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☆ TILT (2/9/25) ☆
Masayoshi Takanaka is a legendary artist. Most people know him from “Beleza Pula” (and the video where he plays a giant surfboard guitar), but this song — and so many others from his album “Seychelles” — is just a joy to listen to.
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Feb 10, 2025
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this man is funky as hell and this kind of jazz fusion has been scratching an itch so damn hard recently
Just go listen to “OH! TENGO SUERTE” on some nice speakers and you will understand
Mar 27, 2025
this man is absolutely legendary. if you enjoy japanese jazz/funk fusion, surfboards, star wars, or just straight swagger, Takanaka’s your guy. the 70s musician has that of a cult following– for reference, last week he announced a single show at the Wiltern in Los Angeles with presale tickets going on sale for this Friday October 4th... but tell me why my friend went through LENGTHS to somehow snag tickets on October 1st, which ended up selling out nearly the entire venue, with the $300 pit tickets being the only ones left.
even if you don’t like the music, his signature surfboard guitar should get you fucking itching to see him live. i would highly recommend his 1977 album “BRASILIAN SKIES”, which includes STAR WARS SAMBA. it’s exactly what it sounds like: a samba rendition of the Star Wars Theme! the man has entire instagram fan-pages dedicated to that of a single album cover in which he’s skydiving over the vast blue sea. jubilantly, at that. i can’t wait to see him in March 2025, long live Takanaka!
Oct 2, 2024
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His music is the summer I need in the middle of winter
Mar 6, 2025
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☆ TILT (2/10/25) ☆
I’ve really been falling into early 2000s nostalgia recently. This song is so dreamlike and airy.
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Feb 11, 2025
☆ TILT (2/13/25) ☆
I feel like everyone moved on from this way too fast. One of the songs where the music video enhances it by 1000%
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Feb 13, 2025
☆ (TILT 2/7/25) ☆
This is my second Lady Gaga "Today I Listened To" and surely not my last. I think many people have been nostalgic for the music of the mid-2000s as we plunge headfirst into all of the heartbreak and chaos that 2025 is bringing.
Enter "Abracadabra", a teaser for the upcoming LG7 album, that I really just chalked up as a fun, energetic dance song at first. But after listening to the song several times and coming across a TikTok video analyzing some of the lyrics, I feel like this is the perfect anthem for the concept of Joy as Resistance.
The etymology of the word "abracadabra" is "I will create as I speak". In the face of adversity, we have no choice but to create the world we want to live in, molding ourselves into who we want to be without input from anyone else.
We have to "keep our mind on the distance" — the life we crave and desire for us and others — "when the Devil turns around”.
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Feb 7, 2025