Japanese anime-like psychedelic images with dreamy electronic-noise landscapes of music.
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Tag Archives: japanese psychedelia
LSD dream emulator
11 Jul
“LSD Dream Emulator” is a PS 1-era game, it became cult classic for it being released only in Japan, and remaining widely unknown up till today. In the game you have to achieve no goal,there are no battles, nothing but exploring completely random environments. The main appeal for players is its insanity.
The only thing you have to do in it is to wander deeper and deeper into your simulated consciousness. Daring to face hallucinations that get more and more messed-up – without getting killed. Do you really want to get yourself into that trip?
The upper video was taken at the beginning of the game, while the bottom one (featuring the narration by the YouTube user who uploaded it), is from the final part of it.
Takashi Murakami Superflat Monogram
9 JulA Japanese Alice in wonderland falls down the rabbit hole in search of her cellphone and lands in a bizarre world of magical brands. This amazing Superflat Louis Vitton by Takashi Murakami bears resemblance to Murakami’s Superflat First Love, and uses similar motives. It is a yet higher level of the mixture of the worlds of psychedelia, consumerism and magic.
Sailor Moon
27 JunSailor Moon is one of the super-successful Japanese anime series of the 90′s (It also has a whole franchise of manga, merchandise and other stuff). It demonstrates the popular genre of “Magical girl warrior”, in which girl warriors release their magical or psychic powers through transformation sequences that mostly include magic rituals like… changing clothes.
Yes, you heard that right. In this genre (That has already spread out of Japan), controlling supernatural magic is done by changing to the the right outfit. It’s hard to understand what is the idea behind this. Does it try to convey a commercial message? Or does it symbolize an inner mental transformation, like in “Synchronization” in Neon Genesis Evangelion (Another famed anime series from the 90′s)?
It’s only purpose is probably to look cool in the eyes of the girls that form the show’s audience. But as long as it is presented with psychedelic-like visuals of glowing colors and surreal images, it satisfies me! If you are looking for more clips like these, Youtube is just loaded with them.
Boredoms – Vision Creation Newsun
11 JunA beautiful psychedelic video by Japanese hard rock band Boredoms.
The Incredible Story of ToastGirl
2 MayToastgirl is a Japanese performance artist, who began her career after one day, out of boredom, she decided to toast a piece of bread while holding a toaster on her head.
The rest is history. On her debut performance in Melbourne, Toastgirl made a toast on her head, while her friend’s band played. This was a sensation and she became widely known as toast-girl and has a strong following among young women inJapan (I’m not making any of this up. I swear!).
PS. I think I’m in lve.
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Toshio Matsumoto – White Hole (1979)
22 AprToshio Matsumoto (Born 1932) is a Japanese film director best known for his film “Funeral Parade of Roses” which influenced Kubrick’s “A Clockwork Orange”.
“While Hole” has an extremely similar aesthetic style to that of the final scenes of Kubrick’s “2001, a space oddessey“, that came out in the exact same year (1969), and with which so many hippies were tripping at the time.
Matsumoto has created some other pretty psychedelic experimental films over the years. His “White Hole” from 1979 has pretty some amazing visuals, even without taking into consideration that it was done more than 30 years ago. The film has a beautiful flow which makes for a benign trip, whereas Matsumoto’s “Phantom” contains what seems to be the most psychedelic yoga lesson ever as well as other beautiful and bizzare visuals.
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Nippon Kazauwa
18 AprThis guy doesn’t even look Japanese but he will definitely raise your adrenaline levels. ”Nippon Kazauwa” is a sort of freaky homage to Japanese freakiness, which was freaky enough itself – and it comes in the form of a new beverage which makes people crazy!
(Link: Tom Orgad. Thanks!)
Japanese pop-punk-psychedelia
4 AprIn the video “for common people” Japanese group Eel delivers Japanese pop-punk-psychedelia, kawaii puppets, splashing colors all around.
(Link: STM. Thanks!)
