This Week On Tsundere Violence (9/23/2019 - 9/29/2019)

My commentary on the release of this week~! Gold listings means its a favorite of mine for this week~

TV1743 - Violet Powder - Bloody Massacre
The first release of this week was by Violet Powder. This mini-album is a mix of their signature slow and rhythmic loli-goregrind sound and also horrorcore. The grind stuff is very nice and is unique for the genre, it doesn't sound like the typical slower side of goregrind. The horrorcore tracks on this are really nice, I love their rap stuff so I'm happy that they're releasing more of it. The vibes of these tracks vary and they feature very nice gore hop vocals, really amazing stuff. This is one of my favorites of the week~

TV1744 - ＨａｒｓｈＮｏｉｓｅＦａｃｔｏｒｙ™ - Untitled 01
ＨａｒｓｈＮｏｉｓｅＦａｃｔｏｒｙ™ at it again with another noise output, this is a newer artist to the label but they're very active~! This is a nice and dense noise track with a lot of crushing low frequencies. This is a really nice noise track~

TV1745 - Insectoid Girl - White Mantidian
They told me this is ghostwave, and I have no idea wtf ghostwave is. The mini-album is very downtempo and carries heavy IDM themes, it reminds me a lot of Phoenecia. The release has downtempo beats that range from IDM to more hip-hop inspired, with dark melodies, ghostly processed samples (?), and is really nice. Seriously, check this out if you like Phoenecia.

TV1746 - Acid Applejack - LadyBug
Acid Applejack delivered a nice hardstyle single this week. The single features very nice interludes between hardstyle portions full of a variety of nice sounds and melodies. This is the most "club friendly" release of the week

TV1747 - Antimatter Prism - 9 Seconds Noise For Cirno
Cirno is bae and this is 9 seconds of noise dedicated to her. The single is short but is very good, loud dense noise, good stuff. Pick it up when you're downloading other releases, its only 9 seconds~!

TV1748 - AGU! - Degenerate
Yessssssssssssss, more AGU!(!) AGU!'s stuff is really good, and I'm very excited to have this on the label. This is a mini-album full of dark breakcore, industrial tunes, dark ambient, and closes with a very nice noise track. The whole album has an incredibly oldschool sound and vibe to it. Loud breaks, dark atmospheres, low frequencies basslines making the tracks full, and nice rhythmic melodies making it all the more fun to listen to. The industrial tracks are also incredibly nice, really good stuff. The mini-album also uses dark ambient tracks to build bridges between songs, and its structurally very cool. I love the combo of dark ambient and breakcore on the same album, and this does it well~ This is my favorite of the week~

LC-☠️008: Manbavaran - Unreleased Demo 2017

Artist: Manbavaran
Single: Unreleased Demo 2017
CAT#: LC-☠️008

Manbavaran is a black metal project I made in 2017. It has a Halloween aesthetic and vibe and is largely inspired by Corneus (one of the best black metal artists of all time). This single is the unreleased demo that I never finished or released, but here it is now~! Might as well do the reveal of this project here where nobody will see it and where it wont get promoted :>

DL: http://www.mediafire.com/file/8u78btikauqdyzr/Unreleased_Demo_2017.zip

This Week On Tsundere Violence (9/16/2019 - 9/22/2019)

My commentary on the releases of the week of 9/16/2019 - 9/22/2019.
Gold listings means its a favorite of mine~

TV1737 - Pento - Notebook EP
Really nice mashcore and lolicore EP by Pento~! The tracks change up a nice amount within themselves; one moment its spastic cut and slice mashcore, then its stuttery trance, then breakcore, then speedcore, then slower club music, then lolicore. Its an eclectic release that's a lot of fun to listen to~ Totally recommended if you like mashcore. One of my favorites of the week~

TV1738 - Ninja McTits - Live In Sacramento 9/15/2019
This is my release, is the recording of my recent noise live

TV1739 - Chaosmond - Half a Hundred Husbandos: Mentai 2
Really amazing shotacore album~! This album is packed with shota cock upbeat tunes that are really fun. Sped up songs, gabber kicks, and breaks; whats there not to love? Despite being shotacore this has a lolicore sound due to the samples being sped up. This is a really nice release, perfect if you love shotacore, partycore, or lolicore. Another favorite of this week~

TV1740 - ＨａｒｓｈＮｏｉｓｅＦａｃｔｏｒｙ™ - Harsh Noise Slowly Becoming White Noise
A nice dense noise track from ＨａｒｓｈＮｏｉｓｅＦａｃｔｏｒｙ™, this one develops slowly making it a perfect noise track to work to. It has a really nice crunchy texture similar to HNW.

