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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.
Showing posts with label denki groove. Show all posts
Showing posts with label denki groove. Show all posts
Tuesday, July 6, 2010 at 1:32 PM Posted by FEMALE TROUBLE 1 Comment

Sorry for the lack of updates, awhile ago I promised myself that I would try and post daily to keep up interest for those who actually do read this blog (or would daily posts be a bit too excessive?) and I've seemed to have failed to keep up that promise. I've been quite busy these past few weeks playing in friend's bands and going to Anime Expo (fanboyed tHe fUcK oUt at AKB48). But enough about my personal life, I've had some stuff uploaded on Mediafire for awhile that I just haven't bothered to post here yet. Here's one of them:


This is Denki Groove's 10th album (if one is to disregard the remix albums of Flash Papa and A) and is the successor to their album, A. This album came out in 2000, 3 years after A had been released. Relative to the year it was released, it plays off like some kind of drug-induced, futuristic dance album, at times often humorous, sometimes even nostalgic of the past, often posing as something mechanical or robotic, but also laced with the pop sensibilities that Denki Groove has always possessed underneath their strange exterior. Personally, I think this is a great follow-up to A, it builds off of everything else they've done up to this point into a much fuller and realized sound. Although this album does derive off of their dance music influences a lot more, I think it's hardly something to be turned off from (if you don't like that kind of thing), the album possesses a certain stream-of-consciousness attitude that is completely warped and unlike anything you would expect from the influences that Denki Groove wears.


The video looks like something predating Crazy Frog commercials or something to that extent, but being familiar with Denki Groove one can assume that they must have had some sense of humor when creating this video, right?



-Garrett

Saturday, May 15, 2010 at 5:01 PM Posted by FEMALE TROUBLE 0 Comments




The Checkers doing a horrible Engrish cover of Stand By Me with Denki Groove adding a rap verse to it. So 90's. Damn...

-Garrett

at 12:42 AM Posted by FEMALE TROUBLE 0 Comments



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Denki Groove is a hard group to categorize, falling somewhere between the technopop melodies of Yellow Magic Orchestra, but infused with the avant-garde like, new wave sensibilities of their previous group, Zin-Say. Their sound hits a strange middle-ground where structurally it can be considered dance music, but it is too experimental to be so. This album features perhaps their most well-known song, Shangri-La, which contains a sample of the disco instrumental, Spring Rain. If you're feeling like something experimental, but with pop sensibilities and that you can grind a bitch to, then this be da record for you right now.





-Garrett

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