Finally a new rotation!
Yeah, we've kept you waiting and we're really, really sorry. We both completely fail at life it seems... xD
So, I better stop babbling, because it's late and I can't think anymore anyway because under these lj-cuts you'll find much more of it and you need to be prepared for that! Hrhrhr.
~RULES &
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Randomly picked songs this time!
Oh my god, I'm so damn lame. I needed ages to get all my stuff up. The heat here is honestly killing my brain, so please also forgive me my stupid comments and so on X_x Hope I did a good job with everything now and you all enjoy the music I've picked!
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Artist: Fujifabric
Song: Kagerou
6,7MB || 4:54 min || 10/10
Comment: Aww! This song is so pretty! Unfortunately I just own this song by them. It has this amazing summer feeling of driving around with the car while the sun is shining brightly. It feels like freedom. Your fingertips can almost touch the blue sky above. And the keyboard/piano sounds so nice along the guitars and and the drums.
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Artist: 176BIZ
Song: -AquA-
3,8MB || 4:12 min || 8/10
Comment: Oh, another summer song. It's upbeat and optimistic, pretty fast and... loud? xD I don't know how to describe it, but it's at least fun to listen to.
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Artist: ELLEGARDEN
Song: Insane
5MB || 3:38 min || 10/10
Comment: OH I LOVE THIS SONG!! This is one of my favorite songs by ELLEGARDEN! T_T It starts with an acoustic guitar and his voice is so calm in the beginning. It's giving me shivers when it gets high. I love how he sings the lyrics (they're so beautiful); first in English and then later in Japanese. I love how the song slowly builds up and goes through all these phases. How they mixed a classic instruments into the song that is actually a (punk)rock song. A crazy guitar solo can be found as well. Oh, and I love how the song ends so quietly again... Beautiful.
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Artist: Ayabie
Song: Ari to kakuzatou
3,3MB || 2:27 min || 10/10
Comment: I love how catchy this is, it never fails to make me move to the music. The bass elements and the solo are so great. It's just sad that this song isn't that long and ends way to early. Nevertheless it's one of my faves by them! So that means download xD (*sigh* And while I listen to this I'm becoming sad again that I couldn't see them live in Berlin a few weeks ago ._.)
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Artist: Chihiro Onitsuka
Song: Ii Hi Tabidachi Nishi e
11,2MB || 4:35 min || 9/10
Comment: Chihiro is such an amazing artist. Ii Hi Tabidachi - Nishi e walks on a thin line between sad and hopeful. I guess the theme 'thoughtful' would fit. It leads us through a world that doesn't know how to be and handle itself. I would picture this as her walking in black-white through a colorful world, but her colors are sometimes getting stronger whenever she passes something that makes her remember dear things, but then again the colors always begin to wither again and she stays in black-white forever.
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Artist: ONE OK ROCK
Song: Naihishinsho
8,53MB || 3:43 min || 10/10
Comment: Somehow the beginning sounds so VK, but then it turns into a real rock song. Sorry, into a damn awesome rock song that makes you want more and more! You can really feel the craving how you want more. And then you're already singing along the chorus, totally dive with this song. It could be a surfer song XD ~ only way cooler. Must download.
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Artist: baroque
Song: Baby baby
4,5MB || 4:56 min || 10/10
Comment: Somehow this rotation is full of summer songs? My Media Player seems to like us? So, his voice stays pretty calm throughout the whole song, like he's whispering sweet things to his lover on a sunny morning as they're both laying in bed, and tells her how much he loves her. Dreamy.
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Artist: GULLET
Song: a withered flower
11,4MB || 5:00 min || 10/10
Comment: One of my favorite songs by GULLET. Ryo's voice is so exquiste and I really enjoy listening to him, it's a pleasure for my ears. Now he's the vocalist of 9goats black out (which I adore) by the way. This song is really floating and has it's highlights throughout the whole track. It's pretty calm, has this notstalgic feeling, but at the same time the song is kinda pushing too. I suck at describing today, I'm sorry :/
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Artist: deadman
Song: Additional Cause for Sorrow
4,6MB || 3:21 min || 10/10
Comment: deadman was surely one of my favorite Jrock bands. I'm so still sad I've missed them live ._. This is maybe the most dreamy song that comes from their last album. Ah~ this certain nostalgia and melancholy is beautiful and inspiring. I'm still in love with his voice.