TV1741 - Гипертрофированный Антиинтеллектуализм - Горизонт Познания
Really nice dark ambient single, again I think his covers are trolling but I oddly think they go with the music quite well. Nice dark synths with a minimal drum track. It somewhat has a bit of a videogame sound to it imo. Really nice track~

TV1742 - RAINBOW ★ STAR ★ 36 / 木村先生 / Erronia Surrection / VxBxDxDx / XoArK / Antimatter Prism - Noise Split
A nice big split by numerous internet noisers, really amazing album. The tracks are varied but also flow together very nicely into one consistently solid album. This is one of the best noise albums I've heard in quite some time, highly recommended if you like noise music. This is my 3rd fave of the week~

中ベル - No.025

New HNW project titled, 中ベル

This is another themed HNW project. This one is themed on a deck of trading cards that came with a game I purchased a few years ago. One card = one wall (not including duplicate cards).

This released yesterday~

You can get the first album here: https://chuubell.bandcamp.com/album/no-025

TCLB - My Brother Playing An Electronic Drumset In The Other Room (Recorded From My Bedroom With The Laptop Microphone)

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Single: My Brother Playing An Electronic Drumset In The Other Room (Recorded From My Bedroom With The Laptop Microphone)

Very lo-fi and short recording that released yesterday~

Get it here: https://kikurecords.tumblr.com/post/187985432860/%E8%80%B3-126-artist-tclb-single-my-brother

TCLB - Field Recordings Of Mostly Chinatown In San Francisco

This is finally released~! New TCLB album of Chinatown field recordings~! There's a ton of amazing sounds on this~~

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Album: Field Recordings Of Mostly Chinatown In San Francisco

92 field recordings of San Francisco’s Chinatown (and some around the city in general). Listen to the sounds of Chinatown’s non-tourist areas, crowded small markets, streets, lottos, bakeries, mini-malls, and so on~

Get it here: https://tclb.bandcamp.com/album/field-recordings-of-mostly-chinatown-in-san-francisco

This Week On Tsundere Violence (9/19/2019 - 9/15/2019)

The Tsundere Violence releases for the week of 9/19/2019 - 9/15/2019. Gold listings are my favorite releases of the week.

TV1728 - Idiot And Virgin - Politica Para Tontos
Week opened with a shitcore EP by Idiot And Virgin. The EP consists of various short samples combined with relatively long (for grindcore) blasts of heavily distorted drum noise. It sounds like really distorted snare rushes with some minor cuts done here and there. Nice little noisy EP~

TV1729 - Guu - Art Bizarre
A very nice album of IDM heavily inspired by various break-focused genres. I really enjoy this album, its very reminiscent of early 00s IDM. Also the elements of dungeon synth and future jazz just makes it even cooler. The album has a consistent dark feeling throughout, highly recommended for fans of 00s era IDM. One of my favorites of this week~

TV1730 - DJZapElec - A Gay Dancing To The Extratone
Despite the name this is much more glitchy noise than it is extratone. This is a really nice EP full of short spastic glitchy noise tracks. It sounds a lot like more hectic raw data sounds, maybe it is, or maybe its a mix; I didn't ask so I don't know. This is a very nice EP though nonetheless

TV1731 - Гипертрофированный Антиинтеллектуализм - Чертоги Безвременья
A nice dark ambient track from Russia. Гипертрофированный Антиинтеллектуализм is Ha 100's newest project, it focuses on dark ambient and its really nice. Dark atmospheres and cool synths. I'm sure the album covers he uses for this project are a joke but I think they go with the music well and make it more ominous

TV1732 - Distorted Vortex - Giving Zero Fucks
I have no idea why I keep getting dubstep submissions, I really have no idea. But anyways, here's more dubstep~! As you can tell from this releasing on Friday 13th, its a very dark sounding album. The tracks vary in production styles, some sound really angry and some are dark and rhythmic. There's really a lot going on here, I really like this one, its my other favorite of the week~

TCLB - El Cerrito Del Norte Bart Station During Construction

New TCLB single~!

