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Padraic 
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Posted: October 13 2008 at 14:50 |
 crimhead wrote:
I need an education on this one. I haven't heard either band.
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Try Univers Zero's debut (titled either "1313" or just "Univers Zero") and Koenjihyakkei's Angherr Shisspa. Don't really know your musical tastes at all, but I'll offer the blanket statement that neither album is for the faint of heart prog fan.
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Posted: October 13 2008 at 14:47 |
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I need an education on this one. I haven't heard either band.
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Posted: October 13 2008 at 13:54 |
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i voted for FUN!
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Posted: October 13 2008 at 07:03 |
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Posted: October 13 2008 at 02:06 |
Univers Zero, easily!
This band have released so much brilliant music, particulary Heresie and Ceux du Dehors, two of my favorite albums ever. I really dig Koenjihyakkei as well though..
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Posted: October 13 2008 at 00:06 |
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This is almost impossible.
However, I have yet to hear all of Univers Zéro's albums. I have heard all of Koenjihyakkei's.
I love chamber prog and UZ are top of the pile.
I love zeuhl and Magma are top of the pile.
However, Koenjihyakkei just get the vote... every single album I've heard by them is fantastic and each one sounds different. Angherr Shisspa is their best though.
Perhaps when I have heard some of Univers Zéro's later albums, my vote will change.
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Posted: October 12 2008 at 23:13 |
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Posted: October 12 2008 at 14:52 |
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Posted: October 12 2008 at 14:49 |
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Posted: October 12 2008 at 14:40 |
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Posted: October 12 2008 at 14:38 |
song_of_copper wrote:
MovingPictures07 wrote:
song_of_copper wrote:
"...really active edge..." - I completely get what you mean. There's just so much going on all at once, like this ridiculously complicated onslaught of incident, and stuff is happening almost before you can gauge what's going on... I LOVE that in music. 
Yeah, it's almost like Koenji is full of people who should be locked up in insane asylums or are addicted to caffeine because the music is so in your face every second. 
And yes, you are evil.
Don't forgot my evil red sock of doom! 
Chosen entirely randomly...? Like, out of a hat or something, or just off the top of your head?!
What I did was I placed all 32 bands with random placement in a list (whichever came first off the top of my head) and then used a number randomizer to select who would face each other. For example, the first chosen were Mahavishnu and Marillion, so if Mahavishnu was placed in the 15th rank out of those and the randomizer chose 15, then they would be picked. Marillion was then picked out of the 31 remaining bands. I'd simply keep doing that from a smaller and smaller sample size until I eventually was left with two remaining contenders, whom we have yet to see.
Turned out pretty well! 
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It really did! The randomness fell out very neatly! Well, you and your red sock of doom (hah, 'Red Sock of Doom' should be the title of your next concept album...  ) have done a great job. 
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Haha, that'd be awful.
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Posted: October 12 2008 at 14:35 |
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Posted: October 12 2008 at 14:30 |
Univers Zero by far 
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Posted: October 12 2008 at 14:29 |
MovingPictures07 wrote:
song_of_copper wrote:
"...really active edge..." - I completely get what you mean. There's just so much going on all at once, like this ridiculously complicated onslaught of incident, and stuff is happening almost before you can gauge what's going on... I LOVE that in music.
Yeah, it's almost like Koenji is full of people who should be locked up in insane asylums or are addicted to caffeine because the music is so in your face every second.
And yes, you are evil.
Don't forgot my evil red sock of doom!
Chosen entirely randomly...? Like, out of a hat or something, or just off the top of your head?!
What I did was I placed all 32 bands with random placement in a list (whichever came first off the top of my head) and then used a number randomizer to select who would face each other. For example, the first chosen were Mahavishnu and Marillion, so if Mahavishnu was placed in the 15th rank out of those and the randomizer chose 15, then they would be picked. Marillion was then picked out of the 31 remaining bands. I'd simply keep doing that from a smaller and smaller sample size until I eventually was left with two remaining contenders, whom we have yet to see.
Turned out pretty well!
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It really did! The randomness fell out very neatly! Well, you and your red sock of doom (hah, 'Red Sock of Doom' should be the title of your next concept album... ) have done a great job.
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Posted: October 12 2008 at 14:14 |
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Koenji, just.
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Posted: October 12 2008 at 13:58 |
Another tough call. I voted for UZ, mainly because they have released so much brilliant music over the last 30 years and they're still going strong.
Yoshida is a true master drummer and composer, definitely on a par with Daniel Denis, but Koenjihyakkei have only released 4 albums to date (all of excellent and Angherr Shisspa is breathtaking, but even so...).
Maybe in another 10 years things will be different, but at the moment UZ win on the grounds of sheer quantity and longevity.
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Posted: October 12 2008 at 13:54 |
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