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Just a few though, but I tried to get a good mix. There are a lot more of course. So let me know, if you want a part two!
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Artist: AYA
Song: Angerica
4,1MB || 4:29 min || 10/10
Comment: AYA is my favorite female artist - when it comes to rock of course. Want good rock with a female vocalist? Then I can only highly recommend AYA. She's able to sing it all, no matter if it's melancholic, dreamy, optimistic, full of sun, angry, crazy, bitchy or soft and in love. This woman is amazing, so you better download this song that is one of the many songs in this rotation that reminds me of summer! :3
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Artist: Ayaka
Song: Ariesu no hoshi
6,5MB || 4:38 min || 8/10
Comment: I don't like the chorus, somehow it destroys the song for me. But the rest is sooo utterly beautiful ;~;
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Artist: Bonnie Pink
Song: Ocean
4,5MB || 3:20 min || 10/10
Comment: Perfect song. I could listen to it for hours. Bonnie's voice and these acoustic guitars melt my heart :3 When I hold you in my arms. All the secrets are revealed. When I hold you in my arms. It's warm 'n' cold. Like the ocean.
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Artist: The Brilliant Green
Song: Escape
4MB || 4:23 min || 10/10
Comment: Well, I guess this is one of my favorite songs by The Brilliant Green. The beginning is so pretty, I like the feeling it sets right from the start. The first sung lines might not convince you that this song is beautiful, but just listen and bit by bit the song will captivate you. I love the chorus and aaah, the whole song, though I really don't know why xD; <3
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Artist: Cocco
Song: Kemonomichi
4,5MB || 5:00 min || 9/10
Comment: I'd consider Cocco to be pure rock. I don't like everything that she has produced, but Kemonomichi is definitely very good! And the part with the acoustic guitars before the song bursts into chaos again and the world begins to spin around is so great!
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Artist: Do As Infinity
Song: Under the sun
5,7MB || 4:06 min || 9/10
Comment: Fast, free, catchy, sun, happiness, summer, hot, beach. Just a few words that totally describe Under the sun. One of these perfect summer songs you listen to in the car.
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Artist: fra foa
Song: Chiisana Hikari
11,6MB || 5:04 min || 10/10
Comment: Chisako's voice... aahh~ *hearts* It's almost enough said. Absolutely pretty alternative song with wonderful lyrics. I can only recommend this to everyone! Especially to those who never heard of them before <3
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Artist: Head Phones President
Song: Inside
6,4MB || 4:37 min || 10/10
Comment: I love this band and their heavy sound. I guess Anza's actually the only female singer that can convince me with her angry, sometimes even crazy sounding screaming. Other women annoy me with their shouting - way too high or way too deep, almost like a guy, but Anza... perfect. And this band is definitely 100% unique.
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Artist: Lily Chou Chou
Song: Erotic
3,3MB || 4:47 min || 10/10
Comment: As the title says. Just much more sensual. And so recommended that it hurts! :D
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Artist: Maaya Sakamoto
Song: Mameshiba
5,6MB || 5:08 min || 10/10
Comment: How I love it when Maaya Sakamoto and Yoko Kanno work together. This was produced for 'Earth Girl Arjuna' (highly recommended anime btw!) and it's such a beautiful and optimistic song that gives you power when you need it the most. It's so positive in a touching way that sometimes it even makes me cry xD DOWNLOAD!
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Artist: Minimi
Song: Shiki no uta (Samurai Champloo Ending)
11,4MB || 5:00 min || 10/10
Comment: The first time I've watched Samurai Champloo, the episode ended and this song began playing, I fell in love with this mellow piece of music. It's so simple and so soft. If I had to describe it with colors I'd say amber-colored, pomegranate, ruby red. It reminds me of a hot summer day that comes to an end, of the sun kissing the ocean. It's a beautiful song.
