Via Shal­low Rave.

I was going to post tracks by mys­te­ri­ous span­ish synth-pop group Vam Cyborg but Mutant Sounds did that (still avail­able) already a year ago.

Instead we have here pretty much sim­i­lar group called Vocoder, which is also from Spain. Italo-Disco from Spain? Yes, per­haps a lit­tle more towards electro/synth-pop. Not much more infor­ma­tion avail­able besides what is said in their myspace pro­file. They did cou­ple of songs and dis­ap­peared as did many other italo/electro acts in the 80s. (The songs in their myspace are avail­able for down­load if you log in! Tip.)
Re-press needed. Clone Clas­sic Cuts perhaps?

This video is fun. Ingen­u­ous and naive fun.

More Vocoder at Youtube:

directo en ZGZ (Vocoder live at Zaragoza, Spain) (youtube)
Hacker (youtube)
(maqueta La Radio)
Radiote­le­scope

Vocoder (myspace)

MP3
Vocoder — Amor de Robot (192 kbit MP3)
Vocoder — Min­danao (rapid­share) (192 kbit MP3)

edit: Some­one did this one too. Cou­ple of years ago. Noth­ing in teh inter­net is rare nowadays!

This week I rec­om­mend awe­some Japan­ese non­sense humor anime series titled Gyagu Manga Biy­ori (Gag manga biy­ori). The first sea­son is avail­able entirely at YouTube.

I have selected cou­ple of my per­sonal favorite episodes here. Sec­ond sea­son has been made also but only three episodes have been fan­subbed so far. I haven’t read the manga though. Pre­pare your­self for ran­dom and absurd experience.

Some of the gags go way beyond under­stand­ing mostly because you need to know Japan­ese cul­ture (okay there are some trans­la­tors notes but you won’t have time to read them).

The direc­tor of the series (Aki­taro Daichi) is famous for direct­ing sim­i­lar kind of shows like Sexy Com­mando Gaiden: Sug­oiyo! Masaru-san (which is also avail­able at YouTube). Appre­ci­ated.

Sea­son 1 Episode 4

Sea­son 1 Episode 10

Sea­son 1 Episode 11

Watched Mas­ters of the Uni­verse last week­end. Oh boy…

Mas­ters of the Uni­verse (1987, USA)
Direc­tor: Gary God­dard
Fantasy/Sci-Fi/Adventure/Teen

The plot makes no sense and it’s filled with holes so I won’t bother telling it to you. Instead I asked myself cou­ple of ques­tions and answered them:

Where is Orko ?
– Gwildor replaced Orko as a comic side­kick.
Why ?
– Prob­a­bly because they did not have the tech­nol­ogy to cre­ate Orko.

Where is Prince Adam ?
– Nowhere. He-Man is all the time in his super­form although he shouts at the end, “I have the power!”.

Why does Skele­tor has large army of stormtroop­ers bor­rowed straight up from Star Wars –movies ?
– Yes, why? That is some­thing totally unprecedented.

Where is Bat­tle Cat (aka Cringer) or many other major char­ac­ters known from the series ?
– Well, the movie fol­lows the ani­ma­tion series only a little.

Clos­ing com­ments:
What you get is a movie that some­how resem­bles the Mas­ters of the Uni­verse with “stormtroop­ers” and same kind of music bor­rowed rom Star Wars but it actu­ally doesn’t remind anything!

Worth watch­ing?
If you’re look­ing for decent turkey, you’ve got watch Mas­ters of the Uni­verse. It has blonde mus­cu­lar Swedish actor sput­ter­ing bad eng­lish, rub­ber­faced Skele­tor, 80s teen movie action and of course, He-Man him­seld. For me, that was enough.

There is cur­rently a new He-Man and the Mas­ters of the Uni­verse –movie in pro­duc­tion (pro­duced by Joel Sil­ver). It will have visual effects done in the sim­i­lar way as with the movie “300”. It has the poten­tial but I fear the worst… I found cou­ple of inter­views (1) (2) about the new film and it seems they just might be doing it right. At least, in the way how the new Trans­form­ers film turned out to be.

Here is some great moments from the movie I uploaded to YouTube:

“Vanha Hippi” (old hip­pie) is a song by Top Rank­ing Eric & The Rev­o­lu­tion­ar­ies. It isn’t the the first reg­gae song in Fin­land but among the first ones, yes. It appears on the first vol­ume of “Suomi Rock ’80″ com­pi­la­tions released by Poko Records.
Most of the older Finnish reg­gae stuff aren’t any good (e.g. Avaru­uslintu — Kesä Reg­gae) but this “Vanha Hippi” is a great suc­cess mostly because of the con­tro­ver­sial and amus­ing lyrics! Def­i­nitely a good source for vocal sam­ples (tip!).

As said before, the eas­i­est way to get it is to acquire a copy of Suomi Rock ’80 com­pi­la­tion but we’re here @ Kyny­Nasty so nice peo­ple that we offer you the oppor­tu­nity to get it right here.

Top Rank­ing Eric & The Rev­o­lu­tion­ar­ies — Vanha Hippi

If you’re the owner of the song/the artist per­form­ing it/don’t want it to be put online, please mes­sage us and we’ll remove it as soon as possible.

A brief his­tory of Finnish reg­gae (pub­lished in Ylioppilas-lehti 09/2001, in Finnish)