[Takagi Masakatsu|Pia]影像中的記憶

Artist：Takagi Masakatsu
Album：Pia
Release Date：2001-10-16
Label：Carpark Records
Country：Japan
Genre： Electronic
Style： Abstract, Experimental

Tracklisting:

CD1-01		Toska
CD1-02		Bienna
CD1-03		Eau
CD1-04		Fround
CD1-05		Agni
CD1-06		Guiter
CD1-07		Sossette
CD1-08		Water Fall
CD1-09		Cino Park
CD1-10		Caroc
CD1-11		Light Park
CD1-12		Sprang
CD1-13		Videocamara
CD1-14		Eau
CD1-15		Study for Camera
CD1-16		Fround
CD1-17		Pia
CD1-18		Water Fall
CD2-01		Eau
CD2-02		Study For Camera
CD2-03		Fround
CD2-04		Pia
CD2-05		Water Fall

簡介。。。。。。

Takagi Masakatsu is a video maker who creates music. Takagi Masakatsu is a musician who creates video, or maybe Takagi Masakatsu is a documentary filmmaker, which ever one you prefer, Takagi is an artist who is wholly dedicated to exposing and preserving the human experience at the start of our burgeoning new century. Bringing new meaning to the phrase 'think globally, act locally,' Takagi has travelled the world collecting pieces of sound and video in which he constructs a fluid and timeless snapshot of our current human condition. Takagi employs samples of speaking children with other 'real' sounds such as the weather, his own piano playing, and various recorded sounds throughout his and other people's homes, after collecting this raw material, Takagi blends it into his laptop arrangements and manipulations to create a very new type of ambient music. One CD comprises the melodic ambient nature of Takagi's audio creations, while the 2nd CD is a CD-Rom featuring 5 audio/video pieces.

我的碎碎唸。。。。。。推薦指數：7.2/10

這張應該是Takagi Masakatsu的第一張發行，他不單只做音樂，還在視覺設計方面也取得了顯著的成就。Takagi Masakatsu也是遊歷了許多國家，錄製各種聲音，來表達人類生活與情感，這張專輯就是這樣的，各種採樣，水聲、童聲...從音樂中傳達出影像的質感，在影像中回應音樂的靈動。所以Takagi Masakatsu幾乎每一張專輯都是音樂和Video一起發行，CD1是音樂部分，下面的分享中也只用音樂的部分，似乎有些遺憾，或者可以到他的網站http://www.takagimasakatsu.com/，去看movie sample。

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[Pandatone|Happy Together]靜靜注視著那些快樂的人群

Artist：Pandatone
Album：Happy Together
Release Date：2007-04-24
Label：Music Related
Country：US
Genre： Electronic, Pop
Style： Ambient, Electronica, Techno, Electro

Tracklisting:

1		The Last To Remain (3:42)
2		I Forgot If We Dreamed (5:31)
3		The Fog Of Memory (3:50)
4		We Fucking Love You (3:47)
5		Accountable (1:24)
6		Did It Happen (1:52)
7		Together & Lonely (5:30)
8		Because I Can (5:41)

簡介。。。。。。

Since Pandatone himself runs Music Related - the label this CD "Happy Together" appears on - he thought it was weird to write his own press blurb. So I was asked to write it. We're old friends by NYC standards, so I headed out to Queens to listen to the tracks and talk to him about making it.

Upon arrival, I proceed to harass him about his apartment. (I always do this.) "You're 30 now. Don't you think it's time to stop living like you're in college?" "But I just got this cool paper shredder and humidifier," came his retort.

We moved into the "studio," which is more like a storage space for boxes of CDs and cables than a studio - or even a bedroom. He started playing me Happy Together, but I had to almost immediately ask, "What's the deal? I thought you said you'd never release any Pandatone material on your own label?" He replied, "Yeah, shit is fucked like that. But listen to it anyway." I agreed… shit is fucked, and so I shut my yap.

On the album, there are some very nice songs featuring female vocalist "Julliana Barwick" - uplifting numbers with deep production. Although slow in tempo, they are upbeat in spirit. Then there are tracks with male vocals that are much more melancholy. Pandatone tells me he doesn't write lyrics. The words are just the "shit in his head" when he hits record. Lucky for him, I think they work well together - almost playing out like shattered romance.

It's been almost three years since his debut LP on Neo Ouija records. Besides the use of acoustic guitar, I'm not sure there are many similarities between this record and his debut. The influence of running Music Related is almost instantly apparent. His room is full of instruments now - from child-sized toys to a huge reel-to-reel tape deck. The Pandatone studio is the wrong environment for a clinical claustrophobic, but full of creative possibilities if you're the right type. It feels like this environment has been transfered into the songs for Happy Together. Pandatone's fascination with the actual sound of recording is plastered all over the album. Using lots of tape and background noise, he tries to bring out specific tones that are just too far gone to really be there.

