Listen to music in languages you don't understand.

Curtis73 (Forum Supporter) said:

yupididit said:

I listen to a lot of Jazz from Japan. It's pretty good. 

You should try their scotch.

I need to try some Japanese scotch someday.

The problem is I really really like islays so I usually just end up buying more islays lol

In reply to Antihero (Forum Supporter) :

They are not allowed to call it scotch. 

Wish I could find the article, but there was a Japanese man who went to Scotland to study Scotch and work with the distillers, and brought this knowledge home with him, and his legally-not-Scotch whiskey is considered to be some of the best in the world.

But Scotch trademarking.... there was a funny (for us, not them) story about a distiller in Nova Scotia who got in legal trouble, and I'll let the FARK headline say it all:

"Scottish Association sues distillery in the Supreme Court of Canada for using the word 'glen'. Distillery located in a glen, in the town of Glenville, in the province of New Scotland...Scotch tape to be next"

jharry3 said:

Here is my favorite,  in Latin:  Carl Orff - O Fortuna ~ Carmina Burana - YouTube

YES! I've performed this multiple times. Fantastic music.

Beer Baron said:

...and now I need to go listen to Maori metal.

Yeah you do...
 

Antihero (Forum Supporter) said:

Curtis73 (Forum Supporter) said:

yupididit said:

I listen to a lot of Jazz from Japan. It's pretty good. 

You should try their scotch.

I need to try some Japanese scotch someday.

The problem is I really really like islays so I usually just end up buying more islays lol

As pointed out, it's whisky or malt whisky. Scotch is specifically from Scotland.

If you like Islay whisky, you're unlikely to find much from Japan that will especially interest you. Their whiskies tend to be more delicate and complex. Very rarely will they be peated.

I recommend Nikka from the Barrel. Kaiyo also has a peated whisky. I have the Kairo cask strength, and it's quite lovely, but much more delicate than any of my Islays.

India also has some fantastic malt whiskies. They tend to have more overt flavors than Japanese, and you're more likely to find them peated. Amrut Fusion is nicely peated - more than Highland Park, less than a typical Islay. Paul John Classic is a better bourbon than any bourbon I've tried (and I've sampled it back to back with Pappy).

Oddly with supply chain weirdness, exchange rates (Brexit?), and general trends, Scotch whisky is less expensive now than the Japanese or Indian whiskies. Lagavulin 15 has gone from $115 to $85 around here.

Edit: For common nomenclature "Single Malt" means an all-malt whisky from a single distillery. "Blended Malt" means an all-malt whisky from multiple distilleries (could still come from a single distilling company, if they have multiple distilleries like Nikka). "Blended Whisky" means it is a blend of malt whisky and grain spirits (basically vodka or moonshine).

Pete. (l33t FS) said:

In reply to Antihero (Forum Supporter) :

Wish I could find the article, but there was a Japanese man who went to Scotland to study Scotch and work with the distillers, and brought this knowledge home with him, and his legally-not-Scotch whiskey is considered to be some of the best in the world.

Masataka Taketsuru. Established Suntory distillery. Had creative differences with his boss who insisted the Japanese consumer wanted lighter whiskies, not the heavy Scottish style. After a decade, he left and founded his own distilling company: Nikka.

I am very disappointed that Nikka discontinued what had been my moderate price drink-a-day whisky, Taketsuru Pure Malt, and replaced it with either an inferior or more expensive offering. :-/

Edit: So... yeah... I do distilling now as well as brewing now.

Don't try Quebecois music.  It's universally bad.

What do you have against René Simard?

Beer Baron said:

Antihero (Forum Supporter) said:

Curtis73 (Forum Supporter) said:

yupididit said:

I listen to a lot of Jazz from Japan. It's pretty good. 

You should try their scotch.

I need to try some Japanese scotch someday.

The problem is I really really like islays so I usually just end up buying more islays lol

As pointed out, it's whisky or malt whisky. Scotch is specifically from Scotland.

If you like Islay whisky, you're unlikely to find much from Japan that will especially interest you. Their whiskies tend to be more delicate and complex. Very rarely will they be peated.

I recommend Nikka from the Barrel. Kaiyo also has a peated whisky. I have the Kairo cask strength, and it's quite lovely, but much more delicate than any of my Islays.

