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heard this in the mountains of japan last summer, on the third day/morning, absolutely mind-melting.



https://tinyurl.com/25rywk2p

Last edited by uziq (2025-02-20 04:01:22)

one of my very favourite albums ... named after a bar in golden gai, shinjuku. i went there on a sort of pilgrimage. this album had carved so many imaginative spaces for me, it was almost like i had been waiting to visit for years ...



the combination of field recordings and incidental noise makes you feel like you're really inside a giant organism like tokyo.

Local Classic FM station now plays video game soundtracks on a regular basis - eg Final Fantasy I think.
I mostly listen to it because it has minimal DJ talking, unlike the constant babble of the moron stations, many of which have 2-3 morons babbling at the same time.

re: above - evoking memories of Freelancer

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the "babble stations" as you put it, dilbs, are on an entirely different mental wavelength. it's the kind of background noise that evolved into buddy podcasts. can't speak for oz, but some of that stuff can actually quite funny if you're in the mood and listen to what they're actually saying. but I can't imagine any time is a good time for an introvert's proud introvert who gets chased out of a book store when a clerk tries to chat them up about the Heinlein book they're buying from said store.

here in washington, we've got soundtrack cinema. i tune in every now and then, sparks nostalgia.

online - https://www.space101fm.org/program/soundtrack-cinema/
https://www.space101fm.org/about/

kixi, great for driving through towns that have 'historic' (america, lol) districts: https://live.kixi.com/listen/



some of the expositional chatter can be fun, too.

Last edited by unnamednewbie13 (2025-03-09 19:09:06)

lmao covers but make them 5 keys higher. ok.

this is unironically something that technology can do with the click of a button. go write a song.

why would you listen to this and not just bon jovi? that backing track sounds like a piece of shit karaoke in a manila ghetto. i've heard better production values on a radio jingle.

let me guess, you like watching 'mid asian woman' sing it because ... reasons?

Last edited by uziq (2025-04-02 02:15:38)

'purer'? with a MIDI backing track made on a $15 budget and to 'evade' copyright?

pure shlock, lmao.

i get the idea of acoustic or acapella covers being a 'reduced' interpretation, less instrumentation, less ornamentation; more focus on the lyrics or the solo performance. that's fine, and there's a very long tradition of such things. there's even a rich history of bootlegs, live recordings, demo tapes, and so on, for any fan to pick over (look at someone like dylan, there's 100s of these things in circulation).

but cover bands and karaoke are 'working men's hall' dreck. how anyone can prefer the version of the song with the 'casio keyboard demo 3' backing track as opposed to the version, you know, recorded and produced with a multi-million-dollar budget and some of the world's best mixing and mastering engineers ... yeah, i'll take the 'as intended' song over the 'pinoy wedding' version, thanks.

Last edited by uziq (2025-04-02 03:03:18)

listening to MIDI versions of songs instead of a real thing is just hilarious. it's like a 2-page skit from the hitchhiker's guide or something. gulliver's ass travels listening habits. 'the land of the STEM-ninnies who only listen to 8-bit chiptune and MIDI interpretations of music'. the hell do you mean you have a MIDI library of music?! who would choose to listen to such a hugely restricted form of music that by definition and technical limitation has no timbre, no tone, no modulation, etc? it's like choosing to look at a 125x125 pixel version of a botticelli instead of looking at the real thing.

how encouraging that the technical experts who would presume to run the universe on our behalf have such atrocious taste and so little sense of what is good and desirable.