Info
- Artist:: Sonic Coaster Pop
- Album:: SUPER MIRACLE CIRCUIT
- Year:: 2004
- Label:: Usagi-Chang Records
- Catalog:: USG-007
Track Ratings
| # | Title | Rating |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Spiral Neo Wave | ★★ |
| 2 | SOCOPOGOGO | ★★★★ |
| 3 | Super Speed Pop★Star | ★★ |
| 4 | Smash!! Flash!! Splash!! | ★ |
| 5 | Swinging Circuit | ★★ |
| 6 | Summer In The Pool | ★★★★ |
| 7 | Shooting-★ | ★★★★ |
| 8 | SOCOPOGOGO (Go Go EGG Mix) Remixed By Plus-Tech Squeeze Box | ★★★ |
Log
2024-06-25
★ spiral neo wave is a nice transition into
★★★ socopogogo!!
★★ super speed pop★star is nice too… is this the sound i love?
★★ swinging circuit. i’m melting…
★★ summer in the pool. when people are making music, why don’t they all make it good?
★★ shooting-★
★ and the plus-tech remix is pretty good too~
this really feels like the culmination of an aesthetic i’ve been chasing for decades…
is this going to be my new obsession?
can this be the spark i try to capture?
2024-08-06
★★★ summer in the pool and shooting-★. there’s something… idyllic here. is it ok to say that about music?
like when summer in the pool’s chorus transitions immediately into her chanting change my life summer end throughout the rest of the chorus and then through the hook too… who would even make that sort of decision?! but i’m glad they did, because i never want to leave…
and the only reason socopogogo isn’t a 4★ here is because usagi-chang superstar cuts it better. but either way, it’s such a compact lightning bolt of a song.
2025-05-18
listened to this as a triple feature last night, alongside Plus-Tech Squeeze Box - CARTOOOM! (2004) and NAMCO - ゼノサーガ フリークス - 予約特典CD (2004)…
i can’t remember if i had listened to this on my good setup yet, but it really felt miraculous?
but socopogogo was so dense! it had so many layers of pretty beeps beneath it! it felt like i was truly entering a world…
the layering starts to thin out later on, yet when it comes to summer in the pool i think that’s a good thing. the mood shifts to one of attending a concert in this world.
and then the dream ends, as we only wish to hold onto it for longer…
Notes
“Summer in the Pool” originally by cyclon86 and can be found on Harmony Hatch and cyclon86 – Split Album (1999).
review on paralogue future
paralogue: Recent Albums – Mon Nov 18, 2024 7:53 pm
“The future? Oh, that happened 20 years ago… don’t you remember?”
ever since i listened to usagi-chang superstar i’ve been poring through everyone that got a release on the short-lived label, and while i could go on about my feelings for all these albums and the artists who made them, i’ve become more than a bit fixated on this lovely picopop jewel, composed and produced by the creator of the label himself.
i’ve always adored the album format for how it can transcend simply being a collection of songs into being an experience in its own right, and suzuki akira absolutely gets this too, from the packaging to the flow between tracks. it’s such a lightning bolt from start to finish, taking you by the hand and then dragging you along at 220 beats per minute without looking back.
it’s so weird to think of this style as probably retrofuturistic by now, because to my y2k brain this is my future. but hey, i’ve always been a believer in “the future” as a demarcated imaginative space that one can always return to (fun, aesthetic, inextricably intertwined with the era of its birth) more than the consequence of time continuously ticking along (undefined). and i want this future to be mine. i want to stay in this place forever, glittery and sparkly and bondi blue translucent.
so, definitely a 5.0 if i ever come back to rym.
i wonder if i should…
i have plenty more 2s to inflict on the charts…