Music Elixir
Eavesdrop on a conversation between two friends about their favorite Asian artists and music and how music is their tonic of life.
Music Elixir
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Ever wondered how a drama about four sisters can keep you glued to your screen all weekend? Meet "Asura" on Netflix, where family secrets and personal challenges intertwine to create an irresistibly binge-worthy experience. We kick things off by exploring this captivating Japanese series and its intricate storyline, perfect for those cozy days indoors.
After our brief intro it's on to some music with Ae! group's latest release, "Hello," a harmonious blend of acoustic and orchestral sounds that may just be the new soundtrack to your life. We also checked out the latest from Awich called Frontiers, a heavy mix of classical, rap, and a little something extra.
But that’s not all— remember the infectious beats of V6? We reminisce about the group after checking out the senpai subunit 20th Century, and their disco inspired LADY, LADY, LADY. Finally, we shift our focus to the electrifying world of musical collaborations, diving into the explosive synergy between Bloodywood and BABYMETAL that’s setting the metal world on fire. This vibrant mix of Hindi, English, and Japanese lyrics, coupled with intense drumming, is a thrilling experience you won’t want to miss. Tune in for a colorful episode packed with drama, laughter, and incredible music discoveries!
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Welcome everybody to another episode of Music Elixir with me, sarah and Ms.
Speaker 2DJ.
Speaker 1Panic. Now it's Ms DJ Panic, not just DJ Panic, not Ms Panic, ms DJ Panic.
Speaker 2Ms DJ Panic. All right, I don't know. With me it's different. I gotta keep everybody on their toes, make sure they're listening.
Speaker 1See, like you oh my goodness, silliness abounds. We were untangling wires and, yeah, trying to get ourselves organized, so we're already in a silly mood. Yeah, did you have caffeine? Yes, I did, but that was a few hours ago, so we're already in a silly mood.
Speaker 2Yes, did you have caffeine? Yes, I did. Okay, but that was a few hours ago. Oh yeah, definitely.
Speaker 1Okay, me too. Bright and early.
Speaker 2Start my day. So when Sarah arrived, I was telling her that I'd been watching this Japanese drama called Asura A-S-U-R-A Asura and it's based. It's based on four sisters, so I gave a bit of the premise to Sarah. Quick rundown yeah, synopsis. And I was like you guys need to watch it. It's awesome, it's on netflix and uh, I know, I know I like keep saying you're on netflix, you know they're not paying me, but you know, one day maybe they'll pay me but I came upon it and I'm like they're like, oh, something that you might like.
Speaker 2And I'm like, okay, let's see, because sometimes they put something that you're like, nah, this is not for me. But this one I was like oh yeah, this is for me. So just to give everybody a little bit of a rundown, it's these four sisters. Now the second youngest had a suspicion about their dad cheating on their mom, so she got him investigated. So that's the whole thing started there, because, also this, each sister have their own little thing going on.
Speaker 2now, little backstory going, yeah, yeah but uh, second youngest sister, she is very straight edge. You know like, oh my god, cheating is bad and it's having sex before marriage is bad. You know they're very, yeah, straight age. You know she doesn't like to go off the custom or like anyway, that's just just to start you there. So you please check it out if you have the time. It's a good if you have a whole weekend that you just want to stay home, that will be one to watch like a snowy weekend where you have to stay in anyways, right, yeah?
Speaker 2exactly like in your england, then when you have like uh, cabin fever, it's like you can't get out because it's so cold or this is just bad weather, which we had yesterday and um, so it's like, yeah, let me just see what's going on. And that was one of them. That's a good one, excellent. I also saw the the fluffy special. Uh, gabrielle iglesias comedian mexican comedian. I love him. I've been following him for like maybe 10 years now oh, okay yeah, he's been his.
Speaker 2So he did a special and it was for his 27th anniversary as being in comedy. Wow, 27 years.
Speaker 1I was like, wow, that's crazy I'm pretty sure I have heard of heard of him, but and I've probably seen little bits and pieces, but not, you know, like watching a whole thing. I love his comedy love his comedy, so that's another thing on on netflix?
Speaker 2yeah, you can find him on netflix, but um, let's date stamp this. Today is january 12th. We're gonna talk about some new releases that came out on the week right.
