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Add comment January 30th, 2008

Bubblegum Crisis

20 Years after being released, Bubblegum Crisis may look dated, but the character design, action sequences, and music still hold a strong appeal. Who wouldn’t like a Bladerunner inspired hot girl in a band “Priss and the Replicants” On the DVD are action infused animated music videos that are like official AMVs by the studio. Quite amusing are the horribly cheesey “Live” music video versions of the song - seen 2nd below. There’s an even worse one on the DVD but I couldn’t find a Youtube of it. Third down is another music BGC video that I can’t help but think Daft Punk was inspired by when they made their ‘Discovery’ album movie ‘Interstella 5555″ (Features blatant Queen song ripped off riff)

Add comment December 13th, 2007

Perfume - Polyrhythm Video

Perfume, a terribly cute pop singer trio from Japan, is releasing their Polyrhythm single in September. The video is interesting, and features the usual homebrew looking choreography. The song ain’t bad - their usual catchy happy dance-pop. I <3 Perfume!

2 comments August 22nd, 2007

Monkey Majik + Yoshida Brothers - Change

I’d not heard of Monkey Majik before, but stumbled across this video of their song Change, that combines traditional Japanese shamisen instruments, english vocals with a rock sound. The Yoshida brothers on the shamisen are pretty amazing in this track. It works surprisingly well and I like it even though it’s not really my cup of tea. Looking up Monkey Majik seems to indicate they’re based out of Japan - which is quite fascinating for a (mostly) english singing band. This track (which is pretty cheesey) has them crooning fluently in Japanese.