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http://www.myspace.com/hamatsu

I can’t read Japanese, so I don’t know what it says. But I really like the bass emphasis, electronic elements, and blend of styles. The retro 80s cheesiness is also a plus.

French electronica, pop, with Japanese noise/collage, psychedelia influence. Nice!

More here:

http://www.olamm.tk/
http://www.myspace.com/olamm

Kayo Dot, my favorite band by far, is streaming their new album here. More pop sounding than their old stuff, which isn’t a bad thing, considering composer Toby Driver has covered everything from minimal ambient soundscapes to “chamber metal” to pure dissonant noise.

I think I like their older work better, though.

http://bluelambencydownward.com/

Arcane Device, “feedback music” by David Lee Myers.

“Since 1987, I have been developing specialized circuitry and electronic systems for the production of my signature ‘Feedback Music’, whose original sounds claim unique sources. The outputs of electronic devices - particularly those intended to create a modification of some kind to an audio signal, such as time delays - are fed, via custom-built mixers, to their own inputs. In this way, these devices never receive signals from the ‘outside world’, and instead feed on a diet of their own product. A whole new function of these devices appears, bearing little relation to their intended purposes. The way I envision it, the devices are provided the opportunity to ’sing their own songs’ […].

More Info // Sound clips on Myspace

The catchy song on the (otherwise boring) Volvo Spring Sale commercial is by Melpo Mene. Thank you internet, holder of all knowledge.

http://www.myspace.com/melpomenemusic

Sometimes I wish I could remember the 80s.

Apparently the net is a boon to Arab metalheads…

• CNN has a video report about blackmetal/deathmetal bands in the middle east using Youtube and Myspace to get their music out in countries where public performances are illegal.

• Another article mentions mp3s, online stores, and album trading coordinated through web communities as factors sustaining the metal subcultures in these countries.

“In the previous article I had discussed that since there are no record labels in Iran, the people here have to ask their friends and relatives who live in the other countries to bring them the albums they want. However as Internet has become wide-spread in the recent years in Iran, Iranian metallers have found a better way to get the metal albums. There are some sites that sell these albums in very cheap price and one can download the albums that he wants from them in MP3 format. […] Trading is one of the other ways that metaller can get the albums they have been searching for.“

All of the links above are from an unlikely post @ samefacts.com

The Arabic logo above (awesome) belongs to the first band that came up on myspace, called Narjahanam. From Bahrain, not bad either.