#90's indie hip hop

[randomvarious]

Rasco feat. Defari & Evidence - "Major League" Laid in Full by M-Boogie Song released in 1998. Mix released in 1999. Underground Hip Hop

Dope and raw late 90s cut by this trio of vets from the Cali underground. Rasco dropped his solo debut album, Time Waits for No Man, on Stones Throw Records in '98, but he also put out a 12-inch that same year that had a remix of a track from that album on it too, called "Major League." And with that remix came a better, Melba Moore-sampled beat, different deliveries of the chorus and first two verses, and a brand new third verse from Rasco as well.

And ya just gotta give it up for the ever-underappreciated Evidence on this one, especially, folks. I know he's a pretty well known MC among hip hop heads already as one-third of Dilated Peoples, but his always smooth and laid-back monotone style still feels vastly underrated to me. Here he delivers a full middle verse riddled with nothing but baseball metaphors, and then while Rasco follows up with a decent baseball verse of his own, it doesn't end up holding a candle to Ev's.

Produced by Joey Chavez; cuts and scratches by DJ Babu, who is a member of Dilated Peoples too.

#underground hip hop #underground rap #indie hip hop #indie rap #hip hop #rap #music #90s #90s music #90's #90's music

[alchemisoul]

The Verve & Jay Z

"Brush Your Bitter Sweet Shoulders Off"

Coldplay ft. Richard Ashcroft | Bitter Sweet Symphony (Live 8, 2005)

#the verve #Richard Ashcroft #British Canon #British Masters #fucking legend #british rock #britpop #psychedelic rock #indie rock #alternative rock #alt rock #90s aesthetic #90s alternative #90s #90's #90s rock #90s music #music #live music #coldplay #jay z #mc #master of ceremonies #move the crowd #rap #remix #hip hop #Youtube

[carpsurprise]

stardew characters and thejr music taste

˗ˏˋ ´ˎ˗  bachelor/ettes and thier music taste … !

→ notes: thank you for sending a request in!! i tried my best with this LOL so i'm sorry if i didn't deliver well!!! tag urself im sam <;/3

→  alex: 90's hip hop, pop, electronic ... (high energy stuff for working out!)

→ elliott: classical, opera, latin

→ harvey: jazz, classical, classic rock

→ sam: pop punk, hair metal, dad rock

→ sebastian: midwest emo, lofi beats, kpop

→ shane: dad rock, numetal, ska

→ abigail: pop punk, video game OSTs, post-hardcore

→ emily: pop, kpop, disco

→ haley: 80's pop, country (only by women tho), bedroom pop

→ leah: jazz, blues, folk

→ maru: indie, metal, grunge (i'll fight about this)

→ penny: bedroom pop, instrumentals, jazz

#stardew valley #alex stardew valley #elliott stardew valley #harvey stardew valley #sam stardew valley #sebastian stardew valley #shane stardew valley #abigail stardew valley #emily stardew valley #haley stardew valley #leah stardew valley #maru stardew valley #penny stardew valley #alex #elliott #harvey #sam #sebastian #shane #abigail #emily #haley #leah #maru #penny #sixx writes

[heroshifter]

★ Music you can listen in your DR ★

(from 60's to 90's)

𓈒 ﹒ ☆ 𓂂 ˚ ☆ ꙳ * ࣭ ࣭

→ 60's ←

The Rolling stones (rock)

Pink floyd (rock)

The Mamas and the Papas (folk rock)

Marvin Gaye (R&B/soul)

Tammi Terrell (R&B/soul)

Louis Armstrong (jazz)

Beatles (rock/pop)

The Animals (rock/R&B/British blues)

Ben E. King (R&B)

Frank Sinatra (jazz)

→ 70's ←

The cure (rock)

T.rex (rock/ late 60's but their album were published in 70's so I put them here.)

Mott the Hoople (rock)

Slade (rock)

David Bowie (rock)

Queen (rock)

ABBA (pop)

Boney M. (Pop)

Eagles (rock)

Kiss (hard rock)

→ 80's ←

the Smiths (indie rock)

Radiohead (rock)

Black Tambourine (indie pop)

Sonic youth (alt rock)

Fugazi (punk)

Dead Kennedys (hardcore punk)

Bad brains (punk)

Eurythmics (pop punk)

Madonna (pop)

Guns and roses (rock)

→ 90's ←

Rage against the machine (rock, in fact it's more complex than that but it's rock)

Green day (punk)

Red Aunts (punk)

Nirvana (rock)

Audioslave (rock)

Limp Bizkit (metal)

Linkin park (alt rock/metal)

Slipknot (metal)

Fugees (Hip-hop)

Coolio (rap)

𓈒 ﹒ ☆ 𓂂 ˚ ☆ ꙳ * ࣭ ࣭

#shifting #shifting realities #reality shift #shifter #shifters #shiftblr #xmendr #marauders dr #music for DR