Speaker 1Yeah, you know the friday they drop a bunch of new stuff. Some of it's not necessarily new, though I've noticed. I'm like what is this? You know they someone put out a best of album, so they throw some of the music on there. You're like, okay, so it's not really new, but it's just been released or re-released, so one that is left and is from starto, which we did actually review their debut tour.
Speaker 2Yes, we did. It's a group, so we're going to listen and talk about a group's hello, all right. Uh, it's for their actually coming album called dna. Cool, yeah, so that's, this will be our first one of the year.
Speaker 1All right, starting with a group's hello, here we go starting with a little light acoustic guitar and then, wow, full-on. Uh, strings, orchestra sound here, but it's got the little driving beat behind it there is a video for this, which I have not seen yet.
Speaker 2Okay, but we just wanted to listen to the song before looking at it. Always a good idea.
Speaker 1So it's picked up some good harmony there. It's an interesting blending of the like drive and rock and roll and the symphony going on it's very drama like yeah a song, that it's a comeback, that is not for a drama.
Speaker 2And what's with the? Maybe they will, hopefully, because that's what it's gearing for. Voice harmonies are on point. Yeah, I like that. Who arranged this? I will, I don't know, because it sounds very same-ish.
Speaker 1The voices are amazing so the song's called Hello, but they were saying sayonara to something. Yeah, there's some odd sounds going on in the background. Yeah, they're like clicking sounds. Yeah, and there was something that sounded like snow tumbling off the rooftop, you know when stuff starts melting and it rumbles down. I heard that earlier, but now there's, yeah, like someone's playing with dominoes or something.
Speaker 1That's a it's a very weird like a clattering sound like it should not be in the song well, I guess I'm only catching sort of words here and there, so I don't know what they're talking about. So it could have something to do with the song. I mean, they've got a really good energy going, yeah, and definitely has that drama, epic sound to it, right, drama, anime. And then it ends with that same acoustic guitar, gently, or I'm assuming this is the end of the song? Yeah, because it's winding down it winds down.
Speaker 2Well, their voices, wow are amazing boys did an amazing job vocalizing that arrangement. Who composed the music? Uh, it sounds very similar to other stardust songs. I was hoping something different. As for a music arrangement. The boys that were on point. The boys did what they needed to do for the arrangement. My only pet peeve is like, as a comeback, I wish it could have been more of a band that the boys composed and actually wrote as a band that they are the explosive.
Speaker 1You wanted the explosive comeback.
Speaker 2I wanted that rock and roll kansai yeah this just sounded like your run-of-the-mill drama music that I'm not criticizing the boys here, I'm criticizing the composed music. Gotcha that, it was just similar. I wish they could have done different for the boys this I'm sure when the album drops there's gonna be a b-side.
Speaker 2Then I'm gonna be like, yes, this should have been the comeback, not that hello which is most of the time happens. You know, I want it to be positive. This is the positive side of me. The boys did amazing. This is that's what I wanted to hear. Oh my god, those they were really hitting them.
Speaker 1Notes yeah, I was gonna say the yes. Those harmonies and those high notes which just, yeah, blow your mind, oh, yeah, love love, love the boys, love the boys, love the boys.
Speaker 2Whoever composed the music, that was not the musical choice I would have gone for.
Speaker 1Well, no, I was thinking because we saw their live performance, which, of course, is always different. There's always a much higher energy when you're talking about something live and performance, like energy when you're talking about something live and performance. So sort of my full introduction to them was this live show, right? So when you, yeah, when you listen to pre-recorded stuff, you know I didn't have any of their albums or anything, so, yeah, you sort of notice the difference, but we'll see, because they got a whole whole new album coming right.
Speaker 2Yeah there's an album coming out in february I will tell you exactly the date uh, the drop cd. You can see this actual uh video on their youtube channel. Cool, their cd is actually coming out on february 18th. They'll come up next month. So yeah, let's see. Of course, we won't be able to listen to the city unless somebody is able to send this to us, because, of course, a group is not on streaming platforms. Right, anyways, with that being said, kudos to the guys. They did an amazing job with their vocals.
Speaker 2Their vocals were on point. They were amazing. Whoever got that music? I don't know, it was dated. I'm sorry. No, I'm not sorry it was dated. I was hoping something more explosive for the guys. I don't sorry it was dated. I was hoping on something more explosive for the guys.
Speaker 1I don't know DJ Panic's brutal honesty.
