c90: Shibuya-Kei for the the Completely Uniformed Gaijin.

LCO, do you want a mixtape of indie j-pop, or as the call it in Japan, indies (which I can do)-- or mainstream j-pop (which I cannot)?

just school me on japanese muzik. use whatever definition you want for "japanese muzik."
I'm sure theres somebody else out there who can cover the mainstream j-pop.
Siegbran: if you're out there and know of any j-metal, school us all.

i like Dir En Gray, but they're...i don't know, visual rock, or j-rock or something.

I like that slip, the completely uniformed gaijin!

Pink. Fucking. Lady.

But only the intros.

the Sushi 3003 and Sushi 4004 should be a good introduction. that and as much Pizzicato Five as your little otaku head can handle.

Some picks from the obvious big-in-America Shibuya stuff:

Kahimi Karie - Good Morning World
Pizzicato Five - It's a Beautiful Day
Buffalo Daughter - Socks, Drugs, and Rock'n'Roll
Seagulls Screaming Kiss Her Kiss Her - Angel
Cornelius - The Sun is My Enemy, Mic Check, New Music Machine and Magoo Opening
Fantastic Plastic Machine - I think it was "Please, Stop!" that I liked so much, but I could be completely wrong

Ha, now that I'm pimping Cornelius I'm listening to First Question Award and "Silent Snow Stream" is great as well. I don't know if the pre-Fantasma stuff ever got released in the U.S., but I must have found an import somewhere, and I'm pretty pathetic about finding anything hard-to-get. (Fantasma is fantastic, but if you're looking for more centrally "Shibuya-kei" stuff I think records like 96/69 and First Question are a lot closer to its heart.)

Not exclusively "Shibuya-Kei" but...

Supercar - Especially "High Vision", the last record

Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra- fun, fun and more fun!

OOIOO - led by the Boredoms' Yoshimi, 4 cute girls who don't suck!

Mo'Some Tonebender - these guys have a lot of Pixies albums at home

Mad Capsule Markets - This band rocks HARD!

Cornelius - Fuji Rock Festival highlight

the Sushi albums are compilations, btw. and christ, i can't believe i posted to this thread without mentioning Puffy AmiYumi...

Me too. Puffy are one of my favourite guilty pleasures.

try this...inly got into shibuya kei music within the last week ut was only into pizzicato 5 and fantastic plastic machine about 3 years ago

buffalo daughter - jellyfish blues
cornelius - drop,smoke
kahimi karie & tahiti 80 - (we'll go) separate ways
pizzicato 5 - happy sad
takako minekawa - drive my car,milk rock (cornelius remix)

also try:cibo matto - sing this all together,birthday cake
puffy amiyumi - boogie woogie #5

My roomie has been listening to this stuff a lot....

Pizzicato Five is meh to me
Buffalo Daughter = AMAZING,
OOIOO = obviously I am a fan!
Cornelius is meh.
FP Machine is ok

What else is there in this genre?

Is there any of the nu-nu-nu-nu-nu-ILx crowd with some insight into this? (Especially anyone making a CDRGo! mix).....?