[grape-v1nes]

here is my 100% accurate and absolutely canon opinion of the marauders and co.’s top artists on spotify

i will not be elaborating nor will i take any criticism

james (not super into music; likes party music/what’s popular): taylor swift (because lily loves ts and he loves lily), post malone, kendrick, j. cole, mitski (he cries to I Bet on Losing Dogs bc it makes him think of regulus)

sirius (guys you can be mad at me for this one but you cannot convince me he wouldn’t be this guy if he was born in the early 2000s): 100 gecs (remus cannot fucking stand it but sirius moshes to stupid horse in the dorm), bladee, yung lean, beastie boys, MF DOOM, and bowie obv

remus (he likes midwest emo and 80s alternative but plays lo-fi when he studies): pinegrove, title fight, david bowie, talking heads, car seat headrest (Body’s is his favorite song), lo-fi beats

pete (ik you all think pete’s taste would be very vanilla but i think he’s a sucker for indie rock and 90s hip hop): the drums, the strokes, radiohead, alex g, the pharcyde, MF DOOM (sirius introduced mfdoom to him and he didn’t stop listening to rap snitch knishes for weeks)

lily (bi girl with bi boyfriend that listens to bi girl music): suki waterhouse, phoebe bridgers, lana, taylor swift, king princess

mary (she’s just really fucking cool and so is her music taste): pinkpantheress, ethel cain, hemlocke springs, doja, ice spice (kicked peter very hard in the shin when he called her mid)

marlene (she reminds me of my best friend so i’m assigning her their music taste): alex g, MGMT, the garden, deftones, the neighbourhood

dorcas (lesbian with lesbian gf that listens to lesbian music): fiona apple, japanese breakfast, faye webster, the cranberries, idigo de souza

reg (hard on the outside soft on the inside; he likes his music to be slow and sad): duster, mac demarco, salvia palth, current joys, tchaikovsky, blink-182 (only because he listens to I Miss You constantly for painfully obvious reasons)

-disclaimer ; my knowledge of evan and barty is very limited this is just the vibes-

evan (enjoys trad-goth/ post-punk/ shoegaze. gets mad if you call him goth. he’s punk!): the cure, bauhaus, depeche mode, my bloody valentine, slowdive

barty (is punk and enjoys punk but completely mis-understands the politics): sum 41, blink-182, the smashing pumpkins, hollywood undead, sex pistols (was very obsessed with the death of sid viscous and thought he was just the coolest)

#thanks for coming to my ted talk #marauders #atyd #wolfstar #regulus black #james potter #remus lupin #peter pettigrew #sirius black #marlene mckinnon #dorcas meadowes #mary mcdonald #barty crouch jr #jegulus #jegulily #choices by messermoon

[astronautdinosaur]

My next show is about music and time travel. It's called AM Gold. It opens April 8th at Harman Projects in New York.

Generally speaking, I make paintings about the future, but I've lately found myself looking more backward than forward. Maybe I'm getting older (I'm definitely getting older). Or maybe it's because the last three years have been, to put it as eloquently as I can, massively f*cked up. But I've been time traveling lately. Revisiting old haunts, old friends, old paintings, and old music.

As part of this process of remembering my past, I recreated some long lost playlists from the course of my  life. The top 40 stuff I used to tape off the radio when I was in 6th grade. Hipster blog music from the mid 2000's. Semi-forgotten indie rock from the 90's. 70's soft rock. 90's hip hop which samples 70's soft rock. Brit pop from that time when I thought I wanted to move to London.

As much as anything else, these songs define my life. They're the soundtrack to everything I've ever done. And although I began this journey making playlists to help me document my own personal story, I realize that the songs themselves are as much the subject matter as the memories they inspire.

And so I made a show about music and time travel. I was inspired by the kind of physical artifacts we mostly don't have, don't need, or don't care about anymore: Album covers, CD's, posters, cassette tapes, stereo equipment (with actual knobs), band flyers, zines, photos cut and pasted from magazines, mix tapes shared amongst friends, passed down from cooler older siblings, or made to impress crushes. Of course we now live in a streaming era, and I wouldn't have been able to circle back and find the music which tells the story of my life without it. And so, accompanying this show will be a selection of playlists which I'll post on Spotify. It's an extremely personal list. It's not the best music of the last handful of decades. It runs through a number of incongruous genres. It's definitely not cool. In other words, it's me. AM Gold: the songs from my past, in the present.

#scottlistfield #scott listfield #harman projects #am gold #wu tang #wu tang clan

[ibbywondrous]

All the TMNT: Mystic Forest AU playlists I've made (So far.)