Speaker 2It's like why are you playing dirty to the boys? I hate that. Anyways, you know this is the international thought of mine here. I'm sure in Japan it's's different, because you know I don't see these boys coming out of japan anytime soon well, it depends, in my opinion.
Speaker 1Well, they need some time to build up their you know, fan base and repertoire so that they can start performing they're playing dirty on my kansai boys.
Speaker 2so yeah, anyways, let's see what other song we should talk about. Good question, what else came playing dirty on my Kansai boys? So yeah, anyways, let's see what other song we should talk about.
Speaker 1Good question. What else came out on the release radar? How about?
Speaker 2A Witch. She actually dropped this on January 5th. Sure, it's been a while since she dropped something. So this is just a single. So here we go A Witch Frontiers. So this is just a single um.
Speaker 1so here we go a witch frontiers it's a very haunting beginning when you have a chanting.
Speaker 2Wow, you know, sometimes people drag the chanting and whatever.
Speaker 1Yeah, just went right through it, oh my god like dropped, and then it's got a very Carmina Burana. Oh God, she gives me chills I love her and actually so they did pick up the chanting again, but it works very well. In the background Right there's somebody in the background going. Yeah, it is very like this is another sort of epic classical music inspiration in the background, but all this like super techno going on God she's in your face with this Very raw. Show me what you want to be right.
Speaker 2Yeah, we're the frontiers. Oh that silence.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 2Like let me tell you you right, and it's like yo yo, yes, this would be impressive live. Oh my God, Look at this rap right here, this rap, rap. This is just so fast, queendom, yeah, if you don't shut it up, then it's rhythm.
Speaker 1Show me rhythm. What you want to be, yeah, oh, yeah, this year. What you want to be? Oh, listen to this. The crescendo, that whole build up.
Speaker 2What.
Speaker 1Yo, listen to this, the crescendo, that whole build up. What Yo, that ending, what Everything, yes, stops in just her, and it's just her acapella, just like oh my God. Wow, yes girl Woman.
Speaker 2What that was awesome.
Speaker 1She. It was so like Like I said, it made me think of Carmina Biorana. You know, Bomp, bump, bump.
Speaker 2It was so intense. Yes, queen, come on. Awesome Definitely, queendom, definitely.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 2Oh my God, yes, love, I got chills in some parts. I'm like what?
Speaker 1Yeah, no, that was definitely intense.
Speaker 2Wow.
Speaker 1It's something you could play at work. Everybody be like what's going on in that office.
Speaker 2Don't come into this room. You're going to get my wrath, definitely.
Speaker 1It's like keep away oh my god, that was amazing, wow oh love jeez.
Speaker 2Yes, yes, yes. No ballady bs I know right. Starting the new year right yes, she's like oh, in your face, I know. Hopefully she's working on an album and of course she. She wrote and composed as well this song with somebody else. Um, shaki zulu, shaki zulu. Yeah, oh, my goodness, wow, lover, yes that was yes, yes, definitely okay what am I gonna find? Now too, I know right.
Speaker 1What do we follow that up with right?
Speaker 2oh man, okay, let's see. All right. So we're gonna be listening to 20th century lady, lady.
Speaker 1Uh, if you don't know, 20th century's part of startle yeah, they're the older members of v6, so v6 used to be three older guys, three younger guys. They're sort of all over the place now because miyaki, kenla I mean all all the younger guys left already yeah, they were like so we're gonna talk to the.
Speaker 2I'll talk about the senpais, correct? All right, so here we go.
Speaker 1Oh yeah, it's got a good like funky disco beat going on oh yeah yeah, I like the build-up of this song. They're sounding like the younger guys here, right oh the dreamy part.
Speaker 2Oh, it's all the echo right yeah and his voice, voice, oh my god hey I like this lady, lady, lady here we go.
Speaker 1Okay, I like this chorus lady, lady, listen to that guitar right oh, there's somebody out there going off. Oh, I like this, this guitarist yeah, geez, it's definitely got his groove going on yeah, oh yeah, oh, here goes the guitarist oh yeah, going off what, and it's a basic guitar.
Speaker 2It's not screechy, though, yeah no it's, definitely it's dude like oh, oh yeah, sexy, wow, oh, my god, I love the voice got some dreamy vocals going on there lady, lady, lady. Oh yes, definitely grooving to this song, definitely something about the moonlight.
