Boom Boom Satellites - Full of Elevating Pleasures (24 March 2005)
Boom Boom Satellites is one of those bands for whom I probably don’t need to write some long introduction. The duo of Masayuki Nakano and Michiyuki Kawashima have been performing and releasing music for twenty-four years now. During that time they’ve had multiple songs used for anime openings and endings, tie-ins with films, everything of that nature. In fact, if you saw the 2004 film Appleseed then you heard part of this album. Full of Elevating Pleasures would not hit shelves until eleven months later but its genesis was well establish one year prior. The music is primarily big-beat electronica, but with impressive doses of rock and jazz. Boom Boom Satellites is an eclectic group and it would be a futile attempt on my part to try and shoe-horn them into every genre in which they explore. So instead I’ll simply put it this way: it’s an album meant to be played loudly enough to piss off your neighbors, heh.
If you like Boom Boom Satellites then let me know and I’ll be happy to hunt through my CD collection for the others. I own six of their eight studio albums. This just happened to be the album I came across this morning and I wanted to upload something before leaving home for the day, so I didn’t want to spend the time searching today.