Machine Reviews Every Album He Listens To

Machine · 01-09-2018, 05:24 AM

ENTRY 7

goreshit - ureshii!
Genre: Happy Hardcore, Hardcore [EDM], J-Core, J-Pop, Lolicore, Plunderphonics
Release Date: June 14, 2010

So Lolicore is always a genre of electronic music I tried to stray away from due to it's weird cringy fanbase and imagery, but as I was trying to find a bit of Happy Hardcore to get into I noticed most of the top albums were by Lolicore artists. I figured I'd pick the artist that has been recommended to me the most and that is gore****. The album covered seemed shockingly non-cringe so there's my thought process.

Track 1: 桜舞い散る坂道で
Starts off more less exactly how I expected. High tempo and quick breakbeats. I do like the synths going throughout the track, it all feels quite huge. Ah here's the J-Pop, so I'm going to take a wild a guess and say this is gonna be electronic J-Pop. Yeah I'm loving the synths, the melodies are very pretty, and it doesn't relent on the insane beat either. The music itself is actually pretty poorly mixed, but that's sort of to be expected from an artist who was probably about my age at the time making fake J-Pop. The feel of the track goes between sugary pop goodness and these anime soundtrack inspired synth breakdowns, it is a strange combination, but it works better than I thought it would. Yeah I love this track this is really fun, I'd definitely listen to this again.

Track 2: Konacore Original 2010
****, this one is even faster. Loving the drums that are mixed so high they actually distort unnaturally. This sounds like what I wish generic EDM sounded like, this is so much more fun; the melodies are more original and the beat is way hotter in mix and a lot faster as well. Also none of those lame ass side chained drums. This feels a lot older than it actually is, feels like it came out at some point in the 90's, but it's so damn new. I actually remember when these guys first started. This song is pretty repetitive, but I love the groove on it and it isn't as long as the first track, so it's really no big deal.

Track 3: Grace Ma Breaks
As can be taken from the name this is all breakbeats so far. I love how comically loud the kick drums are on all these tracks, it's so distorted it actually just sounds like a note being played. Kind of weird stop right therein the beginning I didn't like too much. I love the vocal sample and the synths backing it up though, those are really pretty. This album has a strange sound to it, it's mixed like a digital hardcore album, but has the feeling of an EDM album; I'm quite sure how it works as well as it does, but it does work well. The album feels very futuristic in a 2000's sense, does that make sense? I'm not sure and I don't care, you'll know whatI mean if you hear this. Solid track.

Track 4: Fly, Heart! Fly!
Love how this is starting already, it has this incredibly sped up sample of a J-Pop vocal and the chords are just going nuts behind it. It's literally just sped up J-Pop except this guy took out everything, but the vocals and replaced all the instrumentation himself at like 4 times the speed. This is easily my favorite track so far, everything works to this song's benefit. The chords are perfectly matched with these beautiful synth melodies and it all sounds so cheap, but in a good way.Too bad it's the shortest track on the album.

Track 5: Die!!Die!!Cover!!!
This is actually a really short album, it's more of an EP but the artist recognized it as an album so ??? The beat is incredibly busy here almost too much going to distinguish everything. Loving the atonal synth lead over these massive breaks and stomped beats. Oh **** yes one of my favorite chord progressions of all time let's GO! This is so energetic that I feel wrong for reviewing this while laying down in bed. Are those guitars?! This track has so much going on man, and it isn't experimental maximalism it's just pure pop maximalism and I ****ing love it. The beat is just everywhere, the bass is going nuts, the chords are moving at 100 miles an hour, and there are multiple lead synths and a vocal melody. WOAH half time groove right the 3 and a half minute mark. What a great track to end things on, everything really fell into place for this one track.

7/10

01-09-2018, 05:24 AM	#21 (permalink)
Machine moon lake inc. Join Date: Oct 2014 Location: Detroit Posts: 2,125	ENTRY 7 goreshit - ureshii! Genre: Happy Hardcore, Hardcore [EDM], J-Core, J-Pop, Lolicore, Plunderphonics Release Date: June 14, 2010 So Lolicore is always a genre of electronic music I tried to stray away from due to it's weird cringy fanbase and imagery, but as I was trying to find a bit of Happy Hardcore to get into I noticed most of the top albums were by Lolicore artists. I figured I'd pick the artist that has been recommended to me the most and that is gore**. The album covered seemed shockingly non-cringe so there's my thought process. Track 1: 桜舞い散る坂道で Starts off more less exactly how I expected. High tempo and quick breakbeats. I do like the synths going throughout the track, it all feels quite huge. Ah here's the J-Pop, so I'm going to take a wild a guess and say this is gonna be electronic J-Pop. Yeah I'm loving the synths, the melodies are very pretty, and it doesn't relent on the insane beat either. The music itself is actually pretty poorly mixed, but that's sort of to be expected from an artist who was probably about my age at the time making fake J-Pop. The feel of the track goes between sugary pop goodness and these anime soundtrack inspired synth breakdowns, it is a strange combination, but it works better than I thought it would. Yeah I love this track this is really fun, I'd definitely listen to this again. Track 2: Konacore Original 2010 , this one is even faster. Loving the drums that are mixed so high they actually distort unnaturally. This sounds like what I wish generic EDM sounded like, this is so much more fun; the melodies are more original and the beat is way hotter in mix and a lot faster as well. Also none of those lame ass side chained drums. This feels a lot older than it actually is, feels like it came out at some point in the 90's, but it's so damn new. I actually remember when these guys first started. This song is pretty repetitive, but I love the groove on it and it isn't as long as the first track, so it's really no big deal. Track 3: Grace Ma Breaks As can be taken from the name this is all breakbeats so far. I love how comically loud the kick drums are on all these tracks, it's so distorted it actually just sounds like a note being played. Kind of weird stop right therein the beginning I didn't like too much. I love the vocal sample and the synths backing it up though, those are really pretty. This album has a strange sound to it, it's mixed like a digital hardcore album, but has the feeling of an EDM album; I'm quite sure how it works as well as it does, but it does work well. The album feels very futuristic in a 2000's sense, does that make sense? I'm not sure and I don't care, you'll know whatI mean if you hear this. Solid track. Track 4: Fly, Heart! Fly! Love how this is starting already, it has this incredibly sped up sample of a J-Pop vocal and the chords are just going nuts behind it. It's literally just sped up J-Pop except this guy took out everything, but the vocals and replaced all the instrumentation himself at like 4 times the speed. This is easily my favorite track so far, everything works to this song's benefit. The chords are perfectly matched with these beautiful synth melodies and it all sounds so cheap, but in a good way.Too bad it's the shortest track on the album. Track 5: Die!!Die!!Cover!!! This is actually a really short album, it's more of an EP but the artist recognized it as an album so ??? The beat is incredibly busy here almost too much going to distinguish everything. Loving the atonal synth lead over these massive breaks and stomped beats. Oh yes one of my favorite chord progressions of all time let's GO! This is so energetic that I feel wrong for reviewing this while laying down in bed. Are those guitars?! This track has so much going on man, and it isn't experimental maximalism it's just pure pop maximalism and I **ing love it. The beat is just everywhere, the bass is going nuts, the chords are moving at 100 miles an hour, and there are multiple lead synths and a vocal melody. WOAH half time groove right the 3 and a half minute mark. What a great track to end things on, everything really fell into place for this one track. 7/10 __________________ boost my ego listen to me stroke my delay pedal ever wanted to hear death grips songs... but they're acoustic? me neither.