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Japanese Heavy Rock Hits
''Japanese Heavy Rock Hits'' is a collection of singles by the Japanese experimental band Boris. Volume 1 was released on September 14, 2009 through the label Southern Lord Records; the successive volumes followed one per month afterward. Artwork for each single is in a glam rock cliché and features a single band member whose style is prominent on the songs on the accompanying release; the fourth single, a cover song, has a transparent PVC sleeve, and was bundled with preorders of the series along with a T-shirt. The only physical release was on separate 7" vinyl records, though digital versions (save vol. 4) in MP3 and FLAC were available from online retailers. Initial track list information included "8" as track 2 on '' Heavy Rocks'' and "16:47:52..." as track 6 on ''Attention Please'', but the official preorder revealed they were replaced by "Leak -Truth,yesnoyesnoyes-" and "You" [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boris (band)
is a Japanese band formed in 1992 in Tokyo and composed of drummer Atsuo, guitarist/bassist Takeshi, and guitarist/keyboardist Wata. All three members contribute vocals. Boris has released more than twenty studio albums on various labels around the world, as well as a wide variety of live albums, compilations, EPs, singles, and collaborative albums. They have collaborated with acts such as Sunn O))), Merzbow, Keiji Haino, and guitarist Michio Kurihara. History Boris was originally a four-piece band with Atsuo on lead vocals, Wata on guitar, Takeshi on bass, and Nagata on drums. The band is named after a song of the same name on the Melvins album '' Bullhead''. Boris's debut album ''Absolutego'' was released in 1996 on their own record label Fangs Anal Satan. Nagata departed in 1996 and Atsuo switched to drums, while Wata expanded her duties to lead guitar and keyboards, and Takeshi took on bass and rhythm guitar duties on a double-necked instrument of his own design. All thre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glam Rock
Glam rock is a style of rock music that developed in the United Kingdom in the early 1970s and was performed by musicians who wore outrageous costumes, makeup, and hairstyles, particularly platform shoes and glitter. Glam artists drew on diverse sources across music and throwaway pop culture, ranging from bubblegum pop and 1950s rock and roll to cabaret, science fiction, and complex art rock.P. Auslander, ''Performing Glam Rock: Gender and Theatricality in Popular Music'' (Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2006), , pp. 57, 63, 87 and 141. The flamboyant clothing and visual styles of performers were often camp or androgynous, and have been described as playing with other gender roles. Glitter rock was a more extreme version of glam rock. The UK charts were inundated with glam rock acts from 1971 to 1975. The March 1971 appearance of T. Rex frontman Marc Bolan on the BBC's music show ''Top of the Pops'', wearing glitter and satins, is often cited as the beginning of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Earth And Fire
Earth and Fire were a Dutch rock and pop band. Formed in the Netherlands by twin brothers Chris and Gerard Koerts, and most popular from 1970, after adding a female singer, turning frontwoman, Jerney Kaagman. Earth and Fire's first eight singles were a practically uninterrupted string of top-5 hits in the Netherlands (1970-1974). Also charting in continental Europe, primarily in neighboring Belgium and Germany, the band never gained much popularity in the United Kingdom or the United States. After moving to pop, their biggest hit was " Weekend" (1979), a number one disco track in the Netherlands, Denmark, Germany, Portugal and Switzerland. History Early history: The Singing Twins and The Swinging Strings Earth and Fire originated with the brothers Chris and Gerard Koerts from Voorschoten. As "The Singing Twins" they made music for family and friends since 1960, achieving a breakthrough of sorts at a talent show in 1962, at which future bass player Hans Ziech was present--Ziec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Noise (Boris Album)
''Noise'' is the nineteenth studio album by Japanese rock band Boris. The Japanese edition of the album was released on 18 June 2014 via Avex Group's sub-label Tearbridge Records and consists of the original album plus other songs previously released on other endeavors, such as "Kimi no Yukue" which was used for a promotional video for the Chunsoft video game '' Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward'' in Japan. This is the second Boris album released through a major label (the first one being 2011's '' New Album'', also released by Avex Group/Tearbridge). It was released on 17 June 2014 through Sargent House Sargent House is an American management company and record label based in Los Angeles. It was founded in June 2006 by Cathy Pellow, who is a music video commissioner for Atlantic Records and also owns a music video production company called Ref ... record label internationally on both CD and double vinyl. A Japanese double vinyl edition was released by Daymare Recordings ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Album
''New Album'' is the fifteenth studio album by the Japanese experimental band Boris. The album was released in Japan on March 16, 2011, on CD through Tearbridge (an imprint of major label Avex) and on double LP through Daymare Recordings, and was released worldwide with a different mix and track list through Sargent House on November 25, 2011. The CD and LP feature different versions of several tracks. The label released the song "Party Boy" prior to the album, which also appears in an altered form on ''Attention Please is a manga by Chieko Hosokawa about the training of flight attendants for Japan Airlines originally serialized in ''Shōjo Friend'' from Kodansha beginning in 1970. Tokyo Broadcasting System adapted a TV drama from the manga in 1970. Thirty ...''. Other tracks shared with that album are "Hope" and "Spoon". The album also shares the tracks "Jackson Head" and "Tu, La La" with '' Heavy Rocks''. "Black Original" has appeared on '' Japanese Heavy Rock Hits'' w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Attention Please (Boris Album)
