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A blog where we post whatever we want. A focus on music, obscure film, and more. Many links are our own uploads, but just as many are taken from other blogs. If you have a problem with us having your links on our blog, we are glad to take them down. Female Trouble is maintained by Garrett (ZOOM LENS), Michelle, and Megane-Kun (Drink Cold). If there is something that you think we may have that you wish to ask for, do not hesitate to ask us! Please email gyyguy@yahoo.com. The Female Trouble email is not checked.

Flash Gordon - Troma City Pollution Attack!

Friday, April 16, 2010 at 11:30 AM Posted by FEMALE TROUBLE 0 Comments


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Can words describe the totally ass-kicking essence of this record?
I don't think so but i'll try anyway.

First, i have to say that "Troma City Pollution Attack" has been one of my favourite records since i got it on a 120-minutes mixtape crammed with fastcore and powerviolence nearly 10 years ago.
The tape also had some early Razor's Edge, Lie and the Slight Slappers' masterpiece "A Selfish World Called Freedom". But even what was considered as the cream of the japanese punk-hardcore scene could not compare with the almighty Flash Gordon.

Look at this more-than-ugly cover! Yes, there's the Toxic Avenger drawn by a mentally-challenged child on it! And the other cover on the back is even uglier if that's even possible!


Now check out the track-list : Road Warrior, Surf Nazis Must Die!, Toxic Avenger, Whipping Queen, Yakiniku Warfare!
How can you not like a track called "YAKINIKU WARFARE"?
That's right, it's impossible.

I'd like to talk more about the lyrics but the insert is just the ultimate katakana nightmare of every japanese language student :



What about the music?

Well, it's over-the-top crazed and snotty fast thrashcore.
The thing we used to call "bandana-core" around 2000-2001 when bands like What Happens Next?, DS-13 and Vitamin X brought back pure energy and fun into hardcore (which, at this point, had become short-haired shitty metalcore bands singing about animal liberation and describing their vegan diets).

A lot of bands just played generic and fast-but-boring thrash around the time but Flash Gordon really deserves the superlatives i used above. The songs are short and REALLY fast, there are plenty of silly guitar solos as well as rad breakdowns which make you want to break your bones trying to ride a fat skateboard or to start a circle-pit alone in your room... Basically more fun and energy you can hope for.

Flash Gordon released two 7", had 4 tracks on the awesome "Tomorrow Will Be Worse" compilation and then released their only full-length on Answer Records, a label from Nagoya.



Well, i don't know if you can call a 15-minutes long record a full-length... But who cares? Every second of this record is worth listening and moshing along to!


Some members (the guitarist and singer if i'm not mistaken) are now playing in a band called Ada-Max. Which can be described as splatter-crossover-thrash-with-insane-vocals-on-top.

You know it's all good.

Megane-kun.

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Tampon Tango

Sunday, April 11, 2010 at 1:13 AM Posted by FEMALE TROUBLE 10 Comments



Tampon Tango was a Japanese film released in 1975, blurring the line between porn and cult flick. I'm actually not sure what it is trying to be as the plotline and visuals are too bizarre to be a straight porn, but the actual sex scenes are too vanilla to actually turn someone on.

The film revolves around a pornographer and several of his actors and actresses. One of the women mentions interest in setting up a scene where tampons are forcibly inserted into a girl's vagina as this kind of scene has 'never been done before.'

Nice product placement

From there the film delves into a blurry of oddball scenes consisting of penis guitar playing and women placing explosives in their lower regions. I don't want to spoil all the scenes, so I'll keep it at that.

Tampon Tango: A possible influence on The Gerogerigegege?

Now from all of this, you must think that this is the greatest film ever. Well, while there are no doubt some amazing and unique scenes in this film, the consistency of them is where this movie falls a little flat. In between some of the more memorable scenes are some flat-out boring and not to mention, extremely long sex scenes. A true test of endurance. Even for those of you nipponphiles with an extreme case of the yellow fever will most likely be bored to sexual numbness watching these people go at it. It is almost as if they were a pair of awkward virgins going at it for the first time. Prepare to be flaccid.


