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JAPROCKSAMPLER by Julian Cope

 
 
Bandini
12:32 / 11.09.07
JAPROCKSAMPLER

Just received my copy of this in the post and will start reading it pretty soon.

Thought it would be nice to have a thread to discuss the book and also those bands featured inside.

Currently listening to Satori by The Flower Travellin' Band. Awesome riffs galore. I was first introduced to this through the Takashi Miike film, Deadly Outlaw: Rekka with Riki Takeuchi and the album lives up to the excess and fun of that film and vice versa.

(apologies if this should go in books but i thought it might end up more a thread about the bands than specifically the book)
 
 
MattShepherd: I WEDDED KALI!
13:29 / 11.09.07
I would LOVE to buy this book, but I'm sure it would just create heartache and frustration as my pocketbook and resources get in the way of my accessing the fantastic musical connections inside. Is the music in it even halfway accessible, or would it be a $20 purchase requiring hundreds of dollars in rare-import-CD acquisitions to appreciate?
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
13:50 / 11.09.07
Haven't got it yet, but it's on my list. A friend of mine wrote a bloody good review of it in last week's New Statesman.

Yeah, I think it's going to be a horribly frustrating read in that I'm going to NEED all the music in it by the end (whatever one may think of Copey, his enthusiasm's so infectious he could probably convince me to listen to Travis were he to use his powers for evil), and I'm betting most of it's very hard to come by.
 
 
rizla mission
14:20 / 11.09.07
Download it I say - I've already come across one site (which I shan't link to for reasons of legality blah blah blah) that has been posting a few chunks of the albums listed in the book, and record-collectors/sellers have been capitalising on the cultish rareness of these kinds of records for years, flogging bootlegs and dubious limited pressings and so on for ridiculously inflated £££, so it's just desserts I reckon (REVENGE, even).

It's also good to bear in mind that enjoyable as Cope's enthusiasm is, as with his German book, a fair chunk of this stuff basically just isn't as good as it's cracked up to be, (in my experience anyway). It trades a lot on it's rare-ness and exoticism when resold in the West rather than it's musical value, and from what I can gather Cope has just rolled along with this for the most part, rather than addressing it.
 
 
Bandini
14:21 / 11.09.07
If you have good access to a brilliant private torrent tracker for music and loose morals (check on both) then i think it is a much less frustrating read and great as you can listen to the albums as you read about them and then spend the next 50 years tracking them down on vinyl in junk shops etc...
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
16:58 / 12.09.07
Well, I've ordered the book now, so I'm guessing Azureus will be working overtime...
 
 
Bandini
07:10 / 26.09.07
Really enjoyed this. There were some glaring problems but i still loved it and it will probably be something i return to a lot.

I also can't believe that i hadn't listened to LES RALLIZES DENUDES before. I think Night of The Assassins has become one of my favourite tracks. I cant stop listening to it. I keep finding myself at work, on the tube, reading, even in bed just humming that Peggy Marsh bassline constantly. The discovery of that one song makes the book worthwhile for me.

Night Of The Assassins
 
 
rizla mission
08:33 / 26.09.07
I played that track at the end of a radio show I just recorded, funnily enough.

Motown bassline. Absurd feedback. 12 minutes.

What can you say, it does the trick.
 
 
Spaniel
10:06 / 26.09.07
Azureus? You want SoulSeek, matey.
 
 
Bandini
10:55 / 26.09.07
Soulseek - might be able to find the album, takes an hour to download, maybe stops part way through and have to finish it with a different bit rate version, bad labeling etc

Azureus and good private torrent tracker - Every album you want, downloads in minutes, choice of versions (flac/mp3/m4a etc), review, correctly labeled, guaranteed finish.

Not even a choice in my mind.
 
  
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