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Possibly, I've always found the depth pretty shallow except for some very extreme moments... the main thing that makes it hurt my eyes is that it's always way darker. I tried the 3D TV glasses at the shop for a few seconds and HOLY CRAP it looks WAY BETTER than the cinema! Maybe NZ cinemas are a little bit stink.

O_O OK NOW I'M EXCITED Please please please look good in full quality....

It looks like Seaquest DSV.

Cool :) This should be right up your alley too then, the Vib Ribbon Soundtrack: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGRHSyVUbZ4 It's only about 20 minutes long in total but it's awesome!

I actually bought Fantasma several months ago, listened to it once and thought "...this isn't as good as Point" and never listened to it again... ....UNTIL LAST WEEK... and now I think it's GENIUS! It's one of those albums where every track fits together so perfectly... like they all bounce off each other and compliment each other so well! Yeah, I really liked Point, but I think I like fantasima more. I digged clash, mic check, the micro disneycal world tour (these are ones I remember off the top of my head). Yeah I also really digged the transitions. Btw, have you checked out his remixes? They are sick! I posted one up here http://songfountain.com/discussion/290 (one of many good ones). I think I like Fantasma more now as well :) That remix was sweet... it was like Star Fruits Surf Rider fused with another song! I'll have to check out more...

I actually bought Fantasma several months ago, listened to it once and thought "...this isn't as good as Point" and never listened to it again... ....UNTIL LAST WEEK... and now I think it's GENIUS! It's one of those albums where every track fits together so perfectly... like they all bounce off each other and compliment each other so well!

Yeah I meant to mention Nobukazu Takemura, although I haven't heard much from him... cool stuff though! I read he did sound design for one of those sort of toy robot dog things that were really popular a few years ago.

Oh yeah there's a couple of bossa nova type songs on the Katamari Damacy soundtrack.

I love this kinda stuff, Capsule are awesome! I also really like some Shibuya Kei stuff like Cornelius, and the occasional Pizzacato Five song. And of course the first two Katamari Damacy soundtracks. Never heard of Perfume or Aira Mitsuki... only have a coupla Meg songs. I really like this, although it might be a little too poppy for your liking... the melody at the end never fails to make me melt (excuse the lame AMV): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6U0PROW7Ef4 And of course there's Susumu Hirasawa: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMc2EW6Pmkk Also, this isn't japanese, but I just bought an album by an australian dance group called Bag Raiders and it reminds me of stuff like Capsule: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feA64wXhbjo

He finally admitted a while ago that the states album thing was kind of a joke.

I've been struggling to listen to this all the way through now. Which is annoying because I do like Yuop a lot as an ending track. I tend to get a little bored after os-veix3. I still really like it though... it's so comfortable to listen to.

I think Valley and Plateau are completely different to the rest of the album... those are the main sorta ambient tracks, then the rest is sort of weird psychedelic... Thanks Margret Thatcher, downloading now. Also, Pomme Fritz is good when you're in the mood for it. Which isn't often but if you feel like having your brain implode and then rested on a lovely cloud of marshmellow it's perfect.

I have to admit I like U.F.Orb a little more, but that said, Plateau is one of the most amazing pieces of music ever made.

Symphonic Suite Akira Possibly one of the best albums ever made.

I'm learning to drive at the moment. I've recently got to the point where I'm confident enough to have some music playing while I drive. Oversteps was the first thing I played. It was nice to drive to :)

Cap Gris-Nez, France fuck, there goes that previously-failproof method Fair enough, it sure does look like New Zealand! We HAVE TO get this thread to 300! We're so close!

me too. nice description. so much of it (almost every track?) is so "sweet" and tender, very heartfelt. even the brasher, badass tracks like treale evolve into pure beauty by the end. Yeah... Treale is like this big ogre made of snot and stone, walking around being all cocky and farting in everyone's faces, but then at the end of his daily stroll he comes home and shows the most tender and heartfelt care for his pet kitten.

