Whoa....

This is dope. It's like a fusion of Boom Bap and the electronic noise elements of UK Grime.

https://youtu.be/JlRG7Pe0KNA

What's that one FTM song about Manatees?

Cage -- Movies For The Blind

Rhyme Asylum -- State of Lunacy & Solitary Confinement (the only two albums they ever made, at least to my knowledge).

Wu Tang Forever & 36 Chambers.

Company Flow -- Funcrusher Plus

Dir en grey -- ARCHE, Uroboros, Dum Spiro Spero

NIN -- The Fragile

Manson -- Mechanical Animals, Holy Wood, Antichrist Superstar

SLAYER -- God Hates Us All

Dredg -- that one green album that has the wierd symbol on it.

Ummm.... Duran Duran's first 3 albums (1981 Debut, Rio, Seven And The Ragged Tiger)

Also, the only reason DIR EN GREY (a Japanese Metal Band) ever got any traction in the U.S. is because of a few English-language websites talking about the band and ILLEGAL FILE SHARING VIA P2P CLIENTS....

Without someone uploading DeG's music to Grokster, Morpheus, Kazzaa, LimeWire etc -- nobody outside of Japan would even know about DIR EN GREY.... And much like Rammstein before them (German band) their big entry point came when they were selected to play the Family Values Tour with Korn.

Okay, sure. But people who are independent from any record label and sell their albums on Bandcamp probably walk away with more of that money than a big name act would .... Even when people were still buying physical CDs, the bands themselves maybe only got 10 cents from every CD sold.

"The percentage that you receive for each album sold is a negotiating point, but typically it can fall anywhere between 10% and 20%. Most new artists get a royalty percentage at the low end of the range, and 10% is common."

Someone selling their music via a website like Bandcamp is taking more from those sales than a major label artist would.

I don't understand a fucking word of what KILLAKIKIT is saying, cuz that shit is in Hungarian or whatever, but damn BAZDMEG fucking goes hard, plus the group Onyx are in there too so I got something in English in there to listen to.

https://youtu.be/JMqWzb2jSF8

I don't care what language it's in, if it's BOOM BAP style, chances are that I will enjoy it.

u/itsnotmypornacc

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https://youtu.be/2k4Xgm9dDMg

Armes (armes).

Deutschland (Deutschland).

Kannst du deine Kinder sehen?

Wie sie vor dem Abgrund Schlange stehen?

Krankes (krankes).

Deutschland (Deutschland).

Kannst du ihre Angst verstehen?

Wenn sie schlafen gehen?

La, le, lu, nur der Mann im Mond schaut zu.

Wenn die armen Kinder schlafen.

Drum schlaf auch du.

La, le, lu und das kleine Herz friert zu.

Wenn die anderen Kinder fragen.

"Wie viel hast du?"

Sandmann, Sandmann!

Mach die Lichter aus.

Die Wahrheit ist grausam.

Drum schenk mir einen Traum.

Sandmann, Sandmann!

Komm zu mir nach Haus.

Streu mir Sand in meine Augen.

Und weck mich nie wieder auf.

"Not every song has to have some deep poetic meaning to it."

I guess I kind of see your point, since I like Duran Duran even though some of their older songs have lyrics that are either cryptic or just flat out make no sense.

Like what the fuck is "The Reflex" suppose to be about?

"The reflex is a lonely child who's waiting by the park.

The reflex is in charge of finding treasure in the dark.

And watching over lucky clover isn't that bizarre.

Every little thing the reflex does -

Leaves you answered with a question mark."

GOD DAMMIT, SIMON LE BON, WHY CAN'T YOU JUST MAKE SENSE? IS THAT TOO MUCH TO ASK?

But it's still a nice song with some neat synthesizers, I guess.

Also why is the dude "Hungry Like The Wolf?" Get this guy some fuckin' food so he'll stop howling for fuck's sake.

"It goes hard"

That's really all that matters these days, huh?

Well ya know what, I think Japanese Rock "goes hard." Sure, much like your Carti I can't understand a single word that Kyo from DeG is saying, but that doesn't matter because "It goes hard."

https://youtu.be/1qyR_56Y1sI

Plus on top of it "going hard" it has the added bonus of making me FEEL something. Whether it's depression, cathartic rage, or just something to put on in the background so that my own constant mental chatter in my head doesn't drive me crazy.

....boot???? Oh dude, are you British???

(Cuz Brits call the trunk the Boot, also Elton John keeps calling the Guh-Rodge a Gerridge, lol. AND HE SHALL BE LEEVOOON).

Do you like / have you ever heard of the group Rhyme Asylum?????

https://youtu.be/5kVmLsBflQY

His albums are hard as hell to come by, considering they are quite rare, and to import even just ~one~ album would cost $40 on some service like CD Japan or Yes Asia.

At least when DIR EN GREY started to get popular in the U.S. they started releasing their albums here in stores at normal American prices (like... $14 to $18).

A Japanese Rock singer, he is the ex vocalist of the Visual Kei band "Malice Mizer."

https://youtu.be/1bTHhXSpd4U

~sigh~

Just use Hiby Music Player.

It automatically arranges your albums based on the ID3 tags (meta data, which you can edit on your computer using Tag & Rename).

https://ibb.co/89CB4Q4

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https://ibb.co/KzppzQ8

I fully relate to the desire to have your music available in a way that does not require a constant connection to the internet, since listening to music on SPOTIFY on your SMARTPHONE costs money because of data rates.

I would suggest that you either buy a small DAP (digital audio player) like a Hiby R3 Saber that uses Micro SD cards for storage, or maybe get an older CD Player like a Sony D-NE320 that will let you convert your high quality ripped albums into ATRAC using the Sonic Stage software for PC, then you can have like, 7 to 10 albums on one CD-R and nobody can take that from you.

With Spotify or YouTube, there is no GUARANTEE that your favorite album or song is going to stay available forever.

Winamp uses .m3u across both platforms.

I meant that --- if you're too broke to be able to pay for a monthly subscription to Spotify, just find a mirror site of Pirate Bay and go TORRENT the music that you want.

I mean, you're probably not gunna find the super rare stuff like DIR EN GREY or GACKT on there (at least not in high bitrates), but you can get WHOLE DISCOGRAPHIES in 320kbps or Flac. Busta Rhymes, David Bowie, Elton John, Kate Bush, Depeche Mode, Prince --- all those are still easy to get a hold of.

Piracy isn't dead. It just isn't as mainstream these days.

Winamp exists as both a Windows PC program and an Android App.

https://ibb.co/zSs3CRY

Playlists....???

You mean like .m3u files?

Did you forget that Bit Torrent was a thing????

I'm going to use Note Burner 2.2.4 to steal a bunch of Camui Gackt's albums off of Spotify, and nobody can stop me. Buwahaha.

"No Offline Playback"

You do if you rip the albums directly from Spotify using Note Burner 2.2.4 on your PC....

(Rhyme Asylum's album was de-listed, but Note Burner 2.2.4 ripped it anyway).

I can rip any album from Spotify using Note Burner for PC. If you get the old version (I'll have to look up which build --- it's 2.2.4) it will even let you rip albums that were De-Listed. So let's say you wanna rip DIR EN GREY's album "Uroboros" but Spotify un-listed it --- you can STILL use the old version of Note Burner (version 2.2.4) to grab the album, despite the fact it was un-listed.

Hiby Music Player for Android is also good. I wish they would make a PC version. But whatever, I still have Winamp and that works just fine.

Are you just asking for a PROGRAM for your computer that will play your existing music files???? Winamp.... It really whips the llama's ass.