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Artist: Shiina Ringo
Song: Yami ni Furu Ame
4,6MB || 5:03 min || 10/10
Comment: One of the songs I'm really impressed by her voice. So much power... you can almost grab it. The violins, the electric guitar, the drum and bass - it all fits so amazingly brilliant together. It's an experiment in sound that hits directly into your heart.
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I'm terribly sorry for missing out on so many rotations! m(__)m School's been a killer of time and it's probably not helping that I'm such a lazy and forgetful bum when I do have time, and now I'm back home on dial-up, and I have work! @@; But fear not! For I will be unemployed in about two weeks time? XD; I didn't do anything wrong, 'least I don't think so, I'm just helping my dad until my mom comes back home from Taiwan. Once she's back, I should hopefully have more time to upload more of a variety of songs! And in random news: after three years of putting it off, I will hopefully be legally driving soon! \8D/ SO PEOPLE OF THE US, LOOK OUT, KAGE'S DRIVING!
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Artist: SuG
Song: Kyogen kuse
3.91 MB || 4:16 min || 8.5/10
Comment: I'm still not entirely sure how SuG quickly became one of my top ten bands to listen to, maybe it's the fun music, or the silly PVs (Alterna. was dorky cute), not certain, but Takeru's cuteness probably has something to do with it, being the shallow person I can be. His voice isn't the best, but I think it's the music I enjoy the most, so I'll definitely continue listening to 'Heavy Positive Rock'. <3 This song's off their live distributed single, and I think it's a rather funky fun song to listen to. :D
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Artist: Antic Café
Song: Nyappy in the World 3
6.52 MB || 4:45 min || 8/10
Comment: I really like An Café's Nyappy songs, I haven't really listened to any other songs on their recent album. XD; I don't know, Miku's voice is a bit weird to me sometimes, but the Nyappy songs are just so addicting, they get stuck in your head so easily.
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Artist: Kagrra,
Song: Amafurase Tanmaina
4.88 MB || 4:44 min || 10/10
Comment: I love this song, especially the chanty intro, although I'll have to admit that it kind of creeped me out at first, but I rather like it now. Kagrra,'s always good, they've changed a bit so that their sound's a bit more polished, but their old stuff is still most definitely great to listen to. Isshi's voice is a bit higher through a lot of this song, but I think he pulls it off well, and the music's just amazing.
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Artist: Miyavi
Song: 21st Century Tokyo Blues
5.86 MB || 4:16 min || 10/10
Comment: Okay, so I know not everyone's a big fan of Miyavi's 'Kabuki Rock', but I like it! :D I think it's rather catchy, which is funny considering I don't really like rap or hip-hop normally. XD But Miyavi makes it awesome. This song's not necessarily my favorite off his album, but it's still on repeat for the longest time some days.
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Artist: Coaltar of the Deepers
Song: Joy Ride
5.80 MB || 4:11 min || 9/10
Comment: Coaltar of the Deepers is a fairly discovery I made. I don't really know that much about them, I found out about them because their session guitarist is Akira of Plastic Tree. :D And that's essentially it. XD; One of my friends had posted a YouTube link to a live performance video of this and I was hooked, the tune would not leave me alone! Plus the vocalist chucking an empty bottle at Akira while he was playing was funny. XD They're classified as 'shoegaze', thus the guitar effects. Some might consider this song annoying, but I have random tastes. :Dv
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Artist: Kra
Song: Shunshoku no hana
10.14 MB || 4:25 min || 8/10
Comment: Ah Kra. I like them, but I tend to forget about them a lot. >>; Another fairly happy upbeat song. And I don't really have much else to say at this point. XD;
++[Download!]++ And of course...
your requests!
For Anonymous:
Dir en grey - Fukai (live @ CoV) For
neko_ice_queen :
Cutey Honey opening theme by Koda Kumiacid android - Daze And that's it.
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