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mokkung · 4 years

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映画「ソーシャル・ネットワーク」のサウンドトラックが素晴らしい

僕が毎度聴いているTBSラジオの番組、「アフター６ジャンクション」。6月15日の特集は『今、日本の「環境音楽」が注目されている理由とは？その歴史とは？』でした。

大変面白い特集だったのですが、“環境音楽”の話題で唐突に思い出したのが、映画「ソーシャル・ネットワーク」（2010年）のサウンドトラックです。「ソーシャル・ネットワーク」はデヴィッド・フィンチャー監督による、Facebook創設を描いた映画で、映画自体とても素晴らしく、僕も大好きな映画のひとつなのですが、サウンドトラックも大変良い！

・映画「ソーシャル・ネットワーク」予告　（デヴィッド・フィンチャー映画は傑作揃いですが、中でも「ファイト・クラブ」と本作は群を抜いて素晴らしいというのが僕の個人的意見）

このサウンドトラックは、Nine Inch Nails（NIN）のトレント・レズナーと、様々な映画・ドラマの音楽制作に関与しているアッティカス・ロスの２人が制作しています。この２人は「ドラゴン・タトゥーの女」や「ゴーン・ガール」といったデヴィッド・フィンチャー映画の音楽を担当し、「バード・ボックス」、「WAVES/ウェイブス」といった最近の話題作も含め、何度も協同で映画音楽を作っています。近日公開予定のピクサー新作「ソウルフル・ワールド」もこの２人が担当しており、最近ではNINの活動より、映画音楽の仕事が目立っているような気がしています。

・Nine Inch Nails “Closer” ・Nine Inch NailsのTシャツを着たキャプテン・マーベル

本サントラはピアノの美メロとぼんやりした不穏なノイズを組み合わせたり、淡々とソリッドでデジタル感の強いビートを連ねたり、明らかにアンビエント音楽（環境音楽）を意識しています。NINっぽさはありつつ、主張が強過ぎない楽曲たち。映画音楽というのは、登場人物たちの状��や心情表現、ひいてはキャラクター描写にもなり得る重要な要素ですが、本作の音楽はその要素だけでなく、無音では出せないけど、しっかりした旋律を奏でることでは表せない、空気感を感じさせるような繊細な表現になっています。それはこの映画で描かれる、登場人物たちの日常と成り上がりの過程、背後にある危うさ、成功とその儚さや崩れていく人間関係の予感をお膳立てするのにとても効果的です。また明確なリズムのある楽曲も、電子音によるビートが主体であくまで背景としての存在に徹している感じです。そのような点で映画音楽であり環境音楽です。落ち着くようで落ち着かない感じの、いい気分になるわけではないが嫌な気分になるわけでもない、なんとも言えない絶妙さを持った楽曲がそろっています。そのためか、映画を既に観てても、一体どのシーンに使用された楽曲なのかピンとこないものが多いかもしれません。ただやはり映画のサウンドトラックなので、全曲並べて緩急と物語性を感じさせてくれるので、１枚のアルバムとしても完成度が高い！

僕はちょっと集中しないといけない作業のときに、このアルバムを聴き流しながら行うことがありますが、結構効果的で、無音でやるより明らかに良いテンションが維持できると思っています。コーヒーでも飲みながら物思いにふけるのにも良いかな。映画を観た方はもちろんですが、未見の場合もおすすめです。

車でかけたり、レジャーで聴くのには向いていませんが、アンビエント音楽として楽しむ一枚！

※ちなみに最初に述べたアフター6ジャンクションで特集されていたアルバム、“Kankyō Ongaku: Japanese Ambient, Environmental & New Age Music 1980-1990”も素晴らしいので是非興味のある方はどうぞ。

（英語でKankyo Ongakuって書いてあるところが素晴らしいですね）

#音楽 #music #映画音楽 #環境音楽 #ambient #ソーシャル・ネットワーク #the social network #sound track #サウンドトラック #サウンド・トラック #サントラ #Nine Inch Nails #トレント・レズナー #アンビエント音楽 #アンビエント #デヴィッド・フィンチャー

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retentionalfinitude2 · 4 years

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Top 10 musical discoveries that accompanied my reading this year (not necessarily released in 2019):

Luciano Cilio, Dialoghi Del Presente

Tony Conrad, Four Violins

Deerhunter, Why Hasn’t Everything Already Disappeared?

