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lupin tunes are great. wish i could see more lupin need more and want the sdtks Crying or Very sad

Yeah, Lupin music is massively underrated. Personally, I like it more than Bebop's...though it's a toss-up between The Real Folk Blues and Love Squall.

Heh, my Lupin CD goes on just about every time I go into my room... although it helps that it's one of the only CDs I own. ^-^;;

It was given to me, otherwise I probably wouldn't have it, but boy I'm glad I do. I love it.

As far as the con planning section in concerned, it is very good strategy which I followed at the last two cons I attended. Discovered some new anime I want to watch now as well as going to the events I wanted to go to. Didn't leave much time to eat however. Smile

question. does the tokyo ska paradise orchestra just do the opening or what....? or do they even do anything?

Iirc, Skapara did only the Lupin opening.

"Take the synth-heavy tones of the utterly pathetic Mortal Kombat soundtrack"

Pathetic?! Sir, I take serious offense to this! If my 13-year old self could travel through time, he'd come and kick your ass! The Mortal Kombat theme is timeless. And who could forget Orbital's 'Halcyon and on and on', a trance tune also used in the unforgettable classic HACKERS?

Seriously though, I know it's cheesy, but I know a lot of people who loved the Mortal Kombat soundtrack and still do. It's like calling He-Man utterly pathetic. We know it wasn't "good", but we still love it.

-Z

So do you think all electronic music is wretched?

Nah, I'm an equal opportunity music basher. For positive reviews of electronic music, see JPOP CD, Yoko Ishida, Mahoromatic, and Lain Cyberia. In fact, I think I've been harsher on the classical stuff...

JPOP is not ELECTRONIC MUSIC, It's JPOP, Jon. Go look up Electronica and then come back.

-Z

Bah, you're right. I have zero Electronica background. Sorry about the mislabeling.

How can you review music when you don't know the difference between electronic music and J-pop? The comparison is an insult to all of electronic music enthusiasts. or is it that you only know anime music?

Because the genres don't matter.

*Soapbox*

I don't like relying on some "genre" label in the music; it's a poor oversimplification of the sound. Genres are useful when you're trying to categorize a bunch of CDs in a retail store or an encyclopedia, but they do nothing to determine whether or not the music's any good--the goal of my column. I don't care about the genre; I care about the pitch, the tone color, the dynamics, and the duration of a piece. That should cover just about anything. If you use genres to determine whether or not a particular piece of music will appeal to you, I encourage you to expand your horizons and look for the similarities in all music. You'll find a lot more music to enjoy.

Knowing that Yoko Ishida should be considered "JPOP" instead of "Electronica" has zero bearing on how I feel about the music. I hope I do a good enough job using 150-200 words to describe the music and whether or not I think it's any good. I don't need genres to do that.

Genres do not matter. Good music is good music; poor music is poor music. It's that simple.

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