it's kind of awful that as a native spanish speaker i have literally never talked about an album in spanish in this site... it's not only that, but i have to admit that i literally never listen to music in spanish LOL. i think ever since i started actively listening to music when i was a teen i wanted to separate myself from the things i heard at home really badly. i wanted weird music that i had never heard before, to search for something that sounded more like me. idk usual teenager stuff :P so i made it almost a rule in my head that i'd always listen to music from people from other parts of the world instead, to the point that until today it's hard for me to convince myself to give music in spanish a chance, since i automatically assume that it won't resonate with me. so for this reason, this album is very special to me: with cocktail by belanova, i found something that i love in my native language.

more objectively speaking... i really love the sound of this album. i think a lot of 2000s house albums can sound really cheesy nowadays (though that isnt necessarily a bad thing) but the way these guys incorporate the typical electronic synth and bass sounds of the era in this album is very tasteful, almost elegant... every element has just the correct amount of delay and reverb without overdoing it, carefully creating a space and a vibe that slowly develops throughout the whole album. it's really beautiful!! i think it's one of those albums that are truly appreciated when listened to in full from start to finish without skips. i love how it fluctuates between more ambient, downtempo tracks and funky guitars basslines so seamlessly.

really love the vocalist's voice as well, i think it works especially well with this kind of sound. i really love that they chose to not drown it in effects and keep it very natural instead, it creates a really interesting contrast with the instrumentals being super synthesized and electronic. yes it is another house album from the 2000s, but these sorts of creative choices really separate it from other ones from its genre for me. hermoso!

i've been trying to listen to music in languages other than english and japanese and so i recently found ollano! been really obsessed with this self titled album. such an unique, mysterious, interesting album... shoutout france for the awesome music...

there are two different vocalists in it which usually tends to make the songs in an album feel a bit disconnected between each other for me, but it seems like the band members know their sound really well because that's not the case at all with this album. the feeling and atmosphere remain the same during the whole thing, even through vocalist, genre and even language changes. its beautifully cohesive in a way not many other albums are... i love the contrast between their darker jazzy experimental tracks like "la couleur" that make you feel like you're listening to a movie soundtrack and their lighter, pop ones like "latitudes" or "un autre jour", incredibly sweet and smooth. and the best part is that even though they're very different it all still sounds like its part of the same concept.

it can be a very slow album in tracks like "la couleur" but the wide range of sounds and instruments they incorporate keep it interesting the whole time. i absolutely love both vocalists' voices too, and how they fit the instrumentals perfectly.

searching for albums on discogs is really fun but it's also really sad how often i find albums like this where the artist dissappeared forever after releasing it LOL i'd really love to listen to something else by them T_T

im talking about underscores again... how could i not when she has just released the album of the year or maybe the fucking DECADE IT'S SO GOOOOOODDDD also it's april its literally her month...

it's really amazing how she managed to get all of the songs to sound like the protagonists of the album. it shows that each song has been made with the exact same amount of love and effort and attention to detail n its beautiful, my favorite song changes all the time because they're all just so special and powerful... it's been a while since i heard an album like that! her creativity and originality when it comes to melodies and songwriting in general blows my mind and i think she pushed that even further with U. this is pop music but in underscores' hands it sounds like a whole new genre she just invented lol. so refreshing and fun!! i love how it's so interesting to sit down and listen to but at the same time it's also probably the most fun ive ever had dancing and singing to an album in my room. it's impressive technique/production wise but without ever focusing too much on it in order to not lose the energy and feeling of spontaneity. i dont know how she does it but god i love it so muchhhhhhh

the absolutely drastic change in tone in the lyrics from her last album is so crazy and i love it. its funny how they're supposed to be a lot lighter than her other albums and just something fun to listen to more than anything else, yet they are still better than a lot of artist's "deepest" works lol.