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Single: El Cerrito Del Norte Bart Station During Construction

One track of construction sounds at a subway station (that has an above ground platform). Please acknowledge the super truck and its many legs, it also had a massive thing coming out of the top of it.

Get it here: https://kikurecords.tumblr.com/post/187841163665/%E8%80%B3-124-artist-tclb-single-el-cerrito

LC-☠️007: Ninja McTits - الهاتف الخلوي

Artist: Ninja McTits
Single: الهاتف الخلوي
CAT#: LC-☠️007

http://www.mediafire.com/file/05pv1ax2f78b0qz/%25D8%25A7%25D9%2584%25D9%2587%25D8%25A7%25D8%25AA%25D9%2581_%25D8%25A7%25D9%2584%25D8%25AE%25D9%2584%25D9%2588%25D9%258A.rar/file

TCLB - Kaypro II

New TCLB single titled, Kaypro II

It contains one recording of a Kaypro ii running. Sadly this thing exploded shortly afterwards...

Anyways, you can get the recording here: https://kikurecords.tumblr.com/post/187821425010/%E8%80%B3-123-artist-tclb-single-kaypro-ii-one

LC-☠️006: Lain The Raw Data Archivist - Online 01-02 Budget C

Artist: Lain The Raw Data Archivist
Single: Online 01-02 Budget C
CAT#: LC-☠️006

One micro-track of raw data noise using data from 2002~

Get it: http://www.mediafire.com/file/5ibda01cyqcknwg/Online_01-02_Budget_C.zip

Lonely Spacecraft - SMSS J031300.36−670839.3

New Lonely Spacecraft album titled, SMSS J031300.36−670839.3

It contains one one hour long track of space ambient drone~! All of the audio in this one is sourced from my SC88-Pro, specifically one of the saxophone soundfonts~~~

Get it here: https://experimentalaurora.blogspot.com/2019/09/13-lonely-spacecraft-smss.html

Ninja McTits - Live In Sacramento 9/15/2019

Here is the audio recording of my recent performance in Sacramento~! This recording is much better than the video version~~

The album is released on my label Tsundere Violence, you can get it at these links:

https://tsundere-violence.webs.com/releases.htm

http://www.mediafire.com/file/ipd3wdrvi9npp3g/NinjaSacra.zip

Ninja McTits Live In Sacramento 9/15/2019, How It Went + Live Video

So, the show happened yesterday~! I have a lot to say about the whole trip, and I'll cover the preparations, day activities, and show journal for that day by day starting tomorrow. But, I know that my set is the most exciting of it all, so lets start there.

I took three recordings of my set. One audio, one digital camera, one VHS camcorder. VHS camcorder has it all, but the rest accidentally do not have the very beginning. The venue also took their own video though, still awaiting for them to upload it, then I'll share that on Lolita Catacombs as well~~

So, here's the video so everything I'm about to say has context~~

                                    
The set began with me yelling "1,2,3,4" and leaving the venue. I then re-entered wearing the trash costume shown at the beginning of this post. I walked through the venue while shaking some kind of African percussion shaker thing I got months back. Started the set a bit calm with a screechy tone and shaking the shaker, but once it really got started I went crazy.

I wont repeat things that you can clearly see in the video, but there was a lot going on offscreen. Also, the camera picked up some sounds a lot more than others so you can't fully hear the performance. So when off screen I'm running around the venue, smashing and hitting metal objects, screaming at people, and rolling around on the ground (with more screaming). I also gave out two unplayable "lathes" (one to a friend, one to a random person). I also leaped into the seats next to someone and was rolling around screaming then was on the floor at the back wall screaming. At the end I sing the Dokuro-chan OP. Sadly I broke my microphone during the set so this was un-mic'd but I did my best. I also smashed one of my contact mics apart (purposely).

