Debut SAIKOPOD album!!!!!

[Guest ken]

just checked the koxbox website and was pleasantly surprised to see details of the debut Saikopod album (at long last!). out in april/may on Solstice Music (Japan)

[tbe]

Yes ! what a good news !

and Solstice is a label releasing very interesting stuff !!

[Guest auryn]

it's a shame it's on solstice, they never print any vinyl. :-((((((

[Guest spacemonkey - 604]

saikopod album!!!! weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeh!

 

that is good news!

[Basilisk]

ditto what auryn said.. solstice, what's wrong with you people?!

[Guest Deep Kick]

???????

 

I have a saikopod album which was released a few years ago......

dont know the title now thou......

if i go back home by airplane 13 hours, i know the title and tracklists.

[Guest Hujaboy]

Its somthing between an album and an ep it has only seven trax was released on TIP

[Guest tj]

Headlines EP

[Guest tj]

And it was called PSYCHOPOD back then and it carried the warning "Dangerous to the apathetic mind, rumours of death by astonishment have been reported". indeed.

[Guest kingdok]

A tracklist would be nice. I'd like to know if they're going to include all the material previously released on various recent compilations, or all-new stuff. I'm hoping for the latter.

[Guest russ]

the headline EP was truly astonishing. i am sure this one will be fantastic, but it's going to sound very different. (unfortunately for me.) the new saikopod project is more aimed at clubland, even though the incredible production will still give it a psychedelic edge.

[Guest [tom jaimz]]

Personally I see a lot of difference between the Psychopod and Saikopod projects. Saikopod are more funkier, clubier. The original promos of the last Koxbox album ['Great Unknown'] were originally under the Saikopod name.

 

 

And Solstice probably don't release vinyl simply because they're based out of Japan, and Japan, being a more technologically advanced nation, have no doubt long since rejected the inferior vinyl medium for DJing.

 

[Guest russ]

and there's no coincidence that they changed names from psychopod to saikopod. the old tracks as psychopod were truly psycho--they used to send people up trees a few years back. incredibly mental stuff. by far and away the most powerful set i have ever seen (nothing has been even remotely close) was koxbox/psychopod/franke for five hours three years ago in the mountains of japan. totally did my head in, in the best possible way. so psychologically intense. their sound was crafted prinarily in psychological, and not musical, terms. unfortunately frank and ion abandoned that sound and went for "Saikopod." "saiko" is a japanese word whose characters literally mean "most high." i tend to associate it with e-chomping gurners who like to shout at me "saiko!" with big silly grins on their faces when i am in the middle of a deep trip. most disturbing, in the worst possible way. i personally feel the huge commercial Solstice parties koxbox has played in japan over the years probably played something of a part in the transformation of their sound from psychologically-intense to crowd-friendly. to be honest, it's kind of depressing for me. those two guys are the most talented fuckers in the world, and now they are wasting that talent on club music. it's still utterly fantastic stuff, but nothing compared to headlines or dragon tales, or more importantly, to what they could be doing with their new production skills and toys.