01. This Year's Girl #4
02. I
03. Ohayo
04. Thank You
05. Let's Be Adult
06. This Year's Girl #5
07. Baby Love Child
08. Twiggy Twiggy
09. Twiggy vs James Bond
10. Gifted
11. Party
12. Shi-Ri-To-Ri
13. Marble Index
14. Y.O.U.
15. Xxxxxxxxxman
16. Tokyo's Coolest Sound
17. Birth Of Cool
18. This Year's Girl #6


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This here is quite the famous album. Though not my favorite P5 release, it was a very important one in their career as for the pop music scene in japan. For those who don't know Pizzicato Five have been around since the late 80's I believe and have been a strong player in the "Shibuya-kei" movement that swept through japan and the world in the 90's (which all the kids like to talk about). Their music is very influential and actually very nice and diverse. I often think they have a sound of their own and actually fell in love with it when I first heard the (famous) Happy End Of The World album.

Though this is a very old release I randomly put it on this morning and forgot how much I liked this group. Personally I find it to be a nice change of pace from my current interests which I am growing tired with, very nice loungey downtempo pop music with a healthy jazz and hip hop influence (apparently De La Soul was a big influence on the group, most notably in the groups adaptation of sampling). Very "classy" music, if you would like one word to describe it.

It being in japanese may be a set back, the music is top notch. Personally, I find the first few tracks to be a bit oddly placed, but the album has some of their best work on it. Somewhat of an infant version of their sound which developed a lot more over time I can only say it's fantastic and you should give it a listen (then again I always say that!).

FYI the track Baby Love Child was actually featured in that episode of Futurama about Leela's parents. Albeit a different english version but even so. Great release, give it a listen, yada yada, you know the drill.

Labels: lounge, Pop, rock, Shibuya-Kei

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01 Aquasky - Showtime
02 Fellowship - Visions
03 Solid State - Mother Earth
04 Carlito - Professor Tsung's In Trouble
05 E-Z Rollers - Science Funktion
06 Aquasky - Motor City
07 Guardians Of Dalliance - Twice Round VI
08 Solid State - Retribution (In Super 8mm)
09 Guardians Of Dalliance - Turn To Gold
10 Flytronix - Smokeringz


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God tier jazz, funk and breakbeat fusion from Moving Shadow. Lots of golden tracks, I mean it's hard to describe it elsewhere other than really damn good. It's awesome to hear this though because of how different the songs are from some of the artists usual forte. They all did a damn good job on making one jazzy fucking album. Nice bass lines, lots of relaxing horns, nice drum breaks and the likes. Get it if you like lounge, jazz, funk or just good music in general k? Yeah, good

Labels: Downtempo, drum and bass, Funk, jazz, lounge, moving shadow, trip-hop

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01. Working Together
02. Slow Down
03. Theme From In-Between
04. Unrequited Love
05. Map of the World
06. Modalisa
07. Apology
08. Let's Ride
09. C Major
10. Singing Something
11. BONUS TRACK: Fortunately, Unfortunately
12. BONUS TRACK: Slow Down (Remix featuring Teki Latex)
13. BONUS TRACK: Home Movies

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Labels: electronic, electropop, Funk, jazz, lounge, solo piano

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