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Is it just me, or do Jesse and James from Pokemon look like the kind of people who'd listen to Visual Kei in the early 90s?
I could imagine Jesse listening to X Japan and COLOR while James listens to D'erlanger and Zi:Kill.Also my headcanon is that they met at a Kamaitachi concert
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Imagine if outdoor Visual Kei concerts were still a thing
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Marvelous Cruelty had a show outdoors semi-recently
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Wow facebook's new layout is fucking shit.
Seriously, the old layout had nothing wrong with it! Why does everything got to look like a mobile app now?
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@Enki You're right lol. The only reason I even use it is because all my friends are on there lol. If it were up to me, all of my friends would use FriendProject (a clone of old myspace with all the old HTML editing)
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It's funny going all these years assuming Kamaitachi sounded like The Dead Pop Stars and Genkaku Allergy,
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Man I forgot how much I enjoyed Aya Hirano's music. I wonder what she's up to these days
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Doing stage musicals nowaday, for the most part, following her scandal in the anime world. Her voice has gotten more polished:
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=平野綾+mozart
First vid. had a lot of Japanese people who previously knew of her really surprised (mostly in a good way).
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Thanks to the power of Classic Shell, the Wayback machine, and Seamonkey browser, and my evergoing quest for a nostalgia trip, I have made this cursed but blessed screenshot
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@Ikna It's both awful and awesome for me lol. Blessed but cursed.
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It's really crazy listening to proto-kei bands like G-Schmitt and BOOWY, playing melodies and riffs that would become cliche in Visual Kei, many of them still cliches today.
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Their music and aesthetic did influence early Vkei bands though. Like, listen to the song Catholic. Visual Kei literally partially grew from Japanese Goth bands. Obviously G-Schmitt pre-dates Visual Kei, but their music was definitely an important step. Many of the first Visual Kei musicians were goth, and probably listened to Japanese goth bands as well as your standard western goth bands.
Obviously G-Schmitt isn't full on Visual Kei, but to say they didn't influence Visual Kei at all, is really stretching it.
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And then there's the great Auto-Mod, who had Tomoyasu Hotei on guitars before he moved on to Boowy. I always considered Auto-Mod/Genet to be the secret grandfather of visual kei. It always felt like Kiyoharu got his early warbly voice in Kuroyume more from Genet than the obvious Robert Smith. The Tribute to Auto-Mod album really drives that home with Kiyoharu's epic Deathtopia cover.
And then there's Libido who I've gotten into recently who was connected with YBO2 and the Transrecord scene of krautrock. Their songs definitely had gothic moments both aurally and visually. One of Libido's early guitarists actually was one of the founding members of G-Schmitt before moving on to other projects.
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Because WiL Francis is.. well.. you know, I'm gonna steal the song "Knife Blood Nightmare" from Aiden. It's now called ナイフ・ブラード・ナイトメア, and it's by Kitsunetsuki (狐憑キ) and it's turned into a Kote Kei song
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I just had a camera stuck down my throat to see if I had any physical GI issues and now I'm high on anesthesia lmao
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Holy fuck, so y'all know that picture of Yuuga I found where he looks like a total scene kid?
Yeah that same picture, although blurry, is in the background of the Akuma Kicha cover, on the TV
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This is a weird question, but am I the only one who thinks that smart phones have taken the wrong route, design-wise?
I'm sorry... but I really don't see the appeal in having wafer-thin phones that can bend in your pocket if designed poorly, or phones that are literally all screen.
Imo, those don't improve my experience at all. If anything, they are a detriment to it because there is so fucking little to hold onto when watching a video. It honestly feels unergonomic to use, and this may just be my nostalgia for the early 2000's speaking, but I honestly miss the physical feel of old-school smart phones, and I honestly don't feel that just making the entire phone a screen, with no physical buttons at all, or even edges, really improves the user experience.
I honestly would be happy with a phone that has the physical design of a t-mobile sidekick, but with the modern capabilities of modern smart phones.
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You forgot about the biggest crime in smartphone design in the last years: removing the headphone jack. I don't care how convenient it is to have no cables - the jack worked fine and the sound quality is better and more reliable. I know people who'd smash their bluetooth speakers and headphones against the wall if it weren't for the peer pressure and "coolness factor".
The last years we didn't have any true improvements as storage, memory and cpu capabilities are only slowly getting better and at this point it's just producers and brands inventing new gimmicks to incite people to buy the lastest tech. Shit like making phones so thin they need a screen repair after one year and having to buy extra bluetooth devices or an adapter to listen to music are the things that help these companies to fake innovation to get more money… while prices are increasing every year. -
My biggest headache tech wise is having to not only choose whether I charge my phone or use earphones, but also the fact that my phone has an exclusive earphone/charging jack so if I'm going out with more than one device I have to take out multiple headphones. That and like aimi said m ergonomic issues, my hands are destroyed from phone use.
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Remember when the future meant super tiny phones?
I let my phone slide and hit the ground or fall just because it's now designed to do so. haha within reason so I don't have to buy another one. Lucky so far but also ready to smash it's face. Tech indeed has improved our lives but the moment it stops working like it should, it brings out a unique kind of rage. I'm talking about texting correct English and casting to my "smart" TV. I used to love customizing my phone interface, but my latest had so much stuff for me to go through to "get to know it" I quit and just change the bkgds now...
