Cyberpunk 101 Lecture by Whiskey!

We're back at it with the lecture specials, check out Whiskey's class on the story of Cyberpunk 2077 going up until the new expansion. Check it out wherever you listen to our podcast, or, for the full experience, check out the YouTube video:

KINGDOM HEARTS 101 LECTURE BY ONION

 In case you didn't know, we're back and better than ever for Season 2!!! For our 5th episode of the season, we've prepared a special lecture on the lore of Kingdom Hearts. Check it out wherever you listen to our podcast, or, for the full experience, check out the YouTube video:

Episode 9 Artists

These are some abridged notes from what Cream used when reviewing the artists for Episode 9, including links to all of the artists mentioned. Check them all out!

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Fragile Girls -

Spotify

Taiwanese, generally chill, mix of electronic and jazzy?/rocky? instrumentation.

尋找尼歐 EP - Released on 4/20
Atmospheric, groovy dance beats, nice and chill

一些難過的時候可以聽的流行歌曲 (Some Pop Songs to Listen to When You're Sad) (2017 Album)
Chill, relaxing, but head-bopping groove - sorta like electronic lofi. Track 6 got that good reverb-heavy atmosphere, track 4 has an atmosphere that's just gorgeous ~2 minutes in, intro is a little out of place but groovy, track 2 is maybe least favorite first time around but is growing on me (a couple of mixing choices I don't like).

去吧!少女時代 EP (2017) and 大不了就讓我呼吸都會痛 EP (2019), both good, I like all of the songs.

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IGUBand (那我懂你意思了) -

Spotify

Taiwanese, Same main singer as Fragile Girls (IGUBand is their previous project).

沒有人在乎你在乎的事 (Album from 2014)
Overall - can be a little vanilla at times, but good. Vanilla is, in fact, a flavor, and is a better flavor than chocolate. Main singer has good voice - voice is powerful. I enjoyed all the songs

Some of my favorite songs:
1/INTRO - atmospheric start, fun! rock! cool synths!
3 - interesting textures w/ electric piano & bass, cool arpeggio synths
4 - cool synths, fun song
6 (Yes I'm in Love) - catchy, nice minimal composition (few instruments/parts), cheesy key change but its fun
7 - good synth, groovy, dance-able, very prominent Spanish? influence - can't remember genre name right now, chorus reminds me of muse
9 - very good groovy drum beat during verses, nice atmospheric chord sound, very cool transition sounds
12 (OUTRO) - nice little EP part & electric guitar part
13/Hidden track - has a good ending chorus


原諒我不明白你的悲傷 (Album from 2013)
Interesting intro - gets you into an atmosphere, don't hear it too often in albums I tend to listen to - not "musical" necessarily, all foley, 1st song has a cool terarria-like synth, 5th song good, final song good.

They have a song on the 2011 StreetVoice 冬季選集 album that's pretty good (doesn't appear to be on 2011 album based on name).

I haven't listened to 2011 album yet, maybe another time.

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宋冬野 (Dongye Song)

安和桥北 (2013) -

Spotify

Chinese folk album - mostly lovely, calming songs. A nice mix between wonderful little calming pieces and a couple more fun up-beat songs/songs where you can clearly tell they're having fun.

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Gigantic Roar -

Spotify

Ain't Got Nothing But Time (2016 Album)
fun! funky! rock-pop! a jam! Just fun to listen to. CAPTAIN TSAI IS A JAM!

1st Demo (2013 Demo Single)

Mixing is quite rough but still fun and I don't mind the rough mix so much for the first song - would probably be exhausting to listen to for a long time though

2014 EP
also fun

2nd Demo (2015 Demo Single)

Mixing is also meh - less impactful kind of rough than 1st demo - can listen to for long periods

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NOMA

Spotify

Bandcamp (NOMA's 1st Album)

ARE YOU READY? Y? Y? Y? Y? Y? Y? Y? Y? Y? Y? Y? Y? Y? Y? Y?

Let the bass kick
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Space Cake

Only mentioned in passing, but good music. Funky, groovy, and jazz-influenced

- Cream

First episodes out tomorrow!

That's right! Our trailer and first five episodes are going to be releasing tomorrow at 11 AM on various podcasting platforms. Check it out here:

https://anchor.fm/sour-cream-and-onion

If you're somehow reading this before the episodes have actually released, check out the trailer which is already up on YouTube!

If that still isn't enough for you, we already have an hour-and-a-half-long discussion and reaction to the PS5 reveal event from a little while back, also up on YouTube.

Hope you enjoy the podcast!

- Cream

Sour, Cream, and Onion

Hello?

Hello? Is this thing on?

Ummm....

We're just three guys

Who couldn't improvise

With the script before

Their very eyes.

- Cream