I had a lot of fun at the show, and I hope everyone enjoyed it~!

Train Ride, Hello Sacramento!

Sorry for no post yesterday, no the blog didn't go inactive, I just had a Friday 13th from hell so wasn't able to post, but that's another story for another day.

Basically, my Mom and I are now in Sacramento! We took the train over here and it was fun. Sacramento is crazy hot though, felt I was going to die just on the way to the Hotel. We're heading back out so keeping this short, will go into details on everything when I'm back home after the trip~!

Also, remember I play live tomorrow~~

     

Ninja McTits Live In San Francisco October 3rd

I will be performing live in San Francisco on October 3rd as Ninja McTits~!

Come on out for a night of noise~!

Event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/1356671904479789/

TCLB - Shortwave Radio 3​-​11​-​2019 Barney’s Websdr in England

New TCLB album~!

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Album: Shortwave Radio 3​-​11​-​2019  Barney’s Websdr in England

37 minutes and 50 seconds of nonstop shortwave radio recordings~~

Get it here: https://kikurecords.tumblr.com/post/187668373465/%E8%80%B3-122-artist-tclb-album-shortwave-radio

This Week On Tsundere Violence (9/2/2019 - 9/8/2019)

TV1722 - BxBx - a large chest is fine too
Really nice noise single. The track is dense and has really nice screechy sounds. The track is reminiscent of being on a subway train underground, but much louder and noisier. Really nice track, worth checking out if you like noise~

TV1723 - SLIPTRIP - The Chicken Raping
A really nice single, starts of with house then goes into speedcore. This song feels really nostalgic, reminds a lot of the stuff I was finding when I first got into breakcore and speedcore. The house part is really nice, then the speedcore and gabber part comes in and tears it up real nicely. Love the variety of kicks nad sounds in the speedcore part, really nice stuff~

TV1724 - Lord Cernunnos - These Go To Eleven
These go to eleven like its 9/11. This is the first album of the week, a variety of noise tracks and dark ambient noise. Some of these tracks are extremely dense and sound awesome. The more ambient tracks are also quite good. Really enjoyable release~

TV1725 - Acid Applejack - Fucking jump
Acid Applejack keeping the bizarre dubstep trend going with a track that blends together dubstep and psytrance, with also some EDM trap influences here and there. The mix of these genres is really interesting, sounds like the different bass styles would've been hard to pair together but they did it successfully. Nice track~

TV1726 - j.c.19 - Domo Doom Donnn!!!
This one is one long noise track. Was hard to make a preview for it due to its length and you really need to play the whole thing to get the full effect as it develops slowly throughout. Really nice drifting noise thats quite loud.

TV1727 - На 100 Процентов Отмудоханная Бабуля - Drafts [Demo]
Ha 100 acts like a retard, but his music is extremely good and he's a really talented producer when he wants to be. The album is full of really good drum'n'bass, future bass, dubstep, and some more genres. The drum'n'bass tracks are upbeat and banging with really nice bass and melodies pulling it all together. But I think this album really shines in its dubby tracks that are quite slow but extremely well made. Total chill music. There is also a really nice house track on here as well. This is my favorite of the week~

PANTSU SCUM - Chobits Ripped Off Buttobi!! CPU But Aint Nobody Want To Talk About That

New PANTSU SCUM EP titled, Chobits Ripped Off Buttobi!! CPU But Aint Nobody Want To Talk About That

Limited to 5 copies on white floppies~! This is private purchase only, you must personally know the label owner to be able to purchase this. Label its on is kept private for now~~

4 new Harem Noise Wall singles: 住之江りこ、見崎鳴、鈴乃木凛 、マヤ

4 singles of harsh noise wall, get em here: https://haremnoisewall.bandcamp.com/

[Music Review] 猫 シ Corp. - NEWS AT 11

As you might've noticed, its 9/11 today. Of course with such a major event there have been numerous songs made about it, some in memorial, some making fun of it, and even some that support the atrocities committed on that day.

