blogpostar's Last.fm Journal

New Sorry Robin Album

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 14:36:44 +0000

meets and greets noisefans itsa me kieran 'bkierans' broochekedheart and boy have i got a surprise for you

put on your best earplugs (or earmuff if you are kawaii desu akb48 member erepyon) because i am about to release a sonic assault on your eardrums..................

thats right, its the highly anticipated new sorry robbin album

released on Synestheticmusic

tracklisting:
01 - untitled
02 - death to weak noise
03 - swans shoutbox blues
04 - bigdaddy
05 - suck my dick hard, lesbian (swans cover)
06 - idgaf about flaggers
07 - busting some more fucking heads (warning offensive lyrics not for child)
08 - first dance
09 - i had a dream im happy
10 - sorry robin medley
11 - die shru die die motherfucker die
12 - get your hands up high
13 - when will my reflection show who i am on the inside
14 - lonely wolf keep carrying on never give up
15 - spamfm are buttheads
16 - personal jesus (marilyn manson cover)
17 - sorry robin medley (house mix)
18 - first dance (brauahaeuaheuahaeu mix by Whorfantastic)

Merzbow Government Alpha Masonna Guilty Connector C.C.C.C.Incapacitants The Gerogerigegege Whitehouse Sutcliffe Jugend Atrax Morgue Genocide Organ noise harsh noise power electronics industrial harsh MSBR Hijokaidan Hanatarash Full Metal Jew Fuck, The Retarded Girl AxemRangers Reaching.Intertwisting Opposition Lolishit Prurient Swans AKB48 Sorry Robin

Noise equipment

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 14:31:00 +0000

So for furthering my quest, here's the stuff I currently want in order of how soon I'd like it. (I should have a job soon so I'll actually be able to get them) Does anyone have anything to add or take away from this list? Ideas, whateva?

More freaking cables/adapters/miscellaneous bullshit

Shaker box

Multi-effects pedal (one of those fancy ones, where every effect has its own stomp-button)

Higher quality microphone, plus stand (wireless)

More contact mics

Some corrugated iron or something similar

The most basic possible oscillator synthesizer I can find (I can't fnid any for under like 1000 dollars, although I haven't looked that hard. Can anyone make it easier by pointing me to the cheapest possible oscillator synth?)

High-powered megaphone

Wireless headset

Mixing board

Merzbow Masonna Prurient etc. etc. etc.

So how do CD stores choose what to stock anyway

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 14:28:29 +0000

Just a few minutes ago, I walked into the local independent CD store to see if I could find some Swans or Otto Dix, since they have a good selection of hipster music and EBM/darkwave. I didn't find either, oddly enough. They had Panic Lift and din_fiv, but no Otto Dix. They had Akron/Family and Sunn O))), but no Swans. You know what they did have?
Motherfucking Bodychoke.
Maybe it's because the rerelease of Cold River Songs was done through Relapse, and they have to have their grindcore for the Calgary metalheads. But they also had some of Das Ich's albums released through Danse Macabre, and not Otto Dix's released through the same label. I didn't even see any Pig Destroyer. But no, they had Bodychoke.
Needless to say I snapped it up and now have a CD copy of Cold River Songs with three bonus tracks, lyrics, and illustrations that I can't listen to until I get back to my stereo. I consider myself a lucky man.

First Sorry Robin live action (pics and video)

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 14:26:59 +0000

All pictures and videos by Ingrid Carlson.

Oh my god I was so nervous >_<
But I was actually quite popular as most of you have probably heard.

This act was sweet, too (Hatebomb) even though I look nerdy and nervous in the audience

Merzbow Masonna Sorry Robin The Gerogerigegege Incapacitants Earhate Bomber Swans C.C.C.C.Whitehouse Sutcliffe Jugend

Musicians I have dreamed about

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 14:22:56 +0000

I'll update this list as more come in.

灰野敬二
Hanging out with him in a mall, when some random person shot himself. Keiji got worried that he'd somehow be implicated, so I walked around downtown with him while he disposed of all his ID.

Masonna
I'm pretty sure I was exploring a haunted house or something with him, but I can't quite remember.