i am so glad that she isn't scared to try stuff out and that she seems more and more confident in herself and her craft with each release. its just so wonderful to see how she's turned into an absolutely iconic popstar, i'm so happy for her and all of the recognition she's getting!! random but i checked when it was that i first heard & added a song of hers to my playlist just bc i was curious and it was 21st april 2019... which is the same day as her bday :0

anyway! go stream the AOTY if you haven't! UNDERSCORES PLEASE COME TO SOUTH AMERICA I WILL SELL MY SOUL IN EXCHANGE FOR SEEING U LIVE

i've known about this album for years but it's funny because hyukoh have a bunch of releases named after their ages when they made them, and it was this year that i turned 23 that i feel like i really connected w it. it makes sense, but it still surprises me that they managed to capture these feelings well enough for me to resonate with them, even in a completely different context on the other side of the world. i don't think i really got this album when i first heard it back in 2021, but now the mix of nostalgia, excitement, anxiety and existentialism present in the lyrics hits so hard and it just makes so much sense to me like it never did before LOL. it's crazy!! it definitely became one of my favorite albums.

i've always loved how this album sounds ever since i found it though. i enjoy indie rock here and there (i am an electric guitar w reverb enjoyer its true) but it tends to get a bit predictable for me, so i love how dynamic this album is. each track is super unique and has a totally different vibe, switching from upbeat to crushingly depressing (positive) back and forth. i fucking LOVE the guitar solos on this album, they're so... emotional?? i guess? the melodies and chords are so wonderful, ESPECIALLY on my favorite track "simon". i don't even know how to explain what those guitars do to my brain there but the combination with the vocals on the chorus makes me want to cry, and it still did even when i had no idea what the lyrics said LOL. also this song is SO roy mustang its insane like thats literally him. sorry back to the album the vocals are beautiful too! the main singer's voice reminds me a bit of takao tajima from original love's. vocals that sound powerful and at the same time natural and effortless, a combination i absolutely lovvve to hear.

i listened to some other stuff from them but unfortunately i didn't love it as much as i love this album :( guess i'll wait until i turn 24 to listen to the EP they named after that age LOL maybe i'll get it then...

no matter how much time passes since i've listened to dv-i's music for the first time, i'll always name her as one of my favorite artists as well as my main inspiration when making music, along with etro anime. she's THE one artist whose releases i will go and listen to immediatly the second they come out. i first found her music around 2020, not through a song but through her second sky set, which was an especially magical way of doing so. i was absolutely mindblown... and i still am, each time i listen to something new from her. i have no fucking clue HOW she makes this music and i dont think i ever will, but the fact that she's shown me that it can be made at all was inspirational enough for me to go and try to make music myself. this might be silly but i remember also being happy because the person that was making the sort of music i dreamed of making was a girl just like me... it's just the sorta stuff that means so much to a 17 year old who loved a genre and a community that never seemed to have a space for her. maybe seeing dv-i make the most awesome music i've ever heard was one of the little things that gave me the push i needed to start making and releasing music. she showed me that it was possible to do it. unrelated but i think around 2022 i sent her a dm asking her to listen to my song and i explode from embarrassment every time i think about it LMAO im sorry i was young and annoying...

okay so about this release!! this is probably the closest thing to an album she's released so i was very excited about it and ive been listening to it a lot... it's actually a compilation of tracks made for a nintendo 3ds theme, which is why the tracks are a bit different, more ambient-like than her other releases. but i still enjoyed it!! her shiny melodies are always beautiful and have that special emotional touch, the tons and tons of layers and intrincate little sounds are always a pleasure to take the time to carefully listen to, and she always nails the voices and sound effects scattered throughout the tracks. i also absolutely love her break chopping and drums, maybe they're less present in this release than others, but she still did some insane work in that last track. i'm happy she's trying out new things and i'll always be here to listen. don't know if this is the release i'd recommend to someone who has never listened to her music since it's pretty different from her usual sound but it's still really nice and i'm always excited to see where she'll go next.

happy new year!! i found this album on someone's last fm page so thank you person who i stole their music taste from!!

ever since i found "see the sound" by etro anime, i've been trying to find other trip-hop/downtempo albums that i love and it's been a much more harder task than i thought lol... i do really love the genre but a lot of music i've heard from it seems to not take many risks, or in the case it does, it tends to go down a more experimental/minimal road that isn't personally what i'm looking for. so i was really glad i found groove theory bc its exactly my cup of tea!!