NEWS AT 11 by 猫 シ Corp. is one of the best memorial albums I've heard for 9/11, and the concept is just brilliant. Many people claim that the world changed with the attack on the Twin Towers, and it really did. This album focuses on before those changes, before the plane crashes, happened. The theme is the morning of 9/11, when it was just a regular day, and the album samples numerous television soundbytes of that morning. It can also have a bit of a double meaning: morning, mourning; you see where I'm going with this, right?

I don't listen to nearly as much vaporwave as I used to, and 猫 シ Corp.'s editing is extremely minimal (they basically just make it sound like its playing on a VHS or cassette and that's it), but the album is very enjoyable nonetheless. This is honestly one of my favorite vaporwave releases actually.

For whatever reason though, they also felt the need to include tracks made out of a VHS tape about The Weather Channel. Yeah, WTC and TWC have the same letters, but was this really needed or appropriate? I personally see this as kind of a double album as the second half is so detached from the central theme.

You can check out this album here (vaporwave is just stolen music so I suggest downloading for free and paying for original music instead): https://news-at-11.bandcamp.com/releases

General Update 9/10/2019

The moody pic doesn't mean I'm upset! Its just because its night right now so it fits the night vibes!

Will see how late it goes while I'm writing this out as I'm also downloading and processing demos, but anyways, a general update~~

This is the first general update, these may or may not be named "general update", they might have more specific titles if its something more specific.

I've been generally very busy lately. College, label stuff, etc; even more so now with heavy school week and my show this weekend. Was quite a hassle today but got a lot of important stuff done. Wont get into too much detail as its banking related but basically there were issues and I had to go the bank twice, then speed back home to catch a lecture. Also finally bought train tickets and booked a hotel; first time I've done either and it was surprisingly really straightforwards and easy. I don't know if I used the best site, and the price suddenly jumped by $20 when I checked out; just used what my Dad uses.

Been getting materials to sell at the show together. I always just give stuff for free but the booker encouraged me to try to actually sell things, and I really need the money. Got a few recycled tapes dubbed (I can only copy from tapes though, cant dub from my computer yet). Also got the tracklists together for a floppy thing and a CDr thing. Have yet to start burning copies. Hopefully I wont have to remove tracks, the floppy is really pushing the size limits, and sometimes you don't get the full 1.44 of the floppy. Also, last time I burned CDrs I had some major issues with tracks glitching; really hoping this doesn't occur again.

Really thankful to God, my friends, and my family for really pulling through and helping me with funding this tour~! A lot of people have donated, and donated some rather large amount. My parents have both given me some money as well. There was also an old envelope with $100 in it addressed to my Mom and dated 1999, it was lost for 20 years and popped up right when we needed money~! God is good~!

My show this week is covered, but we still need help for the Portland show. You can donate by buying my stuff on Bandcamp:

https://recoveringhikikomori.bandcamp.com/

https://tclb.bandcamp.com/

https://haremnoisewall.bandcamp.com/

https://autumnsounds.bandcamp.com/album/nerv-elevator

https://nervelevator.bandcamp.com/

https://chinatowncassette.bandcamp.com/music

https://casualfridayhnw.bandcamp.com/music

I honestly thought I might say more or go into a tangent but I didn't, will leave it here for now I guess, until tomorrow (lol watch me die and never post again)~~~

Super Cirno Day! 9/9/2019!

Today is the day to celebrate everyone's favorite ice fairy, Cirno~! Cirno is very cute and one of the best fairies~~
   

Now I'm going to kill myself because I can't eat the Cirno curry. I don't even care that doujin food is probably full of salmonella or ecoli or something. I remember seeing a packaging photo of the Cirno curry, I have it somewhere but I don't know where it is. Since its Cirno related, is it meant to be eaten cold?

