5/2/21 New Noize 92.9 KJEE Santa Barbara's Modern Rock

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1. Flying Lotus "Pain and Blood" Warp
2. Alessandro Cortini "LO SPECCHIO" Mute
3. Leon Vynehall "Snakeskin 8 Has-Been" Ninja Tune
4. Mykki Blanco feat. Jamila Woods and Jay Cue "Love Me" Transgressive
5. YUNGMORPHEUS & Eyedress "Candyman" lex
6. mui zyu "pour a brain" Father/Daughter
7. black midi "Slow" Rough Trade
8. Audrey Nuna "Space" Arista
9. CHVRCHES "He Said She Said" AWAL
10. CHAI PING "PONG" Sub Pop
11. Lucinda Chua "Until I Fall" 4AD
12. Dawn Richard "Mornin | Streetlights" Merge
13. Squirrel Flower "I'll Go Running" Polyvinyl
14. quickly, quickly "Feel" Ghostly

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15. Kero Kero Bonito "Well Rested" Polyvinyl
16. Crumb "Retreat"
17. Girl In Red "Serotonin" AWAL
18. Toth "Guitars Are Better Than Synthesizers for Writing Through Hard Times" Northern
19. WILLOW (feat. Travis Barker) "t r a n s p a r e n t s o u l" Roc Nation
20. Sueco (feat. Travis Barker) "SOS"Atlantic
21. Pom Pom Squad "Head Cheerleader"
22. Half Moon Run "On and On" City Slang
23. Piroshka "Scratching at the Lid" Bella Union
24. Devora "Body Bag" Tiger Tone
25. Good Morning "Mollyduker" Polyvinyl
26. M.A.G.S. "Choked Out" Elliott Douglas
27. Big Mother Gig feat Leah Wellbaum "The Underdog" Sweet Sweet
28. TEKE::TEKE "Barbara" Kill Rock Stars
29. The Murlocs "Francesca" ATO

New Noize is coming at you as it always does. This week's New Noize combined 2 of my favorite things, new music and anime. Yasuke is a real life historical figure who turned into legend and story has just become popular in the last 2 decades. If you know anything about Samurai culture you already know that to become Samurai you must, MUST be Japanese. So how did a black man become a Samurai? This history is crazy and you should research it...Oh you thought I was gonna tell you??? Nope, do the knowledge yourself and attain wisdom.

I will however get into Flying Lotus and his interpretation of this legendary symbol. Let's just get the obvious out the way, the OST and musical score is my favorite of 2021 so far. Flying Lotus Yasuke record cover to cover is one of the best electronic records of 2021. He also produced this anime and did a few sequences. This anime SHINES with its main character and how many tropes it DOES NOT use. For example, darker anime characters and ESPECIALLY BLACK & BROWN anime characters all start off being weak or needing some sort of assistance. Yasuke put this trop on it's side when you see his origin story and how he just son's a samurai using his bare fists. This also directly speaks to racism that was prevalent back in Japan and still is today. Racism, classism and sexsim are front and center themes that most anime's wouldn't dare tread but Yasuke is not your run of the mill samurai anime. Some people had an issue with the art direction, I did not but the storyline gets a bit loose during the last 2 episodes (a total of 6 episodes) but overall the anime is fantastic & if you're reading this I implore you to check out Yasuke on Netflix and bang Yasuke OST HARD in whatever soundsystem you are using.

Song of the week is a tie!!!

The glorious cacophony of "Well Rested" by Kero Kero Bonito is 7+ minutes of song that keeps building and building until your inner eye starts to weep tears of joy (but no pan flute was used). CHAI's "PING PONG" is a deep dive of chiptune heavy goodness that any gamer or adjacent gamer would enjoy.

Check out the rest of the playlist and let me know what you think