SOUL'd OUT

SOUL'd OUT is a one-of-a-kind band, and also one-of-the-best as far as I'm concerned. Hailing from the Land of the Rising Sun, which is a fancy way to say Japan, their eccentric musical style is a fusion of hip-hop and disco. The group consists of Diggy-MO', the main MC and the one in the middle of that picture there, Bro. Hi, the MC, human beat box and the one on the left, and Shinnosuke, the trackmaster and the one on the right. In many songs Diggy-MO' has a voice unlike any other I have ever heard, a sort of nasal chorus. Bro. Hi is truly a human beat box, once in a while making sounds I couldn't even begin to attempt to immitate. Shinnosuke never says anything but has the loudest and most impressive voice of all through the music itself. Most of SOUL'd OUT's lyrics are in Japanese, with a few bits here and there in English. For me this enhances the music even further, as the sound of the Japanese language is very pleasing to my ears, probably a result of having lived in that country in the days of my early youth. But then again, I enjoy the sound of the Hungarian language far more, and I only went there for about six days.

Anyway, a few of my favorite SOUL'd OUT songs:

• Dream Drive
• To All Tha Dreamers
• 1,000,000 MONSTERS ATTACK
• ALIVE ~Wall5 Remix~
• Love Peace & Soul
• Flyte Time
• Master's Groove
• Diggy Diggy Diggy
• Wekapipo
• Magenta Magenta

I first found out about SOUL'd OUT from the TV show “Yakitate!! Japan”, a cartoon about bread and one of the best shows to ever exist. One of the end credits tracks for the second season was this crazy thumping disco hip-hop sort of song with a CGI rendering of one of the main characters dancing on a pedestal. That song was “To All Tha Dreamers”, and thus SOUL'd OUT was discovered. “To All Tha Dreamers” is an epic song with absolutely fabulous string, brass, and piano, colored whitish-green, a blossoming purple-pink, and pale blue respectively, all accompanying the energetic vocals. It also has a higher percentage of English lyrics than most SOUL'd OUT tracks. Although the song is about five minutes long, it feels much longer yet doesn't get tiring because of its many sections with quite varied styles and feelings. A veritable smörgåsbord of rhythm and sound that fills the listener with an unexplainable sense of energy and goodness in the world, “To All Tha Dreamers” is a truly legendary song and strongly represents the sound of SOUL'd OUT.

You can listen to “To All Tha Dreamers” here.

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