Ok... the last week or so has been mind numbingly frustrating for me... First of all, I've been a little low in funds for the last month or so cos I had no work, so I hadn't pre ordered the album. Finally started work again last week and was happy to get paid. But alas! I capped my internet! I'm sure this is only the 2nd or 3rd time in the last 2 years that I've capped my internet, WHY NOW? WHY?!?!? So even though I could finally preorder it, I couldn't download it! So I waited patiently for the 1st of March. I woke up and got so excited I had to buy it and start the download... maybe, just maybe it would finish in time for me to take it to work. But in my haste I accidently bought the 16bit version. I was really annoyed now but after I had a shower and stuff I calmed down and remembered that I'm not an audiophile enough to even be able to tell the difference, and I would mostly be listening to the mp3's anyway. Anyway I left the download going when I went to work, said it would take about an hour and a half. I came home and the download failed. My internet goes reeeeeally slow in the evening so I was screwed. I knew it wouldn't finish downloading before I wanted to go to bed. But I tried. Got up to 90% even... and then it failed again. So I gave up on that and downloaded the mp3's. By this point I was pretty tired. I thought I'd leave it for the next day. I woke up with a headache and could barely concentrate on my work as it was so I left Oversteps for tonight. And oh was it worth the wait. I heard the leak once, but even on second listen, I can hear this album really is quite fantastic. Yeah some of the tracks sound almost identical but a part of me doesn't really care for some reason. It sounds a bit like there's really only about 3 tracks on this album and they each have a bunch of different remixes and variations but you know... I reckon that kinda works! And gosh some of it is so heart wrenchingly beautiful! I know everyone's been saying it but the end of Treale!!! WOW! Not since Pen Expers has an Autechre melody affected me so. And Yuop is just plain fantastic. What a way to finish the album!

I like how this thread is so big, it has memes of it's own. Soon this thread will have it's own websites. They grow up so fast

You know, Draft7.30 did grow on me a little bit. Comparing it to the emotionally moving epic journeys of Chiastic Slide, LP5 or Confield is laughable, but I realised a little while ago that there's really only 3 tracks that i absolutely despise, and they really ruin the album for me: TAPR THEME OF SUDDEN ROUNDABOUT VL AL 5 I can't stand these. The melodies sound so arbritary, like they didn't care what they sounded like, as long as it changed pitch a bit. I just find them so incredibly annoying. TAPR I can almost handle, because even though it's really grating, it's at least a little bit strange (in a cheesy way but still). But the other two have no redeeming quality as far as I can tell. They just sound like generic IDM, trying desperately to be dark and spooky and failing miserably. But other than that, I quite like the rest. Definitely not as much as the older stuff but still, I feel like I'd miss V-PROC and SURRIPERE especially if I didn't have this CD.

I got that vibe too. Awesome thing is I'm attending a Gamelan workshop 8 days after the album's release. So pumped for that. March is gonna be one hell of a month. Lucky! The bamboo gamelan is possibly even more beautiful: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RK_V-xnzakw Personally I didn't get a gamelan vibe on Oversteps but certainly on Maphive6.1 and Gaekwad.

That's so true (again.... only listened once... although the more I think about it the more I can't wait to get my hands on that cd). I felt that about Quaristice though, they just don't take themselves that seriously any more (at least the music suggest's that) which is cool I think. Even if it's not the mind blowing, epic journey they used to take us on, it's more sort of playful and fun.

Well I've had 2 weeks off work so there's my excuse.

Hmmmm.... that's always the way I perceived my own music but I think most people think it's more ambient... what do you guys all think? ....anyone?

I can totally see the rainforest imagery too on a few tracks. I dunno, most of the sounds remind me of lasers and glass prisms, haha. Autechre's Dark Side of the Moon? What did you think of the actual album? Oversteps or Dark Side of the Moon? (haven't listened to the latter in a while...) I only listened to Oversteps once so far. I liked it enough to buy it but I don't think it's that great... they kind of lost me after Confield but I still like their music to a certain extent, and this is no different. I like it about as much as Quaristice but for completely different reasons. Quaristice had definite highs and lows, Oversteps (on first listen anyway) all sounds more or less the same all the way through. It's pretty generic in terms of sound design but that kind of makes me nostalgic about when I was really into net label music (which admittedly was only a couple of years ago... is it wrong to feel nostalgic about a time that wasn't that long ago? :P)