>>Seaside
Voice
Dreamer high-res image
I have just submitted the distribution request for "Seaside Voice
Dreamer," the first single from the upgraded version of Anime Hop. I
expect it will be available on various music streaming platforms around
tomorrow or the day after.In the upgraded version, the original eight
tracks from the first Anime Hop have been newly mixed and feature
additional arrangements. Furthermore, I will be adding five new songs,
and these will be released sequentially, approximately one track per
month, like a serialized manga. I actually wanted to release all the
tracks today, but I decided to take the time to complete them to
enhance the quality of the music.Last year, I released the original
Anime Hop without any prior explanation of its change in musical
direction. I’m truly sorry for the confusion and disappointment that
caused for longtime Xinlisupreme listeners. This project was born from
many stories—one of them involving a Korean fan of Xinlisupreme, and
another about Vocaloid rap, which I talked about in my most recent
interview. For the upgraded version of Anime Hop, I will update my
social media and official website about twice a month, sharing my
thoughts on the new tracks of Anime Hop and anime until the project is
complete."Seaside Noise Dreamer" is a remake of Seaside Voice Guitar,
and also the version of Seaside Anime Hopper from last year without the
rap part. Seaside Voice Guitar was born from the desire, after
releasing my debut album, to put all the time and ideas it would take
to make one full album into a single song — to create one supreme
track. For that reason, I left FatCat and spent four years trying to
make it the supreme song.Five years ago, I set out with the goal of
surpassing that track, spending three years creating Seaside Noise
Dreamer. However, during the process, I realized that my creativity had
reached its limits with that sound. And that's when Anime Hop was
born.So as the prologue to the Anime Hop story—and the final track to
carry the name “Seaside”—please listen to “Seaside Noise Dreamer.”Let
the story begin.
** The upgraded version of Anime Hop will be a "playlist album,"
compiling all the singles into playlists on platforms like Spotify. It
will not be released as a single, cohesive album again. There will be
various single cover artworks for the 13 tracks, so please choose your
favorite cover artwork to use for the playlist album cover. The initial
version of Anime Hop will be removed after some time. In my first post
and interview about Anime Hop, Xinlisupreme’s third full-length album,
I spoke about the bullying I experienced after releasing my debut
Tomorrow Never Comes, and about the discontinuation issues around my
second album I Am Not Shinzo Abe. Because of this, there’s a risk of
retaliation from those involved.As I also mentioned in my latest
interview, Anime Hop employs many innovative methods that differ from
the already innovative music of Xinlisupreme, so I anticipate it may
also become a target for conservative music fans. I have already
received threatening messages on Stories from Japanese accounts.
Consequently, I will not be distributing the upgraded Anime Hop on
music platforms such as Bandcamp, which do not allow specifying
distribution regions. This is a necessary precaution for Xinlisupreme's
safety and to successfully release all tracks of the upgraded Anime Hop
without omitting any. Additionally, Anime Hop may face censorship,
similar to what happened with "I Am Not Shinzo Abe," so the music
distribution method may change during the process. Thank you for your
understanding in advance regarding any inconvenience.
Interview w/ Xinlisupreme
By Nick Caceres
Published 12/24/2024
>>Anime
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To a kind Korean Xinisupreme fan
After releasing my debut album, I was bullied by local musicians in my
area. Although my debut album wasn't a big hit, it was highly praised
by the most hardcore music listeners around the world, so the local
musicians became jealous and targeted me for bullying. The people
around them turned a blind eye to their bullying of me. So, I stopped
performing in public. Later, when I confessed about this at a certain
place at a certain time, a Korean Xinisupreme fan bravely encouraged me
with a comment in Japanese, even though the musicians who were bullying
me might have been watching.
When I was a child, there was an anime theme song that I often sang
while walking home from school, and it had lyrics like this: "Ah, but
if the love is not there in your heart, Then, you sure ain't no
superhero."
It is neither love nor great for the strong to bully the weak as a
group. To me, you are the superhero in that anime theme song. So, I
thought I would repay you with music that carries the same message as
those lyrics I loved as a child, and I created seven hip-hop
tracks. Additionally, seven rappers belonging to the most bullied
races and those of low status in history, such as witches, aliens,
loners, psychics, no curves, enhanced humans, and devils, each rapped
on these seven hip-hop tracks. The last track on the album
is a remake of the only love song I ever created, "Seaside Voice
Guitar." I couldn't make it in time for this spring, but if you like,
please listen to it next spring.
Thank you for trying to save me from being bullied.
