Blog: Transmissions From Wintermute

Best Music Of The Year (Already!)

Dec 6, 2009, 5:52pm Transmissions From Wintermute
Susan Boyle - Britain's Got Talent - Show 1
I'm posting this so early to prove once again that I know best and that all those other blogs you read will follow my example. Yeah....so the actual reason I'm posting this is that I don't really listen to Western music anymore since I decided, as part of my immersion process, I would delete all English audio from my computer and listen to Japanese music, talk shows and comedians, like Ijuuin Hikaru: Yes I know, hilarious isn't it. So, I probably won't find out about any new music between now and the new [...]
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Basically, in Japan I hang out with Japanese people, and Italians

Nov 27, 2009, 11:01am Transmissions From Wintermute
スーパーカー　YUMEGIWA LAST BOY　Live
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It all finally makes so much sense

Oct 30, 2009, 12:12pm Transmissions From Wintermute
It all finally makes so much sense here is the answer maybe you won't agree with me on this one
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Hope you miss me

Oct 19, 2009, 2:52pm Transmissions From Wintermute
STYX TYGER - I hope you miss me now
It's been quite a while, maybe even a year! Almost. Here's a new video by Styx Tyger , who have new band member and new songs that are really good, sad and pretty. I'm working as a teacher right now and here's a link to my student's little art blog where they do Learning to Love you More- assignments. You're welcome to marvel at their cuteness.
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Seo Taiji

Sep 22, 2009, 4:36pm Transmissions From Wintermute
서태지 와 아이들 (SeoTaiji and Boys)- 난 알아요 (I Know)
So ahead of his time (1992)... By Korean standards.
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Sep 20, 2009, 1:04am Transmissions From Wintermute
おかん「人として」
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I Really Want A Llama

Jul 5, 2009, 10:46am Transmissions From Wintermute
Dirty Projectors - Stillness Is The Move
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All I Know Is That It's From Thailand... And That It's Awesome

May 25, 2009, 1:50pm Transmissions From Wintermute
sweet vdo
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Nothing Special

May 13, 2009, 1:35am Transmissions From Wintermute
These are just some tracks that I've been into recently. Islands - To A Bond White Rabbits - Percussion Gun Cursive - From The Hips The Dirty Projectors - Stillness Is The Move The National - Around The Bend Say Hi - OhOhOhOhOhOhOhOh
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Link Text:Cursive - From The Hips
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Link Text:Islands - To A Bond
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Link Text:Say Hi - OhOhOhOhOhOhOhOh
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Link Text:The Dirty Projectors - Stillness Is The Move
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Link Text:The National - Around The Bend
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Link Text:White Rabbits - Percussion Gun
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空空諸島(Kuukuu Shyotoh)

Feb 17, 2009, 11:19am Transmissions From Wintermute
右手：空空諸島
Kuukuu Shyotoh translates roughly to "The Vacant Archipelago" possibly the most amazing band to ever stalk the outdoor malls of Kichijoji.
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DJ's real best music of 2008

Jan 19, 2009, 11:54am Transmissions From Wintermute
I spent the year mostly cut off from what is going on out in the Western music scene. I've been trying to find good Japanese music which is frustrating but is slowly reaping rewards (more on that later, keep those grubby exophilic paws under your ass for now). Back to my point, I've spent some time post-annuum looking back at the years music. I've found that if there was a trend, it was that there has been some really beautiful music made last year. Stunning, and with some real emotional depth. These bands are the ones who I see as [...]
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Link Text:Beg Waves - Ponytail
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Link Text:Courtship Date - Crystal Castles
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Link Text:Kim & Jesse - M83
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Link Text:Night Of The Crickets - Mr. Gnome
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Link Text:Owl - Crystal Antlers
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Link Text:Tiger Mountain Peasant Song - Fleet Foxes
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Link Text:We Are The Plague - Snowman
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Link Text:Wuji - Hanggai
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Mazur's Best Songs of 2008

Dec 29, 2008, 5:52pm Transmissions From Wintermute
Mazur's Best Songs of 2008 The Magnetic Fields - Drive On, Driver The Breeders - Walk It Off Islands - Kids Don't Know Shit The White Eyes - No No No I don't have a list of my favorite albums of 2008, because I only bought four cds this year. And they were all pretty good. So I guess those are my favorite albums of 08. Unrivaled and consistent, like Dutch food. This year saw new releases from bands I already deeply dig, [...]
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Link Text:Islands - Kids Don't Know Shit
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Link Text:The Breeders - Walk It Off
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Link Text:The Magnetic Fields - Drive On, Driver
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Link Text:The White Eyes - 多美好的人生 (Happy Life)
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Break-up Mix Tape

Dec 29, 2008, 1:31pm Transmissions From Wintermute
Break-up Mix Tape Magnetic Fields - I don't want to get over you Atmosphere - Fuck You Lucy The Dials - Bye Bye Bye Bye Baby Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers - Hi Dear Pavement - Box Elder (live) The Cure - Pictures of You I am in my mid-20s. And in all my years of human schooling, no one ever mentioned this odd last phase [...]
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Link Text:Atmosphere - Fuck You Lucy
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Link Text:Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers - Hi Dear
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Link Text:Magnetic Fields - I don't want to get over you
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Link Text:Pavement - Box Elder (live)
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Link Text:The Cure - Pictures of You
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Link Text:The Dials - Bye Bye Bye Bye Baby
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Years Best New (for me) Music

