Breadcrumbs dropped on music wanderings.
Been listening to Wink a bit, which’s got this Kylie song stuck in my head (see: 愛が止まらない (Turn It Into Love) ~ Wink). I’ve grabbed a few Kylie albums now…
The song was written by Stock Aitken Waterman, who I’m realising are behind a few other songs I like.
As an aside, I want to get away from relying on Youtube, so I’m going to be uploading audio (and videos where warranted) directly.
B~r~e~a~k~~~t~i~m~e
Jumped from the last one to this one and the instrumental solos are almost identical.
Another English group I didn’t know. Thought they might’ve been Australian, still sounds like the ‘Hey Kim’ is said with an Aus accent to me.
Part reminds me of Madonna’s Express Yourself. And Rugrats.
Wanted to listen to Whenever You’re Ready by the Dynamic Hepnotics and had a goosey at the other songs with the same title.
Never actually heard of this group before, I guess they were more of a UK thing. This song’s pretty neat, but don’t think much of the other ones on YT. It’s eerie how Jackson 5-ey they are.
B~e~d~-~t~i~m~e~!
Turns out it’s a good thing I didn’t post a break, as I’m back to playing Stay With Me and Tatsuro Yamashita’s Love Talkin’ over-and-over. They’re just the best :D
Even found transcriptions and translations of the lyrics and put them on my wiki:
Been working on my Japanese disco-y playlist, I think that’s to blame.
Another Miki! She has an Idol Miracle Bible Series (like one of my faves Chieri Ito) release that’s pretty solid.
Like the design of the cover, the way the diagonal title matches the angle of the shoulder and eyes.
Haven’t looked at anything J-Poppy for a while, but been buying-up some faves that I only had in digital formats, surfing a private J-Pop torrent tracker, and seeing where Youtube takes me again.
I’m sure I’ve listened to this song a bunch in the past, but can’t figure out where. Needs to be in my City Pop playlist!
This video gets taken down a bunch. Current embed has some annoying swirly effect on it, maybe to mitigate this.
S~n~o~o~z~e
I’ve been listening to a bunch of new stuff, but have totally gotten out of the habit of posting things here. I guess that’s because I still haven’t caught-up with the posts I managed to backup from Tumblr, so it doesn’t feel like it’s entirely a functioning space yet.
But anyway; I particularly wanted to make a note of some Australian rap stuff! Found a bunch of really rad drill when catching up on local grime. Seems like it’s real popular on Youtube at the moment, but I still wanted to document me finding it. So here’re a few videos jammed into one post :)
Kinda hard to pick a fave by Onefour, but slightly confident in this one. They’ve all got real nice bouncy beats and great bars.
I love this so much!
Not actually his best bars, but—no spoilers!
Also guy in the YT comments suggested this be the next Eurovision entry and that’s the best idea I’ve ever heard.
Last two are both from western Sydney, so here’s something from Western Melbourne.
Now something from West QLD.
And back to Sydney for a song that’s hard not to keep on repeat. Only one he’s released so far.