Traditional Japenese, New Age, Lo-fi, phonk

Metal, punk, Hardcore, breakcore, phonk

80's Pop, synth pop, EDM, electronic rock, classic rock, classical

Rap, Hip Hop, Dance, Pop, EDM

Pop, Hip Hop, indie pop, R&B

90's grunge, riot grrl , punk, metal

K-pop, J-Pop, American pop.

#tmnt #teenage mutant ninja turtles #spotify #character playlist #leonardo #raphael #donatello #michelangelo #april o'neil #casey jones #karai #mystic forest au #Spotify

[unspokenmusings]

✧ ┆ ( KOFI SIRIBOE, CIS MALE, HOMOSEXUAL, HE/HIM ). Not everyone can say they’ve been to Briar Glen, but KOJO OSEI, a 31-year-old, WEB DESIGNER, has lived in Briar Glen for 10 YEARS. This is the city for development and they know it. Living in this extensive town means you meet all kinds of people, we can’t wait to meet and see how KOJO develops.

B A S I C S 

full name: kojo osei. nicknames: tbd. gender:  cis male. pronouns:  he/him. sexuality:  homosexual. age:  31. date of birth:  june 27, 1993. zodiac sign:  cancer. birthplace: compton, california. current location: briar glen, california. residence:  apartment in briar glen. occupation:  web designer. languages spoken: english, ghanaian pidgin english, akan, conversational spanish.

A P P E A R A N C E

faceclaim:  kofi siriboe. height:  6’2. build:  muscular. eyes:  brown. hair:  dark brown. piercings:  none.  tattoos:  none. style:  street style fashion. 

P E R S O N A L I T Y

traits:  (+) confident, spontaneous, friendly/social, detail-oriented. (-) jealous, sensitive, impulsive, anxious.  mental health:  stable. physical health:  good, average. likes:  sweets, working out, video games, technology, horror movies, amusement parks, smoking marijuana.  dislikes:  arrogance, confrontation, people with no sympathy or empathy for others, cold weather.  fears: the dark.  skills:  roller skating, tech savvy, dancing. quirks:  humming under his breath, bouncing his leg when nervous or anxious.

F A V O R I T E S

ice cream flavour:  chocolate.  time of the day / night:  dusk. weather:  summer weather.  breakfast food:  pancakes, bacon, bagels, danishes.  dinner food:  anything seafood. colours:  black, red, blue.  music: hip-hop/rap, r&b, alternative, indie, neosoul.

M I S C E L A N E O U S

a cherished item:  his parents wedding rings. first love ( celeb crush ):  rider strong (circa boy meets world), the rock. usual mood:  upbeat, happy. 1 thing they want to do / experience before they die:  go on a year long vacation with friends and explore the world. 

B A C K G R O U N D

death tw

he's a first generation ghanaian-american. his parents moved from ghana to the states in the early 90s, and had kojo in 1993. he was their first and only son due to the difficult pregnancy and birth his mother had.

he's always been a social butterfly. there's never been a time in his life where he didn't have a group of friends to lean on or interact with.

when he was fourteen years old, he was orphaned because his parents passed away in a tragic accident. because he didn't have any family in the states, he was placed into foster care until he aged out when he turned eighteen.

losing his parents was a a traumatic experience for him and was the only time in his life where he truly felt alone. he had his friends, but he didn't have his parents. he found himself becoming jealous of his friends that still had their parents in their lives, something that he had to go to therapy in order to get over.

kojo worked hard in school, even more so after his parents passed, and was able to earn a scholarship to college, where he studied graphic design and media studies. he graduated with his degree and immediately landed a job with a start up company that went on to become successful.

#relaxhq:intro #( kojo: intro. )

[alarrytale]

Louis drops the indie facade whenever he goes clubbing because it's never to a club playing alternative music. There are plenty of these in Melbourne, but yet again, in the video we got recently, he was on the dance floor enjoying EDM/hip hop like we've seen him do in London.

Hi, anon!

I think Louis likes different types of music, but he's mostly into pop/rock music. He grew up listening to the Script, Nickleback, the Fray, but has also admitted to secretly enjoy ABBA and jam to 1D. He loves himself a good classic pop song. I think he prefers dance-pop/EDM when clubbing. The indie/britpop/alt rock genre he's claiming he's into now and are genres he wants to fit his own music into makes little sense to me, but whatever. He's definitly going for a 90's retro britpop, chav image. Issue is, Louis is more than that and he can't be pigeonholed into only the indie/britpop/alt rock sound and image. He can't commit fully to that. Since he can't commit fully, he'll also never be considered authentic. Not his image nor his music. Maybe he don't want that either, who knows. He's a quarter this, half that etc. while presenting himself as fully indie. I think people see through it. I sure do.

#louis image #indie #solo louis

[luckyfortune]

The History of Streetwear in Pop Culture

Hey everyone, it's Adriana. 