this album is very groovy (i remembered the name of the group after typing this. well its true) the vocalist's voice is really nice and dynamic, her vocal range and the way she interprets the songs is so fun and refreshing. the other half of the group, the producer, does some really great work too. there's something about the instrumentals that sets this album apart from others in the genre for me... i love many R&B tracks but in a lot of songs it sounds like the producers try to put all of the focus on the vocalist and treat the instrumental more like a backing track, meanwhile in this album both parts complement each other really well and are equally interesting, which i really really appreciate. so cool!! i looked around discogs for a bit to see if the producer was making music for himself or some other groups nowadays but it seems like its not really the case u_u holy shit he produced a beyonce song though LOL

as much as i like it though, i can't help but thinking that this album could've easily had like 4 less songs than it does and it wouldn't make much of a difference lol. when i first heard this and the first track started, i liked it SO much that for a moment i thought i had found a new favorite album. it might be close, since there are a lot of tracks in here that i love, but as i kept listening i think it ended up lacking a little bit of cohesion and direction. i know albums and CDs worked differently in the 90s and sometimes artists would just fill them up with whatever in order to release something but 14 tracks?? they didnt need to do all that LOL. or maybe they did. i respect it... it's still a really cool album and i'll be playing it a ton of times over the summer probably :P

i remember first listening to underscores in 2018. i was 16 years old and she released a song on an edm label that was kinda popular at the time so i gave her single "about the kid that never left the house" a try. i liked her music, but i NEVER thought that artist would turn into the absolutely iconic artist underscores is today. her music has always been great but i'm glad that now she has the confidence to go all out with it. she is so insanely talented as a producer, a writer and composer. she's one of those artists that make songs that i cannot picture the making of at all... i think sometimes as a producer it's easy to get caught in more technical aspects of music, like trying to understand how it was built, or identifying the elements that compose it. but when music sounds so dynamic like this, like it was written all in one go, in one big burst of creativity, i can only hear it as it is. maybe her technique and sound is just completely impossible to understand and separate in parts LOL.

wallsocket is one of those albums that no matter how obsessed i am with it, i really cannot listen to it on repeat because it feels like it deserves my full attention when i do. the lyrics hit SO damn hard (johnny johnny johnny still physically hurts me everytime i read the lyrics orz) and the whole thing just packs so much emotion that it HAS to be the protagonist whenever its playing.

i kinda love how even though she is completely out of that scene now, her sound is still influenced by 2010s EDM, probably due to her origins as a producer. that one synth melody in "old money bitch" is so fucking good and it instantly brought me so many memories of being a cringey teen listening to nerdy electronic music in my headphones all the time on my way to school LOL... most of the times i pretend that whole phase never happened but i wouldn't really be me if it wasn't for it, and i think that's why i kinda "relate" to this album and feel a connection to it. it's weirdly and personally nostalgic for me in a way not many other music is. also OMB is my favorite but "uncanny long arms" gets a special mention because i love that melody and those emo ass guitars so damn much.

this is the last album of the month of 2025!! see you next year...

after a while of not listening to much electronic stuff (been listening to a lot of pre-90s music for the first time in my life lol) i revisited this album in november and it reminded me of how much i love electronic music. and of how much i love miya lowe's work as well! miya has a bunch of aliases and she has amazing releases under every one of them, but evaboy is the one i found first so it'll always have a special place in my heart... they have recently announced that they are retiring from music at least temporarily, which made me want to write about what her music means to me even more.

i resonate with miya's music a lot. this might be absolutely personal and not her intention at all but i think her music speaks to people who love rave music but that aren't really able to fully fit in with their local rave community, that aren't able to go to that many raves for whatever reason, or that often want to hear a bit more weirdness in rave music but can never really find it anywhere. to me she's like the bridge between two opposite sides of the underground electronic music spectrum, right in the middle between dance-irl-event focused music communities and the more edgy and experimental internet-only spaces. it just feels so right as someone who has been trying to get out of their shell more after listening to electronic music on headphones only for years lol. their big range of inspirations, added to of course her insane creativity and skill, result in an amazing, explosive and extremely unique mix of styles, genres and samples that i love. her music is so distinct and personal.

she's been such an inspiration to me... i think my music wouldn't be the same if i hadn't listened to this album and her prior one at all. i started having so much more fun when making music thanks to them, experimenting with samples and genres a lot more. i personally like this album even more than their first, it's truly a masterpiece... i don't think i can count the genres in this album with two hands yet it all sounds so cohesive and you can immeditaly recognize it's her work. from hip hop to reggaeton she nails all of it and adds her own amazing personal touch.

