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Album Review: Boom Boom Satellites – Exposed

February 12, 2013 4:27 pm ⋅ Leave a Comment ⋅

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Number 6 on the list of albums by Boom Boom Satellites is none other than Exposed. We’ve come this far following the musical progress of the Two-Man band from their inception in 1998 into the music industry to the moment Exposed was released as a full length album. As is with the custom of our series of album reviews, check out Out Loud (1998), Umbra (2001), Photon (2002), Full of Elevating Pleasures (2005) and On (2006) just because you can (and because it took us quite a bit of time to get the latest reviews up and running). Note the trend in BBS’s genre mixing and their affinity for trying out stunts that could demolish songs, while making said stunts work for them immensely. Be glad to know that they haven’t faltered in their dedication to brilliance just yet.

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Exposed

Release Date: 2007

Album Length: 41:40

Number of Tracks: 12

Longest Track: Intergalactic (4:48)

Shortest Track: Cluster (0:59)

 

 

 

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Album Review: Boom Boom Satellites – ON

February 11, 2013 6:33 pm ⋅ 1 Comment ⋅

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And we are back yet again, covering Boom Boom Satellites entire discography. We already reviewed previous albums Out Loud, Umbra, Photon and Full of Elevating Pleasures. This time, we turn our attention to  their fifth studio album “ON”, a curious and intriguing album full of wondrous highs.

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Album Review: Boom Boom Satellites – Full of Elevating Pleasures

January 14, 2013 7:27 pm ⋅ Leave a Comment ⋅

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We reach you, dear readers, with Number Four on our list. The fourth full length album from Boom Boom Satellites is Full of Elevating Pleasures, and in case you’re just joining us on this ride, let’s bring up a bit to speed. Detanfy and I will be reviewing the albums of BBS in celebration of the release of their latest album Embrace as well as 15 years in the music game catering to fans worldwide. So far we’ve done so well and done 3, Out Loud (1998), Umbra (2001) and Photon (2002). Well now, now you grasp a bit of their growth, let’s get moving.

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Full of Elevating Pleasures

Release Date: 2005

Album Length: 55:03

Number of Tracks: 12

Longest Track: Route for Exile (6:04)

Shortest Track: Propeller (2:04)

 

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Album Review: Boom Boom Satellites – Photon

January 14, 2013 6:21 pm ⋅ Leave a Comment ⋅

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Let’s take a quick minute to talk about Boom Boom Satellites; the Japanese Electronica (but really, a little bit of every genre) outfit has, at this point, amassed a pretty decent following. A few EPs and 2 quality full length albums will do that for a band. Their debut album Out Loud, was a striking introduction to the methodology and musical stylings of Michiyuki Kawashima and Masayuki Nakano, while their follow up Umbra, is even more amplified, serving to show the duos growth over the course of their career. Now we are facing their lucky Number #3 album, the aptly titled Photon, a joyous yet dark (no doubt thanks to Umbra’s more shadowy construction), slightly perfected template for just what Boom Boom Satellites is musically capable of.

 

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Album Review: Boom Boom Satellites – Umbra

January 9, 2013 8:10 pm ⋅ 2 Comments ⋅

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In continuing the celebration of the release of Boom Boom Satellites’ new album Embrace, we present to you dear readers the review of their second full length album Umbra. If you missed the first, Out Loud by Detanfy, then you can go ahead and do a recap on what’s up.

 

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Release Date: 2001

Album Length: 50:37

Longest Track: Ingrained (6:42)

Shortest Track: Looking Glass (0:57)

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Album Review: Boom Boom Satellites – Out Loud

January 8, 2013 9:06 pm ⋅ 6 Comments ⋅

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To celebrate the release of their new album “Embrace”, and to simply show appreciation to the group we love so much, we will be reviewing Boom Boom Satellites full length LP’s starting from Out Loud all the way through To The Loveless and everything in between.

Lets get things under way!

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Week So Far [24th - 28th]

January 28, 2011 10:30 pm ⋅ 1 Comment ⋅

We have come to the end of yet another week.. and while I don’t want to whine continuously and bring out my horse whips to use on someone, I have to admit that this week has had a dock-load of work on our writers. And the consequence of such fate is the shortage of tangible posts to feed you our numerous viewers with. Not withstanding, Detanfy and Phylix did manage to give us pieces of their mind and a little bit of news from the events of this week.
So, while Detanfy’s sweating because she’s shovelling snow and Phylix’s trying to cope with a pretty bad week gone by (bless both their hearts), let’s take a look at what this week has given shall we? Continue Reading →

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Music Spotlight: Boom Boom Satellites – To The Loveless (song) and Vapour

January 26, 2011 11:00 am ⋅ 1 Comment ⋅

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Star Driver New opening theme

January 11, 2011 8:21 am ⋅ Leave a Comment ⋅

NOTE: Youtube always takes the videos down, so I don’t know how long this one will last.

Oh boy……

Star Driver has reached its half way point and with that comes the changing of its opening theme song. The new theme song is called Shining Star and its performed by 9nine. I think 9nine also performed the shows first ending theme, which as also been replaced by another song now.

This new opening has a great animated battle between Taubunr and another adversary as well as a quick glimpse of what might be Glittering Crux leader Heads’ Cybody called Reshbal.

Personally I preferred the first opening song but to each his own.

You can read my first impressions of the series  from a while ago HERE

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Detanfy’s Best of Music #1 of 2010

December 19, 2010 10:49 pm ⋅ 2 Comments ⋅

Well here it is folks. We’ve reached the end of the road. Its been a great journey and a wonderful and fulfilling experience sharing my favorite music with you. Now there is only one left….

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