Speaker 1I'll be with you I'll be with you, sis, I'll be with you, okay, yeah, oh, wow, love, yeah yeah, well, I'm wondering because, although they're still like sort of active, they're listed actively on the starto, like the last couple of things they did were early 2024, and I don't know if this was one of them. Okay, okay, but it's awesome. Oh my god, yeah, it's so good yes, well, and again, you know that's the older guys from v6.
Speaker 2I'm all for that. Yes, yes and yes. Are they all married Probably Well in my head they're not. Wow, love, geez, oh, my God, lady, lady, yes, yes, I'm here for you, absolutely. We'll love to see this live.
Speaker 1I know I wonder what they, how they uh performed it. Oh yes, that's crazy.
Speaker 2Oh my god, loving that.
Speaker 1Wow, thank you, senpai, that was awesome I know right well, we're so used to just the like v6 the group. Yeah, you know that and I think I probably never would have really realized the different subunits anyways, because you know I liked all of their group stuff right honey beat yes honey beat. That was awesome yes, they had one. Oh, oh, my god, I can't remember now, but it all was very latin, suave and sexy sounding song. Oh God, I don't even remember how long ago. That was oh damn.
Speaker 2Okay.
Speaker 1It was a while ago, okay.
Speaker 2So do you have another song that you might want to listen and talk about? Well, there were just so many. There were a lot that came out like late december but they kind of ballady too yeah, there's a lot of slower stuff.
Speaker 1The new release radar was all about.
Speaker 2You know the feeling smooth and slow, and it's not even valentine's day yet.
Speaker 1I know right, you'd think new year people would be like kabow, but I didn't hear a whole lot of you know right up tempo stuff yeah and it's not that we have to do up tempo, but I'm just trying to see what else, what else could we find?
Speaker 2all right, let's get a rocking song like rock rock, so bloody wood and baby metal did a collaboration, and then what? The song is a big half. So or Beghaf, Okay.
Speaker 2Let's, you know, hopefully I'm saying that correct, but it's spelled B-E-K-H-A-U-F, so you know both groups are just rocking. So let's see this out. And when this song came out, let me see, I want to say probably like late in December, december, yeah, actually, no, it was on december 6th, oh early, and I just saw that. All right, so let's play that one out and then, uh, we're gonna take a break because miss, miss sarah over here is tummy rumbling snacky time yes, soon.
Speaker 2All right, so here we go bloody wood and, uh, baby metal whoa, oh wow, a drummer. I know that's insane yes, oh my god listen to that I know, geez, yeah, I'm all metal. What happened? I don't know. Here we go, the contrast between the vocals yes, because you got Bloody Wood being like I know, with her voice that is so like this rocket, I don't know Rocket, angelic voice.
Speaker 1I don't know yeah.
Speaker 2Damn.
Speaker 1Yeah, oh, wow, that's an interesting transition, I know.
Speaker 2The girls doing this like electronic voice. God, this is awesome. I like it. Yes, oh my.
Speaker 1God, wow, that drummer is sick, that drummer, I give him kudos, jeez.
Speaker 2Yeah, oh, this is when you mush, getting that circle, jesus, yeah bake off.
Speaker 1It's like back off yeah that's right.
Speaker 2So, even though it's back off, it's like it's totally what this song sounds like too. It's like you're yeah, oh, wow oh my god that ending.
Speaker 1Oh my god, that was like just headbanging energy the whole way through. Yes, holy moly, that was wild.
Speaker 2That was awesome. Oh my God, another one that got me chills. Everybody's vocals were on point. They were just like, ah, so raw, and like in your face you have the Indian, the Hindi, then the English, and then you got the girls singing Japanese and it's like wow, what a mish. Talk about bilingual, let's try trilingual. Going on in there. It's like wow, what a mish. What talk about bilingual? Let's try trilingual. Going on in there.
Speaker 1It's like wow love and the, but the two like the totally raw metal sound versus this sort of more industrialized, like metal sound. Yeah, that's just crazy, because those guys they're just animal on. You know what I mean? Yes, and then the girls like, right, we're metal. Hey, hey, hey but they brought it too? Oh yeah, they were. No, it was level two.
Speaker 2Like it was an awesome mix.
Speaker 1Yes blending of the two types of sound. Holy moly, yeah, it's wow. The minute it started I was like blown away, right, whoa. Well, it was just this wall of sound. Yeah, boom, boom. Oh, my god, that was awesome. Highly recommend. Yes, if you're feeling a little like you know you need to burn off some energy Exactly, put that on If you need to get your angst.