i don't know if they will ever release music again but i really wish her the best. i only hope she knows how BIG of an impact she made on the underground electronic music community, and that she knows how much her music is a place of comfort for so many people who don't really know where they belong. i hope she knows that she filled a really big void that no one else is gonna be able to fill like she did. miya lowe is really one of a kind.

let's pretend it's still october... ALSO HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO THIS SECTION OF THE PAGE YAY lol cant believe ive been doing this for a year

since i've listened to this album a lot this month i want to talk about etro anime for a bit, they're such a special band to me... as a lot of other people i first heard their music thanks to one of my favorite videogames, digital devil saga. i'm very glad that for some reason i downloaded a USA rom instead of a europe one, because this version of the game changed the original opening song for danger by this band, etro anime. i cannot explain how this song made me feel when i first heard it in 2021... maybe it was a combination of me really loving the game's atmosphere and story as well, but either way i was so so amazed by it. i checked out the rest of their first album, see the sound (not this one) and i can say that it was one of the main reasons why i started making music. literally life changing album lol. i didn't know music like that existed. i thought Wow, this is the kind of music that i want to make... years later i still haven't been able to find a band or artist that compares, that manages to achieve this wonderful blend of dnb, trip hop and downtempo.

9 years after they released their first album and prior to dissappearing, etro anime released this album, spreading silence. there isn't much info out there about this band in general, so i'm not sure how many lineup changes happened between this and the 1st one, but i do know that they had a new vocalist on some songs, so the vibe is a little different. it was a bit hard for me to appreciate it at first with how high my standards were LOL but after a few listens i realized that i like it a lot too. day by day, i think of you and another life are probably my favorites.

however, as much as i love see the sound, i kinda wish they tried to evolve a little bit from that sound and made something a little different with this album. it feels more like an epilogue, or like an attempt to try to recreate their original sound with different components than a thing of its own. maybe it's because the new vocalist sounds almost exactly the same as liset alea (the original vocalist) and maybe it wasn't really the point to create something groundbreaking with this album, since it wasn't even physically released, but it still leaves me thinking about the possibilities and things this band could've explored in its career. i hope they come back one day...

Help i thought this obsession with an 80s/90s japanese rock pop band was gonna last for like a week but it's been months and it's still going

i've been talking about this guy for ages in here but whatever it is MY page... i've been really obsessed w a band called pizzicato five (check out the shrine i made for them!!!) so i decided to listen to more music from their vocalist who left the band to work on his solo project, original love. i didn't have super high hopes i'd love it because it seemed a lot more like "radio music" but i do really like takao tajima's voice so i gave this album a try. and oh my god i love it so MUCHHH.

i thought this project was mostly just catchy pop songs and well he proved me wrong with this album... there are rock, jazz, funk and soul influenced songs in here and he adapts to each genre perfectly. track 5 with those distorted electric guitars and voice effects??? track 3 with that Awesome jazz bassline?? hell yeah!! takao tajima had just left pizzicato five at this time, and i think it shows how much his years in the band influenced his own sound. this album has that playfulness and "unexpectedness" from the old pizzicato five that i enjoy so much lol. i love how even though he's trying out things he's never done before, his voice sounds as confident and powerful as ever. i think i really enjoy tajima's music because of that... whatever genre he's making, whatever project he's working on, he is always giving it his ALL. you can hear it in his voice how much he loves what he does. he flows so well with the music. in live performances as well! he's got such a popstar attitude on stage lol

i watched some videos of recent performances (like, post 2020) and it's crazy to me how he still has the exact same vocal range he had when he was like 20 or 30 years old Wow... his voice sounds different of course but he's still out there at 59 years old singing powerful high notes as if it was nothing hell yeah dude. it also feels kind of unreal to watch videos of his live shows, because when i first heard his voice in an album from 1988, he was a faceless and nameless singer in an old, forgotten record. that's all i knew about him for a while, it was all a journey finding out more about his career, discography, and artistic development. and so now you're telling me it's technically possible to see him live one day?? uhh PLEASE tajima takao don't retire before i can go to japan to see one of your live shows... give me like 5 years or something i'll get there somehow LOL i love his music so much!!

