Let's get light-hearted
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sl7B_7h2-OM
― abcfsk, Saturday, 30 January 2016 17:08 (eight years ago) link
Best Momoiro Clover single in a long while
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPKX9gsZhi8
― abcfsk, Tuesday, 9 February 2016 05:50 (eight years ago) link
...aaaand two new momoiro clover albums just dropped
I haven't even liked any of their singles since 5th dimension really... but man... still feel like calling in sick to work and just playing these a lot tomorrow http://icons.iconarchive.com/icons/emoticonshd.com/emoji/64/Emoticon-Thinking-Confused-Shrug-icon.png
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Wednesday, 17 February 2016 06:18 (eight years ago) link
Word on the street is Amaranthus is pretty great and their most coherent album-album yet. Still haven't found time to take a listen.
― abcfsk, Wednesday, 17 February 2016 07:35 (eight years ago) link
so, this is good shit. hakkin no yoake initially feeling like battle and romance anime mayhem, amaranthus like 5th dimension classic rock moves. gonna need some time to take it all in but surprised by how much I'm enjoying these. kinda wrote momoiro clover off for a minute!
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Thursday, 18 February 2016 05:44 (eight years ago) link
Keyakizaka46 debut single "Silent Majority" http://www.dailymotion.com/video/k3oZTwoBwp9AMUg8YfX
― abcfsk, Thursday, 17 March 2016 05:46 (eight years ago) link
Almost a full BiS reunion including Mitchel <3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKUX8KKKbM4
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Wednesday, 23 March 2016 14:05 (eight years ago) link
BiSH's major label debut is a 90 second punky thrash? hell yes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-hs9iqBDHM
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Tuesday, 5 April 2016 12:26 (eight years ago) link
I've played that song a lot in the past week.
― abcfsk, Saturday, 16 April 2016 07:39 (eight years ago) link
The HatsuneKaidan album is a surprisingly easy listen, guess it helps that Junko isn't screaming all over it lol. Has covers of songs by Perfume, Jun Togawa, protopunk weirdos Zuno Keisatsu amongst othersyou can listen to it and buy the LP(!) here
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Saturday, 16 April 2016 08:16 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tHJwoSRcBc
song of the year
― soyrev, Monday, 2 May 2016 11:42 (eight years ago) link
^^obsessed with this now, thanks
― Roz, Saturday, 7 May 2016 13:59 (eight years ago) link
Was coming on to the thread to post the very same song. I know FEMM's stuff but not really familiar with the others of the group.
http://aramajapan.com/news/music/femm-faky-and-yupin-combine-to-create-fammin-with-mindblowing-results/58103/
― emil.y, Saturday, 7 May 2016 14:41 (eight years ago) link
patrick st. michel provides solid context:
http://makebelievemelodies.com/?p=12656
if the rest of the EP is any indication, the individual acts' music is fine but nothing special. the FAKY song that autoplays after FAMM'IN on youtube is the best i've heard from the lot, sort of like old japanese market SM stuff, which makes sense given avex was the label for most of that.
but "circle"...i wouldn't hesitate to put it in my j-pop top 5. at least since the '80s
― soyrev, Sunday, 8 May 2016 03:20 (eight years ago) link
This tofubeats is pretty pop, but it probably doesn't belong on the j-pop thread. So where does it belong? The Japanese indie thread seems more underground oriented.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJqAhbhffpU
The video is a bit too patty-cake-patty-cake for me, but I kind of like the song.
― _Rudipherous_, Sunday, 12 June 2016 16:11 (seven years ago) link
new Tentenko single is a fun lofi rewrite of Roadrunner + toytown noise.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDX3dEzXz20
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Wednesday, 31 August 2016 13:12 (seven years ago) link
Really liked this 2016 single, which to my unseasoned J-pop ears sounded like Perfume's "Polyrhythm" with Skrillexy cut-up production.
Aira Mitsuki - Detective Ahttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDa8Q3hUDIY
Is this an emerging style, where the idol becomes an electronica producer's toy, even more so in more "mainstream" J=pop? I want more of this.
― gesticulating Pez dispenser (Sanpaku), Tuesday, 13 September 2016 01:46 (seven years ago) link
where the idol becomes an electronica producer's toy
That's most J-Pop. Or at least all Nakata.
― DeskRobot, Thursday, 15 September 2016 19:38 (seven years ago) link
Jun Togawa is releasing a new album shocker! recorded with Vampillia, out in December.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkNU0QbXVsw
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Friday, 14 October 2016 14:18 (seven years ago) link
that's a Yapoos track isn't it?
her voice definitely sounding a bit different these days!
― frogbs, Friday, 14 October 2016 14:24 (seven years ago) link
yes, a Yapoos track. looking at the tracklisting there's only one new song at the end http://natalie.mu/music/news/205511
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Friday, 14 October 2016 14:43 (seven years ago) link
Yeah, the way I read their announcement was it was an anniversary thing? But it's all rerecordings of her old songs, not a comp of them, right?
― emil.y, Friday, 14 October 2016 16:12 (seven years ago) link
when was the last time she recorded any legitimately new songs? the last Yapoos album was in 1995 I believe, doesn't seem like she's done a lot since then. seems a bit odd to come back just to re-record old tunes.
