Another masterpiece of japanese psychedelic pop by Kyary Pamyu Pamyu.
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New Tokyo Ondo
25 NovBeautiful and mind-bending animation!
Check it out! You’ll be delighted.
Here is the homepage.
[thank you, Arjan!]
Acid Mothers Temple
11 NovTonight I will have to choose between seeing legendary ecstatic noise hippies Acid Mothers Temple live here in cologne or visiting the philharmonic hall for a concert in memoriam H. W. Henze, the radical composer who died just a few weeks ago.
Somebody got a working time machine, maybe?
Update: Hey time machine people, I don’t know how you did it, but you are awesome! I saw both (while everywhere else in cologne the beginning of the carnival season was raging)!
Livetune feat. Hatsune Miku – Tell Your World
27 OctA psychedelic music clip from vocaloid Hatsune Miku.
(Link: 6dmind. Thanks!)
Christopher Willits – “Saturn”: Nobuko Hori
15 OctJapanese anime-like psychedelic images with dreamy electronic-noise landscapes of music.
(Link: Shakti. Thanks!)
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.
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