haven't paid attention to Dempa for a while, had no idea who most of the girls were (lol) and the song wasn't very denpa until it suddenly was. awesome that Mirin is married and still an "idol" at (looks it up) age 34!
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Thursday, 22 April 2021 16:03 (three years ago) link
Yeah I think this is an introduction to the new line-up
― abcfsk, Thursday, 22 April 2021 16:44 (three years ago) link
yeah, I saw they became, like... DMP-10 recently, heh
that's pretty cool about mirin. wonder if those factoids are still taboo with the otaku?
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Thursday, 22 April 2021 22:19 (three years ago) link
dunno, maybe Dempa otaku are less subhuman than the others? i hope so.reading up about it Mirin married the guy who writes & draws her fav manga, is a twitch streamer as well as an idol and is currently pregnant. living that otaku life to the fullest!also Pinky is 9 years younger than Mirin wtf
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Thursday, 22 April 2021 23:10 (three years ago) link
yep, pretty cool that mirin is marrying a mangaka. I'm prob mostly just buying into the hype but dempagumi did always come off as pretty legit to me, this interview with neum probably my fave example:
https://asianbeat.com/en/icon/yumeminemu-1.html
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Friday, 23 April 2021 02:58 (three years ago) link
lyrical school's new album Wonderland came out last week and it's really great, consistently creative kitchen-sink pop-rap. "fantasy" is on it, here's the other singles which are all just as cool
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0b9OQfimGXI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABtks_cSsio
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcZ74O53AOc
― ufo, Friday, 23 April 2021 05:00 (three years ago) link
those are cool
― abcfsk, Friday, 23 April 2021 06:23 (three years ago) link
for anyone interested the French label that has put out Haru Nemuri, Suiyobi no Campanella, Charisma.com etc LPs in the past has a 2LP Oomori Seiko set out at the moment. only 500 copies pressed, just got mine in the post this morning.https://specific.bandcamp.com/album/alchemy
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Friday, 23 April 2021 10:05 (three years ago) link
Nice. They're also selling all 56 of their digital releases for €8.50?!
― maf you one two (maffew12), Friday, 23 April 2021 13:27 (three years ago) link
noticed that on the Campanella release page.. that release is just pay-whatever-you-want for the files. Anyway thanks I'm gonna check some of this out.
― maf you one two (maffew12), Friday, 23 April 2021 13:31 (three years ago) link
just did represses of the nemuri records too
still kinda hurts to think about how charisma.com turned out after that sick first record
keep going back to this new dempagumi single. looks like hyadain wrote it, which man, of course he did. hope there's more...
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Friday, 23 April 2021 19:31 (three years ago) link
have we talked about Atarashii Gakko no Leaders yet?I love their cartoonish energy, how much fun they seem to be having. I believe they do all that insane choreography themselves too?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3venzR3TnQ
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Saturday, 24 April 2021 17:40 (three years ago) link
thanks for that. i love it. i feel a tokyo jihen influence
― bryan, Saturday, 24 April 2021 21:12 (three years ago) link
hah tokyo jihen influence might explain why it's musically not for me but that video is definitely pretty great
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Sunday, 25 April 2021 00:25 (three years ago) link
they are quite varied musically, this is the song that got me into them (and the synchronized head jerks haha)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yR1IBtixHY
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Sunday, 25 April 2021 01:14 (three years ago) link
thanks for the heads up on this, I snagged literally the last copy
― frogbs, Sunday, 25 April 2021 16:46 (three years ago) link
woah good timing! I wonder how many copies made their way to Japan via forwarding services
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Sunday, 25 April 2021 17:41 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRwHZ0nsbBY
kenmochi hidefumi of wednesday campanella fame has gotten really into footwork lately, here's kanano senritsu - "drop" which he produced
― ufo, Tuesday, 27 July 2021 10:32 (two years ago) link
looks like she's a ZOC member. man, that newish ZOC double album rules, one of my fave things in the seiko-verse from the last few years.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HChQoG282bM
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Tuesday, 27 July 2021 15:07 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcEHpWR__Dc
ryutist - "mizugurasu"
love this
― ufo, Monday, 16 August 2021 23:01 (two years ago) link
oh man, that IS great!
also, my ZOC enthusiasm has gone down the last few days... anyone else following this?https://aramajapan.com/news/gossip/oomori-seiko-bullies-and-beats-fellow-zoc-member-kannagi-maro-in-shocking-audio-clip/114778/
but then oomori was promoting a new maro single on social media the next day and that was weird.
then there were many apologies during a subsequent live ZOC performance:https://storywriter.tokyo/2021/08/15/4992/
here's a translation of some of what oomori said then:
I translated what Seiko & Maro said about the incident at their recent live #ZOC pic.twitter.com/nTKb0Kk2lc— -アンナ- (Anna) (@0kada_Akiko) August 16, 2021
I honestly can't follow exactly what's going on but it sure doesn't seem good
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Tuesday, 17 August 2021 20:22 (two years ago) link
yeh it's awful, there have been rumours for a while about Seiko being a mess behind the scenes but hearing it for yourself is a whole other thing
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Tuesday, 17 August 2021 20:58 (two years ago) link
yeah, the whole thing is bumming me out, she should take a little breather and definitely step away from this particular project (altho she's basically what made it so interesting, sigh...)
