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  • Originally posted by mindseye
    Originally posted by Dissident

    there I said it. I'm not saying they can't be artists. Their architecture is beautiful. But when it comes to music... What have they contributed? Flutes? bamboo reeds?


    They've contributed a lot to the world's music, but your question seems to be more like "what have they contributed to western music".
    I know that Brendan Perry and Lisa Gerrard, as a duo in 'Dead Can Dance' and separately, use Chinese instruments in their music.

    They also use instruments from India and Iran, and then of course you have the influence that Javanese gamelan has had on modern classical music (Steve Reich, Philip Glass) and some forms of modern 'popular' music- I'd say the German groups 'Neu' and 'Can' show signs of definite East Asian influences.
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    • More obvious would be the recent trend towards sampling asian music in hip-hop. It seems to have petered out a bit now but it was kinda big for a while.
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      • Originally posted by Buck Birdseed
        More obvious would be the recent trend towards sampling asian music in hip-hop. It seems to have petered out a bit now but it was kinda big for a while.

        I usually wanted them to play all the Bollywood piece they were sampling and skip the hip-hop/rap song.
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        • Currently listening to an album by a Japanese band called Guitar Wolf I borrowed from the public library. They're described as "Japanese (sic) Greatest Jet Rock'n'Roll Band!!" on the cover which is fitting as the entire thing appears to have been recorded inside a jet engine, or possibly a wind tunnel, with ridiculous distortion and echo effects applied to every instruments and voice and some seriously pushed-out stereo. Otherwise they're a rather conventional ramones-style punk band.

          Great fun all round.
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          • Originally posted by molly bloom

            I know that Brendan Perry and Lisa Gerrard, as a duo in 'Dead Can Dance' and separately, use Chinese instruments in their music.
            Another DCD fan?

            Their 1990 disc "Aion" was the catalyst to my interest in renaissance music, eventually leading me to trade in my electric bass for recorders adn crumhorns.

            I saw them live around that time, in Berkeley CA, at the Greek Theater. Great show!
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            • Originally posted by Boshko

              Lots of people here like mainstream "alternative" such as Nirvana etc. etc. etc. which is certainly a wonderful change of pace from the pop, techno-pop, and pop-rap.
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              • Originally posted by Buck Birdseed
                Currently listening to an album by a Japanese band called Guitar Wolf I borrowed from the public library. They're described as "Japanese (sic) Greatest Jet Rock'n'Roll Band!!" on the cover which is fitting as the entire thing appears to have been recorded inside a jet engine, or possibly a wind tunnel, with ridiculous distortion and echo effects applied to every instruments and voice and some seriously pushed-out stereo. Otherwise they're a rather conventional ramones-style punk band.

                Great fun all round.
                Guitar wolf are one of the most famous Japanese Bands to make it west.

                Also extremely good are the Mad Capsule Markets. Great pop/punk/metal/techno mix.
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                  • I have/had a selection of Japanese punk, before I ripped and sold a chunk of it.

                    Boredoms
                    Buffalo Daughter
                    Cornelius
                    Aube
                    Merzbow
                    Melt Banana
                    The Brilliant Green
                    Green Machine
                    Shonen Knife

                    J-Pop
                    Sugar Plant
                    Pizzicato 5
                    Sakura
                    Utada Hikaro

                    I used to listen to the J-pop channel on Spinner before the FCC killed internet radio.
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                    • Originally posted by mindseye

                      Another DCD fan?

                      Their 1990 disc "Aion" was the catalyst to my interest in renaissance music, eventually leading me to trade in my electric bass for recorders adn crumhorns.

                      I saw them live around that time, in Berkeley CA, at the Greek Theater. Great show!
                      Long time fan. I now live near Lisa Gerrard, too....
                      Well, not while I'm in London, I mean back in Australia.

                      'Spleen and Ideal' is one of my favourites of theirs, along with a promo sampler I bought at a record fair which has a selection of their tracks from a North American 4 album box set release they did.

                      I like their tracks on 'Lonely As An Eyesore' too, and the tracks they did on This Mortal Coil's 'It'll End in Tears'.
                      Last edited by molly bloom; January 18, 2005, 13:20.
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                      • Originally posted by OzzyKP


                        Kirk Hammet is filipino...

                        You call yourself a Metallica fan...

                        Plus that guy in Smashing Pumpkins.
                        I never heard of him being filipino

                        I think after your family is in the U.S. for a certain amount of time, they automatically become americans . Especially if there has been some intermixing.

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                        • Utada Hikaro

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                          • I think his mother was full filipino, his dad was in the merchant marine or something. Kirk though was born in San Fran.
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                            • Originally posted by Q Cubed
                              Utada Hikaro

                              Hikaru.
                              Close enough for something typed quickly.
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                              • Originally posted by molly bloom
                                'Spleen and Ideal' is one of my favourites of theirs, along with a promo sampler I bought at a record fair which has a selection of their tracks from a North American 4 album box set release they did.
                                The jacket of "Spleen and Ideal" was always one of of my favorite album covers.

                                I like their tracks on 'Lonely As An Eyesore' too, and the tracks they did on This Mortal Coil's 'It'll End in Tears'.

                                Sounds like another 4AD fan!
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