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From Suddenly, like flames : Last Visible Dog : LVD 064
Latest in a long line of uber-underground/ultra-mysterious Japanese psychedelic groups is this one, LSD-march. This band dares to tread on the hallowed grounds that Les Rallizes Denudes (look here and here) so carefully laid out, but manage to come out of it alive and kicking. LSD-march was started in 1997 by then seventeen year old(!) guitarist and vocalist Shinsuke Michishita.
He may have copped the pose of the gloomy, psychedelic aesthete straight from the gauloise-smoking Rallizes, but Michishita’s obvious delight in smearing fistfuls of feedbacking, reverbing gunge over minimally plodding basslines is every bit as compelling as his heroes’.
(from the liner notes)
With a handful of rediculously limited self-released albums out, it’s no wonder that they haven’t garnered as much acclaim as they should. But luckily, Last Visible Dog have re-issued the second album by LSD-march and made it widely available to the public.
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So, Jandek was canceled. I am so sad.
Also, I hate Apple software even more now, if that’s possible. So to recap, when I’m browsing the inter-web and left-click on an mp3, a dialogue box used to open up that asked me if I wanted to open the mp3 in winamp or download it to my desktop. This was great. I loved the options. Now Quicktime automatically loads a player within the page and starts playing the track. No options at all. I hate that.
So, taking the advice of one of my readers, I decided to uninstall Quicktime. Now, when I left-click on an mp3, a little dialogue box pops up that says I don’t have Quicktime installed, please go to (cr)apple.com and install Quicktime before you can play this track. WTF?!?! This is insane behavior, there is nothing in my browser preferences that associates mp3 with Quicktime, I’ve unchecked everything in the Quicktime settings that I can. And it still takes over my browser. Can you say Virus!??
Anonymous said,
September 23, 2005 @ 8:03 pm
why don’t you right click and save as, or option click and it will auto download.
cb said,
September 23, 2005 @ 8:26 pm
Hey there.
Well sure, I could do the right click thing and have done so in the past but, and this is more to the point, now I have to do that.
What I can’t stand is that some program should so completely take over my browser that I can’t choose what actions I wish to perform. That’s what’s making me mad.
-cb
Akio said,
September 24, 2005 @ 5:01 am
You know, my computer does the same thing. I never thought of it as a problem - I just assumed that that was how it worked. Huh.
Also, man, I love Japanese psychedelia. Seems to be tons of it. I wonder if it has anything to do, latently, with the sounds of traditional Japanese music…
-AK
paul said,
September 24, 2005 @ 1:35 pm
hey, i just wanted to say that i stumbled upon this blog a few weeks ago, and it is currently my favorite place on the internet to listen to music. i’ve been discovering (and buying) a lot of good stuff. keep up the good work!
cb said,
September 26, 2005 @ 5:05 pm
Hey Paul. Thanks for the kind words. Glad you’re enjoying the music and supporting the musicians.
Akio. I’m not sure where the whole Japanes psychedelia gene comes from. But I’m glad that its there. It seems that the Japanese tend to (and this is a huge/gross generalization) take things to extremes, i.e. the Fruits. and Japanese psychedelic music tends to be in the extreme as well…but who really knows.
-cb
art said,
October 4, 2005 @ 1:40 pm
Why not install Firefox? The music is fun, btw. Thanks.
cb said,
October 5, 2005 @ 1:45 am
Actually, I do have Firefox installed. And Quicktime is still taking it over. If I look at all the plug-in file types, the mp3’s are “winamp” files. But whenever I click on one, Quicktime takes over for some reason. Again, this is both on Firefox and Explorer…
-cb
the of mirror eye » Marching On LSD said,
July 26, 2006 @ 4:10 pm
[...] After my first LSD-march (look here) experience last year, I knew that I had to have some more. Unfortunately, most of their stuff is released in limited editions and I just don’t have the connections to be able to find them in time. A little bit ago though, I managed to track down a couple of their releases on Archive Recordings. And they’ve been constantly on my bedtime playlist since then. [...]