Started out as a side to #iheartjrock with music with explicit language and content, now it’s just turned into an over flow of more #requests ! more #jrock #jpop #80s #goth #industrial just an hour or less. Filled with music to move to.
Welcome back to #SakuraUnderground. This podcast was recorded at the Valley Free Radio studios on April 20th 2024.
DJ Silent got into his time machine and went back in time to the week of 4/20/1987! The DJs did a full countdown like back in the day!
The request first, then we dove into the retro machine. Playlist is below.
We also visited Oricon charts for April 1987. These pop songs from Japan are so cute. Plus new Number_I was requested, also a great song, but kind of short.
Welcome back to #SakuraUnderground. This was recorded at the Valley Free Radio studios on April 13th. We played some Lamb Of God, and Jesus and Mary Chains, one was a request. Also DJ Sakura666 added a Beck song from long ago, and some #jpop requests! Thanks for the requests. Please enjoy this #SakuraUnderground!
#SakuraUnderground surprise some Depeche Mode and other MUTE bands!
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Welcome back to another #SakuraUnderground. This was recorded at the Valley Free Radio studios in Northampton MA on March 31st. DJ Silent celebrate great MUTE artist and DJ Sakura666 even selected some. There was a request, and also new live from Diamanda Galas. Going to leave the playlist below. Hope you enjoy!
#SakuraUnderground DIJ and VU and some music from JAPAN!
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Welcome back to another #SAKURAUNDERGROUND this was recorded on March 24th. The DJs took a break but returned to the Valley Free Radio studios to record a new show!
We play a wide selection of music, this one is proof! Have you heard of these bands? Playlist is below. Also thanks for the request!
SakuraUnderground HBD Gary Numan / The Downward Spiral + Music from Japan!!
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Welcome back to another SakuraUnderground. This was recorded at the Valley Free Radio studios on March 10th 2024.
We celebrated Gary Numan’s birthday and also played some tracks off The Downward Spiral to rock too and DJ Sakura666 ended the night was some jrock. There was a request for Ministry too! Enjoy!
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Welcome back to #SakuraUnderground! This was recorded in the Valley Free Radio studios March 3rd 2024.
Playlist below.
There was a guest in the studio! Ryan was sitting in on #IHEARTJROCK the week before and came back to be on SU the next week. He has a show on VFR on Tuesdays 7PM EST. It’s an hour of local punk, emo, ska, and hardcore and also discussions of upcoming events of the genre.
This week we celebrate The Downward Spiral, Peter Christopherson, and Jaz Coleman!
Nine Inch Nails “The Downward Spiral” turned 30! Released in 1994 the anthem for the sad angry youths of the day. We wore black, fishnets, our hair was black, black make up. We wore combat boots too. It was a legendary album. This was also a request for this week!!
Visual Art/Music accomplishments Peter Christopherson has achieved. He was born Feb 27 1955! Sadly passed quietly on Nov 11 2010 in Bangkok Thailand RIP
Designed iconic album covers for bands like Pink Floyd (Wish You Were Here) and Peter Gabriel (first three albums) as part of Hipgnosis design group [Hipgnosis album covers].
Directed a significant number of music videos for artists like Rage Against the Machine, The The, and Van Halen.
Co-founded the influential industrial band Throbbing Gristle.
Co-founded Psychic TV with Geoffrey Rushton (aka John Balance).
Formed the experimental music group Coil (with John Balance) known for its genre-bending sound.
Composed and produced music for Coil and his solo project The Threshold HouseBoys Choir.
Remixed tracks for artists like Nine Inch Nails.
JAZ Coleman Feb 26 1960. Real name Jeremy Coleman.
Fronted the influential post-punk band Killing Joke, known for their dark and experimental sound. Their music has influenced countless bands like Nirvana, Foo Fighters, and Nine Inch Nails.
Recognized for his powerful and unique raspy vocals that add intensity to Killing Joke’s music.
Known for his philosophical and intellectual pursuits, evident in Killing Joke’s lyrics and his public persona.
Composed orchestral and classical pieces in addition to his work with Killing Joke.
Ending the night are a few requests for some jpop songs. Thanks for the requests! Thanks for tuning into this week’s #SakuraUnderground!
If you are a fan of any of the artists mentioned or genres explored in this show, we’d love to hear from you! Share your favorite album, song, or memory related to Nine Inch Nails, Peter Christopherson, Jaz Coleman, or any of the mentioned music styles. You can also suggest topics for future episodes or tell us about your own musical projects. Your input is what keeps #SakuraUnderground vibrant and ever-evolving. Get in touch and be a part of the conversation! 🎶✨Enter the text in the box below Do The Thing! 🤘
Welcome back to another #SakuraUnderground! This was recorded at the Valley Free Radio Studios on Feb 25th. DJ Silent was in a celebrating mood for he selected 3 songs from Liars Mess album which is 10 years old this month! Liars a three piece band focusing mostly on vintage synthesizers to make their music as undanceable electronic music ever.