The influence of Shugo Tokumaru and the Boats is fairly noticeable - though not copied. The sound of NYC is in there too - with some tracks featuring an almost junktronic-type percussion. While the album plays and even after it ends, he is much more interested in talking about the artists who are working on stuff for Music Related than his own music, and I leave with a handful of CDs.

Whether he likes comparisons or not, I would recommend Happy Together if you like Psapp, Müm, and Tujiko Noriko."(from dotshop.se)

我的碎碎唸。。。。。。推薦指數：7.6/10

一起來Happy仿佛是一種奢望，因爲我並沒有在專輯中聽到很high的感覺，雖然也有很不錯的節奏，但我感覺更多的是一種冷靜，還帶著一絲淡淡的哀愁，Together & Lonely。pandatone在自己的厰牌發行了這張專輯，還加入Julliana Barwick的女聲演唱，在寬敞的氛圍下聲音很輕柔很脫俗。

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[Lisa Germano|Happiness]極樂世界

Artist：Lisa Germano
Album：Happiness
Release Date：1994
Label：4AD
Country：UK
Genre： Rock
Style： Alternative Rock, Art Rock

Tracklisting:

1		Bad Attitude
		Keyboards - Malcolm Burn
2		Destroy The Flower
		Drums - Michael Radovsky Mixed By [Additional] - Mike Griffith Producer, Bass, Mixed By [Additional] - Jay Joyce
3		Puppet
		Acoustic Guitar - John Keane Drums - Kenny Aronoff Guitar - Jay Joyce Mixed By [Additional] - Trina Shoemaker Piano, Tambourine, Mixed By [Additional] - Malcolm Burn
4		Everyone's Victim
		Bass - Bill Dillon Drums - Daryl Johnson Guitar - Jay Joyce Percussion - Ronald Jones
5		Energy
6		Cowboy
		Guitar [Pedal Steel] - John Keane
7		Happiness
		Guitar - Malcolm Burn
8		The Earth
9		Around The World
		Djembe - Daryl Johnson Keyboards - Jay Joyce
10		Sycophant
		Keyboards, Tambourine - Malcolm Burn Producer, Bass - Jay Joyce
11		Miamo-Tutti
12		The Dresses Song
		Guitar - Malcolm Burn
13		The Darkest Night Of All

簡介。。。。。。

On 1993's Happiness, Lisa Germano delivered on the promise that her debut On the Way Down From the Moon Palace suggested she had. Both more ambitious and more accessible than her first album, Happiness swaths her ethereal-yet-earthy melodies in a rich, shimmering production courtesy of Malcom Burn. Originally released by Capitol, 4AD re-released the album once Germano switched labels; the label's head, Ivo Watts-Russell, remixed certain tracks like the folky dream pop of "Destroy the Flower" and the scathing "Sycophant," bringing out the songs' melancholy, wistful tendencies. However, even the Capitol version of Happiness has plenty of both of those qualities. Just as Germano mixes the delicate with the down-to-earth in her music, she uses her fragile voice to express uncomfortable, sad, and occasionally funny sentiments, as on the bitchy, jaded "Bad Attitude," where she sings "You wish you were pretty/But you're not/Ha ha ha" with equal amounts of cynicism and idealism. With "The Dresses Song," she turns what would be a flirty pop song in anyone else's hands into an ambivalent compliment: "You look at me so fragile/You make me think about nothing/It feels so good like that." Happiness also expands Germano's musical palette, ranging from jangly pop like "Puppet" and "Energy," to the brooding, droning rock of the title track and "Everyone's Victim," to the haunting, proto-trip-hop instrumental "Miamo-Tutti" (named for one of Germano's cats). The spooky, vulnerable final song "The Darkest Night of All" is a forerunner of the dark, riveting territory she'd cover on Geek the Girl; as a whole, Happiness finds Germano moving toward a remarkable emotional honesty, which makes the album all the more captivating.

我的碎碎唸。。。。。。推薦指數：8.2/10

很老的一張專輯了，Lisa簽約4AD發行的第一張專輯。實際上是在Capitol Records發行過的一張專輯，來到4AD之後重新發行的。區別是Capital版的有翻場Nancy Sinatra的These Boots Are Made For Walkin'，在這個下載裏，也加入這首歌。

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[AOKI Takamasa, Ogurusu Norihide, Takagi Masakatsu|Come And Play In Our Backyard]後院裏的青蔥歲月

Artist：AOKI Takamasa, Ogurusu Norihide, Takagi Masakatsu
Album：Come And Play In Our Backyard
Release Date：2003-08-10
Label： Beams Records
Country：Japan
Genre： Electronic
Style： Downtempo, Experimental

Tracklisting:

