2nd of May

i think my favourite vocaloid producers are as follows, not in any ranking order: Niru Kajitsu; muship; powapowaP; he who shall not be named and his epigones; nulut; syudou; john; GigaP; MARETU; wowaka; kikuo; CrusherP; and ewe.

i've never heard a niru kajitsu song that i disliked!! and i have a lot of stuff from muship, all of which i enjoy but don't know too well. maybe someday soon i can acquaint myself more thoroughly with their work.

and powapowaP is responsible for a lot of my middle school favourites! like, back in the day when the artist was credited as hatsune miku and not her producer haha. strobe light, sky fish— those are both thanks to him.

and i only recently discovered ○○○'s work. i'm quite fond of the imitators!!! i know "epigone" implies that the copycat work is inferior to the original, but that's not really true in this case. there is a lot of fantastic music coming out of that scene. sometimes i wish i could write nonsensical yet profound japanese lyrics & tune vocaloids & compose neojazz just for a chance to join them.

the rest of that list are just producers i like, haha, and not really favourites. though i am a die-hard fan of MARETU's album, Coin Locker Baby. i think i have listened to it about a million times. i remember being disappointed by his subsequent album, but that was some months ago. uncannily, i tend to enjoy music i initially disliked after a relisten. and on top of that, he has even more recent work that i have yet to check out.

how funny that this page's title are lyrics from a niru kajitsu song that i never linked in my music garden. time to right this grievous wrong!

23rd of April

two summers ago, i listened to nothing but youtube lo-fi mixes and Daft Punk. ... ok thats not true, i also listened to mafumafu snobbism on loop. point is, yesterday i was struck by an inexplicable need to revisit Daft Punk's "Something About Us" from Interstella 5555 (2003)... it is so funky and i love it to bits!!!! i listened to it all yesterday, and today too. as i'm cleaning, i can't help but dance around and sing along.

"I might not be the right one / It might not be the right time / But there's something about us I've got to do / Some kind of secret I will share with you" ... like! okay!? it's just so good... and the chorus really really gets me.

the bass underneath the synth is positively funky and despite being such a mellow, laid back song, i just want to dance!!!! i'm dacing right now in my seat as i write this!!!! that's the power of Daft Punk baby!!!!!!!!!

14th of April

the other night a song from my past was stuck in my head. half asleep, i wrote down the name and then looked it up in the morning. Furukawa Honpo and Chibita's Gregorio... i used to listen to it to go to sleep, but before this week i hadn't heard it in many years. the melody was still in my heart after all this time!!! i just love that kind of thing. it's the kind of song i think i'd like to sing myself. i wonder if anyone has tabbed it? i don't think it was ever terribly popular, but you never know.

10th of April

whenever i have an annoying song stuck in my head and i want it gone, i replace it with the Drake and Josh (2004) theme song. i am astonished by this tactic's effectiveness.

13th of March

yesterday i rediscovered "Honeythief" by Halou. this morning, i couldn't stop singing it! i've realised that it's my favourite love song of all time. it's so dramatic, the instrumentals are otherwordly, and the careful lyricism is so beautiful. i just really love it a lot a lot a lot! my favourite part is the bridge, but i really really enjoy the whole song. it's something i can listen to over and over again, or even just think about pretty often! wahh... how inspiring. i want to write cool music like that too.

i noticed this about myself a long time ago, but haven't really thought about it or put it into words for anyone else since then. a bridge can really make or break a song. quite often, my favourite part ends up being the bridge too. even if a song is garbage, i'll listen to it just for a bangin' bridge.

take for example "Ancient History" by Set It Off, a band i really liked when i was like fourteen (lol). it's... bad. it sucks. the lyrics are annoying and it's got that frustratingly catchy pop tune... honestly i think it's kind of misplaced on such an alternative, faux-punk album but that's neither here nor there, because the bridge is the BEST. EVER. i'm still thinking about it all these years later!!!!! sometimes i sing it to myself just because it's .. so... augh. it's just good! but after 30 seconds of bliss it devolves back into that annoying chorus and i rip the headphones off.

other notable bridges: "Spies" by Coldplay on Parachutes (2000), "What Sarah Said" by Death Cab for Cutie on Plans (2005), "Superstar" by Lupe Fiasco on The Cool (2007), "Your Deep Rest" by The Hotelier on Home, Like Noplace Is There (2014), "HAPPY SHAPE" by Hachiya Nanashi (2017), "Extension of You" by Mili on Millennium Mother (2018). i know there are more that i've been really into, but none come to mind right away. i Know when i hear it.

