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I discovered Kino through doomer music compilations, turned out it's some sort of Russian Nirvana, except not grunge, but rather should be lumped with post-punk or something like that. Speaking in general, I've got that feeling that Russians do have a stronger sense of being a doomer than the rest of us.
I don't really follow the lyrics (assuming I could), but I don't really follow the lyrics of English language songs as well. It's like, usually they blend together like the voice was just another instrument. Like, I tune out as far as it concerns actually separating and understanding what's being said. I don't have that only when I listen to songs in my native language. I guess my knowledge of English is just not as good as I like to believe.
Also, I've gotta listen through that Venezuelan doomer music compilation one day finally.
Sidenote: I'm wondering whether you'd be into Kino's Journey, the anime series. I haven't watched it myself though but I feel like I expect some observe-the-world-around-me vibes from it.
(Yes, I know this Kino is entirely unrelated.)
The doomer music thing made me wonder if I missed a post and turns out I did miss something unrelated: Nopes, never heard of these (besides the embedded video you posted afterwards).
All Kinos are that Kino.
I've got a feeling they made up a bunch of names, but I don't mind it all that much.
That's the rap remix, here's the original:
I gotta say this is the best thing since Synthesizers in Futility covers of Mgła.
Frog synth, a thematic subgenre of somfy synth, which is a musical subgenre of dungeon synth.
Basically goth music as it is today owes its lineage to a single recording of Bulgarian choir music.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Mystère_des_Voix_Bulgares
I guess I can bits of similarity between some anime music I've heard, such as the use of voice as an instrument in the music of the MONACA group (e.g. the Yuuki Yuuna wa Yuusha de aru soundtrack) and of composer Akiko Shikata, but I'm not sure if those are coincidences or actual evidence of influences. I also thought of some vocals from the Symphogear series (e.g. in Tsubasa Kazanari's songs) but I have a feeling those are more rooted in Japanese traditions?
It ended up mostly being YOASOBI being depressed about not being as popular as BTS.
Literally the documentary had LE SSERAFIM, NewJeans, BTS, Girls Generation and probably some other K-Pop acts I've already forgotten, whereas there was just like YOASOBI on the Japanese side (at one point they play "Aitakatta" but don't mention AKB48 by name...?).
They even had NewJeans producer have at least 10m of interview time 20 days before she became the most highly controversial figure in K-Pop.
It was kind of super disappointing. Especially in terms of the types of artists that could get popular overseas considering Idol by YOASOBI is the most meme song ever, and speaking of songs that got super big via an anime, why didn't they get LiSA to talk about Gurenge?
They could have had FAKY or FANTASTICS (or any LDH people honestly) but noooooope.
Stuff like this is why K-Pop is dominating the Western scene whilst nobody knows about the most accessible J-Pop acts.
Youtube served me some Krautrock/New Wave/experimental synth-pop from 1986 Norway that sounds a bit like a soundtrack to some cyberpunk story.
Atelier Totori track 111 (probably disc 1 track 11) - "A Storekeeper in a Small Village"
lively track in C major / E major.
codename: fm_shop_a
I have a feeling I've got something more to say about this but I can't remember what it was.
The fun part is, I could swear I was in these places. I guess that's the charm of commieblocks.
Imindain, "Black Water." Music to rot away to.
(Like, not like, die to. When you die it doesn't matter to you anymore. This is the music to rot away to. Mark the difference. I remember it as one of the earliest tunes I heard from Youtube after we had the internet installed, and after I recently recalled it I couldn't help myself but share it with you guys.)
(I realize SMART was released when they genuinely believed LE SSERAFIM had outgrown Japan and were doing promotions in English for Overwatch which is why it has an English version but, goodness gracious, do us some justice and release SMART in Japanese).
In case you've never heard any music from Brunei, here's dungeon synth from Brunei.
Which is hilarious compared to songs like T-ARA's TTL which has like three Japanese versions.
Though truth remains that K-Pop depends on Japan more than South Korea would like to admit, and Japan is a country where people are very insular and see foreign languages outside of English as odd (but also Korean specifically because of the history between the two countries).
So to date, every single major group outside of NewJeans* has released a large part of their songs in Japanese and have many Japan-original songs (like almost every SNSD Girls Generation vol. [x] album).
Some groups, like (my beloved) TOHOSHINKI just convert to full-time Japanese and do Korean stuff as a secondary thing.
*NewJeans also just released their first Japanese single, and would probably be doing more stuff in Japanese except that NewJeans are also in the business of being excessively dramatic despite having zero actual discography.
One group that tried to fly way too close to the sun and skip Japan entirely to focus on China was EXO, apparently not learning from how JUNO's career had gone (he promoted himself as ZUNO in China and released entirely one song, yet his Japanese career as JUNO lasted waaaay longer than it should have).
EXO just basically never caught on in China and then had to do concerts in Japan with entirely Korean setlists (there was no way they were going to do Chinese setlists in Japan, le gasp). EXO's Chinese career lasted literally only their debut year, whereas they were eventually forced to like, learn Japanese (they were at 2NE1* levels of My First Japanese when they started like 6 years post-debut).
*2NE1, who could be considered a precursor to f(x) but with more depressing lyrics*, had a really "My First Japanese" first album.
*2NE1's bangers include... UGLY!
And LONELY!
Also, LOVE IS OUCH, which like, self-explanatory.