Where is the LOVE for Perfume?

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Irrespective of what you think about J-pop and Japanese popular culture in general Perfume are one bad-ass group and for some reason don't get anywhere close to the kind of appreciation that Morning Musume or Utada get outside Japan. "Electro World" is hands down one of the best pop songs I have heard all year and last year too.

― owen moorhead (i heart daniel miller), Saturday, 7 October 2006 15:40 (twelve years ago) Permalink

PS http://youtube.com/watch?v=qTC_oiPL-Ig

― owen moorhead (i heart daniel miller), Saturday, 7 October 2006 16:12 (twelve years ago) Permalink

More like "Where is the LOVE for Yasutaka Nakata?" I've been repping for Capsule's last album for months and seeing as he's Perfume's sugar daddy, it's only fair that his band gets it first.

ie. Most of the songs on FRUITS CLiPPER > 'Electro World'.

― Badrock Example (Barima), Saturday, 7 October 2006 16:46 (twelve years ago) Permalink

They are very cute.

― chap who would dare to contain two ingredients. Tea and bags. (chap), Saturday, 7 October 2006 17:03 (twelve years ago) Permalink

Oh bullshit! Capsule writes the same (good) song over and over again! They just have more indie cachet because they dress mod and rock analog synths. Fruits Clipper wasn't bad but neither did it give me chills which Electro World TOTALLY DID.

― owen moorhead (i heart daniel miller), Saturday, 7 October 2006 22:40 (twelve years ago) Permalink

HAHAHAHAHAHA @ "chills" (and the idea that 'Electro World' is more freakier than, say, 'CrazEEEE Skyhopper').

'EW' is effectively 'Dreamin Dreamin' off FC with a drop-off in pop song skills and an upping of tempo and electro bass. Therefore, this is likely one of the few occasions I can agree with you on Nakata writing the same song twice (see also Capsule's 'Glider' > Perfume's 'Computer World'). Not something that bothers me in principle, since all the best alternative Japanese producers deliberately refer to their own sounds in later work, mind.

They just have more indie cachet because they dress mod and rock analog synths.

Which has what to do with anything?

― Badrock Example (Barima), Sunday, 8 October 2006 10:43 (twelve years ago) Permalink

I think this can be chalked up to nothing more complex than a difference in taste. I am more into the wide-eye tooth-decay rainbow type of j-pop than the, shall we say, more traditionally "cool" stuff. And I love Capsule and Perfume both.

― owen moorhead (i heart daniel miller), Monday, 9 October 2006 06:39 (twelve years ago) Permalink

PS What I meant was that Capsule hews closer to the auteur model of pop music if that makes any sense, and have a focused aesthetic which Perfume, beyond "we three like each other quite a bit and enjoy singing together too," is sort of lacking. Capsule is much "cooler" than Perfume which is pretty much what inspired this thread in the first place. I hear about Capsule all the time with nary a mention of Perfume, and I don't know if I've ever read anything about Perfume that didn't mention Nakata. So... where is the love?

― owen moorhead (i heart daniel miller), Monday, 9 October 2006 06:42 (twelve years ago) Permalink

Well, Perfume are hardly Britney - they may have their own Max Martin, but no schoolgirl outfits or virginal mystique or anything beyond being the front. Therefore, the writer-producer gets the props. And the girls get comments like Joe's upthread.

PS. Capsule don't have an ILM thread.

PPS. It has nothing to do with Capsule being cooler (or "less pop") and everything to do with Nakata diluting his best ideas and giving them to Perfume.

PPPS. I'd do Perfume.

― Badrock Example (Barima), Monday, 9 October 2006 10:56 (twelve years ago) Permalink

I don't even think it has to do with Capsule being less pop--just a different sort of pop. In fact last night I realized I probably like Capsule more than I like Perfume, but I still think that Perfume is underrated even among people who know and like that kind of stuff, of whom there don't seem to be many outside Japan (and, I guess, inside Japan too).

PS Srsly? I was going to make a Capsule thread and then I thought that there was one already and then I was listening to Perfume and I wanted to make a Perfume thread.

