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Learning Songs Using the SRS: My Current Method

March 24, 2010
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Just by way of sharing concrete tactics (rather than, I guess, the abstract strategy I usually share (?)), I thought I’d write about how I learn songs using the SRS. Keep in mind that this is just what I do right now. Yes, I am the Great Khatzumoto, but you know what? Really I’m just a 27-year-old boy who...

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Japanese Bands: The List 2

April 20, 2008
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You didn’t think one blog post could cover all your Japanese music needs, did you? Yeah, neither did I. So here I am, after a lot of diligent searching and listening, bringing you more info on Japanese music. Yay! Wise This gentleman appears to have debuted last year with great flow, positive lyrics and fun music videos (Rip...

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Japanese Bands: The List

April 28, 2007
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Last year, before the good folk at the third-rate hosting company I was using went and deleted this site (oh, I’m not bitter), there was a rather detailed and well-researched article there about music. Anyway, after coming back online, I made some vague promises about posting band-by-band articles on Japanese music. Unfortunately, I kept hemming, hawing and stumbling about...

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Japanese Music Info

November 24, 2006
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If you want to read about Japanese bands in Japanese, you won’t go wrong with Listen.jp, with its well-written profiles and links to similar bands in the “if you like X, you’ll love Y” fashion; the perfect cool for finding out about musicians you’ve never heard of but that are in styles you like.

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Rip Slyme

November 24, 2006
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Rip Slyme are in a class of their own, with a jazz-inspired sound that has evolved into something that is both entirely hip-hop and entirely unique, feauturing fast tempo, good beats and great rhymes from the MCs who range from the boisterous ragga-style of Ryo-Z to the smooth bass Su, and everything between. They started young (when they got...

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The Best Japanese Bands

November 24, 2006
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OK, so, as part of the “regenerating content” strategy of this website, I’ve been writing a quick introduction to Japanese bands (the good ones), similar to the one that used to be up here. Unfortunately (or fortunately?) it’s getting pretty durn long. So, it seemed like the best thing to do, as always when a problem gets large, was...

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