{"id":28,"date":"2009-03-31T21:05:12","date_gmt":"2009-03-31T09:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thunderguy.com\/music\/wp\/?p=28"},"modified":"2022-03-11T21:58:01","modified_gmt":"2022-03-11T08:58:01","slug":"astrohol-kikan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/unlisten\/astrohol-kikan\/","title":{"rendered":"Astro-Ho! Kikan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Heard a nice set on Japanator Radio 77 today. Ayumi Hamasaki &#8220;Days&#8221; (Eight Bits of Tears remix by YMCK) sound like YMCK remixing Ayumi Hamasaki. Bubbly, tinkly, short and sweet.<\/p>\n<p>Strawberry Machine&#8217;s nagging &#8220;Where is my Doless&#8221; is very cute. Actually it&#8217;s supposed to be called &#8220;Where is my Dress&#8221; but her accent is very strong; no doubt she&#8217;s singing phonetically. Anyhow, maybe a bit too much emphasis on the cute vocals and not enough on the instrumentation compared to other SM that I&#8217;ve heard.<\/p>\n<p>Odd J-Pop of the week is Susumu Hirasawa&#8217;s &#8220;Astro-Ho! Kikan&#8221;. It has a tick-tock metronomic rhythm with pizzicato strings, an old-fashioned traditional-sounding male vocal, bursts of static, intermittent screams, an electric guitar solo&#8230; and that doesn&#8217;t really cover it. Perhaps not as strange as all that, but still strange.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heard a nice set on Japanator Radio 77 today. Ayumi Hamasaki &#8220;Days&#8221; (Eight Bits of Tears remix by YMCK) sound like YMCK remixing Ayumi Hamasaki. Bubbly, tinkly, short and sweet. Strawberry Machine&#8217;s nagging &#8220;Where is my Doless&#8221; is very cute. Actually it&#8217;s supposed to be called &#8220;Where is my Dress&#8221; but her accent is very&#8230;  <a href=\"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/unlisten\/astrohol-kikan\/\" class=\"more-link\" title=\"Read Astro-Ho! Kikan\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[9],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/unlisten\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/unlisten\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/unlisten\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/unlisten\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/unlisten\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/unlisten\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":563,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/unlisten\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions\/563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/unlisten\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/unlisten\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/unlisten\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}