  

   Maybe I should just leave the ice machine on all day in dedication to Cirno <3

     

Poor Cirno, I would've bought it~~

    

Also lets not forget about tan Cirno~! Tan Cirno is very cute and a very interesting aesthetic for an ice fairy. The tan skin and the flowery vine and sunflower combined with her wintery hues and ice wings is very cool looking~~

Fall Down The Stairs Tour -- FIRST SHOW IN LESS THAN ONE WEEK!!!

As I said before, and will probably say again, I will be playing live in Sacramento on the 15th~! This will be as Ninja McTits and will be harsh noise~! If you like acts like Hanatarash, Masonna, or Cock E.S.P., then you will not want to miss this!!!

LC-☠️005: meronti - Я лоликон? (Ninja McTits Remix)

Artist: Ninja McTits
Single: meronti - Я лоликон? (Ninja McTits Remix)
CAT#: LC-☠️005

Small remix I did of meronti's track "Я лоликон?". Sorry that the Lolita Catacombs releases so far have been mostly quite short. I haven't been releasing much music lately (just look at the TV weeklies, you'll see I have no or few releases per week lately) so just been having fun releasing random things on here.

DL: http://www.mediafire.com/file/9k8omywd64f7xir/meronti_R_ninja.rar

LC-☠️004: PANTSU SCUM - MacTracs

Artist: PANTSU SCUM
EP: MacTracs
CAT#: LC-☠️004

Three scum tracks from my PANTSU SCUM project. CDR is not involved with this EP, using him on the cover is a reference to 1. CDR being one of the few people I know who uses Macs, and 2. CDR sometimes writing "CDR" over other covers then using them.

First release made on a Mac. Technically my first music was on a Mac, but that stuff never released.

DL: http://www.mediafire.com/file/suazxek2alvq4f5/PANTSU_SCUM_-_MacTracs.zip/file

MacBook Pro

So, for those who don't know, I'm a college student. I've been in school for a few months now but didn't receive the bulk of my school supplies until very very recently. Awhile back I received an iPad; I thought it was weird at first but quickly got used to it and ended up liking it a lot. But now, they have given me a MacBook Pro. I'm a PC person all the way, until college I didn't own an Apple product, ever. Never had an iPod, iPhone, or iWhatever. Of course I used Macs in school, those old school ones that look like weird bubble TVs.

You know the ones..

Man those things looked weird, looked more like a toy computer than a real machine. Were Mac computers even as popular back then? Who knows, who cares, on with what I was saying

So, I used Macs before in school and was more or less fine, but those limited skills have long since dissipated. The Mac is so weird to use, literally everything is different than a PC. I keep forgetting on Macs that you have to click "command" to do things, and the keyboard is all different so I keep clicking random stuff when trying to do key commands (I do key commands a lot on PC). I have been getting used to this change, but its still weird.

Also, it took me half an hour to change the desktop. This thing is definitely a project to figure out, but I am honestly excited to get into it. I heavily prefer PCs, but I'm open also having other things. So far this MacBook definitely has some nice things. I really like the screen; its less harsh and it just looks really smooth and good. Too bad I accidentally touched it because I was too used to my touchscreen laptop (I rarely use the touchscreen, but rarely I may click something that way). I also like how the screen and keyboard adjust lighting, and how there's a weird electronic touch pad thing built in above the keyboard. The touch button to auto-sign in is cool too.

I also like how smooth the thing is, the touchpad actually feels fine on my fingers. More textured touchpads can feel awful. I also like how the whole thing is like made from metal or like plastic that resembles metal (idk what it is, looks like weird metal, but I think is probably plastic).

Besides from having no idea how to work anything, my largest issue is the keyboard. Writing this long post on the Mac is definitely helping to improve my skills, but I click wrong keys A TON. Especially when I'm trying to backspace I end up typing something like "==][[';", this is def annoying. I'm also concerned if this thing will overheat. It only has two tiny super thin exhaust things, and its easy for these to become obstructed.

