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First, since I'm really hooked on "Lopez", I thought I'd share it with all you people out on the intertubes: http://www.sendspace.com/file/gcn9ho
Finished the next album on the list, Aoki Takamasa's "Quantum." It should have been Day Two (12:33 AM), but it'll have to be Day Two (7:29 PM) instead:
Listening to "Quantum" is almost like watching a flower bloom. Takamasa's fluid soundscapes of electronic noises and sounds spill across your ears as you stay in rapt attention following the musical evolution. The album's first track, "A Girl at the Corner" opens with a very soft, low hum, and a gentle woman's voice singing a strangely familiar (and yet totally alien) melody with the words, "Close your eyes... and cover your ears," before keyboards and electronic hums start to modulate and play together. Before long, the melody set up by the keyboards changes into bubbling, spastic (but never tense) stutters and spatters of sound, but it's all very... round. Soft. This is how the whole album operates: it sets you up with an idea, a theme, and then builds off it very subtly and slowly, until it's completely changed without you noticing. Takamasa does an excellent job playing with sound. Favorites include "Frozen Fountain," made up of chopped and sampled bits of what sounds like someone chipping away at ice, talking with a friend; "They've Been Waiting," which sounds like the blue-green lull of fluorescent lights and sticky hospital linoleum floors; and "You Look Nice," a simple variation on a looped keyboard melody, which could be soundtracked to a scene of lovers waking up to the first rays of sunlight at dawn. It's all very simple, and yet dizzyingly complex at the same time.
Finished the next album on the list, Aoki Takamasa's "Quantum." It should have been Day Two (12:33 AM), but it'll have to be Day Two (7:29 PM) instead:
Listening to "Quantum" is almost like watching a flower bloom. Takamasa's fluid soundscapes of electronic noises and sounds spill across your ears as you stay in rapt attention following the musical evolution. The album's first track, "A Girl at the Corner" opens with a very soft, low hum, and a gentle woman's voice singing a strangely familiar (and yet totally alien) melody with the words, "Close your eyes... and cover your ears," before keyboards and electronic hums start to modulate and play together. Before long, the melody set up by the keyboards changes into bubbling, spastic (but never tense) stutters and spatters of sound, but it's all very... round. Soft. This is how the whole album operates: it sets you up with an idea, a theme, and then builds off it very subtly and slowly, until it's completely changed without you noticing. Takamasa does an excellent job playing with sound. Favorites include "Frozen Fountain," made up of chopped and sampled bits of what sounds like someone chipping away at ice, talking with a friend; "They've Been Waiting," which sounds like the blue-green lull of fluorescent lights and sticky hospital linoleum floors; and "You Look Nice," a simple variation on a looped keyboard melody, which could be soundtracked to a scene of lovers waking up to the first rays of sunlight at dawn. It's all very simple, and yet dizzyingly complex at the same time.