@Pille ;->

[KaOz]

ife read in your profile u are a susumu yokota "fan"... thats really cool.. i never meet some people before who knows him anyway...
u like many acts from japan et.c? like takemura and so on..

cheers chris

[pille'ocheoni]

hey chris, yeah nice to see you like him too!.takemura,susumu,takeshi,u nageji,etc.....they all are very good. im not really obsessed with the culture or asian artists in general. they just have some great music!....but yes japan has some hidden talent unaware to the west. nice to see you appreicate it too:)....have any recomendations? any body you can turn me on to? take care/john/piile'

[KaOz]

Originally posted by pille'ocheoni
they all are very good. im not really obsessed with the culture or asian artists in general.

yeah me too.... i am more "into"buddah and his philosophy and the taoism.
uve heard the princess mononoke soundtrack from joe hisaishi... ?rockz.. ( not really electronic but brilliant )
and check out asa chang and junray
cheers

[pille'ocheoni]

cool thanks, havent heard of them before but princess mononoke was a great movie. and yes the tao that can be spoken is not the eternal tao.heheheh/take care/p

[Articulate]

hey, have you seen the japanese film called 'brother'??
what do you think about it?

[pille'ocheoni]

i havent seen it.......is it good?

[KaOz]

never heard something about i before... tell ussomething about this movie ;)

[pille'ocheoni]

Articulate
btw. i think your avatar is fucking awsome!yeah!your whole look near you name and everything is great!.just thought id say that!

[Weishaupt]

Originally posted by pille'ocheoni
Articulate
btw. i think your avatar is fucking awsome!yeah!your whole look near you name and everything is great!.just thought id say that!

............i think its the best avatar here on the board

[pille'ocheoni]

me too:)

[cut out]

I love Susumo's ambient stuff - Grinning Cat is one of my favourite LPs and I hadn't really been into 'the boy & the tree' until the other night when it just started to sound amazing. funny how that happens sometimes.....I've got to say that I find most of his house output pretty uninspiring though! As for soundtracks, the Akira soundtrack still gets a play every now and then - along with a CD of japanese chamber music that will send anyone to sleep in 10 minutes.

I also love Haruki Murakami - he's probably my favourite author and just starting to get quite big here in UK (got his own display in Bookers on tottenham court road) - I've just started 'Sputnik Sweetheart' and can see that it's going to be absolutely fucking heart breaking. Has anyone read 'wind up bird chronicles' or 'hard boiled wonderland and the end of the world'? - they are some serious shit.

I think what Japanese writers/musicians/film makers often bring to their art that westerners don't is a proper appreciation of simplicity and how to make 'less say more' - both murakami and yakoto manages to wring the most awesome emotions out of very simple elements. There's not many western authors who can that without sounding pretentious/boring.

[pille'ocheoni]

http://www.sfspca.org/adoption/adopt_images/adoptees/bingo.jpg

[piscaries]

Originally posted by cut out
I also love Haruki Murakami

"the wind up bird chronicle" was amazing. i highly reccommend that book to anyone. he's a damn good author. however, i wasn't too impressed by "south of the boarder, west of the sun"

[deccard]

the princess monoke soundtrack was too classic-style for me.
my favourite soundtrack ever will be the akira soundtrack.
much more orientated to japans traditional music than mononoke.
the ghost in the shell soundtrack has one really huge track.

btw i´ve seen brother and didn´t liked it. somehow the director lost it in the calmess he tried to achieve. was boring for me.
there are other japanese movies i prefer like visitor q (sort of shocking/exagerated)...

[pille'ocheoni]

has anyone seen the new vampire hunter d?

[KaOz]

@ cut out! fuck yeaaaah, the grinning cat LP is so awesome... fuck i love it... its something between takemura and Dntel ( check out life is full of possibilities, one of my favourites) really really brilliant...
@ deecard, yeah the GITS soudntrack is cool. u know the beanth the mask remix from the title rack at the end? rockz
cheers

[Sheridan]

Originally posted by pille'ocheoni
has anyone seen the new vampire hunter d?

I've seen the original and I liked it a lot, but I haven't seen the new one. heard it was pretty violent. what can you say about it?

[pille'ocheoni]

great.its tons more violent. he 's very well spoken and the story line is ten times better. very good flick. i think:).....ian you should rent it, its one of those you just have to see!

[piscaries]

and if none of you have read/seen it, check out "x / 1999" that's a bad-ass book and film.

[aleks]

Originally posted by pille'ocheoni
but yes japan has some hidden talent unaware to the west


there are lots of hidden talents in australia...i think it´s pretty hard for the people on the other side of the world to recieve attention and that is pretty sad :(

[pille'ocheoni]

really? see i didnt even know........tell us more!

[piscaries]

i had recently been wondering about australian artists and the lack thereof in the amount of music that's thrown at us here in the states. if you can clue us in at all it would be much appreciated...

[aleks]

i cannot remember names only system corrupt...and black lung but i reckon people know him already.
ask namshub he knows more...

[aleks]

and namshub is one name i can recall too...

[gunjack]

Originally posted by Articulate
hey, have you seen the japanese film called 'brother'??
what do you think about it?


the yakuza movie with omar epps. completely low brow yakuza/gangbanger movie which is funny as hell when you are :!