Welcome back to this week's topic on streetwear in pop culture. Let's talk about how the upbringing of streetwear in the 90’s and how it’s grown into different styles meshed together to normalized clothing worn in streets. We might have seen celebrities start making streetwear trendy in appearances on the red carpet, movies, and music videos. Let's take it back and share some of our favorite moments in pop culture.

New York hip-hop fashion 

Aaliyah was a R&B singer from  Brooklyn, New York. She was well known for having a “tomboy” unisex look that made it acceptable to all in the 90s hip hop era of dance and music. She would be seen hanging around artists like TLC, Tupac, & others in what we would identify now as streetwear. Simply wearing casual everyday clothing but with a twist. 

Here is a favorite look of Aaliyah in a bandana, oversized varsity jacket and sporty pants with a belt and a long bedazzled chain. 

Source:https://www.fanpop.com/clubs/aaliyah/images/18423472/title/aaliyah-various-pics-photo

Chicano streetwear

Mi Vida Loca (1993) is a drama indie film that portrayed young Hispanic women viewing their lives as gang members in Echo Park, Los Angeles. These women were everyday fighters in the streets of LA watching each other's backs.  In the film, you can view what streetstyle was meant for cholas. These women wore baggy or tight clothing, Nike Cortez shoes, high ankle socks, and big hoop earrings. This style became the norm within hispanic culture, since the film showed the culture of the beauty standards in chola women.

Source: https://www.wonderlandmagazine.com/2015/03/03/lean-like-chola/

Punk streetwear 

Freaky Friday (2003)

A fantasy-comedy film, a childhood favorite. One of my favorite outfits is Lindsay Lohan and her pairing of cargo pants (classic) with a slightly cropped graphic tank, and of course, a choker. 

Source: https://www.pinterest.com/isaacmaldonado2/freaky-friday/

Thirteen (2003)

A film about a thirteen-year-old girl's relationship with her mother is put to the test as she discovers drugs, sex, and petty crime in the company of her cool but troubled best friend. Because of the film's low budget, the girls' clothes are mostly from their own wardrobe. Catherine Hardwick noted that as filming progressed, the girls began to dress similarly without being told to. This film created the idea of young good girls heading toward the direction of rebellion. The punk rock look played a part of the early 2000's. We love to see it now with brands like IAMGIA, Motel Rocks, and Forever 21, bringing back the low rise jeans, suede lace-up vests and body jewelry.

Source: https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2018/08/207451/thirteen-movie-cast-anniversary-evan-rachel-wood/

European streetwear

Kate Moss, model, is the queen of being versatile in her outfit choices. She can go from grunge to girly, to urban street style. Moss has had some iconic looks over the years. This time paparazzi spotted her in a casual vest, a tie, and chino shorts, with a hobo bag, strolling in London. 

Source: https://graziadaily.co.uk/fashion/news/kate-moss-fashion/

Japanese streetwear

FRUiTS magazine (1997) was a monthly Japanese street fashion magazine created by photographer Shoichi Aoki. Though FRUiTS magazine it covered styles found throughout Tokyo. Aoki captured cool people rocking the Harajuku style and found them to be most fashionable with the expressiveness shown walking in look worthy clothing. We enjoy the double layered graphic crewneck sweater. The plaid midi skirt with a pin, with a large Moschino tote bag ready to take on the day.

Source: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/fruits-magazine--353180795751969713/

Californian Surf 

Baywatch (1989)

Pamela Anderson, she made wearing beach wear look so easy and effortless. Pamela turned beach wear swimsuit "cover up" the normal everyday wear. Typically, her look consisted of sexy and comfortable. Here she's seen wearing denim on denim. A cute button down oversized denim shirt tied to be cropped and cinched to the waist.  The iconic Levis 501 shorts with a cheeky slit near the pocket, and beaded shell jewelry. What a look!

Source- https://www.pinterest.com/pin/188658671869626152

School wear in LA

90210 (1990)

Brenda Walsh, Donna Martin, and Kelly Taylor were fashion icons in the TV series of a group of friends living in Beverly Hills, California as they all transition from high school to college and into the adult world. They always went shopping for clothes that they can afford and put together. During this time, fashion was very experimental while being classic especially as preppy as kids were in the hills. Most girls in the show, wore big t-shirts to school with overalls, blazers with skirts, long button down dresses. Big 90's hairstyles with fringe bangs and attempt to stay on trend.

Source- https://www.pinterest.com/pin/340725528061378169

Skateboarding Youth Culture 

Young adults and teens in the 90s featured in magazines like Alloy. Outfits featured in skate magazines redefined the aesthetic in streetwear. They were made for comfort while riding a skateboard in the streets, while also staying on trend. We got muscle tanks, UFO (parachute pants) Tight fitted graphic t-shirts, and chunky sneakers. This style is still being represented and recreated by women to this day even if they don't skate, it's still gives off I am probably wearing my boyfriends clothing core.