for a while now i've been looking for a new way to find music, especially albums, that doesn't rely on algorithms doing the work for me. it's not like it's bad to do that, but i kept feeling like there was a lot of music i would never reach by doing this, plus it was a little boring... so i started using discogs, a website where you can find the full discography of almost every artist imaginable, but also buy physical releases, search music by genre and year, and etcetera... i cannot explain how much fun i've been having looking for music like this LOL. i searched for jungle albums, sorted by alphabetical order, and started listening to whatever showed up. well, only what existed somewhere online... a lot of japanese and russian artists showed up on the first page (because foreign alphabets go first), and that's how i found ram jam world!!

this album is sick! i don't know much about this artist, there isn't a lot of info online... i can't even seem to figure out if it's one guy or a band?? or a duet?? but anyway... i thought it was really cool how they kept the genre's roots in mind when making this album, incorporating reggae sounds and vocals in english. it feels like those sorts of things would be lost after travelling to the other side of the 1990s world, but it's not the case at all with this. this guy/band/person knows their stuff... had me thinking i wish i knew a bit more about the junglist movement in japan. the way they respect and embrace all of the genre's history, culture and predecessors is really amazing.

this album has a bit of everything and i always love a diverse album... there are heavier tracks with some CRAZY break chopping, atmospheric drum and bass, dub, hip hop, ballad-y vocals, and guitar solos... u should listen to it

october 2025 update: i ended up making a shrine for this band check it out!

i've never really been interested in music released prior to the 90s (except for a short city pop phase i had a few years ago...) so the fact that i've listened to this album every day for the past month says a LOT... some people would kill me for this but i didn't know 80s music could be this awesome Lol... i found this album after listening to "bellissima" (which is april 2025's album of the month, and which i love w all my heart) and doing some more research on this band. Maybe i love this one even more than that...

i am absolutely obsessed with this album. i feel like it gets more beautiful each time i listen to it. it's a very conceptual album, i almost thought this was the soundtrack for something when i first found it. the instrumentals and the composition are so interesting and creative, and i love how a lot of the tracks sound like they're telling a story. each section, sample, melody and instrument adds something to the narrative. the production is so innovative for the time it was released in, i think. vocal chops, electronic elements, samples... it's insane that "satellite hour" is a song from 1989!! and of course, as with bellissima, MAN i love takao tajima's vocals so much... it's not only that his voice is super smooth and pleasing to hear, but i also love his interpretation of the songs. even if i have no clue what he's saying, he transmits so much! it really feels like he's not only singing but also playing a character, which only adds to the cinematic feel of the album.

i wanted to hear more from tajima, but he left pizzicato five two years after joining sadly (also the band changed its style a ton after that) so i checked out his later projects with his band and i did Not believe it was the same person at first LOL. he changed his singing style drastically from one project to the other, in my opinion his voice sounded a lot more natural and soft in his pizzicato era. i still really liked the album "eyes" from original love though! maybe'll listen to more of his discography and end up writing about him again LOL. (oct 2025 update: i did) i also found out he's still doing shows which made me happy to hear!

feels a bit weird to write about this album because it must be only me and a bunch of middle aged japanese ladies who know this record and and listen to it LOL but if you enjoy 80's music please please give it a chance!! it's so amazing i swear... i was even a lil embarrassed to show this to my boyfriend whom i show all of the shit i listen to but i am very glad i found it... i love you 80s pizzicato five...

it was HARD to pick only one album this month bc i found a lot of awesome ones that i really really love... i ended up picking fancy that because i cant believe i've never talked about pinkpantheress on this site even though my music is super influenced by hers, and i've been listening to her all the time for ages lol!!

i've said this a lot, but personally one of the things (if not the thing) that i love the most in music is unpredictability. i absolutely love when i cant really predict where a melody will go and when it keeps surprising me over and over as it plays for the first time. and that is one thing that pinkpantheress always NAILS. her composition is so refreshing to hear to a point where it's hard to find a structure in her songs sometimes, yet they still manage to be super catchy and danceable somehow. it just makes a lot of sense how she can be the popstar she is and at the same time remain "alternative".

