bluntz – Are you an ECA fan otherwise? This was really the first joint of theirs I was feeling enough to drop. Not like I have their whole discography, though…

they even. killed. his goldfish. That’s a mean line, haha.

Pirate T – I caught snippets of both on TV. Of course, the PM over here decided to resign for no reason, so that has sorta been prioritized over here (not as much as you’d think, though).

Soultronica Saga – there’s a whole new galaxy full of music still waiting to come out. Still in the works. Japanese hip-hop wise – definitely in the pipeline.

Sidebar Time: Whats poppin with the soultronica saga?!?!?! and when are you gonna bless us with some Japanese Hip-Hop??

Love and Light.

Carl

p.s. we shall prevail

by the way, nice site. cute beat, even.

Koohii – (and yes I caught your コーヒーを飲みます line)
keep me updated on the music, fam. I never did much neuro so I can’t say I understood much of it other than the dopamine bit…

There’s definitely plenty of awful Japanese (same can be said for anywhere, though) rap out there. I’ve managed to find some interesting stuff, but am definitely still digging. I’ll be putting some things out before too long, though.

Kanawise, second question first: I’m on a mac. Pretty much the best OS out there for different language support (Korean/Japanese/Chinese – simplified or traditional – works right out the box, both reading and writing – no installation cds or anything) (linux is okayish, but having to logout and log back in to switch languages is a dealbreaker – maybe some distro has fixed this, but Ubuntu or Mandriva certainly hadn’t last time I tried). Modern Windows systems will let you install an IME, but you gotta have the install disc.

Or you can use an ajax’d service like this, which is pretty impressive.

learning wise – I did this forever ago, but from what I remember, all it took was a copy of both syllabaries written out on a sheet of notebook paper, some index cards cut in half, a pen, and a few weeks. And some ridiculous mnemonics. I remember telling myself that ã‚’ looked like the letters “TLC”, like the R&B group. Not too rough.

oh.. but i wanted to ask how you are doing your kana.. two things.. what method did you use to learn if you know them? and how are you typing? Japanese ISO?

i sent you some tracks a while back and you said maybe you could use the instrumentals and i never sent’em cos i switched recording platforms and i only have’em with the vocals still on the chorus.. just wanted to say thanks for the incisive criticism.. i got some new shit comin down the pipeline you’re gonna dig.. here’s just a tiny sample (not a big self-promoter).
Halaluyeah. the lyrics don’t make sense unless you know something about molecular biology of memory.. i’ll explain if anyone is interested..

i’m puttin everybody i know up on the mixtape show. peace.

~sdotta