Looking forward to the author trying to figure out the ideology of Death in June and other neofolk and post-industrial artists. Including non-English-language ones.

Seems to be one of the more distinctive, listenable and chill tracks of Jones. In his vast discography it’s frankly not easy to find things particularly catching the ear.

From what I’ve heard, houses in Japan are torn down after twenty years and rebuilt anew. Absolute craziness from the European standpoint, but I’m sure there must be a reason for it like the propensity to earthquakes and tsunamis (particularly with Japan being rather conservative overall).

A minor correction: it turns out that you refer not to the album version but the remix. This is the Discogs page for all releases of the remix, and the credits list four guys having made it. However, the guitar parts you mention are present in the original too, though seemingly less pronounced (if the Youtube upload is accurate).

Btw, if you dig Sylvester, check out Patrick Cowley, his friend and collaborator. Sylvester signed up on Cowley’s and Marty Blecman’s Megatone Records label after having decided to change direction from disco in '82. I’m not into hi-NRG myself, but I like the compilation of his tunes used for gay porn and slowed down by John Coletti, the producer of said porn: ‘School Daze’, released by Dark Entries.

I see you’re too stupid to understand when you’re told to fuck off for being a worthless cunt.

Please don’t be rude to people falling for exactly what I was aiming for. Multiple communities here and on Reddit exist for the very reason that many people don’t look at the community name closely.

P.S. I also can downvote comments, and can see that it was you who downvoted mine. You’re exactly the kind of person reminding me why it’s best to ignore any and all replies here and on Reddit.

Just FYI, I’ve seen and heard a speaker looking like a tin can, sitting on the desk, perform very solidly — and I myself was using Sennheiser headphones and pretty respectable boxy speakers by that time. This was ten years ago. By now any little standalone speaker can probably outperform one embedded in a tablet.

Regrettably I don’t know any model names, might have to look for them myself sometime.

He’s been around for a hundred years, and is now in his hundred-and-first.

I had to stay up very late to post this on NYC time, slept little, and am in about the same condition today.

The idea isn’t mine, but Brooks is the perfect person for this. I hope I can pull this a bunch more times.

“I think you should go. That was a large burrito.”

Ironically, I had to use Imgur because Lemmy.world disallows posting and uploads via the VPN that I utilize, and direct upload chokes due to some stupid shit the regulator and providers around here are pulling.

The way things in the Europes and the US are going, in a few years most Western VPNs will be of no avail for accessing the sites I want. We’ll both have to VPN through Mexico or somesuch.

Cory Doctorow predicted this fifteen years ago (transcript here).

Wikipedia indicates that Wirrick was Sylvester’s guitarist and co-writer by 1976, i.e. before even the first album by Sylvester. It seems that by the time of the ‘Call Me’ album, Wirrick was doing a whole lot of songwriting (together with Jeff Mehl) and production. So I would guess he indeed continued his guitar duty too.

P.S. Also of note that according to Discogs, the credits straight up list Wirrick as ‘all instruments performed by’ (apart from some additional stuff on individual songs), which is quite impressive.

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Reportedly they offer 96 kHz at 24-bit, but idk if there’s a way to download it.

Remarkably feels like I’m listening to Bingo Gazingo. Even though I’ve heard The Fall before.

Maybe Tidal? I know it’s advertised with focus on the quality, but haven’t used it myself.

You might also consider buying the music on whatever service seems more ethical and then pirating the flacs. I’ve had to do that with some games that, comically enough, didn’t run on my machine when installed from Steam, but did in pirate versions.

Can’t say much about ‘Marbles’. But ‘Nåke Du Finn I Skogen’ is quite reminiscent of Lacrimosa, the symphonic-goth-rock band — especially the man’s vocal is like Tilo Wolff himself participating on the track. Check out e.g. ‘Alleine Zu Zweit’ (the video is moderately NSFW) and ‘Kabinett Der Sinne’. Not very folky, though.

You might also dig Camerata Mediolanense, since you’re familiar with neofolk.

Let me know if any of these tickle your fancy, I’ve got more vaguely in this vein.

Also, Lindy Fay Hella and the vocalist Kristian Espedal were both in Wardruna, which might be relevant.

It so happens that ‘Lady Marmalade’ in fact predates ‘Voulez-Vous’.

Reportedly TopPop indulged in lipsyncing, just like Top of the Pops, by which it was inspired (tv in general was rife with it back then anyway). At least they bothered to plug in the gear, but the sparse use of mics leads me to suspect playback anyway.