kawayama

Name: kawayama
Home Page: http://www.last.fm/user/kawayama
Member Since: Jul 05, 2003
Rank: 2754
Average Vote Received: Correct (3.99, 193 votes)
last 10 days: Correct (4.00, 16 votes)
Rated 243 releases, average: 3.69
Location: sweden
Profile:

please do not ask me to make mp3/CDr copies of records in my collection.

i might be persuaded to sell items in my collection, but not if i have rated it 4 or higher.

prices for items i have for sale are not set in stone.

Seller Rating:

98.4% positive (61 ratings)

Buyer Rating: 100.0% positive (19 ratings)

kawayama's groups (2)

Reviews:

Column One - Electric Pleasure - 22-Oct-06 01:42 PM
Out into Outer Space! Robots from the fifties! Vocoder voices from sixties science fiction movies! Column One are totally smitten with science fiction nostalgia. It is actually quite funny. What is even mory fun is the music on the album. It is of course electro, and heavily influenced by Kraftwerk at that. But Column One are more than just imitators, they go their own way, and their playfulness and zest for exploration is difficult not to be charmed by. And when they suddenly insert an obvious Depeche Mode sample it isn't pathetic, it's just fun - Column One don't base whole meals on their band samples, they just use them for seasoning. The production on Electric Pleasure feels both nostalgic and modern at the same time.

Massimo (2) - Hey Babe, Let Me See Your USB And I'll Show You My Firewire - 22-Oct-06 07:48 AM
Twenty minutes of rhythmic sound art on a small 3" CD, with a gay porn cover that illustrates the title. Massimo claims that he's made the record with just one trumpet, and perhaps it's true that the original sounds were made on that instrument, but it certainly doesn't sound like it. Massamo has brutally processed the sounds to bits, and all that's left is evilly sharp and dirty digital noise. In spite of that there is something engaging, not to say captivating, in these ten short pieces. In one moment totally annoying, in the next strangely beautiful. It's as if Massimo wants to show us that even the ugliest sounds can be turned into good music. And he pulls it off, at least partly. Definitely interesting, but not recommended to sensitive persons.

Orbital - The Altogether - 21-Oct-06 05:12 PM
Orbital. Now more pop than ever before.

I've found three really good tunes on Orbital's new album. "Funny Break (One Is Enough)" is a classic Orbital-song with beautiful cyclical vocals by Naomi Bedford. "Doctor?" is the brothers' techno version of the Doctor Who theme, a favorite from innumerable live sets, finally down on plastic. "Meltdown", the last track on the album, is an epic masterpiece with clear rave vibes. The tune's got it all: slow HEAVY bass, at least two different breakbeats, piano loops, samples of type writers, sirens, telephones, smashed glass... and a build-up so filled with energy that it's next to impossible to sit still, you just gotta dance.

The rest of the album does have a few golden moments, but they are overshadowed by an all permeating feeling of cheesiness. For some unfathomable reason Orbital have taken the tinny sounds of eighties hi-nrg pop and tried to turn it into nineties rave. The result is thin and unengaging. Dated.

Also irritating is the fact that all of "Meltdown" isn't included on the CD, only the DVD version has the complete 22 minutes.

Edition Terranova* - Hitchhiking Nonstop With No Particular Destination - 08-Aug-06 08:28 AM
The track "Women Beat Their Men" is missing from the regular release (sample trouble?), which is a pity because it's one of the better on the CD. Brutal breaks and silly FX, mmm. Also fun is "Running Away," which samples "Bob George," one of the best Prince tracks ever.

Mokira - Cliphop - 22-Nov-05 06:00 AM
For those of you that don't speak the language, it might be interesting to know that the four-letter words in the titles means something else in Swedish. 1: ready, 2: palm tree, 3: kind/meek, 4: cheek, 5: lapp/laplander, 6: switch/trade, 7: elevator/lift, 8: drunk (or full), 9: trick or border, 10: end.

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