as for "fancy that" itself, i like it! it was really interesting to see her try new things in this mixtape, especially in terms of lyrics and overall tone. its a BIG change from her earlier releases and i do love seeing her have more fun with music. i also like that she was more involved in the production side of it. i think that the more producing she does, the more unique and personal it sounds. my favorite release from hers is still probably "heaven knows" though... not really because of the cleaner production or whatever (if you've read my other reviews you know i dont gaf about that) but i guess i just enjoyed the general vibe of that album more? i've noticed my favorite songs from this mixtape are the more sad sounding ones as well LOL i dont really know why...

the visuals for this era are so amazing too!! the video for "tonight" is so iconic i love it lol and i loved watching some of her performances at glastonbury and seeing her get more confident w the stage and such. i don't think i'll be able to see her live in the near future but i can only think about how awesome a pinkpantheress concert would be in south america omg she wouldn't be able to believe our crowds LOL i hope she does make a world tour at some point...

i had been taking a bit of a break from listening to dnb and jungle recently because i was struggling to find new releases that were like... "refreshing" to hear? so i went for something more oldschool and, since i'm trying to listen to full albums more, i decided to give the jungle album a try. i ofc had heard a lot of tracks from it separately before, but listening to it in full is a whole different experience. listening to this reminded me that no matter how much modern jungle i listen to, i'll always be missing a piece if i'm not listening to enough oldschool ragga jungle. and this album basically holds the essence of the genre. i really love how these producers show very clearly the genre's reggae, soul and hiphop roots, but they also weren't afraid of innovating, creating sounds and drum patterns no one had heard before. i think jungle is not only born from the clash of many different genres and backgrounds but also the insanely creative minds of a community that wanted something else out of electronic music, something different and unique that represented them. maybe that's why it feels so full of life compared to newer releases, it sounds more like community and raves, instead of lonely bedroom studios.

i can't help but feel like i am still missing an essential part of the charm of this album by not hearing it on a dancefloor though lol. if everything goes well and i get to play my first dj set in a proper event in a few months, i'll be sure to make it happen myself!! i got chills only thinking about being able to blast maximum style through the speaker LOL!!!!

this is so random but i also noticed while listening to champion that a selena gomez song i listened to as a kid "samples" (more like copies the melody and lyrics of...?) one of the tracks in here LOL. what the fuck. the artists are not credited anywhere, so maybe it's more like straight up stealing... still really interesting though, i wonder how they even found this track to begin with, or who brought it up?

i love so many tracks from this album that i wanted to mention some other favorites as well as the one i picked in the left section: surrender is so fucking GOOD and timeless. as it progresses, every time u think it cannot get better a new section of the track appears and blows ur mind. awesome!! i absolutely love the sampling in "maximum style", "ribbon in the sky" and "champion" as well. I LOVE SAMPLINGGGG

october 2025 update: i ended up making a shrine for this band check it out!

what a wonderful wonderful album... i was Obsessed with two of the songs from this album years ago ("planets" and "this can't be love") but i think i tried listening to the full album once and didn't like it that much. i have no clue why, because i listened to it again in full a few weeks ago and wow... this might be one of my favorite albums...

there's something about the singer's voice that i absolutely love. it's so pleasing to listen to. im kinda picky about voices in songs sometimes, especially when they're high pitched (i almost gave up on trying to get used to ayumi hamasaki's voice but i loved the instrumentals too much lol) but the vocals in this album sound so... natural? i don't know how to explain it, the singer just flows with the music in such a perfect way. might be one of my favorite voices ive heard... i also found out recently that this isn't really pizzicato five's main singer, but rather someone from another band that they invited for this era (takao tajima from a band called original love) so i might have to check that out :P

i also cannot believe how clean this sounds for being an album from 1988?? WHAT!! i'm guessing the version on spotify might be a remastered version or something, but still... it sounds so full and beautifully mixed. there is a TON of instruments being played in this album, and yet i can hear each one clearly. my music cant relate

in their bio they are described as "godfathers of the shibuya-kei scene" and i can totally understand why. this is probably not the album that makes that obvious, but i wanna point out that this record was released around the same time most city pop hits were released, and yet it sounds so much modern and experimental than the songs from that era that i've listened to. the way they incorporate jazz, soul, and some electronic elements into the typical city pop formula is so amazing and so ahead of their time. love this album so much. i was listening to this on my walk home from college the other day, and when that beautiful instrumental part in "sunday impressions" played i felt like i was floating LOL im glad there were not many people in the street bc i probably had a silly smile on my face. i have to listen to more pizzicato five