DJ Silent was also missing some dance music so he moved on to Australian project Snog for a few songs, we also had a flashback to a Combichrist and Front 242 era of STOMP too. This era is around the end of the 90s mostly. STOMP is another name for Industrial Dance Metal.
Finishing off the night was some music from Japan by DJ Sakura666!! Crossfaith and Travis Japan. 2 bands, 2 totally different genres, Crossfaith had broken up, but now they have returned. Travis Japan; upcoming JPOP who have starred in AGT recently, and have performed in a few Japanese/American festivals.
Well, that’s it for this #SakuraUnderground. We try to make new content once a week before #IHEARTJROCK at the VFR studios. SU plays a large variety of music from all over, each podcast a little over an hour.
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Welcome back to SakuraUnderground. This podcast was recorded at the Valley Free Radio studios on Saturday Feb 17 2024. DJ Silent shares more Sisters of Mercy songs that we haven’t played before. Some Thompson Twins, then requests for new music from the singer of Portishead, and jpop, jrock. Playlist is below.
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Welcome back to #SAKURAUNDERGROUND. This was recorded on Feb 10th 2024 in the Valley Free Radio studios in Northampton MA. DJ Silent was memorializing the life of Damo Suzuki from Can and solo projects who just recently passed. He also had a birthday celebration for Paul Baker of Ministry and other famed bassist bands he made his presence in. Lastly a request for Judas Priest! Please enjoy the show, playlist is below.
Welcome back to Sakura Underground. This was recorded in the Valley Free Radio studios on Feb 3rd 2024.
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We started with a block from DJ Silent who picked 3 Skinny Puppy songs from their 1996 album “The Process” DJ Silent believes this is the last truly good SP album, because it had all 3 of the members recording on it. Sadly Dwayne Goettel passed in 1995 towards the end of recording this album. There were a lot of slack and problems with the record company and the band in the making of this album also. Hardset Head Process Blue Serge
Moving on to new music from Cyberaktif, and a fun request from our listener for new music by Kim Gordon of Sonic Youth A Single Trace BYE BYE
DJ Silent continues on with a long track by Meat Beat Manifesto, released in 1990 from the 99% album. A pinging non stop dance track. Pinging because of the pinging noise all throughout. Can you count the pings? DogStar Man/Helter Skelter
Continuing with Meat Beat Manifesto, and DJ Sakura666 added some tracks to go with the block. Meg Lee Chin is an inspirational noisey girl rock and alternative music writer, producer, also very underrated from the 1990s. Also Portishead, a nice piece from the 90s and classic Massive Attack track, both seem to have appeared in movies in time. She’s Unreal Swallowing You Glory Box Angel
Noticed that The Chemical Brothers did a live gig in Japan recently so we had to play Chemical Beats
Lastly, you requested Number_I and NOA some JPOP to finish the night! GOAT Any Angle
Thanks for returning to another #SakuraUnderground. This podcast we play a couple tracks from The Soft Moon and a track from Silent Servant. Luis Vasquez and Juan Mendez were found together in an LA apartment with a third person Simone Ling(Juan’s spouse).
Echo & the Bunnymen Killing Moon is celebrating it’s 40th anniversary and DJ Silent had to play his favorite Echo song as well to add to the block. Then DJ Silent added Love and Rockets Ball of Confusion and Yin and Yang. PIG and KMFDM have a new track worth listening to and DJ Silent adds Godlike to reminisce over.
Welcome back to another #SakuraUnderground. This episode was recorded in the Valley Free Radio Studios on Jan 13th 2024. This special SU we are celebrating DJ Silent’s birthday along with birthdays from front man of German industrial band Einsturzende Neubauten, Blixa Bargeld (born Christian Emmerich, 12 January 1959). He also shares the same birthday as DJ Silent(who is born Martin Page)! One short and sweet song for the legendary Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin who turned 80 this year. Finally the iconic David Bowie whom was born on Jan 8th, and sadly passed on Jan 10th. Playing a small block of our favorite songs by the musician.
We also had some requests for #SakuraUnderground thanks to the new updated request page on request page. Feel free to leave a request by clicking the link below.
Welcome back to #SakuraUnderground. This is the last episode of 2023! It was recorded 12-30-23 at the Valley Free Radio studios USA.
DJ Silent tells us his experience with 2023 and ends the year playing a few Killing Joke songs, he hasn’t shared, also a block of Ministry/Gary Numan and Front Line Assembly.
We didn’t have requests this week, we will continue with the requests in the new year. Please use the iheartjrock.com/request form.
Welcome back to another #SakuraUnderground. It was recorded at the Valley Free Radio Studios on 12/23/23. This is DJ Silent Xmas show! Hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas. Playlist is below.
Welcome back to another #SakuraUnderground. This episode was recorded live at the Valley Free Radio studios in Northampton MA USA.