Kali Malone, The Sacrificial Code

Mount Eerie, Lost Wisdom pt. 2

Nivhek, After its own death / Walking in a spiral towards the house

Aine O’Dwyer, Music for Church Cleaners

Éliane Radigue, Trilogie de la Mort

Terry Riley, Shri Camel

Various Artists, Kankyo Ongaku: Japanese Ambient, Environmental & New Age Music 1980-1990

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caveatauditor · 4 years

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Best albums of 2019

I am a strong believer in belated music lists. Hindsight! The past year was stressful for me even before COVID-19 broke, and my favorite music was on average noisier and more irritating than usual. I find comfort and excitement in a mischievous sensibility; if music as chaotic and unpleasant as Jpegmafia’s can hold together, maybe there’s hope yet.

1. 100 Gecs, 1000 Gecs

I’m addicted to everything that I see, yeah! Including screamo death growls, Auto-Tuned cackles, comically heavyhanded drops, pop-punk bangers in disguise, secretly tender love confessions, insanely catchy hooks, and flimsy guitar trash. This marvelous album throws every absurd pop trope of the past decade into a kaleidoscopic blender, spitting out a misshapen musical wind-up toy that never stops exploding and recoagulating, falling down a flight of stairs and revealing a new ghastly face with each bounce. Taken as some musical equivalent of shitposting by writers who think irony and sarcasm are the same, it’s a pop mindfuck that computes emotionally, as awkward kids and/or evil spirits of chaos Laura Les and Dylan Brady make their voices big and ugly and demented because that’s how they feel. Anyway, shitposting is its own species of rock & roll.

2. Taylor Swift, Lover

To be straight is for experience to confirm expectations. Taylor Swift has written about the delight of watching fantasies fulfilled (“Today Was a Fairytale”), renewed (“Begin Again”), or constructed (“Wildest Dreams”). Even when putatively rejecting conventional heteromance, she also sneakily reconstructs it by using its same vocabulary (“Speak Now”). Her best songs address not just desire but the stories we tell about desire, the moments when dreams and reality converge. But Lover is the first time she’s written about the delight of watching experience surpass expactations, the moment when fantasies are gleefully, unexpectedly discarded for something better (“I once believed love would be burning red, but it’s golden” is a lyric whose emotional force requires no familiarity with her catalogue). It radiates calm, a long exhaled breath after years of drama. She made a monogamous maturity move her queerest album, and the colorful electronic beats sound so pretty in the afterglow.

3. Lana Del Rey, Norman Fucking Rockwell

A quietly hysterical collection of observed Hollywood singer-songwriter fictions, played on the piano by a glamorous lady of the canyon who has just shooed guests out of her shag-carpeted parlor and drawn her nicotine-stained curtains after watching California tumble into the sea. In the same year hating boomers became mainstream, the year’s most critically acclaimed album was also a tribute to the most boomerific of rock critics. Greil Marcus, of course, whose taste has never before been so exquisitely pandered to, and I think that’s beautiful.

4. Blueface, Dirt Bag

Blueface doesn’t rap off beat, it’s the beat that can’t keep up. Or as Blueface himself puts it: “I’m literally talking in this bitch and it’s still knockin!” Or as Greg Tate puts it in “The Persistence of Vision: Storyboard P”: “At moments of revolution in artistic form, innovation frequently involves discarding flashy displays of technique. The reduction of ostentatious moves in favour of subtler ones is often read as laziness or limited ability (Flyboy 2: 86).”

5. Jpegmafia, All My Heroes Are Cornballs

Jammed up by jerky segues and pauses, constantly shifting to the next random thing in an endless procession of abrasive diversions, this experimental rap clusterbomb fashions a music of dynamic impatience, wrenching ugly harmonic convergence from the splattering of keyboard doodles, industrial crunches, electronic glitches, roaring guitars, death-factory sirens, repressed shrieks, goopy fusion keyboards, smears of electronic color. Jpegmafia’s rhymes compute mainly as yet more barrage, more proper nouns competing for your attention, but there’s a mischievous energy in his voice that adds a crucial smidgen of humanity. If this music seems the product of online information overload, it’s also the sound of working in the gig economy and/or the service industry, where “directed attention fatigue” has become a cautionary buzzword. My headaches feel like “Rap Grow Old & Die x No Child Left Behind”.