한 명의 친절한 한국 xinisupreme 팬에게
나는 데뷔 앨범을 발매한 후, 내가 살고 있는 지역의 음악가들에게 괴롭힘을 당했습니다. 내 데뷔 앨범은 대히트는 아니었지만, 전
세계에서 가장 하드코어한 음악 청취자들로부터 높은 평가를 받았기 때문에, 지역 음악가들은 나에게 질투를 느끼고 괴롭힘의 대상으로
삼았습니다. 주변 사람들은 그들의 괴롭힘을 보고도 모른 척 했습니다. 그래서 나는 사람들 앞에 나서는 것을
그만두었습니다. 그
후 어느 자리에서 이 사실을 털어놓았을 때, 저를 괴롭히던 뮤지션들이 지켜보고 있을지도 모르는 상황에서 한 한국인
Xinlisupreme 팬이 용감하게도 일본어로 댓글을 달아 격려해 주었습니다.
제가 어렸을 때 학교에서 돌아오는 길에 자주 부르던 애니메이션 주제가가 있었는데, 그 노래에는 이런 가사가 있었습니다. "아,
하지만 마음속에 사랑이 없다면, 당신은 확실히 슈퍼히어로가 아닙니다."
강자가 집단으로 약자를 괴롭히는 것은 위대함도 사랑도 아니다. 나에게 너는 그 애니메이션 주제가에 나오는 슈퍼히어로야. 그래서
나는 어렸을 때 좋아했던 그 노래의 가사와 같은 메시지를 담은 음악으로 당신에게 보답하고 싶어서 7개의 힙합 트랙을
만들었습니다. 그 후, 그리고 마녀, 외계인, 에스라인 아닌 사람, 초능력자, 외로운 사람, 강화 인간, 악마 등
역사상 가장
괴롭힘을 당한 인종과 신분이 낮은 사람들에 속하는 7명의 래퍼들이 그 7개의 힙합 트랙 위에서 각각 랩을 했습니다. 그리고
앨범의 마지막 곡은 제가 만든 유일한 러브송인 Seaside Voice Guitar를 리메이크한 곡입니다. 올해 봄에는 맞추지
못했지만, 내년 봄에 괜찮다면 들어주세요.
나를 괴롭힘에서 구해주셔서 감사합니다.
>>I
Am Not Shinzo Abe high-res image
Two years ago, Japanese record label canceled the production of
Xinlisupreme`s works and terminated the contract with Xinlisupreme
because Xinlisupreme created a protest song 'I Am Not Shinzo Abe' to
criticize Shinzo Abe, a prime minister of Japan. It has now become a
taboo in Japan to criticize Shinzo Abe in music and other creative
activities. In 2015, Southern All Stars, a popular band in Japan, was
made to apologize for publically ridiculing him on TV. Also in
2016, there were fierce repercussions on the internet against the
appearance of Aki Okuda, a leader of SEALDs, a student group to protest
against Shinzo Abe, in the Fuji Rock, the biggest music festival in
Japan. Even the phrase 'Do not politicize music' became a top trend on
Japan's twitter. We all have the right to freedom of expression when
criticizing Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, an extreme right-wing politician
who allows discrimination, social gaps and nuclear power plants.
With this Album, Xinlisupreme want to criticize Shinzo Abe and also
change the atmosphere of the Japanese society which does not allow
music to become political. Xinlisupreme hope is that this album will
stimulate a discussion for the change.
>>Tomorrow
Never Comes high-res image
Short Story "The Xinli Incident" by Andrew Weatherall
(Liner Note of Tomorrow Never Comes)
The detective in the passenger seat, with a single self-assured action,
flashed his warrant card and asked directions. "Twenty-third floor
sir... Out of the lift and turn left - you can't miss it... Terrible
mess and not very pretty at all, I can tell you..." With that the
barrier lifted and the car headed toward the executive parking area of
I.D.M. Industries. The lift made a silent journey to the 23rd floor,
and on exiting and turning left, the two detectives immediately saw the
reasons for their being there. The scene of the crime lay trough an
open doorway emitting occasional puffs of smoke and wafts of shimmering
vapour. Reaching into the pockets of their elegant yet provocatively
conservative black coats the two men pulled out state-of-the-art gas
masks, and donning them walked across the corridor. Standing just
inside the room, on the only patch of floor not covered in broken
machinery or bubbling liquid, Her Majesty's finest surveyed the scene.
What was once a hyper-sterile working environment had been
turned into a mass of shredded wires, smashed samplers, smouldering
laptops and shattered zip-discs. The laboratory once used to
manufacture electronic music for earnest sixth-formers around the world
was now a digital funeral pyre. "I've not see anything like this since
the Prog-Rock studio trashings of '76", said detective number one, the
words turning metallic as they made their way trough the gas mask's
filter. "Let's leave it to forensics", replied number two as they both
backed slowly out of the room, pulling the door shut behind them. As it
clicked shut had anybody been left inside they would have seen the back
of the door reveal, in still dripping painted letters, the words...
'XINLI SUPREME'
