2012 Open World Music Dance Party

As with last year, this year Open World Music is having a dance party in my newly renovated dance hall - "The Geyer Palladium" (aka my family room).  A new sound system is installed.  New lighting has been turned on.  All we need now is a playlist.

Well, here it is:

1)  Blumio (Germany): Intro
2)  Carly Rae Jespen vs. PSY (USA/South Korea):  Call Me Gangnam
3)  Fettes Brot (Germany):  Kontrolle
4)  Irie Révoltés (Germany):  Explosion
5)  Malik Adouane (Algeria):  Get Up I Feel Like Being a Sex Machine
6)  Boris Grebenschikov and Aquarium (Russia):  Shumelka
7)  Scandal (Japan):  Shojo S
8)  2NE1 (South Korea):  I Am the Best
9)  Marteria, Yasha, and Miss Platnum (Germany):  Feuer
10)  Dendemann (Germany):  Stumpf ist Tumpf 3.0
11)  Paula (Germany):  C'est comme ça
12)  Rachid Taha (Algeria):  Rock the Casbah
13)  Laing (Germany):  Neue Liebe
14)  Culcha Candela (Germany):  Schöne Neue Welt
15)  Nosliw (Germany):  Heiss und laut
16)  Mexican Institute of Sound (Mexico):  Yo Diga Baila
17)  Seeed (Germany):  Seeeds Haus
18)  Plastilina Mosh (Mexico):  Naranjada

This playlist has been test marketed by my 7 year old daughter, and she gives it two enthusiastic thumbs up.  I hope you enjoy it too!

Merry Christmas from Open World Music!!!!

Music Video: Scandal - Shoujo S

I get depressed when I watch too many "musicians" who are all image and good looks, and who are never actually seen in the same room with an actual musical instrument.  Watching popular music from around the world, as well as from the United States, I have been depressed an awful lot lately.

But then I returned to one of my musical standbys, Japan, and my faith in music was restored - at least for today.  The Japanese band Scandal has been around since 2006, and they have had an impressive impact not only in Japan, but beyond Japanese shores as well.  Partially through their providing songs for the popular anime programs Bleach and Fullmetal Alchemist, and partially through worldwide touring, Scandal has developed quite a following in the United States and Europe.  Through their song Shoujo S from their first major label album "Best Scandal", we see Scandal at their indie rock best.  Already, this song has been covered by fans around the world in languages as diverse as Italian and English.  Don't let the rather tired and overwrought cliche of the schoolgirl outfits dissuade you, Scandal can rock out with the best of them.