6. Otoboke Beaver, Itekoma Hits

Hardcore punk as hardcore comedy. Rage channeled into hyperactivity. Gnarled riffs and howled tantrums played at violent speed. Keening voices letting loose because they can’t hold the noise inside. Tension and release games crammed with sonic jokes. Tempo changes and dynamic jerks that seem tokens of the band’s impatience but in fact work as tension-building devices, with explosive kickback later--or now! Dissonance as byproduct of acceleration. In the playful intricacy of their group shout-singing I hear the Raincoats too. Angry giggles. Boom!

7. Kim Gordon, No Home Record

Lacking the guitars of her former bandmates, she threw a wall of synthesized barbed wire around some of her meanest basslines ever and made something unprecedented, for her and Sonic Youth--electroindustrial, basically, riding a bass rumble so deep it overpowers the music. The spoken pieces here (“Don’t Play It”, “Cookie Butter”) initially recall her willful avant-filler on A Thousand Leaves and NYC Ghosts & Flowers; then you notice how much more brutally these tracks bring the noise.

8. Kankyo Ongaku: Japanese Ambient, Environmental & New Age Music 1980-1990

Billed as ambient but sprightlier than the aesthetic that term suggests to an American audience, this two-hour set captures a moment in Japanese music history when the influence of Erik Satie and John Cage intersected with new ideas about architectural acoustics, inspiring a craze for minimalist electronica designed to peacefully fill a space (as in-store music for Muji, say). Lent contemporary relevance by the influx of chill lo-fi hip-hop beats to study to as well as the vaporwave-derived fascinations with banality and nostalgia, it’s considerably more beautiful than those lineages would imply, as tranquil and friendly as a book of nature poems. These pieces abound with cute tunelets, yet derive their spacious charm from nonmelodic elements--bells, pitched percussion, and the recorded outdoors: running water, chattering birds. Unlike most ambient music, they are not self-contained; when played outside, the synthesizers merge with the sounds of the city.

9. Teejayx6, The Swipe Lessons

By styling himself as an expert scammer, Teejayx6 invents a new internet-era edition of gangsta macho: he’s a master criminal, king of the deep web, fluent in cryptocurrency, relying on his wits to stay ahead of the online piracy brigade. Don’t cross him, lest he steal your grandmother’s social security number. Over darkly stylized beats, his chattering, perpetually surprised flow enters a realm of formal delight accessible to only the most playful. When he hits you with the requisite “All my fans, I really wouldn’t even scam you, I was just playing,” he acknowledges the figurative nature of the game.

10. Clairo, Immunity

A queer adolescent musical diary, tracing the highs and lows of a conflicted relationship that ends ambiguously. Rostam’s production lapses into self-parody exactly once, with the harpsichord flourishes on “Impossible”; otherwise the smoky bedroom-pop shimmer is flawless. “Sofia” exists for inclusion on romantic playlists.

#favorite albums #best of 2019 #100 gecs #taylor swift #lana del rey

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bushdog · 5 years

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seeyoucdvinyl · 3 years

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Couple of titles that survived the web store last week! 1. Kankyo Ongaku: Japanese Ambient, Environmental & New Age Music 1980-1990 2. Beyoncé - Homecoming: The Live Album (4xLP Set) 3. The Soft Pink Truth - Shall We Go On Sinning So That Grace May Increase? 4. Selena - Ones (Re-Release) 5. The Shins - Oh! inverted World (20th Anniversary Remaster) 6. Arlo Parks - Collapsed in Sunbeams (Deep Red Vinyl) 7. Various Artists - Scott Pilgrim vs The World (Ramona Flowers Edition) All available In-Store and Online now! See You Soon!! (at See You CD & Vinyl) https://www.instagram.com/p/CRH7VcKryxg/?utm_medium=tumblr

