Category Archives: Music

Animangaki 2011

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Took me awhile to write this because I got caught up with other stuffs. Especially some rage stuffs. Hey, it’s already more than two weeks, so, yeah, not really that late. Again, the anime event was held at the same place as last year which was the Multi Purpose Hall of Sunway University College.

Band Pass

Band Pass

This event was the day marked as my first ever performance as a guitarist for Bad Apples. Thinking back, it’s almost 9 months I bought my Telecaster which I learn to play mostly by myself and also with the help of my friends especially Eccentrical and Brian. Nine months seemed long but I didn’t take any proper class so it’s something neat to brag on but musical skill is something largely related with practice, practice and practice. Continue reading →

Niche Music

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Sanya and Eila, really out of character

Sanya and Eila, really out of character

When it’s about time we talk about music, everyone has their own preferences. For me, a person who indulges with a somewhat niche market of music which is anime music, I do find other genres to be lack of interesting. It is the same when other people doesn’t like my choice of music. But to be honest, my interest with anime or Japanese music doesn’t mean I like them totally. Nor do I hating other musics very much. It back to the basic of music itself. But first, let me talk a little bit about music here and there. Continue reading →

Oh My Giitaa~

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Cheap Ritter guitar bag

Cheap Ritter guitar bag

I’ve been thinking of playing some musical instruments practically years ago. Violin is my main target of learning but sadly I have no friends that truly capable of teaching me playing. Nevertheless, I am still have my interest with the learning of that instruments. Scratch that, I am actually talking about my new guitar here which I bought at Bentley near that place of The Curve. When did I start liking with this stuff actually? Well, considering that I am a mere vocalist for the band that I joined, I do thinking of getting some sort of knowledge by playing an instrument. Why guitar of all? That’s simply because I love the idea of playing a guitar while singing. So, my intention here to get a guitar is not really about able to play LIKE A BOSS for lead guitar. More like being a rhythm guitarist. And what kind of guitar did I buy yesterday? Fender Squire Telecaster. I just became RM 1,090 poorer. Continue reading →

Amazon.co.jp Trolls

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Akiyama Mio what?

Akiyama Mio what?

It’s Seitokai Yakuindomo Soundtrack CD. Shino Ban. Currently being sold on Amazon.co.jp. Since both Shino and Mio are from the same seiyuu of Hikasa Youko, that doesn’t mean that this totally different (and perverted) anime should have Mio name there. Think this as a conspiracy from Amazon Japan to attract K-On! fans to order this non-related anime except the seiyuu. The same thing applied to Aria Ban which also has the same seiyuu as Tainaka Ritsu.

Hijab Tenshi

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Itsudemo I love You

Itsudemo I love You

I am not sure how long did it take but I guess 6 hours top. Yeah, the song from Kasane Teto kinda addictive. So I created another Fukkireta madness with Tachibana Kanade or Tenshi of Angel Beats! as the subject. Initially I was thinking to create something for the upcoming month of Ramadhan and also Eid Al-Fitr. Just like the last time. Tho, after spending up some time tracing up the images with Illustrator, touching up images with Photoshop and created a video using Premier, I ended up uploaded the finished product unto YouTube which you can watch them below.

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Miku Commands You to Vote for Malaysia!

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Vote for Malaysia, you motherfucker!

Vote for Malaysia, you motherfucker!

Hear that lads? Vote for Malaysia goddamn it! Go to this Hatsune Miku World Tour site, post comment at the first blog post and make sure your text field for Country is written as Malaysia. We need more than 10,000 signatures. We do not condone any act of treason by putting in other than that. Any perpetrators that lead to the demise of the results will be hunt to the end of the world and the punishment will be skinning while you’re still live. Your skins will be made into kompang or rebana so that we could replace drums as musical instruments. Your bones will be turned into drum sticks. Your blood vessels will be used for guitar strings. Your ribs will be made as piano keys.

Hatsune Miku World Tour

Hatsune Miku World Tour

*back to normal* Oh, well. It seems that SEGA would like to have Hatsune Miku World Tour concerts to be held in various places in the world. The site link given above will be used to gather votes from different countries where any countries that have more than 10,000 votes will be chosen by SEGA as candidates for the tour.

