Episode 17: Anamanaguchi

“Prom Night”

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In addition to guitars, drums, and bass, the band Anamanaguchi makes their music with the 8-bit sounds that were built into Nintendo video game consoles made in the 1980s. They use software called a tracker to meticulously sequence and produce those sounds. Most of their music is instrumental, but in this episode, they break down one of the first times they’ve incorporated vocals, for the song Prom Night, which features singer Bianca Raquel. Prom Night is from their most recent album, Endless Fantasy, which debuted at #1 on Billboard’s Heatseekers chart when it came out in 2013.

Buy “Prom Night” on iTunes, or get the album on vinyl.

For a transcript of this episode, click here.

footnotes
The song by Capsule is “I Wish You,” from the album Player.