lets ignore that i skipped a month... i was busy doing the phoenix shrine okay

I FUCKING LOVE JUSTICE!!! this album isnt new or anything but i'm listening to it a ton because i saw them live a few days ago... it was so so beautiful that i'm not even going through post-concert depression right now, i'm just infinitely grateful and glad to have experienced a show like that! it is really hard to bring big shows like these all the way to south america and i didn't think i would actually be able to see it live, so yeah i'm just so happy i wrote a whole blog entry about it here if you wanna read it, but it's in spanish and it wasn't written with the most proper grammar so translators might struggle w it :P

anyways!! i really like hyperdrama! it was so surreal listening to some new justice when it came out because i found their music when i was like 15/16 years old, around a year after they released the album prior to hyperdrama, so they haven't released any music in the time period that i've been a fan of them lol (except for some live albums but u know what i mean) until this album released!! this was my first time experiencing a new release after 7 years of listening to them!! what the fuck!! and it did NOT disappoint!

i feel like it's a wonderful mix of the parts i like the most from cross (1st album) and the parts i like the most from woman (3rd album). audio video disco (2nd album) remains my favorite of them because i love that album with all my heart but hyperdrama is a close second... i know its very fake fan of me to pick neverender as my fav track lol but i really love it im not a tame impala fan but his vocals work sooo well with justice's style...

i think one of the things i love the most about justice's production is how much they love sampling.. the other day i found out that for "generator" they used a plugin called "rave generator" which basically contains a ton of sampled synths from the 90s and 00s. i have it, and i couldn't believe how they made such a beautiful track in a grammy-nominated album with a freeware plugin with a bunch of crunchy aliased samples. i really love how they prioritize creativity and experimenting with sounds and samples over cleanliness in their tracks. i don't listen to a lot of other "mainstream" electronic music but i really dont think that any other current producers are doing it like they do. people call them daft punk's successors, but to me they are much more than just that!! i feel so lucky to be able to listen to new justice music, not to mention to SEE THEM LIVE!! truly legendary producers... i hope i can experience a new justice album again someday :3

who said EPs cant be included in "album of the month" huh... it is MY website and I make up the rules
so i've been practicing DJing for a while now with my controller and it's been really fun just doing small sets in my room. but around a week ago some cool people invited me to practice using a CDJ for the first time... and well it was scary LOL especially at the beggining since it took me a while to re-organize my controller brain but also omg i had so much fun... they of course had a much more powerful sound than my bedroom and playing my favorite tracks in those big ass speakers in front of some other ppl was the best feeling ever!!

the track that made me feel the best when i played it was by far "mix it" by dwarde & gand. i cannot express how much i love this track and how much it makes me want to dance :P the vocal samples, the piano, the DRUMS and the bass, and the way it's beautifully mixed and mastered so it all hits even harder. ITS SO DAMN GOOD!!

this EP made me realize how much i love breakbeat/oldschool hardcore. i love jungle too dont get me wrong but sometimes i want to hear something with a bit more of a constant rythm and heavy kicks while still having the breaks and chopped drums, and this ep is exactly what i want to hear more of. i really hope i can find similar releases to this one...

i found about this EP thanks to "a break from reality" (a super sick jungle/dnb/hardcore radio show that u can check out here) they played the track "aqua" and i absolutely loved it and it led me to find this so shoutout to them!

i love jungle and hardcore! i found this album/EP on spotify randomly one day and i've been listening to it a lottt. i wish old DJs didn't have such vague artist names not only because there are tons of artists named "escape" but also bc this is probably just one of 8 alias they used lol... apparently this ep was this alias' only release? totally different vibe from the track on this album's vibe but still cool!
speaking of old jungle music today i searched "jungle hardcore mix" on youtube and sorted by last updated just 2 see what would show up and i 100% recommend doing the same lol... you'll get some of the usual "y2k videogame music mix" with the same 3 sewerslvt songs on them but a lot of other results are british dudes with their weekly or sometimes even daily jungle 90s mixes, who seem to somehow never run out of obscure-exclusive-limited edition vinyls to play.. shoutout to them