albums lost to the dunes of time

Oh boy, Right now I'm dealing with some things right now and I'm gonna declare another hiatus-thing. I'll start posting around early November and I'll come back at December where (hopefully) I'll post weekly. Anyway, onto the review thingy:

THE DOPEMAN SHOW is a label showcase of what Otherman records has to offer. The art is cute. I like it. The album cover feels like what I'm gonna listen to. The album is fine itself. I like the minimalism of some the songs and I like how some of the songs are like their own little worlds. Why am I talking about this album?

The album is not on youtube.

Discogs is a cool website for the documentation of music albums. The problem is when I find an album I really want to hear that isn't even accessible on the internet.

Some are accessed through a paywall.

Some are just lost media.

Speaking of lost media, there's this label called XROGER that is a label dedicated to hardcore and Experimental music. 

I really like this label's music. It's just gabber with personality. I like it. The label is also pretty ahead of their time with the album covers. This cover was made in 1998 and the loli in this cover looks like something you'd see in a 2014 era anime.

 Japanese nerdcore is seriously something... doujin circles are also made for music. I already have been talking about IOSYS which is a label dedicated to Touhou music and hardcore. Can't believe the people who provide the album covers and the information about each of them don't post any of the music online. This stuff is so rare too. If you want to experience these albums you must've had to go to a store in japan in 1998, know what album you're getting into, and kept that album in good condition. Pretty ironic that a web-based music label doesn't have much of their work on the internet. The only stuff I could find was a mix that FOXYUN(an artist from the label) did on mixcloud. 

But that is all just D-tier obscurity...

Doujin circles are groups that make music independently and like everything, they all have time limits... 

Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you Noki-room!

Noki-room was a doujin circle that started around the early 2000s and disbanded around 2002-ish. How do I know? Just using the wayback machine. The thing is that the links got scarce and led me to nothing. So I did what any normal person does and did a google search. Here's what it got me:

These images are all taken from some japanese shopping websites. These images are just a select few btw. The website has a discography button... let's see where it takes us:

Their last album known album release... Let's go to one of the albums and see what happens when I download it...

Ok... what if I run it through the VLC player?

Starfleet.ac? That's weird. What if I put that through the Wayback machine?

Oh, I'm guessing this Starfleet is a distributor-type thing? This just led me to nothing. I guess that was the end of my trip. This is seriously lost media. Man, I hate that lost media can be incredibly specific...

Overall kids, ARCHIVE YOUR MEDIA OR ELSE PEOPLE WOULDN'T HAVE TO GO THROUGH HARD AND TEDIOUS SEARCHES TO FIND A TRASH COPY OF A DRAGONBALL Z DUB.

GOODBYE!

Links to the albums mentioned:

THE DOPEMAN SHOW

Cycheouts - メガ道楽専用

Mamiana - Nearest Jungle

XROGER-STAR FOURTH

The website I was talking about

the discography button