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josephlog · 3 years

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#read

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beatdisc · 4 years

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Some fantastic re-issues, compilations & box sets through the store this week. Here's a rundown of some of our favourites! No Trend - Too Many Human / Teen Love $150 (LP + 12" + 7" + 2CD @dragcityrecords box set containing exact vinyl reproductions of their debut album, EP and single, plus the same material on CD along with bonus demo & live sessions, with a 40p book, zine, flyers & more) @esgtheband - Come Away With ESG $40 (@fire_records re-issue of the influental 1983 debut LP from New York no-wave / post-punk / funk band originally released on the esteemed 99 Records label) Talk Talk - The Colour Of Spring $55 / Spirit Of Eden $65 (EU import vinyl remasters of two excellent late-80's era Talk Talk albums, both packaged with HQ audio-DVD's) Kankyo Ongaku $120 (@lightintheatticrecords 3xLP box set feat. Japanese Ambient, Environmental & New Age Music 1980 - 1990. First ever fully-licensed release outside of Japan, featuring Hiroshi Yoshimura, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Haruomi Hosono & more) @instagbv - Alien Lanes $55 (colour) / $40 (black) (25th anniversary @matadorrecords multi-colour re-issue of the 1995 classic, limited to 2500 copies) Duster - Contemporary Movement $45 (@thenumerogroup 1st time vinyl re-issue of the 2000 sophomore album from Californian slowcore/space-rock group) @themercuryrev - All Is Dream $60 (Cherry Red Records 2xLP red & black marbled colour vinyl re-issue of the 2001 album) @richman_jonathan- I, Jonathan $40 (Craft Recordings 1st ever vinyl press of the 1992 solo album) The Zombies - s/t $40 (@craftrecordings mono re-issue of the 1965 debut album feat. "She's Not There") (at Beatdisc Records) https://www.instagram.com/p/CE_PnU8B2sf/?igshid=1363umso17s5

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suburbandecay · 4 years

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Suburban Decay: Best of 2019

Jenny Holzer, Street Posters 1978-1983

From our humble home of D.C., we celebrate a beautiful, ample year of culture, though not without significant losses. Beloved venues and community gathering spaces closed, as rising rents pushed the truly unique to the margins, a drain increased by the regular churn of departures. And yet, destructive consolidation did not stop a wealth of great work. May 2020 be equally blessed. In no particular order:

Blacks’ Myths II

Albums/EPs

Geo Rip - TTT Mixtape

Christopher Tignor - A Light Below

Young Thug - So Much Fun

Blacks’ Myths - II

Sleepy G - Yes Mix

Bill Converse - Hallways

Jefre Cantu-Ledesma - Tracing Back the Radiance

Joy O - Slipping

Kankyo Ongaku: Japanese Ambient, Environmental & New Age Music 1980-1990

Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross - Watchmen

Future Times - FIGS

Hotel Neon - Vanishing Forms

K. Leimer - Irrational Overcast

Gunna in “Hot”

Tracks

Young Thug - Hot (ft. Gunna)

Off the Meds - Belter (Joy O Belly Remix)

Geo Rip - Tryin’

Baronhawk Poitier - Phickle Pickle

AceMoMA - Lucky Number 12

Black Taffy - Lantern Flies in Mist

Megan Thee Stallion - Big Ole Freak

Davis Galvin - Bass Biology Interface

AceMo - Myrtle Ave Party Track

Blacks’ Myths - Mammy’s Revenge

Martyn x Dolo Percussion - Misfit City Rolling

Ali Berger - Blow Remix

D.F. - Going Into Trance

Christopher Tignor - What You Must Make of Me

Future - Jumpin on a Jet

Max D - Shout Out Seefeel

Doubler - Urban Heat Island

On the Run - May 7, 10:35 P.M.

Anne Müller - Drifting Circles

Iron Age @ St Vitus, Brooklyn

Shows

Sebastian Mullaert @ Normandie

Iron Age @ St Vitus

Dreamcast, Model Home, Babby @ Rock n Roll Hotel

5ive, Powder, Sleepy G @ Aftermarket

This Will Destroy You, Christopher Tignor @ The Miracle Theater

Ghostly XX: Gold Panda, Shigeto, Mary Lattimore @ Regent Theater

Mdou Moctar, Horse Lords @ Union Stage

Geo Rip, Chaperone, Sofia Lakis @ Studio Ga Ga

Ladytron, Lou Rebecca @ Brooklyn Steel

Sleepy G b2b DJ Freez @ Mood Ring

Blacks Myths, Sunwatchers, Anteloper @ Comet Ping Pong

Watchmen, “This Extraordinary Being”

Film and Television

The Lighthouse

Mister America

Midsommar

Barry Season 2

Country Music

The Boys

Watchmen

I Think You Should Leave

Legion Season 3

Hot Streets

On Cinema at the Cinema Season 11

The Irishman

The Righteous Gemstones

#best of 2019

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