Also, I think having great cameras on phones kills my camera buying. I still want a camera but then I need a phone which costs more than a decent camera but the phone comes with some high tech lens and I can't avoid it. Now two big appliances in my bag.
I miss flip phones and phones with full keyboards.
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It's not uncommon to see Lapsteel guitars, or "Ha Uy Di" (the closest the Viet language can get to "Hawaii") in Southern Vietnamese Music, but it is pretty rare to see someone do it with a modified acoustic guitar. Personally, I think it sounds cooler than the Electric
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Well this is definitely one weirder piece of "Traditional" Vietnamese music I've found.
First off, you got the fucking tango music coming out of the Yamaha keyboard, with synths so bad you'd swear they're from a Yuuga song. And then there is the madlad guitarist, attempting to play Vietnamese music over tango, with one fucking hand at some parts. And then you have the guy playing the Dan Sen (two stringed lute) who is just... there...
Vietnamese boomers listen to some crazy stuff
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Edit: Live now!
IDK if I'm allowed to promote this here, but I'm gonna be streaming GTA San Andreas a little tonight for the first time on Twitch, and I was wondering if any of y'all would like to join in and give feedback
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Can there be a new GTA Clone series? Because Rockstar has gone to shit and I don't trust them to make GTA VI any good at this point.
We should've got a sleeping dogs 2, but Square Enix had to be a huge dick to the companies they work with
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Still can't get over the fact Hakuei claimed that only Japanese people can be Vkei because according to him, you have to have a very specific set of facial features.
Guess any Japanese person who doesn't look like Hakuei can't be Vkei. Sorry guys, must be Ainu or Ryukyuan or something lmao. Like, I'm no anthropologist, but according to Hakuei, having a sharp jaw is a Japanese trait.
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fuck cops and fuck any line of thinking that has some fantastic construction of people as the sole owners of this that or the other ( especially land )
fyi
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@Naaaaani In the musical department, of course. Hakuei beats them all.
In the opinions department however, they're all *Danny Devito voice* TRAESH
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If anyone wants to hear really cool Chinese Folk Metal, try out the band Snowsedim. The guitars are pretty basic, not gonna lie, but they use Chinese instruments that aren't seen as often. Like, this song features a Banhu, a type of folk Fiddle from Northern China, often the lead instrument in Hebei Opera.
Honestly the fact its basic and catchy makes it even more authentic, because Chinese opera is traditionally based on simple, catchy melodies. The vocalist has a really powerful voice when singing as well. It's definitely a more rustic take on Chinese tradition, which is cool because I prefer the more rustic forms of traditional Chinese music anyway lol.
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There is this one Lutena (Mahiro from Kiryu ex band) song that I pulled from Xiami, and it's a "live version", but the instrumentals sound studio, albeit lofi, and the vocals are the only thing that's live.
Not only that but its incomplete. There are no drums, guitar or bass, but it sounds like there should be. Maybe I can upload it when I'm less sick and anyone who wants to make their own guitar and drum parts can do so lmao
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Well I made a new twitter, and deleted my old one.
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Someone needs to deepfake the faces of the members of GossiP onto this (At least Saku's face on Yukika) and put in the 100x better GossiP cover of this song
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In メルヘン遊園地 (MARCHEN Yuuenchi) by Missalina Rei, Arisu is basically is just straight up traditional Japanese vocal techniques in the chorus. Of course, wouldn't be the first time a Vkei vocalist has done some form of Traditional Japanese vocals.
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Youtube videos be titled "Best handpicked selection of traditional Chinese music!" and it's all Derek and Brandon Fietcher and any other new age producer who thinks they're spiritual by interpolating the "Oriental Riff"
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So I'm guessing late 90s vkei bands got their love for spoken lyrics from Deshabillz? Or did Deshabillz get it from somewhere else?
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Well, since we were talking about post-punk influences… I am certain G-Schmitt had a huge influence on this trope, as they had a few songs with spoken parts. Here is one song, that always reminds me heavily of the dark 90s VK bands:
The intro of this Gilles de Rais song is also very Deshabillz-esque (and features Lucifer from Gille's Love)
So I'd say it's been around quite some time, just like counting on German (earliest use by Zi:Kill afaik).
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Ah man, I have really been neglecting Deshabillz. Anyone got any other good recommendations for mid 90's Kote Kei? It seems most of the 90's Vkei I listen to are either late 90's or early 90's lol
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I've listened to them a few times and I really need to try them out more!
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Total Saikou reacted to this
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Some Suggestions (though some of them may also be from early 90s): DIE-QUÄR, Media-Youth, D≒SIRE, Silver~Rose, L'yse:nore, Canary, Speed-ID, Rapture, FANATIC◇CRISIS, Maschera, Kneuklid Romance, Romance for~
Pretty sure there's plenty others, the early to mid 90s were the best time for VK, lots of great bands as the scene exploded and reached its peak.-
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Kneuklid Romance [2] (haven't listened to their major era much, but their 2nd (?) vocalist material is some of my all-time vkei favorites)
L'yse:nore [2] (although I think they're also late-90s).
Canary [2] (they're basically Deshabillz with better vocals)
Ti+Dee
Penicillin (Penicillin Shock ~ Vibe albums should be what you're looking for)
Sleep My Dear
Blüe
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We deserve a Phantasmagoria revival, but with Shio from Hiskarea instead of Kisaki.
Of course that'll sadly never happen