However, we are at least allowed to exit on a good note. An absolutely outlandish group sex scene that never seems to end until we see a release of confetti and topless middle-aged Japanese men waving batons. Fucking punk rock.


To be completely honest, I really didn't care for this film as much as I thought I would, only for the sake of one's curiosity did I upload this film, and don't we all want to satisfy those curiosities? I don't think anyone has bothered to upload Tampon Tango in the past (besides a few elitist torrent sites) so I thought I would save anyone the trouble of trying to track this one down.

The scenes that are memorable are extremely so, but the consistency is what kills it. The actual sex scenes are way too long and drawn out, and if those were shortened just a bit I think Tampon Tango would be a flawless cult classic. Most likely there will be more who enjoy this than I did, although I have to say, I don't think I have ever seen anything quite like Tampon Tango.... ever.

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DRINK COLD PLAYLIST #5

Saturday, April 10, 2010 at 8:54 PM Posted by FEMALE TROUBLE 3 Comments

On another note (I seem to be making more than one posts these days, I don't have much of a life lately...)

A playlist I made is now being featured on Drink Cold!

Check it out! Lots of noise, denpa madness, and other fine gems that I've put on there.

Drink Cold is one of the best blogs on the net, so be sure to look through the rest as well. It's all in French, so bust out your Google Translator and check that shit out.

Peace,
Garrett


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group_inou- FAN

at 6:53 PM Posted by FEMALE TROUBLE 5 Comments

I believe I posted an EP of their's earlier, but I thought this album deserved a post as well, so to reintroduce this group....

group_inou consists of two people, imai (track producer) and cp (vocals). group_inou combines video-game like instrumentation with an almost punk-like approach to hip-hop. The groups' music is extremely feel good, but also rings in with a sort of nostalgia in their chiptune sound that makes guys like me weep bittersweetly.


"YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!"

I never really cared for much Japanese rap before, most of it I feel is an embodiment of Western culture, most of it being typified by people who are influenced by white youth who in turn themselves are trying to embody black culture. So basically, Japanese people trying to act like white guys who are trying to act like black guys. This may be a bit generalized, yes, but I feel that group_inou is one of the few rap groups I have heard from Japan that actually sound purely Japanese. I mean, how many cheesy Engrish hooks can you hear in group_inou's music? Not any really.



With that being said, group_inou is something unique, something amazing, but something that may not be appreciated among everyone due to it being quite unorthodox, especially in comparison to Western rap. But for those who are open to something a little different, perhaps even challenging to your current perception of rap, then group_inou will more than likely win a place in your heart. FAN has become one of my favorite albums from Japan.


Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/groupinou
Official Site: http://g-a-l.jp/group_inou/

-Garrett

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TDK

Wednesday, April 7, 2010 at 9:42 PM Posted by FEMALE TROUBLE 1 Comment

Also, on a quick side note....



How can anything be so perfect? :'|

Thieves of Zozo

at 9:32 AM Posted by FEMALE TROUBLE 3 Comments

Thieves of Zozo is comprised of two people, one going by the name Abampere, and the other, Tiger De La Vega. The name, Thieves of Zozo, is a Final Fantasy reference, although I will have to admittedly say that I have never played the series (except for Final Fantasy X for Playstation 2, which I hear isn't all that good....) I think Zozo's musical landscapes differentiate far from the general feeling that Final Fantasy provokes. Thieves of Zozo's music is cold, and industrial, but those adjectives aren't meant to be synonymous with a lack of emotion. The ambient drones of Zozo can be categorized with a sense of disconnection, like the swirling mechanical mess of Tsukamoto's cyberpunk efforts. Along with swirling electronics and keys, we get some excellent minimalist percussion that perfectly blends along the edges of the ambiance, bleeding into it and creating something transcendent of its original parts. Think something like Burial meets Blade Runner.