Piana
She and this Korean guy I know decided to try to beat me up. I beat her soundly, then kept trying to apologize. "I'm so sorry, really. You're so pretty, and you have such a nice voice..." said I. "Go away," said Piana.

Michael Gira
I've dreamed about Gira twice. The first time I was carpooling with him. "Mr. Gira, you're my favourite musician ever. Sometimes I go days at a time without listening to anything except Swans and The Angels of Light," I said. He responded with, "Oh, I hate Swans. All that material sucked, never listen to it again."

In the second dream, I went to a Swans concert. Judging by the way he looked it was around Children of God era. The concert was held in a volleyball court, and the entire concert consisted of he and Jarboe playing volleyball. (With a football, for some reason.)

Fuck, The Retarded Girl
I met the F,TRG guy (think his name's Kyle, I know him better as AppleKabukiSuri) next to the Mystery Machine. I started trash-talking Fuck, The Retarded Girl, then he got all depressed and started flipping his little emo flop around.

Kazuki Tomokawa
I dreamed he made Naruto/Clannad crossover doujins. He also pressed little chocolate wafers with his name on them, but I didn't have any because they were past the expiration date.

Non
I dreamed he was Leonard Maltin's brother.

Will We Survive
I fell asleep in the car while listening to this song, and I started talking to it in a dream. Literally talking to the song.
We were talking about Jerry Lee Lewis's live album at the Star Club. Will We Survive was like "Jesus Christ, what kind of world is it when that album isn't the best-selling live album of all time?" And I said to the song, completely seriously: "Well, you're not helping. Just sitting there crashing your cymbals." The sheer absurdity of the situation woke me up right after that.

Why can't Japanese people master albums

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 14:20:35 +0000

Democratic Violence - 2 Bullet
The guitar is waaaay too loud in the mix, and the drums are much too quiet. In a couple of the tracks, especially "Tell Me Something", the guitars and vocals sound like they're... really quickly pulsing, or something. I can only imagine they boosted one particular bass frequency high enough that it interfered with other frequencies or something.
It's really an excellent album, but some of the tracks are hard to listen to the mastering is so bad. (Their newest album Assassi-Nation is mastered much better.)

Atheos - GPKISM
This album is mastered so fucking loud that everything clips. Everything. Even when there is nothing going but a single string part or one drum beat, it is friggin clipping like crazy. Why do they think we need it this loud? Is it more exciting that way?

GOTHIC LOLITA PROPAGANDA - Yousei Teikoku
Pretty much the same as the previous album only not quite as bad. Every time there's a cymbal crash , GZZZHH, everything distorts.

Ilya - Mutyumu
The drums are far too quiet, and the hi-hat is mixed inexplicably much louder than any other drum. On some tracks, unless you listen carefully, it's the only drum you can pick out. Also, it's not mastered so loud that there's distortion, but the dynamic range is really limited. A lone piano at the beginning is pretty much as loud as all the crashing guitars in the middle. Every new instrument just pushes another aside.

Note, all these albums are actually really good aside from the mastering.

Recent purchases

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 14:19:11 +0000

Bunch of stuff came in the mail the past couple of days, if not quite in AppleKabukiSuri-like numbers.

farewell kingdom - World's End Girlfriend
The whole thing is pretty much worth if for Fifteen White, but the whole album is great. Contrast with my last WEG album (Dream's End Come True) - Singing Under The Rainbow was an amazing orgasm but the rest went between boring and grating.

Assassi-nation - 2 Bullet
The production and mastering are leagues better than on Democratic Violence. Also the guitars are less prominent and the sound seems more focused on aggression, which are both good things. The English lyrics can be pretty hilarious, though:

We don't want this border line
It's only for rich and politician
The world is not only for VIP
We don't trust the government

Sleepless combat and blast of bomb
It let me numb

I find this pretty odd because the lyrics on You're Downloading Anarchism kicked ass:

They sold their history.
They sold their pride to enemies.
They sold their misery.
They sold but they lost liberty.

