Totally delving into it tonight.
― stirmonster, Friday, 13 March 2020 18:44 (four years ago) link
Send me an email via my profile if you want to have a listen to the mix.
― bamboohouses, Saturday, 14 March 2020 07:55 (four years ago) link
I hope mine comes with a cassette. Don’t recall even seeing an option when I was emailed though an option of with or without a cassette. Is it just being sent randomly?
― Thebunk, Tuesday, 17 March 2020 11:47 (four years ago) link
My cassette is numbered 189/200, so looks like I got lucky. Reminds me I really must give it another listen.
― cooldix, Tuesday, 17 March 2020 12:31 (four years ago) link
i now have my Obscure Sounds! and my Walearic Disc Guide! really looking forward to digging through those with youtube accompaniment once my job stops being a whirlwind of panic
― ymo sumac (NickB), Tuesday, 17 March 2020 12:41 (four years ago) link
thank you so much bamboohouses! now all I need is a trackless, I expect it will pop up on Discogs soon enough
when I was looking for it I realized that Chee Shimizu has some other, older mixes as well
― sleeve, Tuesday, 17 March 2020 14:51 (four years ago) link
ffs trackLIST
Got my book delivered on Friday with the cassette (181/200). Haven’t had a chance to dig into either with my 4yo son bouncing off the walls due to COVID induced cabin fever. Hopefully soon.
― Thebunk, Sunday, 22 March 2020 20:29 (four years ago) link
few days ago a friend dropped off a tape deck, so i was finally able to hear the mix — it’s good !
it'll take a million years to read it with Google Lens.
not sure exactly what this is but will look into if that means having a rough translation of the blurbs. as is i’ve been enjoying paging through at random and then digging around on youtube or wherever to find a sound clip
― budo jeru, Sunday, 22 March 2020 20:35 (four years ago) link
How are you all reading this? Am I the only person who doesn't read Japanese? Want this book very badly but not to look at pictures.
― Paul Ponzi, Sunday, 22 March 2020 20:40 (four years ago) link
Using the Google Lens app, you can get surprisingly decent translations by hovering your phone camera over the text. Might be a bit hard to read it cover to cover this way, but good for individual listings. Check it out!
― cooldix, Monday, 23 March 2020 00:33 (four years ago) link
Thanks for the tip cooldix. Never even realized this was a thing. Also I have the Wa-learic book onroute so this will be extremely handy for both books. Cheers!
― Thebunk, Monday, 23 March 2020 10:41 (four years ago) link
OK, I just made my first random purchase based on this, and it's amazing (thanks Facebook vinyl trading group). Morgan Fisher - 'Flow Overflow'. Former Mott the Hoople (!) keyboardist moves to Tokyo and makes ambient/environmental/TV commercial music not unlike Yoshimura and co. I'll have to make a vinyl rip cos the only online I could find is from an uptight Soulseeker doing FLAC trade-only. His 'Water Music' is on social media and also quite lovely.
Anyone else made any discoveries?
― cooldix, Saturday, 11 April 2020 14:07 (four years ago) link
Social media... I mean, streaming services.
― cooldix, Saturday, 11 April 2020 14:08 (four years ago) link
I still dig the Glen Velez and Per Tjernberg records I discovered through that Spotify playlist
the mixtape is up on Discogs now, but with no tracklist - get to work, trainspotters!
https://www.discogs.com/Chee-Shimizu-Obscure-Sound-Revised-Edition/release/14978065
― sleeve, Saturday, 11 April 2020 16:04 (four years ago) link
I'd love to hear the morgan fisher record if you ever get around to ripping it. Water music is nice.
― Deflatormouse, Sunday, 12 April 2020 20:42 (four years ago) link
Hey Deflatormouse (and anyone interested), I've made a vinyl rip of the Morgan Fisher record. Not sure the best way to share?
― cooldix, Saturday, 18 April 2020 11:51 (four years ago) link
Some five months later but it arrived today and I love it! Seriously impressed with all obscure Dutch releases I've never even heard of.
Google translate lens app actually works, though it's tiresome to read the whole book in one go like that. The blurbs have a nice bitsize though. Looking forward to starting with the ambient section first. Will have to make sure slsk has enough feul in the tank to help me track some of this stuff down!
― Scampidocio (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 24 July 2020 16:34 (three years ago) link
this Priscilla Ermel retrospective is really hitting the "obscure sound" sweet spot for me atm
https://music-from-memory.bandcamp.com/album/origens-da-luz
― sleeve, Tuesday, 1 September 2020 18:26 (three years ago) link
i finally got round to listening to Chee's tape that comes with the book.
!@%$?
i got about two thirds through side 1. he's trolling with this, isn't he?
― stirmonster, Monday, 12 October 2020 17:10 (three years ago) link
how so?? The tape is on my Discogs wantlist but of course it never turns up
― Paul Ponzi, Monday, 12 October 2020 17:38 (three years ago) link
lotta smooth acoustic guitars? that’s the impression I got surfing through the albums in the book
― brimstead, Monday, 12 October 2020 17:39 (three years ago) link
xp that was a legit q, haven’t heard it myself
― brimstead, Monday, 12 October 2020 17:40 (three years ago) link
it is the opposite of smooth acoustic guitars. more musique concrete head frying collage with the odd lapse into pleasant percussion before some more ganrly spoken word bit kicks in again. It slightly reminded me of early Current 93 type sound collages which I like just fine but wasn't really expecting here.
― stirmonster, Monday, 12 October 2020 18:17 (three years ago) link
gnarly!
as I noted on the Discogs page, I would love to see even a partial tracklist of this cuz I have no fuckin clue
― sleeve, Monday, 12 October 2020 18:48 (three years ago) link
Side 2 is something else entirely. I would also love a tracklist of this side.
― stirmonster, Saturday, 17 October 2020 17:45 (three years ago) link
Not sure what thread to put this in tbh, but lost yasuaki shimizu album from 1984 being released on palto flats next year, sleevenotes by yer man chee shimizu:
https://ra.co/news/76561
― o shit the sheriff (NickB), Thursday, 16 December 2021 18:28 (two years ago) link
there's a preview clip at the end of that story and lemme tell you, it sounds great
― o shit the sheriff (NickB), Thursday, 16 December 2021 18:31 (two years ago) link
That clip sounds completely amazing! Thanks
― Maresn3st, Thursday, 16 December 2021 18:56 (two years ago) link
Not sure what thread to put this in tbh, but lost yasuaki shimizu album from 1984 being released on palto flats next year, sleevenotes by yer man chee shimizu:https://ra.co/news/76561🕸
― willem, Tuesday, 1 March 2022 22:51 (two years ago) link
this is absolutely incredible
― nxd, Wednesday, 2 March 2022 17:46 (two years ago) link
do believe the hype.
― stirmonster, Wednesday, 2 March 2022 18:35 (two years ago) link
Yep
― J. Sam, Wednesday, 2 March 2022 19:24 (two years ago) link
cosign
― bad milk blood robot (sleeve), Wednesday, 2 March 2022 19:32 (two years ago) link