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Tuesday, 17 August 2021 23:19 (two years ago) link
yeah this stuff is depressing, if she's just going to recreate the worst abusive dynamics of the idol industry what the hell is the point
― ufo, Wednesday, 18 August 2021 03:54 (two years ago) link
yea exactly
watching this old video of seiko with bis, it was easy (for me) to fall into the narrative of "ZOC is her using the clout she's built up to make a fun dream from when she was younger happen"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXj5yP-OKQM
but turns out she's just been using her position of power to do shitty things (like what happened with bis I guess, hmm), kinda kills the whole thing
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Wednesday, 18 August 2021 15:16 (two years ago) link
Kyary Pamyu Pamyu with "Dodonpa"... or should it be Din Daa Daa?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6xG_zFoE8g
― vcrash, Friday, 22 October 2021 16:27 (two years ago) link
Air ni ni by Hakushi Hasegawa is a pretty wild album - hyperactive synth-heavy jazz-pop/breakcore fusion
here's a spotify link since the only track from it on youtube is the first which is a little unrepresentative of just how wild it getshttps://open.spotify.com/album/1ikOY8ht1sAQAGuK5dTl4k
― ufo, Saturday, November 23, 2019 5:46 AM (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink
holy shit you weren't kidding, first track makes it seem like some Plus-Tech Squeeze Box thing then it immediately ramps up to like 300 BPM
reminds me a bit of Sayohimebou. this is better though
― frogbs, Thursday, 28 October 2021 22:30 (two years ago) link
Wednesday Campanella's new vocalist making a splash
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKiTKAWNvYk
― abcfsk, Sunday, 31 October 2021 18:32 (two years ago) link
sounds like a solid replacement at least
― ufo, Monday, 1 November 2021 06:12 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBwT2Sgb1yY
oh i like the other new single "alice" more
― ufo, Tuesday, 2 November 2021 01:49 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejAMVcO_kF8
quite enjoying this recent demagumi single which is like, prog-pop-punk/metal
― ufo, Tuesday, 2 November 2021 05:49 (two years ago) link
the new kyary album is good actually, utterly bonkers in places (like "Dodonpa" posted upthread)
title track "Candy Racer" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umec0eIhKp8
― Roz, Sunday, 14 November 2021 07:06 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5I6di1S0Mqw
batten girls - "watashi koi hajimetatteyo!"
― ufo, Saturday, 4 December 2021 07:51 (two years ago) link
really like this one!
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Friday, 10 December 2021 20:22 (two years ago) link
think I account for half the views on this lol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKBWXhKUX8I
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Friday, 17 December 2021 10:21 (two years ago) link
LOVE that!
― sean gramophone, Saturday, 18 December 2021 16:10 (two years ago) link
Oh yes, this is good! Liking their 'Blue Baton' as well.
― emil.y, Saturday, 18 December 2021 16:57 (two years ago) link
strong CHARISMA.COM vibes, I guess it's the rapping
― assert (matttkkkk), Saturday, 18 December 2021 22:42 (two years ago) link
this is sick
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Sunday, 19 December 2021 05:56 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jL4t8ABGmI
"In This World" - Mondo Grosso, Hikari Mitsushima, Ryuichi Sakamoto
so gorgeous, would love an extended mix
Also just learned that BoA re-recorded her vocals for "Everything Needs Love" last year <3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d69btWfh_3o
― Roz, Monday, 24 January 2022 05:55 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ah5EAnoFGyk
lyrical school are so good
― ufo, Tuesday, 8 February 2022 23:42 (two years ago) link
hmm new sakanaction album is very very boring, easily their worst. hope the second album this year is better
― ufo, Wednesday, 30 March 2022 23:28 (two years ago) link
agreed - i don't love the retro direction they've been going in. I miss their big rave choruses.
"plateau" is good though
― Roz, Thursday, 31 March 2022 03:02 (two years ago) link
"plateau" is solid but it's pretty by-numbers. they're still good at that one thing though which is enough to make it stand out from the rest of the album.
it's such a short & slight album and the other songs don't really have anything going for them, they're fairly mellow and restrained without their usual big hooks. it's not even like they don't have ideas, there's no reason the talking heads-esque disco pastiche of "shock" has to be so underwhelming - it's not bad but they're clearly capable of so much better. they've made going retro work extremely well before on "wasureranai no" but there's nothing like that here
― ufo, Thursday, 31 March 2022 04:05 (two years ago) link
flipping through it, I like it fine but yeah my general impression of this band is they're too interesting to be doing what they're doing. if this is "easily their worst" that's a good sign for the albums I haven't heard yet
― frogbs, Thursday, 31 March 2022 18:39 (two years ago) link
I've liked a few Haruka Kudo (工藤晴香) songs before, but not with enough mindfulness to internalize the kanji and realize that without looking it up. But the new album, 流星列車 (Meteor Train?), is fantastic idol rock all the way through. Highly recommended!
https://open.spotify.com/album/43fD05oNZfTmSg6UZWo6UG
― glenn mcdonald, Wednesday, 6 April 2022 17:11 (two years ago) link
got to say I'm amused that altidol is already in the nostalgia phase with Bellring and Especia announcing oneoff reunionsonly a matter of time before WACK scrape together a lineup of Lui and whoever is in the office at the time to do a BiS "hits" tour
anyway Ano has a major label debut single, it's OK?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JeCJ8kDmu
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Saturday, 9 April 2022 12:25 (two years ago) link
(copy/pasted that wrong)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JeCJ8kDmus
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Saturday, 9 April 2022 12:29 (two years ago) link
new wednesday campanella EP out today
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feiToPhrzcI
it's solid, not special in the way their 2013-2018 run was, but i'm happy to have more from hidefumi
― ufo, Friday, 27 May 2022 01:29 (one year ago) link
I think it was time for a bit of a lighter vibe. Utaha is growing on me. "Buckingham" goes.
― maf you one two (maffew12), Friday, 27 May 2022 02:10 (one year ago) link