'Erase Another Piece' off of their 1st full length, Never Knows Best

Never Knows Best was their first release, written in a few days time while Tiger was in the hospital, who sent his instrumentals over to Abampere who completed his half. This was followed recently by a b-sides collection properly entitled Never Knows B-Sides (a free digital release). Although it is a b-sides album, there is a considerable amount of progression in the album, seeming more like a proper follow up album than some tracks that were simply tossed aside and not fitting enough to be released in a regular full length. The b-sides release may in fact be even more accessible than the first album, including two tracks with vocals, one of them being a very loose cover of Monochrome from the Ghost in the Shell series. Zozo's next full length, currently titled Practical Magic, is to be released sometime in the future, incorporating elements of disco, giving a good indication of the bands progression so far.

Never Knows Best [ZL-05]
Stream: http://thievesofzozo.com/
Purchase: http://www.zoomlens.bigcartel.com/

Thieves of Zozo- Never Knows B-Sides [ZLDR-01]
[Download]

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marino- lollipop+

Tuesday, April 6, 2010 at 12:24 AM Posted by FEMALE TROUBLE 3 Comments


A fairly unknown gem of cute techno-pop produced primarily by Yasutaka Nakata (capsule) along with Hayashibe Tomonori (Plus-Tech Squeeze Box), Imai Kentaro (Aprils), and Okuda Hidetaka (Sucrette).

Original Cover

Originally released in 2005 as lollipop, it quickly went out of print and was recently re-released last year, remastered, re-arranged, and with brand new tracks. Don't bother searching for a download of the original album though, it's essentially the same but without tracks 1, 7, and 9 (which are pretty much interlude tracks at that).

Re-release

Most of the sound can be categorized as purely shibuya-kei, comparable to much of capsule's earlier work. Despite so many different produces appearing on this album, the sound is fairly consistent. Track 8 is a cover of an Aprils song.

Track listing:
1. clear beats
2. フレイバー (produced by Nakata Yasutaka)
3. tic tac (produced by Hayashibe Tomonori)
4. strawberry (produced by Hayashibe Tomonori)
5. ララリル (produced by Nakata Yasutaka)
6. lollipop (produced by Hayashibe Tomonori)
7. Pot marjoram
8. パン・ダ (produced by Imai Kentaro)
9. てんとう虫とチューリップ

[Download]


フレイバー (Flavor)


ララリル (Rarariru)

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Hijokaidan- 蔵六の奇病 [Remaster 2006] [Lossless]

Sunday, March 28, 2010 at 1:15 AM Posted by FEMALE TROUBLE 3 Comments


Upon request, here is 蔵六の奇病 [Remaster 2006] by Hijokaidan in ALAC

[1] [2] [3] [4] [5]

Enjoy!

And a word up to Hijokaidan fans everywhere, Jojo actually has his own eBay account where he frequently puts up Hijokaidan albums and other related Alchemy releases. The CDs are always extremely cheap (usually only $9.99 + $3 to ship). So it is definitely something to check out! I've come across record stores that mark up the prices by a lot, so why not support the man himself directly and buy some stuff?

-Garrett




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Monday, March 22, 2010 at 9:23 PM Posted by FEMALE TROUBLE 2 Comments

A quick word up to the people that actually read this blog. So I haven't updated this ish in ages, partly because of mid-terms (just one more tomorrow!) and growing laziness, and recording some new music here and there, but I'll be getting some new stuff up soon because I'll be on spring break as of this Thursday...

-Tampon Tango (Japanese Cult Porno)
-Spiderman (Tokusatsu)
-Shiki-Jitsu (although I haven't even watched it myself yet ;P)
-Lots of albums in lossless quality
(ZestyBrick, I'm not sure if you got my comment, but is ALAC cool too for 蔵六の奇病?)
-And more, but I can't think right now....

The Gerogerigeegeegeee presents "Yellow Fever Bazooka"

On a side note, I made a mash-up of The Gerogerigegege + "Gee" by SNSD/Girls Generation that some of you here may enjoy (click the picture for the link). I also have one coming up with C.C.C.C. and "Everybody Dance Now" entitled "C.C.C.C. Music Factory" and a few others that only a handful of people will find mildly amusing....

