Dr Internets – hey, making the world better, one hair appointment at a time.

I’ve got at least another yearish in me out here – feel free to hit the email if you wanna talk details.

PS Dex, been thinking of a Japanorama documentary for quite a while, for Current or someone like that. How long are you out there. Fancy getting involved?

On S&P though, I never really hear about them, now that you mention it. I’m sure they have fans, and I personally like what they’re doing, but at least in the circles I run in, they don’t come up all that often. But, it looks like they’re playing a bunch of big festivals and such, so it looks like they are out doing their thing though.

On はっぴいえんど/Happii Endo/Happy End , here’s one link.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqKY6hVwyck

The whole Kazemachi Roman joint is great, actually (even though there’s a couple skiptracks on it for me). Link on wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazemachi_Roman

Peace. :)

Funny you ask the question now though – just posted something up on it. Check it –

Nihongo Rap Breakdown – Seeda – Dear Japan.

Pretty much all I listen to nowadays regularly is Japanese rap music. It’s actually all I have on the mp3 player right now. That and Happii Endo (check em out, they’re kinda dope).

Parties and stuff out here, I spin a little of that, but there’s not enough proper danceable joints to do a proper set. I’m kinda back into hyphy right now, or kuduro, bmore, that sorta thing.

Ralf – thanks fam! About the kanji on Tsuyu/Baiu, the 黴雨 thing does exist, actually:

中国では、黴（かび）の生えやすい時期の雨という意味で、元々「黴雨（ばいう）」と呼ばれていたが、カビでは語感が悪いため、同じ「ばい」で季節に合った「梅」の字を使い「梅雨」になったとする説。 gogen-allguide.com

Granted, I’ve never seen anyone actually write 黴雨, though. I was mainly screwing around.

On the Japanese hip-hop thing though, that is definitely in the works, stay in tuned for that!

You don’t want the beat CD. It was a mess. I was really into writing these weird techno songs (which were also bad, ask Suhburb, he’s heard one of em), and someone asked me to do rappidy rap beats. Back then I didn’t really have any way to sample or understand sampling, so instead of digging for samples on old jazz records, I wrote my own jazz song, adjusted the filter/eq to make it sound old/lo-fi and then put a beat on top of it. Terrible.

But yeah, the CD writer was skurry too. I had a bootleg of Windows Me, which caused my writer to stall and crash about 80% of the time. So every successful burn implied the production of about 4-5 coasters.

so faim, you owe me like 40 cents for CD-R money, I’ll collect next time I’m in town. You’re doing shows nowadays, right? And don’t get me started on high school awkwardness – remember, I’m the one that wrote a gabber song about IB and not wanting to do homework – on a tracker – and played it for my final at the upper-level IB Music class recital.

And wait, was the end quote a sample, or is that you? I actually really dug that. Not too many people can actually use that digital glitch filter thing effectively.

so just to clarify for anyone interested, “In Your Sleep” the ending with the overdone distortion=”stop trying to sell us dreams, not everyone is a business man. It’s the emotion of fear, it’s the emotion of fear itself.”

the song is about overcoming yourself, depression, procastination, about getting up get out and getting something. It’s also about how we as an American culture are “sleeping”/not paying attention to what we are being force-fed (i.e. primarily the mainstream hip hop music that we easily submit to as a whole and the underlying causes and effects of that)

peace.

f.k.

Hey, I want that Dex Beat CD so f*cking bad. Hook it up! I bought an external CD Burner freshman year. It was made by HP, 4x speed and as big as a shoe box…cost me $400…so tight.

Mark – dude just wait until next week man. I think you’ll like ep 123.