March 2014 Media Thread

ArisKatsaris

This is the monthly thread for posting media of various types that you've found that you enjoy. Post what you're reading, listening to, watching, and your opinion of it. Post recommendations to blogs. Post whatever media you feel like discussing! To see previous recommendations, check out the older threads.

Rules:

Please avoid downvoting recommendations just because you don't personally like the recommended material; remember that liking is a two-place word. If you can point out a specific flaw in a person's recommendation, consider posting a comment to that effect.
If you want to post something that (you know) has been recommended before, but have another recommendation to add, please link to the original, so that the reader has both recommendations.
Please use the comment trees for genres. There is a meta thread for comments about future threads.
If you think there should be a thread for a particular genre of media, please post it to the Other Media thread for now, and add a poll to the Meta thread asking if it should be a thread every month.

Rules:

Please avoid downvoting recommendations just because you don't personally like the recommended material; remember that liking is a two-place word. If you can point out a specific flaw in a person's recommendation, consider posting a comment to that effect.
If you want to post something that (you know) has been recommended before, but have another recommendation to add, please link to the original, so that the reader has both recommendations.
Please use the comment trees for genres. There is a meta thread for comments about future threads.
If you think there should be a thread for a particular genre of media, please post it to the Other Media thread for now, and add a poll to the Meta thread asking if it should be a thread every month.

I am doing a Youtube playlist of transhumanist songs (with a particular quote from each song). Since there's not a lot of these, I also put songs that are only somewhat transhumanist (frankly I'm shocked at the ratio of transhumanist songs to love songs). So do you have suggestions for songs that are somewhat related to transhumanism (and/or rationality) (not necessarily in English) please?

For example, here are the ones that I have put in the playlist so far:

Turn It Around by Tim McMorris

Have you ever looked outside and didn’t like what you see
Or am I t

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1[anonymous]12y

East Asian metal. Esthete Sinistre - The best metal band I've heard -- it's too bad they've only ever recorded one track. Ego Fall - folk metal from Inner Mongolia. (see also) Kanashimi - Japanese depressive black metal. With a piano. Pyha - Korean black metal. Pyha is mostly known for The Haunted House, which the guy apparently recorded when he was 14, but he has another album, Majbulnol-i, which deserves at least as much recognition, and which I'd call 'blues metal' if that didn't sound ridiculous. Tengger Cavalry - Mongolian folk metal. The Nine Treasures - More Mongolian folk metal. There's also Altan Urag, a Mongolian folk rock band, not to be confused with the Irish folk band Altan. (The word 'altan' means 'stream' in Irish Gaelic and 'golden' in Mongolian.)

1gwern12y

Touhou: * "真生未分の一心" (spctrm; Duende {C80}) [orchestral/folk] * "eureka" (hiro.na; eureka {C77}) [folk/inst rock] * "avatar" (綾倉盟; eureka {C77}) [instrumental/electronic] * "a field of clouds" (hiro.na; eureka {C77}) [instrumental] * "Dreaming Tonight" feat. Renko (Kirin; Starlight {C85}) [trance] * "Floral Colors" feat. 陽花 (Tim Vegas; Nothing but Flowers {C80}) [Jpop/trance] Doujin: * "The Moonstone" (pluginpsyche; wait for multiple memories {C84}) [instrumental] * "Before My Life Ends" (pluginpsyche; wait for multiple memories {C84}) [instrumental] * "聖餐唱曲およびレチタティーヴォ (Eucharist Cantata and Recitative)" (綾野えいり; 蓋然性進化論Ⅱ 2013) [classical vocal] * "或る吟遊詩人の憧憬" (霜月はるか; canoueII～最果ての塔～ 2013) [classical vocal] * "Look up in the Sky" feat. mow*2 (P*Light; HARDCORE UNITED TOKYO {C84}) [hardcore] * "TOKONATSU" (P*light; SUPER SONIC !! {C84}) [hardcore] * "Bring the Sun" (fang; Driven' De:st-ructure3 {C84}) [hardcore] * "Walking" (fang; Driven' De:st-ructure3 {C84}) [hardcore] * "Rhythm Of Love" feat. Yuki (M-Project; Blood, Sweat & Makina {C84}) [techno] * "Are You Ready (DJ SHIMAMURA Remix)" feat. Yukacco (kors k; HARDCORE UNITED TOKYO {C84}) [hardcore] Vocaloid: * "Inverse Relation" (Miku; Clean Tears; Reverberations {C84}) [trance] * "Reverberations" (Miku; Clean Tears; Reverberations {C84}) [trance] * "こどものしくみ" (Miku; by 鹿乃; 或る街の白昼夢 {C85}) [Jpop] * "パンデミックの掃除" (Rin; かがみね★ふぇすた 2013) [JPop] * "mugs" (古川本舗 & 630; Alice in wonderword) [rock] * "Alice" (Meiko; Alice in wonderword) [Jpop?] * "ピアノ・レッスン" (野宮真貴 with Baguettes Ensemble; Alice in wonderword) [jazz] Misc: * "Pulstar" (Vangelis; Albedo 0.39) [electronic] * "Heaven & Hell, Pt. 1" (Vangelis; The Music of Cosmos) [classical]