Source: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/516647388513788627/

Sportswear Princess 

Princess Diana (left) became a muse in comfort casual clothing/ sporty chic style in the 90s. This photo is a side by side of two influential figures in pop culture making paparazzi catch photos of them wearing a similar outfit out in public and making it streetstyle. Hailey Bieber (right) making athleisure wear into the street. This kind of an outfit would be considered sporty, although you might just like the look of throwing on an oversized jumper, with some fun sneakers for a quick coffee run or errands.

Source: https://www.vogue.com/vogueworld/article/hailey-bieber-princess-diana-athleisure-style

 Performance wear

Jennifer Lopez (2000) also known as JLO performance is always iconic for wearing avant garde looks when out in public. She has a mix of various looks while performing. This look started a trend in what women aspire to look and dress like. As we see many YouTube or TikTok tutorials on "stealing her style" recreating her throwback looks. Here's an iconic one we could see being brought back. Bronx baby tee, waist chain belt, parachute pants.

Source-https://www.vogue.com/article/jennifer-lopez-best-performance-costumes-concert-looks

Charli XCX (2016). Performing in Berlin, Germany. We see more of an urban mix of style being introduced by celebrities on stage. Performers have toned it down for on stage presence and more for comfort while still showing style. Charli is from the United Kingdom and her biggest fashion influences are sporty chic, and tumblr girls from 2014 of #seapunk, #pale goth, and #y2k aesthetic. 

Source: https://www.celebsfirst.com/charli-xcx-performs-live-concert-astra-berlin-germany/charli-xcx-performs-live-in-concert-at-astra-in-berlin-germany-091119_9/

Thanks for reading this weeks post on the evolution of streetwear, you might've recognized a couple of these celebrity icons or looks. Check back on next weeks topic here on our page.

#urbanstreetwear #fashion #sportychic

[randomvarious]

Today's compilation:

Mikrofoncheck 2 2000 Hip Hop

No, Phife, you got it exactly right! This is Mikrofoncheck 2, a turn-of-the-millennium double-disc that highlights a bunch of good German rap tunes that were pretty clearly inspired by the US' own underground rap landscape at the time. And maybe I'm not the most equipped person to post about German rap, because I barely know any German words myself, but hear me out: the great thing about listening to rap in any language that you personally don't understand is that you don't have to involuntarily use any brainpower in order to interpret lyrics; and when you're not busying yourself with that aspect, you can then dedicate your focus to other parts of an MC's craft, like timing, flow, delivery, mic presence, etc. I feel like when dope US acts get little to no love in their home city, but then go on tour overseas and sell out venues in places where the people know barely any English at all, it means that there's a certain universality to rap skills. Like, you don't have to get what's being said in order for it to resonate. You dig?

So, speaking of underappreciated US acts, New York's Arsonists are on this release's very first track, with a remix of German rap pioneer Torch's "Die Welt brennt" that features a verse from one of The Arsonists' own members, Freestyle. If you know your 90s-2000s New York underground rap stuff, then you know that The Arsonists make S-tier music. They never broke big, of course, but they were one of the top groups to be featured on the Stretch & Bobbito Show, a legendary program that aired during the ungodly hours of 1-5 a.m. on Thursday nights/Friday mornings on Columbia University's radio station, 89.9 FM WKCR. But despite that absurd time slot, Stretch & Bob were still able to bring in a long, long who's who of unsigned and underground talent into the studio that would later go on to smash on a commercial level, including Nas, Jay-Z, Notorious B.I.G., Big L, DMX, Busta Rhymes, and a whole lot of others. I actually caught the premiere of a Stretch & Bob documentary back in the mid-2010s in Central Park, and right before that showing was a concert that featured a bunch of the acts who ended up making that whole show what it was. And you already know that The Arsonists were on that stage, man!

Here's a little introduction to Stretch & Bob if you're not familiar:

Anyway, while that Arsonists remix is great, and is probably the tune that would get most people to cop this release in the first place, I don't think that it's this album's best song, overall; because that honor goes to Nico Suave's "Barkeeper." Nico has a super lame stage name, *BUT,* when you're talking about a full package of beats and rhymes, nothing else on this album tops that one. Astonishingly, the full-length, nearly five-minute version of this tune only has 344 views on YouTube, but this really feels like one of those bits of early 2000s gold that you'd randomly stumble across on Limewire back in the day. And I'm probably only saying that because the beat is on some smooth and soul-piercingly jazzy Nujabes type of tip. And if you knew Nujabes before YouTube, Samurai Champloo, and 'Chill lo-fi beats to study to,' it was probably because either you or one of your friends discovered him via file sharing.