We Are Him - The Angels of Light
Much better than How I Loved You in my opinion. Even though some songs have what could easily be called a country groove, it feels distinctly Gira. It wouldn't quite fit as a Swans album, but it's surprisingly close at times. It's also signed by Gira (the package even had "Thanks Kieran!" written on the back in Sharpie) which makes it worth having no matter what.

And, a contact mic!
I've already figured out how to make some seriously brutal stuff using it, a saw, and a couple of pedals. Not to mention that carrying a saw around on stage would look pretty badass (it's a cool-looking saw, trust me.) I hope to figure out how to do a bunch of cool stuff with it, especially since pretty much every noise type seems to use them. Aren't they staples of Fuck, The Retarded Girl's setup? How exciting.

Now we have to pay for last.fm radio/I am paying

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 14:13:47 +0000

Last.fm recently announced that soon, people in countries outside of US, UK and DE will have to subscribe to listen to online radio. Predictably, this launched a massive shitstorm. Personally, I think it's worth it. People don't realize just how good last.fm radio really is. Type in a tag or an artist, and it will give you a continuous, round-the-clock, high-quality stream. That's probably even worth more than the 5 CDN a month it now costs.

The only beef I have is exempting US, UK and DE. I guess they're the biggest markets and give a lot of ad revenue or something, but that's just not fair. Especially considering that those rich countries can probably afford to pay a lot more easily than some of the third-world countries that also have users on last.fm.

I'm also worried that this will cost last.fm a significant amount of users. This site is only really worth using because it's populated with millions of people who tag artists, allow similar artists to be generated, and populate the forums and shoutboxes. A lot of people might be so turned-off that they just leave entirely. Now, a lot of people threatened to leave when last.fm changed to new last.fm, but nothing significant seemed to happen, so we're probably safe. But the risk is there, I suppose. After all, new last.fm is ugly, but it doesn't make you pay.

Anyway, I think it's worth it, so I shelled out my hard-earned money from my mom's credit card, and now I get the other nifty subscriber benefits as well. It's pretty good.

Stuff I should listen to more / Albums I need to buy

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 14:12:07 +0000

Spring break is coming up, guys. Meaning, I will spend the next week watching anime, skiing, and above all, listening to music. There's a lot of music in my library that I still haven't properly listened to yet, or should listen to more considering how much I like it, and I'm going to make use of spring break to do so.
Stuff I still need to listen to more carefully:
Limited Express (has gone?)
VAST
Fire in the Head
Sickness
Hijokaidan
Lacrimas Profundere
Bark Psychosis
Ride

Stuff I need to listen to more:
Melt-Banana (Speak Squeak Creak)
World's End Girlfriend
Labradford
Alien Sex Fiend
Beati Mortui
bleeding nature

Albums I need to buy on CD:
Assassi-nation - 2 Bullet
Strain - Flesh Field
P O L A R I S - Exxasens
farewell kingdom - World's End Girlfriend
Kore Ga Mayaku Da - Afrirampo

There's also my list of bands to check out, most of which have gone un-checked out:
http://www.last.fm/user/stormchasar/library/tags?tag=bands+to+check+out

New Sorry Robin EP "Busting Some Fucking Heads"

Mon, 16 Mar 2009 10:28:36 +0000

http://www.rapidspread.com/file.jsp?id=8xbub8ub7n
http://www.mediaREMOVEMEfire.com/download.php?e4yygmtjeyy
I'm still waiting on As These Walls Fall to finish for the split, so in the meantime I did this EP. There's no particular "concept", but there's a looot of rhythm, and there are (usually violent) lyrics this time.
Thanks to TaikonL (Whorifik) for doing the logo.
Tracklist:
1. Graf
2. Try It You'll Like It
3. Anything They Get Will Be Better Than What They Deserve
4. Reflection
5. Why?
6. Fevered Pitch
7. Busting Some Fucking Heads
8. Untitled
9. Asphalt

Merzbow Masonna Whitehouse Sutcliffe Jugend Deathpile Government Alpha Torturing Nurse Killer Bug Guilty Connector Prurient Incapacitants MSBR Pain Jerk Sorry Robin Full Metal Jew AxemRangers Fuck, The Retarded Girl Intertwisting Opposition Volia