yeh that track NNN was not Suicidey enough, so I made a quick remix over the weekend using only Suicide samples! http://youtu.be/ljKzgNXk6ic
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Monday, 12 January 2015 18:37 (nine years ago) link
nice!!
not quuuuite there yet but have high hopes for cupitron:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUWTK8jomc4
in their own words, “Colorful Pop!!! From Techno World”
― original bgm, Thursday, 15 January 2015 21:48 (nine years ago) link
not sure how i've missed this thread before!
i could talk all day about why j-pop (and k-pop) aren't considered for the western crit canon, but will refrain.
nothing out of j-pop really struck my fancy last year except the two shiina ringo record, akai koen's major label thing ("now on air" especially), maybe a few other things here and there...what did i miss? what should i be looking for in 2015?
― soyrev, Friday, 16 January 2015 01:24 (nine years ago) link
I don't know where to start with 2014 reccs which is why I haven't made a year-end list either. It was the year where every girl group made an effort to stand out. Cynics may say it was the year where the idol scene co opted indie aesthetics at random to find a gimmick foundation, or just used indie scene songwriters for quick cred, but I'd rather go with 'lots of crazy stuff in every direction' and too many good songs to list, from more traditionally j-pop-y stuff to everything else. I'll have to put together a youtube playlist at some point, at least.
2015 will be the year tricot releases a new single (next month) and 2nd album (march)
― abcfsk, Friday, 16 January 2015 15:42 (nine years ago) link
imo
dempagumi.inc - singles, esp. "sakura appareshon" (world wide dempa lp came out dec 2013 and rules, so that too)suiyoubi no campanella - epsespecia - gustoseiko oomori - sennou (esp. if you're a ringo fan)charisma.com x tempura kidz single
probs forgetting a bunch of more low profile stuff...
― original bgm, Friday, 16 January 2015 17:04 (nine years ago) link
Last Berryz song before they split
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1M9TJpLTcw8
Pretty good, but several of the best songs of 2014 were HP releases, like
Morning Musume'sBeyond the Time and SpaceYour Bright Smile Is Like The Sunshine
C-Ute - I Miss YouS/mileage - Oh Susukino
― abcfsk, Saturday, 17 January 2015 10:47 (nine years ago) link
I mean how good are those songs. I've played them all year and I'm still surprised listening to them now. Tsunku was on an absolute roll.
― abcfsk, Saturday, 17 January 2015 10:56 (nine years ago) link
Also Juice=Juice http://youtu.be/_so9w95wzVI¨http://youtu.be/38c5UbdpfLw
― abcfsk, Saturday, 17 January 2015 23:08 (nine years ago) link
aww, that last berryz video
and yeah, def some nice straight-up idol pop this year. also dug this s/mileage single/b-side myself:http://youtu.be/_glcrpyvkaE
― original bgm, Sunday, 18 January 2015 20:38 (nine years ago) link
Good stuff.
When it comes to AKB48 singles, the Oricon chart tells one story (of constant domination), but here's another. Itunes sales:
http://img.tnsori.com/uploads/2015/01/20150119-akb48-itunes.png
― abcfsk, Monday, 19 January 2015 12:40 (nine years ago) link
wtf is the half mil
― soyrev, Monday, 19 January 2015 12:50 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFf4AgBNR1E
― abcfsk, Monday, 19 January 2015 13:01 (nine years ago) link
well, if any akb48 song deserves massive chat domination status, I suppose that's the one
and I kinda love the fan ver of that video, it's really sweethttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1EwgwyGIp8
― original bgm, Monday, 19 January 2015 17:25 (nine years ago) link
Yeah the official AKB channel has over 100 fan versions of the video uploaded.