And I know what some of you may be inevitably thinking: 'German rap? That actually sounds corny as hell.' But you're wrong. The German language may be sharp and clunky and it really may not seem all that compatible with rap on its face, but the beauty of it is that there's a deep uniqueness to the German language that has people rapping in ways that non-German speakers are fully incapable of doing themselves. Within every language are vast amounts of intricacies, with each one possessing its own capabilities and possibilities; and German rap really seems to unlock something that no other type of rap can, because there's no other language in this world that's really quite like German.

And on top of all that, a bunch of these beats simply slap too 😋.

Highlights:

CD1:

Torch feat. Freestyle - "Die Welt brennt (Arsonists remix)" Chosen Few - "Raw Beauty" Tim X-Treme - "Weird Shit" Lyn - "Blenda" Plattenpapzt feat. Tefla & Jaleel - "Wenn Zonis reisen" ABS - "Mathematik" Deichkind - "Was der Anlass" Nico Suave - "Barkeeper" Marburg Asozial - "Rap-Attack-Uppa-Cut"

CD2 (DJ mix by DJ Swift, which mostly consists of the same tracks from CD1):

Square One feat. Johnny Dolo - "Until Then..." Torch feat. Freestyle - "Die Welt brennt (Arsonists remix)" Deichkind - Was Der Anlass" Lyn - "Blenda" Nico Suave - "Barkeeper" Marburg Asozial - "Rap-Attack-Uppa-Cut" ABS - "Mathematik" Plattenpapzt feat. Tefla & Jaleel - "Wenn Zonis Reisen" Stieber Twins - "Malaria"

#hip hop #rap #music #90s #90s music #90's #90's music #2000s #2000s music #2000's #2000's music #00s #00s music #00's #00's music #y2k #y2k era #y2k music #germany #german #german music #underground hip hop #underground rap #indie hip hop #indie rap

[appears]

Pizzicato Five: the international playboy & playgirl record

25th anniversary

By 1998, Pizzicato Five had settled into the perfect groove: they had found their voice and niche as leading purveyors of the Japanese indie-pop/Shibuya-kei scene, were regularly releasing some of the most interesting and stylistically original music anywhere, and had also established their signature look, incorporating their love of 60s ye-ye, 70s funk, soul, and disco, and 90s hip-hop and house into the now iconic throwback looks ripped from the pages of Petticoat and Queen. This mid-90s period was their most fruitful, with almost one studio album released every year that decade (not to mention the countless remix and best-of compilations, and EPs) -- when genius burns, it positively scorches. At their height, right on the cusp of the end, they released the international playgirl & playboy record.

Pizzicato Five were one of the very rare and lucky Japanese groups to have a cult international following, with the indie label Matador distributing their music beginning with 1994's Five By Five and Made in USA, a compilation record, before finally doing the group justice enough to release albums mostly unchanged. Thus, the international playboy & playgirl record became, simply, Playboy & Playgirl for the U.S. release, coming out seven months after the original in the spring of 1999. By many hipsters' account, Shibuya-kei was mostly done by the late 90s, a hip trend taken to its logical dead-end with the number of copy-cat groups and zero-sum looting of obscure musical samples that rendered obsolete the special "insider's knowledge" of bragging rights that made the genre so fun. I can also see how some might think Yasuharu Konishi, the main writer, producer and one half of P5, with Maki Nomiya on vocals, was running out of ideas.

Certainly, the music on Playboy & Playgirl is some of their most commercial yet, tending towards a more standard J-pop sound with singles like "WEEKEND" and the title track "PLAYBOY PLAYGIRL." It's certainly some of their most lush, with the orchestral hints on previous album ROMANTIQUE '96 now making way for full string quartets and roiling brass popping up throughout the album like Burt Bacharach on caffeine. Along with the iconic jacket art, it's a very cinematic sound, the fulmination of Konishi's entire aesthetic now in its full, no-cost-spared production. It's absolutely gorgeous, and the fact that the focus shifted from showing off Konishi's esoteric musical influences to crafting actual masterpieces only made the music better and stronger on its own. Sure, you might be a more sophisticated listener for being able to name the James Taylor, Herb Pilhofer, and Richard de Bordeaux & Daniel Beretta samples, but even if you didn't recognize them, you could still enjoy the songs.