India also has some fantastic malt whiskies. They tend to have more overt flavors than Japanese, and you're more likely to find them peated. Amrut Fusion is nicely peated - more than Highland Park, less than a typical Islay. Paul John Classic is a better bourbon than any bourbon I've tried (and I've sampled it back to back with Pappy).

Oddly with supply chain weirdness, exchange rates (Brexit?), and general trends, Scotch whisky is less expensive now than the Japanese or Indian whiskies. Lagavulin 15 has gone from $115 to $85 around here.

Edit: For common nomenclature "Single Malt" means an all-malt whisky from a single distillery. "Blended Malt" means an all-malt whisky from multiple distilleries (could still come from a single distilling company, if they have multiple distilleries like Nikka). "Blended Whisky" means it is a blend of malt whisky and grain spirits (basically vodka or moonshine).

I should have added air quotes around the scotch bit, "scotch".

Scotch prices are staying the same here, lagavulin 16 is still $95. It used to be $65 before the tarrifs but even with the tarrifs ending it's stayed the same price

Antihero (Forum Supporter) said:

Curtis73 (Forum Supporter) said:

yupididit said:

I listen to a lot of Jazz from Japan. It's pretty good. 

You should try their scotch.

I need to try some Japanese scotch someday.

The problem is I really really like islays so I usually just end up buying more islays lol

Start with this one.  Approachable, smooth, great flavor.

Indian Hip Hop has some amazing stuff.

Edit: I'm going to resurrect an old Whiskey thread to move all this talk of Japanese whiskies to.

In reply to Beer Baron :

Please do!

Streetwiseguy said:

Don't try Quebecois music.  It's universally bad.

Tabarnak!

I listen to vatevar Sprockets tells me to:

Okay, so I have my iPad playing on shuffle and it just popped out Kraftwerk (per Sprockets), some French rap on one of Guru's Jazzmatazz albums and then Emma Shapplin, a French singer singing in 17th century Italian.

I think I'm covered.

Floating Doc (Forum Supporter) said:

jharry3 said:

Here is my favorite,  in Latin:  Carl Orff - O Fortuna ~ Carmina Burana - YouTube

YES! I've performed this multiple times. Fantastic music.

This is a genre I like to call "apocalyptic choral music" :)  Itaipu by Philip Glass and the soundtrack to The Mission both fall within it.

yupididit said:

I listen to a lot of Jazz from Japan. It's pretty good. 

This. 

Ryusenkei and Yogee new Waves are the two that come to mind. Mondo Grosso is another Japanese outfit but are more house/pop house. 

If you're a music theory and language nerd, Japanese Jazz phrase structure can differ from American Jazz phrase structure because the spoken language sentence structure differs. Pretty interesting to think about. 

Doesn't count for me, but relevant to the thread:
 

hunter47 said:

yupididit said:

I listen to a lot of Jazz from Japan. It's pretty good. 

This. 

Ryusenkei and Yogee new Waves are the two that come to mind. Mondo Grosso is another Japanese outfit but are more house/pop house. 

If you're a music theory and language nerd, Japanese Jazz phrase structure can differ from American Jazz phrase structure because the spoken language sentence structure differs. Pretty interesting to think about. 

I pretty recently discovered Casiopea. No Japanese singing, just awesomely fun jazz fusion. The stuff that served as the template for lots of video game music.

Do you want to go for a drive and be happy? Do you want to envision driving off into an 8-bit or 16-bit neon sunset?

Appleseed said:

Rammstein

 

My son had a CD of them way back in the late 90's. His mother was worried that he was listening to devil music and she confiscated it. We later found out that it wasn't and that it was his friend's that he had borrowed. Sorry son.

It is hard to not be productive in the garage while listening to Korpiklaani.

They also covered this song, which I assume is meant to be a Finnish tongue-twister.

I have been a fan of Mina Harker for a long time now.  German goth is very different.

I feel like The Mars Volta should count, because while only half of it is in Spanish, the half that is in English is not really saying anything intelligible. I mean you can understand the words, but they don't make any sense. 
So good though. It's been a staple of mine going on 15 years now. 
 

"English":

Spanish (mostly):