― abcfsk, Monday, 19 January 2015 17:31 (nine years ago) link
I was in Japan at the new year visiting the in-laws, so I managed to catch the 65th Kouhaku (info here if you don't know about it : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C5%8Dhaku_Uta_Gassen). The red (female) team had Kyary Pamyu Pamyu, Shiina Ringo, Perfume, MomoKuro AND the ever-awesome Akiko Wada all bringing it, while the white team responded with SMAP, Arashi and some other dullards but still managed to win.
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO FIX
Apart from that crushing disappointment I also managed to catch the TV making-of doc about the Kiss vs. Momokuro record which is hilarious, the hilarity of course largely coming from the Kiss camp. You can pretty much see Gene Simmons coming to the sad realisation that a bubbly, slightly manic 20 year old Japanese girl is just not something he's going to be able to hit on any more at the age of 65.
Preview of the fairly awful song here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qrI_oPUQdw
― めんどくさかった (Matt #2), Monday, 19 January 2015 17:50 (nine years ago) link
whole thing here:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivJZljEostE&feature=youtu.be
not much kiss on this, prob for the best
― original bgm, Monday, 19 January 2015 18:15 (nine years ago) link
It does unfortunately seem like Kiss are the weakest songwriters they've worked with for a title track so far. Not offensive but just kinda.. there. The guitar riff has some promise and actually sounds like a previous MomoClo single, but the chorus is meh.
― abcfsk, Tuesday, 20 January 2015 08:40 (nine years ago) link
i've yet to hear a redeemable AKB song.
― soyrev, Tuesday, 20 January 2015 08:50 (nine years ago) link
They have several pretty good trad j-pop chord progression songs, which can be real comfort food pop for me when done right, though the one above, which I dig, is an outlier. Their early single 'River' was however an impressive statement of purpose they never lived up to. Here's one of my favorite of their 'old school' ones: http://youtu.be/qJ-Drv9tVjI?t=1m59s The maximalism of the crashing guitars, the echoing lines, give it to me.
― abcfsk, Tuesday, 20 January 2015 09:01 (nine years ago) link
decent chorus, but man AKB videos are always so weirdly creeper...
i may have heard that one before. i got up through the first half of their singles discog before giving up, i think. the highlight, iirc, was the last 10 seconds or so of "beginner"
― soyrev, Tuesday, 20 January 2015 09:13 (nine years ago) link
Yeah they've had some 'cool' songs that have worked pretty well if nothing else then for the contrast. 'River' was an impressive statement they never could live up to. SKE48 have better dancers so they've released some solid uptempos as well.
― abcfsk, Tuesday, 20 January 2015 11:12 (nine years ago) link
Interview with and new MV from tricot over at NME http://www.nme.com/blogs/nme-radar/meet-japanese-rock-three-piece-tricot-and-watch-their-stylish-new-video-for-e
Album "AND" is out March 18
http://natalie.mu/media/1501/0131/extra/news_xlarge_tricot_and_normal_201501.jpg
― abcfsk, Monday, 2 February 2015 12:40 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvMyCFAVIqs
― abcfsk, Friday, 6 February 2015 15:05 (nine years ago) link
Sounds great. I'm looking forward to this album.