Now that I have a Mac, I'm really curious what there is for it. I know that majority of computer games were/are released on PC only, or are hybrids that can run on both systems. But, I know there are weird little niches. For example, during the era many "home system" VNs in Japan were released on PS2, almost all of them were PS2. But, despite that, Xbox in Japan had some of its own VN ports and even exclusives! This is super bizarre (and cool af) as Xbox has never been popular in Japan, so its cool it has some underground games. So that has me wondering, does Mac also have this phenomenon? Does Mac have its own exclusive VNs? I have yet to look into this, but I most definitely will as I'm quite curious about it.

And, of course here are some screencaps of me playing around with the Mac~~

 

4 new Harem Noise Wall singles: 西条雛子 、鎌月鈴乃 、腐ガール 、鈴鹿紅葉

4 new Harem Noise Wall singles, get em here: https://haremnoisewall.bandcamp.com/

الدعامات الفولاذية

هوت دوج اللاما سبعة حبة عنب عظم وجبة طماطم حساء مفرقعة كمبيوتر شركة تجارية تواليت الذراع الصناعية والساقين والرأس وأمك وبطريق شطيرة معكرونة حديقة الحيوان حمار وحشي كتل الخشب المعدن الحبوب تربة هواء ريح سماء ليل شمس يوم قمر بركان بركان كويكب مساحة خاصة لذلك ربما ربما ربما المعكرونة المعبدة تنس تنس الزجاج المكسور عظام الناي الأوردة قلب الأحماض الحمضية المعدة كاسيت الفيديو الحمضية

Casual Friday - J. Garcia Collector's Edition - Banyan Trees

Artist: Casual Friday
Album: J. Garcia Collector's Edition - Banyan Trees

My new Casual Friday album, J. Garcia Collector's Edition - Banyan Trees

Casual Friday is my HNW project themed on my tie collection. I accidentally forgot about the project but it is now returned~!

Listen and get the album here: https://casualfridayhnw.bandcamp.com/album/j-garcia-collectors-edition-banyan-trees

Bandcamp Messing With Prices

I noticed Bandcamp keeps editing the prices on my TCLB account. The account ran out of free downloads, and as a result all the releases were changed from free to $7. This also affected everything I had in drafts (I upload releases long in advance and save them as drafts). I used mass edit to make all of the releases back to free, but this didn't revert any of the drafts. Before I release I switch it to free, then sometime after it releases the price suddenly changes to $7. This is is really weird, I don't know if its some kind of glitch or Bandcamp trying to sneak sales from my heaviest account.

San Francisco Adventure + Show Journal (Ryosuke Kiyasu, Heckdorlan, The Escape Agency)

August 30th, 2019. My Mom and I went into SF to go see Ryosuke Kiyasu and some other folks play. We were going for Kiyasu and I didn't know of the other people playing which made for a nice surprise. I saw Kiyasu perform before in Sete Star Sept in Japan, I'll post about that another day.

Anyways, the venue was at the faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaar away side of San Francisco. SF is on a little peninsula, one side is The Bay and where everything else is. The bay side of the city is where all the big buildings and stuff are. The farther you go to the ocean-coast side the more residential it gets. BART (our subway), doesn't go into a whole outer corner of the city, leading us to have to take a Muni. Muni trains are cool af but I don't think I had ridden one prior to this. So, we go to Bart, get off Bart, walk around the city a bit and get matcha from a coffee place then back down into Bart for the Muni. The Muni quickly arrived and it looked to be an older model, the trains looked really cool from both the outside and inside. 電車でGO!

The train was full of people and a nice old man moved over so I could sit with my Mom. I would've taken a photo inside but with people everywhere I decided not too. The Muni was a lot of fun, its almost like a tour bus as it goes in weird areas and is far more scenic than Bart is. The Muni goes underground like a subway train (which was loud and very cool, the train had really nice older subway lighting); but then it also goes on the street and becomes a cable car bus thing. We had to go really far so we rode the Muni for quite awhile as it took us deeper and deeper into the residential side of San Francisco. The Muni has a million of very odd stops, many of the stops aren't marked anywhere and it will just stop in the street and let someone out. We accidentally got off a few blocks early but it was a nice day and a nice walk the rest of the way.