― frogbs, Friday, 14 October 2016 18:02 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jWLioW7Zx0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEGjoWVJKNk
the last few Wednesday Campanella singles have been excellent
― ufo, Thursday, 17 November 2016 10:34 (seven years ago) link
Yep, very cool
― abcfsk, Thursday, 17 November 2016 18:38 (seven years ago) link
the new BOMI is very Campanella, produced by Tokyo Recordings who worked on Campanella's Napoleonhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhUHE61xetM
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Thursday, 17 November 2016 18:57 (seven years ago) link
Tentenko produced by Eye of Boredoms
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLL91md6Y_o
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Thursday, 22 December 2016 12:31 (seven years ago) link
really like that tentenko album. anyone familiar w/her ~900 or so other records?
checked out a later yukako hayase album from 2001 - love your life. it rules. here's the only track on YT but the whole thing is solid:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkRba0s6NkA
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Saturday, 31 December 2016 20:25 (seven years ago) link
So this Wednesday Campanella album is pretty much all I've listened to for the past month
― Headphone Jack (seandalai), Sunday, 19 February 2017 01:09 (seven years ago) link
they are super likable for sure. PVs have an odd personality to them.
― Milton Parker, Sunday, 19 February 2017 03:39 (seven years ago) link
yeah i love it, it's maybe their most consistent so far. certainly a lot better than UMA last year
apart from Aladdin i think my favourites are Sakamoto Ryoma (i love the percussive lead synth) and Zeami (the difference between the first and second verse is so dynamic)
― ufo, Sunday, 19 February 2017 04:51 (seven years ago) link
New YMM -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ed-LsUht8iE
― MaresNest, Sunday, 19 March 2017 10:14 (seven years ago) link
what a mess lol. It's interesting how popular Ano has become in Korea recently, mainly due to comps of her TV appearances on YouTube - a lot of comments on YMM videos are now in Hangul.
I really like this track by ex Koutei Camera Girl member Molmo under the name Ame To Kanmurihttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsMhk56zLE0
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Sunday, 19 March 2017 11:51 (seven years ago) link
hahaha I kept pausing that YMM single bc surely a totally different track must be playing in some other tab, right? lol, awesome.
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Sunday, 19 March 2017 16:16 (seven years ago) link
new campanella is def v nice & 世阿弥 is amazing but I think I still prefer the earlier records. the simpler melodic idm sound is just more up my alley & I like their consistency even if they are a little less ambitious.
anyone ever hear this early demo? (w/a 2nd singer!):https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeOkQvyh0Jc
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Sunday, 19 March 2017 16:26 (seven years ago) link
here's a collab I never expected, Ano of YMM guesting on a Towa Tei track
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-tXl0gajdc&
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Monday, 27 March 2017 15:45 (seven years ago) link
strange but I dig it
Towa's albums always seem like a who's who of J-pop, lately
― frogbs, Monday, 27 March 2017 15:50 (seven years ago) link
wooow that YMM track
― ultros ultros-ghali, Monday, 27 March 2017 16:32 (seven years ago) link
More Idol fuckery
http://aramajapan.com/news/music/·········is-an-enigmatic-project-that-may-hide-a-deep-meaning/74429/
― MaresNest, Thursday, 27 April 2017 12:45 (seven years ago) link
Whoops, trying again - http://aramajapan.com/news/music/%C2%B7%C2%B7%C2%B7%C2%B7%C2%B7%C2%B7%C2%B7%C2%B7%C2%B7-is-an-enigmatic-project-that-may-hide-a-deep-meaning/74429/
― MaresNest, Thursday, 27 April 2017 12:46 (seven years ago) link
This is so sad - http://www.straitstimes.com/lifestyle/entertainment/j-pop-star-ayumi-hamasaki-is-going-completely-deaf
― Foghat digs holes in space (MaresNest), Sunday, 21 May 2017 12:19 (seven years ago) link
goddamn, that's awful D:
new campanella single sounds a little like a coldcut remix of a tortoise song or something to me and I mean that in the best possible way:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qPSHOTzidw
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Friday, 26 May 2017 04:14 (seven years ago) link
You'll Melt More continue their habit of parodying western record covers (previously including Neu!, ESG, B&S, Suicide etc) http://i.imgur.com/ELZYbze.jpg
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Friday, 26 May 2017 13:35 (seven years ago) link
hmmm what's that one?
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Friday, 26 May 2017 13:53 (seven years ago) link
Screamadelica (the EP seems to be called Discopsychedelica)
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Friday, 26 May 2017 14:00 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQd-Nj4eH48
What a crowd pleaser of a song!
― abcfsk, Saturday, 27 May 2017 07:31 (seven years ago) link
Digging CRCK/LCKS
Neat mix of Ringo, Clammbon, a few others and a little bit of mathyness.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHdgffU5mbU
― Foghat digs holes in space (MaresNest), Sunday, 28 May 2017 09:31 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJF7_d1yhjI
― Foghat digs holes in space (MaresNest), Sunday, 28 May 2017 09:35 (seven years ago) link
I quite like both of those. btw what's a good resource for finding out about these sorts of things, and/or maybe more alternative/underground Japanese music?
― ultros ultros-ghali, Monday, 29 May 2017 18:08 (seven years ago) link
Heya ultros, does your webmail ink work?
― Foghat digs holes in space (MaresNest), Monday, 29 May 2017 18:15 (seven years ago) link