/jp/ - Otaku Culture

http://www.mediafire.com/?joe0zmyx2jm
I fucking love this album. It's deceptively complex and is unusually well mixed for a doujin album and is heavily layered, but I have trouble describing it outside of listing genres. Ambient techno, house, breakbeat, glitch, hardcore, dub, drum and bass, etc. I can't directly name an artist or album to describe the execution of the songs in question, so here's a small dose:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIKfCE8u8_g
Describing parts like 1:55 is hell for me since there is so much shit going on. Ambient drones, the leading melody, glitch, various beats and breaks, and shittons of other sounds that are along for the ride. It appears so simple while being densely layered. I'm embarrassed to admit that I have spent nearly 20 fucking minutes thinking of a description that didn't just involve name-dropping your typical big-name stock artists like Autechre, boards of canada, Cylob, Global Communication, The Orb, etc. since it would just me saying "It's ambient with beats hurr", and yet I'm doing it anyway. Songs on here unfold in ways that keep them fresh and interesting. It's like a striptease that takes off revealing clothes and then puts on other articles of clothing that are equally provocative (if not more).

Man, I am so going to get that job at Pitchfork one day.

Oh you guys

Circle: MA.S ATTACK
Album: 珍時怪異
>UFO remixes and the Debut of ユタカナウシロ along with two old faces in the circle.
>Ambient, Techno, House, Glitch, Hardcore, essential Touhouketcore.

Reasons for liking: In the sea of trance, rock, and hardcore, this is a very refreshing change of pace, and as a fan of ambient techno, it hits it out of the ballpark for me. I have listened to this just as much, if not, more than some of the Touhou OSTs. ユタカナウシロ did not hold back flexing his muscles of creative, and this is the end result. It's like a gem: Rare and unique.

http://www.mediafire.com/?ofcmojgnf5o