Speaker 2Exactly, get some angst out of your system. Check this out, please, you know, listen to it, scream it out loud. Oh, and guess what? They're touring Japan. Oh, really, maybe that's why they did this. Yes, may 6th, 7th and 8th they're going to be in Japan.
Speaker 1Bloody Wood is.
Speaker 2Bloody Wood. Yeah, okay, they're going to Osaka, nagoya and Tokyo. Oh, all right, nice, nice, nice. Are they coming to the us? This is one that we should actually see them. They're going to europe and england. I don't know if there's any us tour yet, but I think they did a while ago. But uh, oh, my goodness yes, that was just.
Speaker 2Oh, man, I just want to go, I just want to go to japan just to see if the, if the girls are going to be singing this song with the guys. Just to see if they do that, you know. Wow, because that will be amazing, amazing. I don't think I see anything like that. I'm in their global site oh, to see what they're. Yeah, see what they're up to yeah no, they have a documentary called raj against the machine.
Speaker 1That sounds awesome which is the journey of bloody wood, which is that's cool that's awesome. Yeah, it looks like they're only gonna be like denmark, norway, sweden, germany, belgium austria switzerland, france, they'll be in france. That's insane though.
Speaker 2Wow, oh my god. I heard some things about france and I'm like do I really want to go to france? From people that have gone to france, I'm like I still want to just go see the touristy parts.
Speaker 1You know, oh, they will be in. Oh, they're gonna be at the o2 forum in london.
Speaker 2Wow, okay, wow, that's awesome, but wow, yeah, check this out, this awesome awesome explosive song that is just getting you in like yeah yeah, I'm my head banging over here.
Speaker 1When I was listening, I'm like yeah, yeah well, you can't help it. It's just like no, no, no, no, no brought me back to my marching days.
Speaker 2I'm like, yeah, you can never get the metal out of the girls. It can look different I still got the metal in me come on, looks is different, but when you, when I just start listening to something like this, good, oh, my god, it's just like it gets in you, gets in your bones when you get a move, oh, yeah, absolutely, oh, love, wow, anyways. Okay, girl, let's end it like that yeah, sounds good, sounds good.
Speaker 1Wow, that was like some totally different sound and music. Yeah, all the way, all those. What Four songs?
Speaker 2Yes, yeah, we give you the poppy. We give you some hip hop with a witch. Oh my God, we got the classic disco funk with 20th century.
Speaker 1Yeah, and then the in your face metal. Yes, yes, bloody wood with baby metal, india and japan in all one song.
Speaker 2A was yes, yes, yes and then we went from a group which I'm hoping it was more of a rock band. But hey, maybe what? Maybe in it, and when the album comes out there will be a song in there. They'll be like, yes, this is what I wanted.
Speaker 1Well, that happens a lot. You know with all artists that a lot of times what, what gets chosen, is the, the lead single. I'm like, well, it's good. And then you listen to the whole album. You're like, where was this song exactly? So it can happen. It can happen all right.
Speaker 2Well, we, I found me. If we're able to receive, you know, the album, hey, we'll check it out yes definitely all right. So thank you everybody for listening to this music episode for of musical lecture.
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Speaker 2Yes which now you can see, like they can hear the difference from like when we started till now. We like to keep those episodes so you can hear our evolvedness. Is that a word? Evolve, evolution there you go. Evolution of music elixir. We know we already now eight, five years old. Well, four, four we've just turned just four we're going into our fifth year yes, oh my god, we're going on our fifth year I know what we have done a lot I know we have we have done some exclusive, we have interviews, you know.
Speaker 2Yeah, this is awesome then just our general, you know, craziness exactly you know, if we just started, I just still still think that we still newbies, because we get to find out and learn new things every time. And okay, we got to go because Sarah's tummy is like I am done with this. Talk, shut up and let's go eat something.
Speaker 1Breakfast was a while ago.
Speaker 2All right, so until next time. Bye-bye, johnny Johnny Jacob Jacob Jacob, jacob, jacob Jacob no.
Speaker 1Jacob, what, what are you saying? No, wake up, wake up, oh, wake up, wake up, gotcha. Gotcha Bow the bass, oh Bow, jacob, jacob Bow.
Speaker 2Yeah, definitely that's what was going on there, even the baby.