I don't want to ignore Maki Nomiya -- she may not have been the ultimate mastermind like Konishi, but you can hardly imagine P5's entire aesthetic without her. Besides being the face of the group, she has one of my favorite voices in Japanese music history. While she may not have the bold, endless range and gymnastic ability of what people in the West associate with great vocalists, like Christina Aguilera or Mariah Carey, say, she has what I consider quintessential 90s J-pop vocals: light but steady, clipped and precise, smooth, and impeccably articulated. There's nothing immediately recognizable about it in the context of her J-pop contemporaries, but her voice is absolutely perfect for the type of music P5 did, and her essential presence enhances the warmth of their sound.

the international playboy & playgirl record was released in many different versions, and since this is my favorite P5 record, I finally own all of them. It was first released in Japan on the group's own Readymade label under Nippon Columbia in a slim DVD-sized cardboard box, as well as on 12" vinyl that included selections from the album, rather than the record in its entirety. It was also distributed on the indie label Matador in the US, which came in a digipak with a booklet featuring various photos, and the lyrics printed in the original romaji next to English translations. Many of the song titles are close or close-enough adaptations of the original Japanese titles, although the Matador version swaps out a track called "THE INTERNATIONAL PIZZICATO FIVE MANSION" for a track that doesn't appear on the original Japanese release, called "La Règle du jeu." This is most likely due to the fact that the former is a track composed almost entirely of inconsequential "background music" set to Japanese dialogue. "La Règle du jeu" was originally released in 1998 as a stand-alone single with "Atarashii Uta," or "New Song." Matador also released this album on 12" vinyl, featuring different cover art than the original Japanese vinyl version (which are all different from the CD version), as well as a slightly different song selection (it also includes the missing track “THE INTERNATIONAL PIZZICATO FIVE MANSION” not found on the Matador CD).

There are a lot of Pizzicato Five songs and albums that I really like, but for me, this album really captures the essence of the group at their most commercial, and therefore, most inclusive, best. ROMANTIQUE '96 and HAPPY END OF THE WORLD might have cooler samples, but it also rendered them a bit more exclusive and closed off to anyone without the requisite hours spent in the stacks memorizing long-forgotten jazz riffs of the 1960s. Playboy & Playgirl took the snobbery out of Shibuya-kei in a way that made anyone capable of appreciating its ornate Copperplate flourishes. That’s what makes pop music so great, and while that might have contributed to the genre’s and group’s eventual dissolution, I will never pass on the opportunity to hear a sound made more accessible by appealing to more common-denominator foundations, rather than less, as long as it's done respectfully and successfully. P5 made both approaches work, and here, still managed to retain their signature sound without succumbing to a loss of what made them so unique.

Happy 25th anniversary to the international playboy & playgirl record, one of the greatest albums of time.

#pizzicato five #p5 #konishi yasuharu #maki nomiya #anniversaries #shibuya-kei #j-pop

[starlitheaven]

jjk character music taste headcanons

gojo: literally everything. he’ll listen to anything as long as he likes it and is the most open minded. pop, city pop, rock, punk, grunge, old hiphop, soul, r&b, electronic, literally anything and everything.

geto: shoegaze, 90’s alternative, goth, grunge, 90’s metal, dreamy indie, 90’s hiphop.

toji: dad music. classic rock, metal, soul, funk. Black Sabbath is his favorite band.

choso: metal, punk, grunge, dream pop/dreamy indie, clairo he loves clairo

megumi: alternative rock, indie, indie hiphop/rap only when yuuji recommended it

yuuji: indie hip hop/rap, modern rock, thrash, female artists in several genres, instrumentals, underground hip hop, indie (especially when Megumi recommends it)

#ok I’m procrastinating getting up that’s why I somewhat elaborated here lmao #jjk headcanons

[deathandsaints]

Saints Row Musical headcanons

Here's what I think each Saint is into musically. Boss (this only applies to my Boss): 80's and 90's Pop and Easy Listening. She grew up with it in The Pyramid and it reminded her that there was a world outside.

Gat: Is fairly eclectic but loves Classic Rock and Jazz. He's super normal about Billy Joel, Queen and Abba

Troy: Yacht Rock. He doesn't mind more classic hip hop but put on some Doobie Brothers or Christopher Cross and he's happy

Dex: He listens to Hip Hop because that's what he thinks is expected of him but likes more Trip Hop, Dub and experimental electronica

Lin: Metal or 2000s Trance. No inbetween

Pierce: Likes a little of everything. Classic RnB jams, 80s Pop, Opera. Pierce's record collection is like Criterion for music.

Shaundi: Depends on her mood. When she's getting ready to go out it's upbeat dance pop, when she was smoking back in the day it was 2000s indie rock and 90s alt rock.

Carlos: 90s/2000s Alt Rock

Kinzie: KINZIE. IS. A. JUGGALO. WOOP WOOP.

Angel: Latin Hip Hop and Metal

Zimos: Who cares... fine, 70s Funk and Soul I guess. Fuck that guy

Oleg: I may have got this from AOM but Nu-Metal. Also classical and opera. it was this that got him into bands like Nightwish

Ben King: Like Pierce, King is into a little of everything.