― jmm, Friday, 6 February 2015 16:27 (nine years ago) link
hah, that cover is a bit
http://images.moviepostershop.com/ekusute-movie-poster-2007-1020507278.jpg
― original bgm, Friday, 6 February 2015 16:30 (nine years ago) link
Happy february6, here's a song penned by her
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNqbI4D7mEE
― abcfsk, Friday, 6 February 2015 17:58 (nine years ago) link
Good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCQT4STlXz0
― abcfsk, Sunday, 8 February 2015 12:02 (nine years ago) link
feeling that talkbox solo
― soyrev, Sunday, 8 February 2015 14:13 (nine years ago) link
wow the break into the bridge...so good
― soyrev, Sunday, 8 February 2015 14:14 (nine years ago) link
plus tricot is so great, man. wow
― soyrev, Sunday, 8 February 2015 14:17 (nine years ago) link
B-side to the tricot single (bassist on vocals) https://soundcloud.com/bakuretsu-records/tricot-6
― abcfsk, Monday, 16 February 2015 13:07 (nine years ago) link
Having trouble finding decent info on these guys but I am digging this, unusual line up too (if it's not a conceit of course)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdKNNXuraPs
― MaresNest, Thursday, 5 March 2015 12:11 (nine years ago) link
as i understand it they are a spinoff/alter ego of idol group Shiritsu Ebisu Chuugaku
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Thursday, 5 March 2015 12:16 (nine years ago) link
oh there's a new Suiyobi no Campanella song, sounds different as they are using an outside producer and she sings all the way through. digging it after a few listens though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_gPdGgbrNg
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Monday, 9 March 2015 20:18 (nine years ago) link
hmmm interesting, way smoother + housier than any other suiyoubi trax. dig it but can't say that I don't miss the rawness that attracted me to this project in the first place, hope that's not gone for good...
― original bgm, Monday, 9 March 2015 22:43 (nine years ago) link
have we talked about this Megumi Wata song before? cos I really fell for it in the past week.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7qS-_cW5tQ
oh and Perfume played at SXSW last night, here's some footage from the livestream
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZiPIgCtIxg
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Wednesday, 18 March 2015 11:03 (nine years ago) link
oh man this megumi wata is so cool :D
― soyrev, Wednesday, 18 March 2015 11:43 (nine years ago) link
what's megumi wata's story? how big is she? why so few views for such a great song? i'm obsessed with it suddenly
― soyrev, Wednesday, 18 March 2015 11:52 (nine years ago) link
this is one of the best singles i've heard in the past few years, easy. words, vibe, pitch-perfect feel shifts...
finding out now that she's super unknown at this point -- 4 listeners on lastfm, ~800 twitter followers, on a label with half that. wild.
― soyrev, Wednesday, 18 March 2015 12:14 (nine years ago) link
Greatest single ever called "The Middle Management"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIyc4LTOmP8
― abcfsk, Thursday, 19 March 2015 16:18 (nine years ago) link
"I have no intention to have a stable love relationship on weekdays. Ah HA"
#AccidentalPartridge
― ineloquentwow (Craigo Boingo), Thursday, 19 March 2015 22:23 (nine years ago) link
insane song. i love every fourth bar but not the rest of them
― soyrev, Friday, 20 March 2015 06:27 (nine years ago) link
<3 natsume mito's introductory nakata-produced track: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAIyMT7gARc&feature=youtu.be
― original bgm, Wednesday, 1 April 2015 17:03 (nine years ago) link
Nah, I don't like Nakata's children's-TV-theme stuff. I like his aggressive hard-techno stuff.
― the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Wednesday, 1 April 2015 18:17 (nine years ago) link
opposite here. I haven't even bothered with the last capsule record yet.
― original bgm, Wednesday, 1 April 2015 18:30 (nine years ago) link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?t=167&v=aI3mT0NoXdQ
Another wild song. The hello pro groups all kinda sound the same, but that sound is so wonderfully distinct, more so for each year, and should be collected in a delicately designed box set released worldwide as a big statement.
― abcfsk, Thursday, 2 April 2015 08:45 (nine years ago) link
I don't know anything about Daoko, but it popped up on my Youtube recommendations probably because I'd been listening to too much Suiyoubi no Campanella:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3xehyYXbJw
― Roz, Monday, 6 April 2015 07:58 (nine years ago) link
this is my fave daoko release:https://youtu.be/A9lAlykjhIU
emo!
― original bgm, Wednesday, 15 April 2015 15:19 (nine years ago) link
really like this vid
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jREZtQU0ktk
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Tuesday, 21 April 2015 10:09 (nine years ago) link
yet another great Suiyoubi no Campanella video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9oBVKqID7g
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Tuesday, 28 April 2015 12:10 (nine years ago) link