Also experimental electronics, avantgarde, ‘world music’, some funk, and a bit of indie rock.
I don’t really know anything about mainstream pop, r’n’b, or pop-rock, and especially don’t listen to lyrics so can’t say anything about rap, country, or ‘singer-songwriter’ music except that The Last Poets were the progenitors of rap, and The Velvet Underground said most of the stuff I need to hear. I do know a bit about 90s music like eurodance, and a little of 80s popular music, by the virtue of having grown among it.
P.S. Won’t you believe it, audio stopped working via the Invidious frontend that I use, just as posted this. It might take me a bit to figure out any artists or tracks that you mention.
P.P.S. Since most people here don’t understand what I’m proposing, I don’t see any reason to continue the thread.
Louis cole: Nothing, recorded with orchestra
This album has gotten quite a few played from me the last couple of months: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=zs4tMyekKDQ
Saint Tropez · Peter Thomas Sound Orchester
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=LFsekuOvTA8
This is not normally my jam, but it came along on ‘The In-Sound’ on Soma.fm and, well, now it lives rent free in my moist brain forever. Feels like a great fit for that lazy weekend vibe :)
Didn’t know that that instance is still up.
Anyway. I’m pretty sure the linked track is basically all of classic Sinatra-style big-band: e.g. ‘My Way’ or ‘Somethin’ Stupid’, or Tony Bennett’s ‘Blue Velvet’.
And also his daughter’s Nancy Sinatra’s, e.g. ‘Summer Wine’, ‘Some Velvet Morning’, ‘Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)’, or John Barry’s ‘You Only Live Twice’.
It’s generally known as ‘traditional pop’, which included a big band along with the singer.
Try also French stuff like Serge Gainsbourg’s ‘Je t’aime… moi non plus’, or Joe Dassin.
I particularly recommend Françoise Hardy, though not quite big-bandy: e.g. ‘Tous les garçons et les filles’, ‘Soleil’, ‘Comment te dire adieu’. Maybe also France Gall, e.g. ‘Ella, elle l’a’, ‘Poupée de cire, poupée de son’, or the album ‘Babacar’.
So I didn’t click through and just searched Apple Music for Saint Tropez, and apparently there’s a group with the same name that’s some pretty chill kind of lo-fi French stuff before lo-fi was a thing? Not at all related, but would recommend checking them out. Finally realized my mistake and checked your link out too though and really dug it, thanks for the share and the surprise bonus share!
Mili. It’s a Japanese indie band, they touch many genres and their lyrics tend to be dark put with joyful music. I love them.
One of my fav songs from them: Chocological:
Going off just this track:
This feels like a wide selection of indietronica from early-mid 2010s: e.g. Battles’s ‘Atlas’, Tobacco’s ‘Constellation Dirtbike Head’, Monster Zoku Onsomb, maybe Black Moth Super Rainbow, some of Ratatat.
Perhaps Bubblegum Octopus.
Lots of nintendocore music, like Amy Can Flyy, 1-800-Z0MBiE.
Maybe Henry Homesweet.
Alas, not much anime-style tunes, as I’m more used to separating them between sweet Western indietronica and Japanese happy-hardcore.
Try also more-traditional Japanese synthpop, like:
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Takako Minekawa’s ‘Roomic Cube’
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Space Ponch’s ‘The World Shopping With Space Ponch’
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Buffalo Daughter’s ‘Great Five Lakes’
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Pizzicato Five, e.g. ‘La Règle Du Jeu’.
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Have you ever listened to the Yoshida Brothers?
Well, I have now. Unfortunately, most shamisen music sounds samey to me, even though I can enjoy kodo drums for an hour, or a balalaika for some time. It feels like shamisen’s range is rather limited even compared to those instruments.
Bowed strings in the Japanese or any South/South-East Asian tradition seem to be more tolerable for me. Stuff like Joe Hisaishi’s soundtracks. Or Chinese two-string erhu in Tibetan incantations.
I think shamisen would be more tolerable in world-fusion music, just like sarangi or Lisa Gerrard’s yangqin.
Soichi Terada- Apparently a big name in the 90s House scene in Japan. Seen his style also described as Jungle or DnB. Mostly known outside of that (if at all) for doing the OSTs for Ape Escape and Ape Escape 3.
I grew up with Ape Escape as one of my formative gaming memories, and finding that the music was an entire style was awesome. I cannot express how much I love this artist. There’s chill if I need it, energetizing if I need it, repetitive enough to just “zone out” if I need something to quiet my mind.
Some good non-Ape Escape stuff of his:
- Asakusa Light, his most recent album, laid back/chill stuff.
- Grand Senshuraku, from his Sumo Jungle album, more middle ground.
- Acid Face EP (more energetic).
Well, this one is simple. Firstly, Therada’s one major release is ‘Sumo Jungle’. Particularly the ‘Sumo Jungle’ and ‘Sukiyaki Dohyo Chanko’ tunes from that album.
Then you want everything on Youtube on ‘jungle’ search results.
E.g. breakbeat-hardcore:
- Smart E’s ‘Sesame’s Treet’,
- Ratpack’s ‘Searchin’ For My Rizla’,
- Acen’s ‘Trip To The Moon (Part 2) The Darkside’
- Low Noise Block’s ‘Rave In The Bedroom’
- Hyper On Experience’s ‘The Frightner’
And also:
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Shifty’s ‘Jazz Ass’
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Alpha Team’s ‘Speed (Club Mix)’
Belakor, the whole album is a masterpiece
Leo Kottke - One Guitar, No Vocals
Great acoustic guitar album from a master at the top of his game.