We quickly located the venue and I admired the wasps on the building. I keep pet wasps (will explain in another post), so I thought this was very cool.

We were super early and only a few blocks away from the beach so we decided to head over there to kill some time and explore a bit. The beach was super close by, and at the end of the street was where the Muni trains go in a big curve to turn around and go back on their way.

We get to the beach which runs along a highway that goes down the coast. Right at where we were was a massive sand hill which I of course immediately ran up. The view from the sand hill was amazing, I have a lot of photos from this that will be released in time, but here are some photos.

  

I helped my Mom up a less-steep part of the sand hill and we stayed up there awhile. We then went down and to the shore, the sand by the shore was like more stable ground. I played around with the water running at it when it receded then going backwards when it came pouring in. Also used chuuni powers to stop the water before it reached me. We had been having a nice time and I was taking photos and field recordings the whole time (ever since we reached SF I was doing recordings and taking photos). The beach had some stuff of interest, dead sea life that washed ashore. There was a rotting seagull carcass but I wont post that photo, but here are some others.

  

So, it was finally time to head back to the venue. We went to the venue and were still early. Then, one of the bands playing was extremely late so we ended up chilling in the venue for a long time before it got started. Finally, everyone was there, the equipment set up, and the show began! Sadly I didn't think to take any photos of the bands and artists performing.

  

The first band that played was Heckdorlan, this band was insanely good. It was two people, a bassist and a drummer, and both were on vocals. They were doing noisecore with some elements of powerviolence and hardcore punk. Their tracks were much longer than the usual noisecore but it was insanely good. The songs were very structured and kept switching between blasts of noisecore, to hardhitting powerviolence, to slow sludgy (and very noisy) slammy riffs. The vocals were reminiscent of AxCx, a mixture of shouted/yelled vocals and some very Seth Putnam-esque vocals. They were extremely loud and made my ears ring after their first song. They were amazing and really good.

The second artist up was Ryosuke Kiyasu. He was doing his signature snare drum solo and it was really incredible to finally see this live. My seat was really close to where he was performing which made it all the more intense. He played the snare drum in a variety of avant-garde jazzy styles with an assortment of tools. The patterns ranged from jazzy to noisy to really fast and chaotic to rhythmic. He was doing some insanely fast snare rushes, seriously sounded like a computer was doing it. He also played his shoe, blew on the drum (while possibly hitting himself in the face with the drumstick), and slammed the drum on the table a few times. He moved all around the venue as he attacked his snare, then would noisily drag the table back into position. He also put his leg up on the drum and stuff like that. His performance was crazy good and I enjoyed it a lot, was really happy to finally see the snare drum solo live.

The final band that played was The Escape Agency, a really talented post-rock band. Post-rock stuff is amazing, and they were doing the technical kind of stuff where it constantly changes every 20 - 40 seconds. They seriously played every kind of post-rock there is, even some post-black metal riffs were showcased. Many of the songs were mostly instrumental but there were some vocals too that gave it a really indie vibe (their opening track was more indie than post-rock, but it definitely had those post-rock vibes that I love). Both the guitarist and drummer were insanely good and totally in sync with each other. At the end of their set the guitarist threw his guitar down onto the pedals and started punching it repeatedly. He then picked it up and speed strummed a nice noisy drone which closed out the show. They apparently usually have a bassist too, but this performance was drums, guitar, and vocals only (guitar and vocals were the same person). Despite not having their bassist, this band totally rocked it. The drummer broke a stick too and it went flying.

The show was over and my ears were ringing. The venue was very small and people were using rather large speakers and amps. It was a really amazing event and I had a ton of fun.

The trip was over, and it was now time to take a nighttime Muni back to Bart. I was excited to see the scenery again but at night, but sadly the brightly lit newer model Muni made it nearly impossible to see outside through the reflective glass.


 

We got back to Bart, Bart to home station, home station to home, and that was the trip~!


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In the future I will write about some older shows I went to and provide journals for those, so stay tuned~! Reminder, this blog is updated daily; whether you want to check it daily, weekly, or whatever is up to you~~