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First heard ITCOTCK a few years ago, just after they put their discography on streaming, ofc loved it, as you would expect, and like many others do, thought nothing of the second half of moonchild. The first section was pretty good, but the second confused the hell out of me.

That was 7 years ago. Since then my attitude towards the song has remained pretty much the same - cool start, boring end.

Last night I fell asleep with the album on repeat, woke up around 5.30 in the morning with, guess what?! moonchild playing! Didn't go back to sleep, but sat by the open window, little soft gusts of morning air blowing in, grey sky for once, and the spaciousness of moonchild. It was so surreal but beautiful, especially learning about the first bit of rain in a long time!

Brilliant song, now wishing they'd made more like moonchild and providence

Been obsessed with the memphis blues again at the moment and I can't stop grooving to it. It's got such a lovely drive to it, but I've only heard 3 albums (for now). Any more songs like this?

At the end of the song "pause" by stereolab, there is this beautiful, broken, out of control, semi distorted guitar melody, and I was wondering if anyone had any tips to create a similar sound and produce similar effects?

one of my all time favs

that out of control, beautiful feedbacky noise is something ive been looking for for a while but am struggling,

all my google searches are coming up with bands frequently recommended to ween fans in general (butthole surfers etc) what are some artists that are like the song but it's their whole schtick?

Preferably lengthy ones for me to sink myself into

Hello everyone, I recently started reading the wide up bird chronicle for the first time and I discovered a combination which heightened my Murakami experience tenfold.

Often when I read, I like to listen to music and have certain artists paired with certain authors, all instrumental e.g. Tim Hecker and Dostoevsky is phenomenal. My normal pairing with Murakami is Thelonious Monk, but I recently put on the band "fishmans", which levelled up the experience.

They are Japanese, with many of the songs being totally in Japanese, which is good as a non-Japanese speaker, as I am not distracted by any lyrics. The sound is genuinely perfect for Murakami, it's this weird, dreamy, surreal atmosphere combined with a gentle, longing melancholy. Perfect.

Wanted share this to help expand the experience for other people, as well as see if anyone else had any similar artists that are a good pair with Murakami, thank you for reading :)

edit: was gonna give some suggestions, but forgot, then pressed send, here they are:

ナイトクルージング (aka night cruising)

long season (this is really good, also an amazing live version)

pokka pokka

IN THE FLIGHT (live version is good)