1	AOKI Takamasa & Ogurusu Norihide	Humming Song (4:42)
2	Takagi Masakatsu	Golden Town With Sunglasses (4:08)
3	AOKI Takamasa	Erin (4:21)
4	Ogurusu Norihide	Change (4:08)
5	AOKI Takamasa	Get The Fnk (3:15)
6	Takagi Masakatsu	Star Every Morning (3:15)
7	Ogurusu Norihide	Sure! (1:18)
		Beat - AOKI Takamasa
8	AOKI Takamasa	Walking With Polco (4:08)
9	Takagi Masakatsu	House Of Time (3:34)
10	AOKI Takamasa & Ogurusu Norihide	Humming Song 2 (1:09)

簡介。。。。。。

Last week a friend of mine complained about a performance of "laptop music" he saw recently. "If I wanted to elbow through a crowd just to watch someone sit behind their Powerbook," he snarled, "then I could just go to my office -- and it's not as smoky." He's got a point, but computer-generated music obviously can't be summed up that easily, especially when it is evolving in so many directions. Three Japanese artists have recently garnered attention for pushing the data-DJ medium forward, in both their live sets and a collaborative studio project -- their first as a trio.

It's been called folktronica, acoustica and laptop-folk, but Aoki Takamasa, Ogurusu Norihide and Takagi Masakatsu seem wary of classifying "Come and Play in Our Backyard," released on Beams Records. One reason may be that this album differs from each of the Kansai denizens' other projects. Aoki punches out organic club-beats in Japan and Europe, while Ogurusu records ambient minimalism for both New York's Carpark Records and Tokyo's P-Vine. Takagi is also a visual artist whose music often accompanies his video installations.

Silicom, a project he and Aoki undertook for Tokyo's Progressive Form label, used similar ideas, blending computer-based music with digital images.

Their styles converge on "Backyard" to create a collection of mixed media varying from delicate to decadent. Most of Aoki's compositions delete the beats to clear room for crystalline chords from an acoustic guitar. The track "Get on the FNK," done in a "glitch style" that incorporates the circuitry's sputter and click, is the only contribution in which he allows software to take precedence over strings. The opener, "Humming Song," finds Aoki and Ogurusu plucking a simple, infectious melody for over three minutes before the hum of their G4 computers becomes audible. On "Change," Ogurusu's clear picking on the six-string bears no sign of electronic manipulation at all. Most of Takagi's contributions, however, are unfiltered, digital euphoria. His "Star Every Morning" runs through a million megabytes of bliss before ringing feedback shimmers and fades into the distance.

The music here is mostly a sit-down affair, with spare vocals buried deep in the mix to keep the focus on the instruments -- whether played in the key of G or F4.（By JASON JENKINS）

我的碎碎唸。。。。。。推薦指數：8.2/10

青木孝充、小来栖憲英、高木正勝三個大孩子聚到一起，用他們的音樂相互交談，回憶著後院裏的童年往事。不再大量使用他們慣用的電音，而是令人眼前一亮抱起民謠吉他，用最恰當最美好的語言回憶了過去，讓人心情平和，懷念，嘴角不經意露出一絲微笑，我想每個人的心中一定都有這樣的一個滿載純真夢想、真摯友情的僻靜的後院，閃爍著幾個孩子蹦蹦跳跳的身影。

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[Takagi Masakatsu|Rehome]真伊小姐的美麗生活

Artist：Takagi Masakatsu
Album：Rehome
Release Date：2003-06-25
Label：W+K Tokyo Lab.
Country：Japan
Genre： Electronic
Style： Downtempo, Synth-pop

Tracklisting:

1		Rehome
2		Glory Days, Glory Nights
3		Brighter Shade
4		Flying House
5		Rehome (Organ Remix)
6		Smell Up The Moon
7		Sound Of House
8		Airy Air
9		Curtain Tale
10		Red Seeds On Roof
11		Via Ever Sight
12		Flat Echo
13		Ween Piano

簡介。。。。。。

New release by famed multimedia talent Takagi Masakatsu, his second on the equally edgy W+K Tokyo Lab imprint (home of Hifana, Afra and DJ Uppercut). The carefully produced “Rehome” offers naïve and melancholy electronic pop, in the same cozy vein as what Morr Music has been putting out for the last few years (Isan, Lali Puna, F.S. Blumm…). As usual with W+K, the album comes in a high-quality CD+DVD package, although this time the DVD part is rather short (one excellent video for the titletrack). Not the least bit earth-shattering, but could pad quite a few lazy mornings.
http://www.takagimasakatsu.com/

我的碎碎唸。。。。。。推薦指數：7.8/10

高木在W+K發行的第一張專輯，CD+DVD，W+K不但追求音樂的品質，也在影像上有很高的要求，很有品質。唱片的包裝也採用的是布料，而非紙質材料。此外還請來Kentaro Kobuke（古武家賢太郎）為這張唱片創作封面和插畫。如同它的視覺，專輯音樂純真爛漫，溫暖親切，演唱的部分比較多，Toma Itoko的甜美得令人放鬆聲音使整張專輯像一部單身麗人的生活劇，很有回家的感覺。我沒有那張DVD，所以分享得僅僅是音樂部分，對高木的影像也是非常喜愛的，夢幻、絢爛、富有質感，非常期待。

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