I am not really a fan of Vocaloid (especially the voices though I am fine with others) plus the concert would likely to be something like a virtual singer singing on the stage with actual band plays at the back. But I would be really really love to have such concert to be made available in Malaysia. I don’t mind to pay just to get a chance getting in a hall for something like this. It’s gonna be fun.

K-On! Live Event ~Let’s Go!~

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:P

:P

K-On! Live Event ~Let’s Go!~ was the concert that was held in Yokohama Arena at the end of last year in Japan. A concert dedicated to the fans of K-On! from seiyuu of the characters. Not really sure how many were there during the concert but it is said that the capacity of the arena is 17,000. It’s safe to say that the visitor counts are around that. While I wasn’t there in the concert but I just ordered the Blu-ray copy of it from Amazon Japan :3

Azunyan :3

Azunyan :3

I decided to buy this off from the site because it’s Blu-ray, man. Well, what kind of shitty excuse was that? lol. Anyway, this Blu-ray of K-On! has became the best selling music Blu-ray in Japan so far with 22,000 copies sold in a week. I wasn’t included as one of the fags that made the record breaking though because I ordered my copy a bit later. The record even surpassed the previous record of Namie Amuro Blu-ray selling; 14,000 in a week and 21,000 copies altogether from last September. Record doesn’t mean anything much but I can conclude from here that many otaku in Japan do have Blu-ray players such as PS3. An otaku might have a PS3 to play games as well unlike normalfag. So it is normal for anime stuffs to be popular in Blu-ray format.

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Bad Apples are looking for vocal(s)

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Wanna sing together with us?

Wanna sing together with us?

Sup guys. Our anime song band, Bad Apples is looking for a new female vocal(s). Ideally, we would like to have someone nearby, let say, Kajang or Putrajaya, but we welcome anyone within Klang Valley. Previously, we performed at GACC 2010 and recently at MAGe. If you have any query about this matter, you might reach us at LowYat.NET forum or tell to me directly on MSN. In the mean time, I would like to ask for your help to tell your friends or anyone interested with this. This is a non-profit band but we might give you some basic lesson for playing with musical instruments (guitar, bass, drum, keyboard).

Cheers.

Bad Apples @ MAGe 2010

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So, our band went to Nilai University College in Nilai, Negeri Sembilan (hell, nowhere that near to Seremban as they said) for MAGe Festa 2010 on Saturday, June 27. Nothing much that I can say about this event. One could tell that this is somewhat a small event. Few crowds. Well, I can tell NUC isn’t a big college but being an area that situated a little bit far from the town of Nilai, some people might have transportation problem to the place. The student representative dude being funny by saying that if the event was held during weekdays, more students would come. Oh yeah? We are outsiders, duh. No way in the hell we would sacrifice our working days going there and most cosplayers were from other places. Anyway, Bad Apples band was there to perform anime songs. Initially, there were a lot of problems we faced. For instance, our female vocalist, Nacchan, had sore throat and that’s madness. We had to do some quick alterations and we even called some reinforcements. yafex was trying to sing God Knows and Lost My Music medley. For Don’t Say Lazy and Listen!! we’re glad to get help from Yuki (many thanks Yuki). Of all, myclamyra considered the show was better than our last one at GACC. Now, for some pictures of MAGe. Pictures of our band on the stage was courtesy of my friend, WiseFreeman. Thanks, bro!

Poni (Eccen), the lead guitarist

Poni (Eccen), the lead guitarist

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Facing the Music

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Let's sing together!

Let's sing together!

Years of anime existence came along with its musics. Various kinds of song and genre. Recently, when I started to join a band that mostly playing anime songs and also going to Yumekukan karaoke to sing Japanese songs, I kinda realized that how music changes along with the advancement of anime to this day. If anime and manga started to use additional graphical tools such as 3D software, how about musics? My point here is that, it’s not about technological advance though. Well, let us see briefly about earlier anime songs.

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