möbius's Game" (1980) and "Cosmos" (1978) by Momoe Yamaguchi - ridiculous, rocky, overblown sci-fi concept albums by an artist who's actually brilliant even singing the phonebook; "Sayonara Monogatari-The Last Scene And After" by Naoko Kawai (1984) - I'm evidently a sucker for concept albums and the year 1984; "Do You Remember Me" by Yuki Okazaki (1980) for mixing great originals and covers with production Blondie probably would've killed for. And finally...
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hotfox63
I remember "by Buffy St. Marie's "Illuminations". A very nice album, which unfortunately had too little attention. As politically engaged native had Sainte-Marie a lot of problems in the white, conservative America. But she is still here and comes up from time to time ... I would pick out "Ogden's' Nut Gone Flake" from The Small Faces. The album is not exactly obscure, as it was a big hit in the UK, but certainly seems forgotten. On the second side there is in Cockney-Slang the (psychedelic) fairy tale of Happiness Stan, who goes out to search for the other half of the moon. It's funny.
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confetti__
Wow! Thanks so much for such a thoughtful recommendation, I'm always wanting recommendations and people rarely give genuinely considered ones. Sylvie has a lush voice, even though I'm limited album-wise by what spotify has to offer, her stuff is lovely and fun, and it's rebooted my Françoise Hardy fascination, listening to them makes me feel like I'm a free (sixties)-girl-in-Paris, happy times. Great taste.
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confetti__
Actually there's loads in your charts I either haven't heard of or haven't found the time to explore properly yet! I noticed Sylvie Vartan is your top artist, I haven't heard of her before. Is there any of her stuff you'd recommend starting with? Seems to be along similar musical lines to Francoise Hardy, right? Who I used to listen to a lot and really enjoy, added bonus that it gives me a chance to practise my rusty French!
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confetti__
I can't remember now how I stumbled on your profile (I've been falling down the lastfm rabbit hole for a couple of hours and it's all blurred together), but since I've been enjoying your loved tracks I thought I should say thanks for the collection... Really nice tracks and a few neat discoveries for me :)
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machine_head_72
Yeah you can get that often in Brighton, nice seaside and beach, bar the shingle beach. So painful
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machine_head_72
Nice, never been there although I've driven past it. From London, also lived in Brighton for 3 years before.
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machine_head_72
Thanks man, I was actually gonna send a shout your way saying something similar when you accepted. Loving the Vashti Bunyan, needing to scrobble some Sandie Shaw and Sylvie which I don't seem to have done yet.
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