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LOVE SCISSOR! Glad they're back.

Yo Val!!!! Great to see ya!

Very groofy and upbeat and lovely
I can definitely hear the CASIOPEA DNA in there somewhere.

Like @seraphim I haven't bought anything in a while (almost a year!), but my last haul was a fat stack of ミニコミ + a MUCC grail of mine + some photosets.

I was going to scan & translate these for my website but I've been so laaaaaaaaazy

@WhirlingBlack Love the inclusion of Love Letter -dark mania-!!! I wish they had released an album of all the original recordings for their early work, but I still enjoy the remakes.

I have a lot of grails, really ... I don't think I've seen ANY of these on auction:

Luinspear - all demotapes but especially "White Kiss"
AURORA - all demotapes
DuelJewel - all demotapes
Janne Da Arc - all demotapes

or anything by:
狂ばに, 雛罠, Nerv Rituell, 百足, ピンク菩薩, xxGUN/JACKxx, or Act

Arguably my biggest grail, though, is this tape ...

自爆's "精神分裂"
... which has frustratingly been on auction TWICE and I was too late both times.

Somebody on YouTube (a guy in Japan, who makes very questionable data preservation decisions) recorded the tape from a handheld speaker with heavy background noise and that's the closest I've come to hearing the tape, let alone own it! Agghh!!

One somewhat obtainable grail of mine is 眞呼's "Buried With The Light". It goes on auction for around 25k yen so I just have yet to shell out the bucks for it.

@omochadorei that's such a valid fear lol

I mean someone could see this rare thing you like, check it out, love it (but not as much as you love it), and have more money & good luck than you and swipe it before you on mercari or something

I mean ... where do I start? I could make an hours-long playlist of demotapes that I've loved to death for years.

/ big loves

cali≠gari - 第1実験室, 洗脳, 第2実験室, 嘔吐/オヤスミナサイ
MUCC - 愁歌
CROW - 百夜絵
dueljewel - 白, 黒
Mercuro - 断崖景色
P∞L - アジアの灯
餞～ハナむケ。～ - 星の色
キナルラ - mask
しゃるろっと - 電波事情
After effect - ↑DOWN↓/Lies
Luinspear - white kiss, G-CROSS, Luvis

/ also loves

emmurée - 「　　　　」
gill'e cadith - 自虐妄想クランベリー
グルグル映畫館 - 三河湾純情ラプソディー
lamiel - 黒, 朱, 碧
SCISSOR - From 住人 to 色。
バロック - 否定デリカシー
Janne Da Arc's first tapes ... what I've heard
Pure FINALE - END 4 YOU
kra - brise

@yukina ErecSia tape is so good. I remember when Milphinne broke into the scene and if you told me then that the vocalist was in a dark gothic band I would've went nuts for that.

No worries! Great time to iron things out. You're doing great

YAYYYYY SHE'S HERE!!!! Stoked to see ya. Ppl here have no idea how far back we go ... (omg I forgot awakenthesadist so nostalgic)

Great list - us Frypan lovers gotta stick together.

@reiketsu I don't see Laputa mentioned enough in favorites lists. Kagerou is definitely my favorite of theirs as well!!

Welcome!! SUPER GOOD taste, and great to see another aspiring gamedev

@brainimpediment Thank you so much!!! Well I checked your twitter and I gotta say I love your Kein fansite also. Same thing can be said - very well designed and such a great aesthetic sense + great info & galleries! Following your neocities right away

@Jigsaw said:
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Solid list. At first I was shocked at Aliene Ma'riage at the #1 slot ...

BIG RESPECT for 第6 & モダンギャルド!!!

Like Jig said, no mini-albums!

It hurt me to limit this to 10 ... and hurt even more to rank them.

But the rank is based on "how many times in a row can I listen to it TODAY" + "the positive memories I have associated with it"

1. cali≠gari - 第5実験室
2. Plastic Tree - HIDE and SEEK
3. deadman - no alternative
4. MUCC - 痛絶
5. BUCK-TICK - 悪の華
6. LUNA SEA - IMAGE
7. DuelJewel - Lapidary
8. ZXS - Spiral Code
9. MALICE MIZER - 薔薇の聖堂
10. GUNIW TOOLS - OTHER GOOSE

Honorable mentions:
DEViL KiTTY - 悪魔鬼茶 (inimitable INSANITY)
Dir en grey - GAUZE (obligatory nostalgia piece)
FANATIC◇CRISIS - MASK (discovered late, crazy how much this LP was influential & copied)
グルグル映畫館 - 轍 (tbh they never had a bad album)
GILLE' LOVES - 薔薇色の吸血鬼 (nothing else like it)
メリー - 現代ストイック (life changing)
KARMA=SHENJING - 流転輪廻 (beautiful, catchy & unique)
lab. - Pied & Piper (I always listen to them together!)

Super honorable mention cuz it doesn't qualify:
Janne Da Arc - 10th Anniversary Indies Complete Box (compilation of their 3 indie minis, which are incredible & timeless)

@disposable said:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LOASdN7g3ws&

I always try to throw Gara around in these discussion. I’m into most things that veer into aggressive no-wave while retaining a goth aesthetic

Gara rules!

Great thread. Definitely my wheelhouse - used to run a share blog about j-post-punk.

One of my old favorites:

YYYYYYYYYYYello
My name is Perrow or Pairdog (aka Prw, ペアロ).

I listen to lots of music, but more relevant to this forum, I'm big on older VK, j-indie, and 80's/90's stuff. I make music, draw stuff, design stuf ... I really spread myself thin with creative hobbies. I live in the PNW and I exude an uneasy sense of joy from within!

I've been into VK since 2002 but I don't listen to a lot of newer stuff, my cutoff is mostly around 2014 with notable exceptions. Tastes range from the crunchiest lo-fi demotapes to the twinkliest dreamy pops

10 of my biggest vk favs

• BUCK-TICK
• 桜井青 (cali≠gari, L.TB)
• MUCC (1997～2009)
• aie (deadman, studs, tgads, kein)
• グルグル映畫館 (RIP)
• FULL (GUNIW, SHILFEE)
• DuelJewel (1998～2006)
• Janne Da Arc
• LUNA SEA
• Plastic Tree (1997～2007)

And he's not VK, but I'm really into anything NARASAKI (COTD, sadesper) does. Like, anything and everything.

I also have a little retro VK website called YBS.0441 - Harkening back to the days of Invasion Dream and Blue Style Complex. It's also a fansite for 秀児, the former cali≠gari vocalist and post-punk oddball(d). I haven't updated it in forever though

Nice to meet you all & love to see some familiar names!

last.fm | twitter | vk.gy

Eliphas Levi & Noir Fleurir !!!!!!!!!
Fantastic bands. Key Party had a ton of gems.