Now I'm off to study for my philosophy mid-term and read about existentialist themes that are telling me to not study

-Garrett

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sora- いつかのテープレコーダー/耳鳴りとその訳

Monday, March 8, 2010 at 2:33 PM Posted by FEMALE TROUBLE 4 Comments

いつかのテープレコーダー (Itsukano Tape Recorder)
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耳鳴りとその訳 (Miminari To Sono Wake)
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The two latest albums by Japanese screamo group, sora. A much cleaner and more well-produced sound than their early demos, yet still retaining their raw, melodic approach.

I exchanged a few emails with Yoshi awhile ago, and he said sora is going back in the studio soon to record a new album, so you can probably expect some new music from them soon!

As mentioned before, these albums can be purchased through Oto Records

-Garrett

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麓健一 (Kenichi Fumoto) - 「美化」

Friday, March 5, 2010 at 9:36 PM Posted by FEMALE TROUBLE 4 Comments


Kenichi Fumoto is a singer/songwriter from Japan, who seems to be relatively unknown. I actually stumbled across him by complete accident and listened to a few samples of his out of pure curiosity (which can be heard through one of the links posted below). This is his first official CD (he previously released 3 CD-Rs before this album, of which some songs appear on this album).

Recorded entirely on Garageband in his room, one would imagine a level of quality that is quite sparse, but that is actually quite the opposite with Fumoto's music. There is a serene presence of melody brought by layers and layers of lush guitar work, keyboards, and drum machines (along with occasional female harmonies.) Although not similar in sound, hearing Fumoto reminds me of the first time I heard Grouper, transcending that level of a typical, lone singer/songwriter, and going beyond the sum of it's parts, Fumoto's music is more of a focus on mood and the slow, shifting pieces of sound that he creates.

I wish I could explain Fumoto better and not in such vague terms, there is just something oddly special about his music, as if it has a sense of familiarity and nostalgia that I cannot simply place the start of. When I put this album on I feel my heart shatter into a million pieces. Though I cannot understand what Fumoto is saying, I feel a sense of loss and longing in his music.

Some of Fumoto's CDs can be purchased through here and here. Although some of them may be out of print (including this one I posted), the second link contains a sample stream of his entire album and are currently selling his latest CD-R, which I suggest you purchase before it is too late.



Myspace
Official Site

-Garrett

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capsule- PLAYER

Tuesday, March 2, 2010 at 7:54 PM Posted by FEMALE TROUBLE 4 Comments

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capsule continues to further push the limitations of the electro-house genre which they have grown so close to during their last several albums, and although this may be the case, one can certainly make clear of the progression that Nakata is aiming for. However, if More! More! More! was any indication for Nakata's ever growing fetish for manipulated stock vocals and oddly placed rappers with British accents, then good news for you! PLAYER has lots of that, almost too much at times...

With that being said, that is my main (and possibly, only) quarrel with the album. As a whole, the music itself stands as a testament that Nakata is always fairly ahead of the game, reinventing the electro-house genre as quickly as he has perfected it. For a genre of music that seems so bent on maintaining such a retro quality, it is oddly new to the ears. PLAYER is relentless in terms of hitting hard.

Nakata even occasionally strays away from the electro elements, as heard on one of my personal favorites, "I Was Wrong," with it's delicate, poetic like mood and haunting, manipulated vocals, it almost sounds like capsule clashed with dubstep artist, Burial. "Hello" seems to return back to the days before Fruits Clipper, with its cute, hip, shibuya-kei sound, and "Player" with it's grime like influences.

Despite that much of PLAYER seems to make reference to many modern American electro acts in terms of sound quality and progression, it comes off nowhere near as obnoxious or soulless as it's counterparts. To note, this is capsule's hardest record by far, but also their most ambitious and possibly most accessible as well.

-Garrett


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