I don’t even know how to categorize this, but Amanda Palmer has proposed a bartering system to bring us back to how we used to share music, hundreds of years ago. It makes sense for some artists, and it works best if you use the latest social media technology. This is part of the amazing and ever growing collection of information available to all for free from TED, an excellent repository of open source information that we all can utilize to help create a much more interesting world to live in. OK, there might be a music video after that, possibly.
There are some amazing Anime Cosplay Music Videos being made, here are a few more you might enjoy. The first is Cosplay Fever: It’s My Life, compiled in Camden, London and shot at the MCM Expo in the UK in October 2011. The next is Cosplay Fever: Raise Your Glass from the London Film & Comic Con, July 2011. The final entry for this set is Cosplay Fever: Let Me Entertain You, recorded at AyaCon in August 2011. Be sure to visit Cosplay Fever on Facebook, where they have a lot more wonderful things to check out. Yes, these videos may be a bit old, but the spirit lives on!
This is different music than I usually post; rather than being something you have never heard of from a country you have never visited sung by people you don’t know, this one will be familiar in every detail. But I still had to post it, because this particular combination is one I never expected to see; and even if I had been aware of it, I never would have thought they could have done it anywhere near this well.
I particularly like the dragons vs. airships combat. Called Airlords of Airia, this is a Steampunk crowd funded proof-of=concept, built I suspect to generate more funding so they can do the whole thing. It really is nicely put together, and the making of stuff at the end lets you know exactly how they did it.
The first video is a mashup of various songs by $ALOVERS in the middle of their new track Hot Hot Hot. I would have much preferred to have one of the song itself, because it sounds really good, but the decision on how to make things available is up to the band and the record label. The next track is the latest from Maximum The Hormone, a Heavy Metal/Power Pop/Ballad tune, almost schizophrenic in its style. Of course, it might also be a mash up of multiple songs from their latest release, but edited together much better, and then how would I be able to tell? The final track this time is HEY-SMITH’s Dancing Is Illegal, a great little alt rock anthem that seems to be lodged somewhere between power pop and punk rock.
If you were wondering, it really does appear that the poliece are raiding dance clubs all over Japan, hauling the patrons off to jail and making them pee in cups, including in Osaka and Tokyo. There is quite the controversy about it, and that is far from the only recording protesting the situation.
Thanks for the heads up on these tunes to J-Rock Explosion, if you like quality rock out of Japan that is a site worth checking on a regular basis.
A few more interesting J-Rock tracks, starting with LoVendor’s kick ass song, Nemurenai Yoru, followed by their new track, Sexy Boy. OK, maybe not new, but new to me. Next comes Superfly’s How Do I Survive, just uploaded last week. There is always tasty music coming out of Japan, you just have to look for it a bit…