''Attention Please'' is the seventeenth studio album by the Japanese experimental band Boris. The album was released on May 24, 2011, through the label Sargent House. Its original release date was April 26, but this was pushed back. The album features vocals in every track sung by Wata. ''Attention Please'' marks a departure from the '' Heavy Rocks'' sound, returning to the dream pop sound explored on '' New Album'', but this time, it has elements from noise pop and alternative rock, This is their release without announcement. The album was released on the same day and label as '' Heavy Rocks'', with which it shares the song title "Aileron." The album features the tracks "Party Boy", "Hope", Les Paul Custom '86" and "Spoon" from '' New Album'' in altered forms. "Party Boy" and "Les Paul Custom '86" additionally have third versions on the Japanese ''New Album'' vinyl release. A version of "Tokyo Wonder Land" was previously released on the '' Golden Dance Classics'' split releas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heavy Rocks (2011 Album)
''Heavy Rocks'', also known as ''Heavy Rocks 2'' or ''Heavy Rocks 2011'', is the sixteenth studio album by the Japanese experimental band Boris. The album was released on May 24, 2011, through the label Sargent House. It is the second of three Boris albums of this title, with the others being released in 2002 and 2022; all feature the band exploring hard rock and heavy metal sounds. The band repeated the album title for this release because they "seek to redefine 'heavy' music in a culmination of the band's tireless efforts over the past two decades". The album was released on the same day as ''Attention Please'', with which it shares the track "Aileron." It also shares different mixes of the songs "Jackson Head" and "Tu, La La" with ''New Album''. Background Initial track list information had the song "8" (previously available on ''Japanese Heavy Rock Hits'') listed as the second track, but the final release replaced it with "Leak -Truth, yesnoyesnoyes." On March 29, 2011, Pi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
FLAC
FLAC (; Free Lossless Audio Codec) is an audio coding format for lossless compression of digital audio, developed by the Xiph.Org Foundation, and is also the name of the free software project producing the FLAC tools, the reference software package that includes a codec implementation. Digital audio compressed by FLAC's algorithm can typically be reduced to between 50 and 70 percent of its original size and decompresses to an identical copy of the original audio data. FLAC is an open format with royalty-free licensing and a reference implementation which is free software. FLAC has support for metadata tagging, album cover art, and fast seeking. History Development was started in 2000 by Josh Coalson. The bit-stream format was frozen when FLAC entered beta stage with the release of version 0.5 of the reference implementation on 15 January 2001. Version 1.0 was released on 20 July 2001. On 29 January 2003, the Xiph.Org Foundation and the FLAC project announced the incorporat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Experimental Music
Experimental music is a general label for any music or music genre that pushes existing boundaries and genre definitions. Experimental compositional practice is defined broadly by exploratory sensibilities radically opposed to, and questioning of, institutionalized compositional, performing, and aesthetic conventions in music. Elements of experimental music include Indeterminacy in music, indeterminate music, in which the composer introduces the elements of chance or unpredictability with regard to either the composition or its performance. Artists may also approach a hybrid of disparate styles or incorporate unorthodox and unique elements. The practice became prominent in the mid-20th century, particularly in Europe and North America. John Cage was one of the earliest composers to use the term and one of experimental music's primary innovators, utilizing Indeterminacy (music), indeterminacy techniques and seeking unknown outcomes. In France, as early as 1953, Pierre Schaeffer had ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rock Music
Rock music is a broad genre of popular music that originated as " rock and roll" in the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s, developing into a range of different styles in the mid-1960s and later, particularly in the United States and United Kingdom.W. E. Studwell and D. F. Lonergan, ''The Classic Rock and Roll Reader: Rock Music from its Beginnings to the mid-1970s'' (Abingdon: Routledge, 1999), p.xi It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, a style that drew directly from the blues and rhythm and blues genres of African-American music and from country music. Rock also drew strongly from a number of other genres such as electric blues and folk, and incorporated influences from jazz, classical, and other musical styles. For instrumentation, rock has centered on the electric guitar, usually as part of a rock group with electric bass guitar, drums, and one or more singers. Usually, rock is song-based music with a time signature using a verse–chorus form, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BXI (EP)
''BXI'' is a collaborative EP by the Japanese band Boris and the Cult lead vocalist Ian Astbury. The EP was released in September 2010 in CD, black, blue and pink vinyl, and digital formats through Southern Lord Records. Boris and Ian Astbury had performed live together, including on May 30, 2010, at the Sydney Opera House and on September 7, 2010, at the Brooklyn Masonic Temple in Brooklyn, New York. blabbermouth.net. 2010-09-12. Retrieved on 2011-02-21. Track listing Personnel Per the album liner notes. *Ian Astbury – vocals, lyrics *Takeshi – bass guitar, rhythm g ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Golden Dance Classics
The following is the discography of the Japanese experimental band Boris. Studio albums Live albums *'' Boris Archive'' 3CD (2005 aRCHIVE) *'' Smile -Live at Wolf Creek-'' 2CD (2008 Diwphalanx Records) *''Smile -Live in Prague'' 2LP (2009 Conspiracy Records†) *''Boris / Variations + Live in Japan'' CD + DVD (2010 Daymare Recordings / DIWPHALANX) *'' Archive II'' (2014 Daymare) *''Crossing Waltz'' (2016 FangsAnalSatan) *''eternity'' (2018 FangsAnalSatan) EPs, singles and demos *"Demo Vol. 1" 2x Cassette (1993, FangsAnalSatan) *"Demo Vol. 3" Cassette (1994, FangsAnalSatan) *"1970" 7-inch (2002, Inoxia Records) *"A Bao A Qu" 7-inch picture disc (2005, SuperFi Records) *" Statement" 7-inch (2008, Southern Lord Records) *"Message" 12-inch (2008, Diwphalanx Records) *"Japanese Heavy Rock Hits v1-4" 7-inch (2009, Southern Lord Records) *"Black Original Remix" 12-inch (2011, Catune) *"Looprider Remix" 12-inch (2012, Catune) *"Cosmos" 3x file (2012, Invada) *''Mr. Shortkill'' 12-i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