Matt: In his younger days Emo, but as he gets older more Goth and Industrial

Asha: Like Shaundi it depends on her mood. She grew up during the 90s Brit Pop explosion so she loves stuff like Blur and Oasis but also when she's training she likes a lot of Dance music like Basement Jaxx

#saints row #pry juggalo kinzie from my cold dead hands

[wallcrawld]

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❝ music taste counts as a heavy detail ! that's a total make or break. ❞ not to mention, he's not exactly keen on focusing on the heavy details. sitting around and talking about the tragedies they may or may not share is not exactly peter's idea of a good time. kabiguru had been fun, so far their time together had left him smiling and laughing, filled with a sense of comfort that only came with talking to another spider totem.

❝ 90's r&b and hip hop. indie rock. the works. i'll send you my patrol playlist. but be gentle on it. i'm always on the lookout to find new stuff i like. ❞ his head tilts curiously, ❝ what do you listen to ? ❞ peter pauses, ❝ wait ... what is music like on your world ? is it the same ? does indie rock even mean anything to you ? ❞

#LISTEN...hear me out..... peter is a born and raised new yorker #his music taste is TOTALLY gonna reflect that #attercorpus. #🕸️ ・゜゜ v. （ when have i ever cahooted ?! ) main.

[beemers-hell]

((What music I think your ocs listens to based on what they looks like,,, tell me if I got something right))

Eb listens to hyperpop. This is a statement, non-negotiable.

Bank likes webcore and the SCP-3005 roblox game soundtrack. (And hyperpop but like less then Ebony)

I think Boxxy listens to five finger death punch and the call of duty:black ops - zombies OST

Allison looks like she listens to Studio killers and literally nothing else

Leti is a little more open and listens to studio killers AND paramore

Raina looks like she had a punk phase and never left (Green Day, mcr)

I have a sneaking suspicion that Fumei listens to slipknot but just,,, quietly

Shinda listens to doja cat

Yume looks like she listens to classic rock! And otacore ((and the SCP-3005 roblox game soundtrack,,,))

Ikute listens to fukin Red Hot Chili Peppers,,,

I think Bank just overall likes chill game OSTs ((such as Pesterquest/Hiveswap OST, the Minecraft sound track and maybe the Madoka Magica soundtrack,,,))

I'd say these guesses are pretty good estimates!

Eb's music tastes are mostly within the realm of alt and nu metal, whatever the hell ICP's considered, and some pop music for flavoring. I definitely think hyperpop's a good fit for her, I should get on adding that to her playlist lmao.

Which, I've made one for her! As well as Bank and Boxxy. Boxxy's is a bit of a WIP atm cause I just made it, but Eb and Bank's are pretty solid. Here's the links:

Eb's Napster Account

Bank's mp3 Player

Boxxy's Myspace Page

Anyway,

Bank's tastes are fairly accurate. She likes funky music, I wouldn't necessarily say webcore, more in the lines of EDM and City Funk, and she's actually the one most into otacore! She also listens to indie music and bedroom pop, and some alt rock occasionally. Sad girl hours lmao

Boxxy most definitely listens to hard shit, but I think she's mostly into really hyper, really manic, really wack ass music, ESPECIALLY if that music is HARD on the bass. Intense bass is like ecstasy on her eardrums.

Yeah Allison listens to Studio Killers lmfao. She also would listen to stuff like hip hop and reggaetón, and on a completely different side, shit like horrorcore!

Leti is mostly into 90's alt rock and folk. She also frequently listens to classic Spanish tunes, but that's a thing her, Allison, and Ben share together.

Raina is a fucking punk and she listens to a lot of emo and punk classics. However, she's also really into hip hop and rap. As well as house music. And, being the gamer she is, she of course is massively into Video Game OSTs of all kinds. Also she's a piano player and loves classical pieces. She's a fucking paradox

Fumei's a hardcore rock and metal lover! In fact He, Ikute, and Shinda all are! Ikute is more of a bigger fan of Slipknot than Fumei is, but he still enjoys them. He's more into stuff like Metallica and Rob Zombie. And he also really likes classic rock, I'd say he's a bigger fan of Red Hot Chili Peppers than Ikute is lol. He also has a bit of flavoring in his tastes cause he's also really into ska and like, stoner surfer ass music, Sublime is def one of his fav groups.

I think Shinda does listen to Doja but I don't think she's much a listener of her genre. Like I said before, she's more about Rock and Metal. However, she's also really big on Video Game OSTs like Raina is. Mostly Sonic OSTs. She is a diehard Sonic fan lmao

I don't need to repeat it with Ikute, I already said the thing. Anyway, he also fucking loves EDM and dubstep. Dude makes that shit himself and he's pretty good at it tbh

Yume like indie stuff, she likes EDM but not as much as Ikute, and she likes J-pop and chiptune. Her taste is kind of similar to Bank so I won't repeat the same things, she's just into mostly sad/numbing music. She also loves certain game OSTs! She probably listens to the Silent Hill 3 soundtrack a lot.

#beemer asks #beemers lore #beemers ocs #slash pos