8th of March

while i was coding the bulk of Oracle i listened to one of Fling Posse's new songs: "Calyx." as far as i know, the full version isn't available anywhere but spotify, so i won't link it. the piano is really wonderful, and i loooove Gentaro's sort of off-beat rapping style. apparently the lyrics are so weird even native speakers have no idea what he's talking about おかしいなのかな～wwwwww

i think it was fitting too, because it's a melancholy song with an upbeat delivery. for the page, i mean! the main graphic has the fun, whimsical, holographic sort of feel. also it is rainbow!

by the way, i finally listened to the new Niru Kajitsu song, "Heine & Kleine." it's so catchy! i've had it on repeat all afternoon. i like the parts where the vocal phrases sort of... dissolve. it's really cool and i wonder how a human singer might replicate that. i want to try singing it myself, for sure! the chords seem a bit easier to parse than "Wozwald" so i'm happy for that hahahaha, plus the melody is more straight forward. i can't actually imagine an acoustic rendition of "Wozwald" now that i think about it...

on another note: i've been thinking about what i describe as nonsense lyrics lately... like, that denpa song "A Sardine Grows From the Soil," or even just "Honey and Milk" by Flower Face. they are actually very profound when you think about it, but... disjointed? i dont know. ive written songs with similar content but i'm not sure how good i am on the whole "narrative" part hahaha. i just need practice! and is it even "practice" if it's always so fun???

6th of March

groovy love soul! halle-hallelujah!

i like "Groovy!" by Hirose Kohmi a lot. never really watched cardcaptors or even enjoyed it? i read maybe the first volume of the manga and it's.. um... well it's weird, and it is 100% for sure made by CLAMP lol. i like all of sakura's outfits, but if i'm gonna watch mahou shoujo it'll be princess tutu, no contest.

... anyway! i really like this song! it truly is mega groovy! hallelujah! the piano is sooooo spicy, i love it!

4th of March

it's a shame The Neighbourhood only has one good album— I Love You (2013)— because their bass is killer... i don't even like Wiped Out! (2015) that much, and even then its best song "Daddy Issues" is... honestly kinda awful? hahaha, i really really love the bass riffs on it, especially in the second verse! but the lyrics are garbage and it kinda makes it impossible to share it with anyone...

that said, i'm listening to the 2013 album again and it's just as good as when i first heard it. i have a strangely vivid memory of standing in the kitchen of my childhood home, listening to the second to last song "Staying Up" and thinking "wow, this is so me." still not really sure what i was relating to, but it's a good song. the entire album is a wonderful listen, always a well spent 45 minutes, and pretty often i find myself casually singing "Sweater Weather." maybe i should learn to play it. it's their most popular song, so someone has definitely tabbed it.

i'm always happy when music i liked five years ago still pleases me. for example, "Heat Haze Days" is exactly as much of a bop as it was in 2010! maybe i even have a greater appreciation for it now that i can identify the concurrent melodies and whatnot. truly, all my favourite music has really stood the test of time.

3rd of March

ok. 3rd march. i really like the two kagepro albums i have. very good. thanks. florence + the machine still good even though i liked it when i was 14. amazing.

2nd of March

the tree of tranquility OST is really cgood, wow. really short compared to animal parade BUT! i think i prefer the seasonal themes... it's just so soft and gentle, i really enjoy it. animal parade is big on the brass section, so the subdued woodwind + strings in ToT is really refreshing.

i have a splitting headache and feel like i'm going to die or throw up, but the goddess tree theme is somehow sustaining me. ToT is actually a much smaller game iirc, though i've never actually completed either.... harvest moon is like that haha. anyway. 2nd of march. thank god for this soundtrack. album of the day.

looking at this page makes me wann DIE omgmg... it's so blinding and UGLY....jesus christ................well it will be all fixed up tomorrow. goodnight. ← written when there was no css lol