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Yasuaki Shimizu from Made to Measure series
― bamcquern, Tuesday, 24 August 2010 15:25 (thirteen years ago) link
fans and disciples of this record MUST watch the below youtubes. extracts from a performance in 1985 of ryuichi sakamoto and radical tv, continuing in the avant sampling style of Esperanto but heavier and noisier -- out of sync electro loops, huge gated drums, frantically transposed vocal samples, a Neubauten loop and some Mahler, alongside a huge Sony jumbotron screen (the largest video screen in the world at that point) projecting primitive digital video edits and computer graphics while sakamoto bounces around behind his gear in a boiler suit
essential viewing, basically
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_c31AjIlYj8https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJBxeSyz6vIhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D020I9hhq94
was reissued on DVD in 2005 so should be still available, somewhere
― missingNO, Monday, 17 January 2011 09:10 (thirteen years ago) link
i guess there's not many ryuichi sakamoto fans here
― missingNO, Tuesday, 18 January 2011 01:43 (thirteen years ago) link
I love Sakamoto! I hadn't bookmarked this thread though. You should check out the thread for Interior/Testpattern if you're interested.
― =(^ • ‿‿ • ^)= (corey), Tuesday, 18 January 2011 01:45 (thirteen years ago) link
I really really love that one song, uh... corey what's the name of thar song I really like?
Haven't heard much else though
― lamey g. curtis (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 18 January 2011 01:45 (thirteen years ago) link
this one?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrjHZloAOh4
― =(^ • ‿‿ • ^)= (corey), Tuesday, 18 January 2011 01:52 (thirteen years ago) link
i guess there's not many ryuichi sakamoto fans here― missingNO, Tuesday, January 18, 2011 1:43 AM (18 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
don't post on a sunday if you want people to respond
― jaxon, Tuesday, 18 January 2011 02:03 (thirteen years ago) link
those youtubes are great. Holger Hiller was definitely hip to Esperanto before doing the Ohi Ho Bang Bang videos but I wonder if he knew about these Radical TV videos as well
nothing to do with anything:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoeO2LfpJVU&feature=player_embedded#!
― Milton Parker, Tuesday, 18 January 2011 02:26 (thirteen years ago) link
I'd been looking out for this album since I discovered it here, but just ordered it on discogs. Listening to it in full now, I feel like this is the Sakamoto I've always been looking for (but gave up after being misled by “Beauty”): just the right combination of avant garde experimentation, quirky almost popish elements, and alluring weirdness. Very curious what it was like to hear in its original time and context.
― ed.b, Sunday, 9 December 2018 04:05 (five years ago) link
This is finally getting reissued on WeWantSounds!
― willem, Thursday, 23 September 2021 08:13 (two years ago) link
Listening to this right now, as someone said above, would never have believed it's from 1985.
― Porking level G4 (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 23 September 2021 14:52 (two years ago) link
yeah the only thing I can think of in that era that sounds similar is Hosono's Monad stuff
― frogbs, Thursday, 23 September 2021 14:58 (two years ago) link
This is finally getting reissued on WeWantSounds!🕸
― willem, Saturday, 20 November 2021 07:20 (two years ago) link
just picked up the reissue. man, was this ahead of its time. it sounds like a Giant Claw record.
― frogbs, Wednesday, 8 December 2021 03:32 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-nJPWJE0cs
someone ripped the 33 minute laserdisc that was released alongside it. doesn't feature any of the performance, it's far trippier. in retrospect a bit of a vaporwave origin story
― frogbs, Wednesday, 8 December 2021 15:00 (two years ago) link