This special #SU is to pay tribute to a band who decided to finally call it quit after “41 years” according to DJ Silent. XD It is true; after their final live performance, they are moving onto to solo projects, and other projects to focus on. Skinny Puppy’s last performance in Boston was on the 23rd of April, sadly the DJs did not get to attend. DJ Sakura did get to see them perform in Worcester back in the day, and DJ Silent saw them quiet a few times when “he was a kid”.
Both DJs picked older tracks from the band, also there were songs from Download, a cevin Key side project, and a new track from another project he was also working on with members of Front Line Assembly.
Also played an older track from Nivek Ogre project ‘Oghr’ a lovely wall of synthesized noise. Kevin, his Christian name, spends a lot of time working in front of the camera as an actor these days. Without the blood?? not so sure..
Lastly a request for a really old song by Ministry, from the album ‘With Sympathy’ The band will be performing this album along with tracks from “Twitch” at the “Cruel World Fest in California in 2024.
Thanks for listening to this podcast for #SakuraUnderground. If you are unaware of who Skinny Puppy are, please visit their homepage for more information about the band. They are from Canada and were a very underrated rock band from the 80s through 2000. They were known for their crazy live performances with blood and other disgusting things to make their image stain your mind! https://skinnypuppy.com/
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Welcome back to #SakuraUnderground! This episode was recorded at the Valley Free Radio studios on Nov 11, 2023. DJ Silent celebrates the under-rated Siouxsie and the Banshees album, ‘A Kiss in the Dreamhouse’ with 3 selections from it. He also spins 2 songs from The Velvet Underground, Suicide Commando, and Skinny Puppy. We had a request for a new track by Ministry Just Stop Oil and also a song from Diawolf which was requested for #IHEARTJROCK, but due to the lyrics, it has to be played on SakuraUnderground. Playlist below! Please enjoy!
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Welcome back to another #SakuraUnderground! This episode was recorded at the Valley Free Radio studios on Dec 2nd 2023. This week DJ Silent plays the most Killing Joke ever! Also a request for Jesus Jones. Thanks for the request! Playlist below.
Sadly one of the members of Killing Joke had passed away due to a stroke on Nov 26th. Kevin “Geordie” Walker, born 1958 Chester-Le-Street England, and died in Prague. He was an influential guitarist known for his unique styles and techniques. He helped start the band Killing Joke and also was in a few post industrial noise projects like Murder Inc, The Damage Manual, he was in Zilch along with Jaz Coleman and Pigface too. Many musicians mentioned his passing on social media.
Both DJ Silent and DJ Sakura666 saw Killing Joke perform in Boston MA back in 2018. Jaz walked around the crowd during the opening band PIG. It was a great performance.
Taken too soon, and will be greatly missed.
LONDON, ENGLAND – APRIL 09: Guitarist Kevin ‘Geordie’ Walker of Killing Joke performs at Hammersmith Apollo on April 09, 2022 in London, England. (Photo by Jim Dyson/Getty Images)STEVENAGE, UNITED KINGDOM – AUGUST 2: Kevin “Geordie” Walker and Jaz Coleman of Killing Joke performs on stage at Knebworth House on August 2, 2009 in Stevenage, England. (Photo by Chiaki Nozu/WireImage)
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Welcome back to #SakuraUnderground. This is special episode was recorded 11/18/23 in the Valley Free Radio studios.
DJ Silent is celebrating the album “The Scream” which is the first album from Siouxsie and the Banshees and it was also released back in 1978. It is a goth rock masterpiece in which DJ Silent believes is very underrated.
DJ Silent then moves on the Mute Records and plays a few tracks from some of the artists on this label. This is a British electronic label that was also founded in the year 1978, by Daniel Miller.
Also playing a new remix that was released. “Hamburger Lady” from Throbbing Gristle was remixed by the last of the surviving members, Chris Carter and Cosey Tutti, also known as Chris and Cosey or Carter Tutti these days. Each way of this track is terrifying and leaves you feeling uneasy. Hamburger Lady has been played on #iheartjrock Halloween special a few years back.
We had a request for Alice In Chains “Them Bones” classic grunge anthem!
And after seeing this TIK TOK we had to play “Californication” from Red Hot Chili Peppers
Coming back at the end of the show, DJ Silent had a last minute request for Die Antwoord’s “Fatty Boom Boom” and ending the night with new Duran Duran covering “Paint It Black”
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Welcome back to #SakuraUnderground! This episode was recorded at the Valley Free Radio studios on Nov 4th 2023. DJ Silent put on the dancing shoes and schools you in some 90s techno!! Also a request for new music from Bring Me the Horizon! Thanks for the request! Playlist below. Hope you enjoy!
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#SAKURAUNDERGROUND Halloween Spooky Nightmare so scary 🦇👻🎃🧟♀️
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Welcome back to this special #SakuraUnderground!! This episode is celebrating Halloween!! DJ Silent brought out the scariest tracks he knows, and is sharing them with you!! There is a track this is 20 minutes long! Also there are a few requests thrown in and DJ Sakura666 plays the Halloween Theme Main Title to end the night ! If you make it through this episode, please leave feedback at the bottom of the page!