Dec 25, 2008, 11:42am Transmissions From Wintermute
Years Best New (for me) Music So the year has been sweet of course. I have not really been into much new music though. The only new album I've really consistently been listening to is by a French band, go figure. I don't really know what else to say--except to my fellow blog-mates I spent another 50$US for ezarchive space so you better start using that $hit--so I'll just get to the songs. Bruce Springsteen - Thunder Road Oh how I have done you wrong Bruce. I bought Born to Run about 6 years ago, listened to it [...]
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Link Text:Ando Drom (Hun) - Sza Tele Zsav
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Link Text:Broken Social Scene - Looks Just Like The Sun
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Link Text:Bruce Springsteen - Thunder Road
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Link Text:M83 - Kim & Jesse
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2008-the year of not quite so many books and some travel, part 1

Dec 9, 2008, 4:18pm Transmissions From Wintermute
2008-the year of not quite so many books and some travel, part 1 W e l l , I guess I've started my yearly summary a little late this time. But that's OK, because I haven't really read all that much this year. I guess that's Doris Lessing's fault. She cursed my reading-year. Maybe. Or maybe it's because this year didn't suck nearly as much as last year so I didn't need to take refuge in the wonderful world of books in the same way. L e t ' s see, I already wrote [...]
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Link Text:A song that's quite possibly about aluminium
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Link Text:Impressions- I'm loving Nothing
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Future Post Year in Review 9375

Nov 25, 2008, 10:59am Transmissions From Wintermute
It has been an exciting year, seeing a resurgence in the popularity of constructed world histories. Without any doubt, the driving force behind this movement was the history of Aegis 479 . We genuinely cried, for the first time in centuries, when we uploaded the Biostratic Entity's debut into our group mind. By now we all know the now iconic grace of the Paeric Empire's rise and slow destruction by the invading tribes from the southern continent. To sit with peasants among the ruins of their city and listen to the blind yul player Faridis Bochemid [...]
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World Mix Tape Vol. LXII

Nov 16, 2008, 8:08am Transmissions From Wintermute
World Mix Tape Vol. LXII Yodeling isn't just for Tennessee mountain gypsies anymore my friends. It is also apparently a pygmy distress call, a call of mistrust, frustration, and misuse of dowry elephant tusks. Francis Bebey - Pygmy Divorce Something that bothers me more than almost any type of American egocentrism, is people's reaction in front of me when listening to music in something other than English, Spanish or french. They simply find it necessary to imitate the vocalist by wailing "lalelalelale" The way small children make fun of each other or communicate. [...]
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Link Text:Huun Huur Tu - Orai-La Boldu-La Kezhee-Le Boldu La
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Link Text:Watcha Clan - Balkan Qoulou
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Link Text:Watcha Clan - Quinto Regimiento
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Cigarettes, and the songs they inspire

Nov 11, 2008, 4:30pm Transmissions From Wintermute
Cigarettes, and the songs they inspire Well, so here's a post about cigarettes. As you all know I quit smoking sometime in something like February or March. Some might say I actually haven't quit since I still steal drags off smoker-friends, i. e. smoke. But on the other hand, smoking a whole cigarette makes me nauseous. So I've accomplished that, which is pretty good since I've been told by Mazur, Ohmygodimmike and Kuech that I used to smoke more than anyone ever in the history of the universe. Oh, you're wondering how I quit? Why of course I'll share with you, the [...]
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Link Text:Daniel Johnston- I Save Cigarette Butts
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Link Text:Duke Ellington- Love is Like a Cigarette
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Link Text:Sheila Hancock- My Last Cigarette
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Link Text:Tex Williams- Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette)
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Link Text:The J's with Jamie- My Cigarette and I
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World Mix Tape Vol. 8

Nov 9, 2008, 11:17pm Transmissions From Wintermute
ジェロ アメリカ人演歌シンガー 海雪　JERO♪　「Umiyuki」　
My idea of roots music has been completely upset. What is the real feeling we have when we hear some old-timey music and feel like this is the real thing. Something like old country, Muddy Waters playing the acoustic, something like that. Something where you feel your heart strings being plucked away, and think "this is my culture, this is where I really come from." Well I'm not sure what that means anymore. I for one, come from what barely resembles an American heritage, my family only having a history that dates back to a [...]
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Link Text:Tartit - Houmeissa
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Okay So Whats With All The Postage?(sarcasm)

Nov 6, 2008, 12:43pm Transmissions From Wintermute
Davidtio-SAD ROCK (KILLER MOVIE)
Update: ** Barack Obama will soon be the president of the United States of America -- wow. * I dropped $50 on ezarchive space. * The elusive Mazur Beam got a girlfriend; hearsay -- rides motorscooter to work daily through intense mindboggling Taipei road traffic; fact. * I read G ravity's Rainbow: "... and one of the SS liason men (Weissmann isn't here) keeps looking at his watch, then at the sky, then the watch, the crystal becoming, in brief flashes on/off, [...]
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