PPS STILL NOT LEGAL

― owen moorhead (i heart daniel miller), Monday, 9 October 2006 12:44 (twelve years ago) Permalink

three years pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyEHQTVNnkc

I'm getting the 2009 album "Triangle" right now, but until then, enjoy this, my favorite song.

I wish 1:50 to 2:01 could loop forever. That'd get my sailors jumping!

― Captain Ahab, Sunday, 21 February 2010 20:55 (nine years ago) Permalink

also WOW I LOVE THESE GIRLS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6TV-ztJlJc

― Captain Ahab, Sunday, 21 February 2010 21:00 (nine years ago) Permalink

two years pass...

screw the j-pop thread, i'm posting this here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZKMaFR2mtU

― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Tuesday, 11 September 2012 21:40 (six years ago) Permalink

i mean this is a year-old b-side but it's still massive and i'm glad they made a video for it

― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Tuesday, 11 September 2012 21:40 (six years ago) Permalink

I'm all about Point at the moment, potentially my pop song of the year.

― direct references of (seandalai), Tuesday, 11 September 2012 22:00 (six years ago) Permalink

I never saw this 2006 thread! ILX on top of it

sandbox detour for reference - http://sandbox.ilxor.com/sandbox/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=142&threadid=1671

The 'Fake It' clip in support of their new compilation for international markets - http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/detailview.html?KEY=TKCA-73840 - which I was looking forward to being a true best-of but in turns out to be a rather odd cross-section from their albums / singles, so it's missing quite a few of the songs I was hoping to be able to have on a CD like 'One Room Disco', but it's got 'Polyrhythm'

― Milton Parker, Tuesday, 11 September 2012 22:49 (six years ago) Permalink

More like "Where is the LOVE for Yasutaka Nakata?" is OTM. I've only recently started getting into Perfume and Meg, but I love Capsule and just about everything else the dude has had anything to do with. Copter4016882's 2D2D (which he had some level of involvement with and may have produced...?) is underrated even beyond the extent to which most of his stuff is underrated 'round here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqEg-Vs31Cg

― This Whole Fridge Is Full Of (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 11 September 2012 23:03 (six years ago) Permalink

seven months pass...

what are they up to now?

― pea hen (clouds), Saturday, 13 April 2013 15:48 (six years ago) Permalink

:D http://www.songkick.com/concerts/16342874-perfume-at-o2-academy-islington

― Chewshabadoo, Sunday, 14 April 2013 20:15 (six years ago) Permalink

two months pass...

great extended version of Spending All My Time from the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gI0x5vA7fLo

― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Saturday, 22 June 2013 22:32 (five years ago) Permalink

That performance is fucking fantastic. If they ever play New York I will be there in a heartbeat.

― 誤訳侮辱, Sunday, 23 June 2013 01:51 (five years ago) Permalink

two months pass...

Let's gear up for their next album, out October 2nd.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BSkrZcrCcAAiGfb.jpg:large
01. Enter the Sphere
02. Spring of Life (Album-mix)
03. Magic of Love (Album-mix)
04. Clockwork
05. 1mm
06. 未来のミュージアム
07. Party Maker
08. ふりかえるといるよ
09. ポイント
10. だいじょばない
11. Handy Man
12. Sleeping Beauty
13. Spending all my time (Album-mix)
14. Dream Land

A great new track was revealed, 1mm:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OANDqgw9qU

― abcfsk, Tuesday, 27 August 2013 08:05 (five years ago) Permalink

'spring of life' is one of the 10 best song-video combinations in human history

― obi wankin' obi (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 27 August 2013 08:38 (five years ago) Permalink

I prefer the 'Spending' routine / video.

― abcfsk, Tuesday, 27 August 2013 08:41 (five years ago) Permalink

yep digging '1mm'. hope 'Spending all my time (Album-mix)' is the extended version from the recent live shows

― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Tuesday, 27 August 2013 10:29 (five years ago) Permalink

And when I said I prefer 'Spending' I meant the original, not the new one, which I forgot and is a whole new level of awesomeness in itself. The original had its own superhuman charm in the perfectness of the sync hand movements.

― abcfsk, Tuesday, 27 August 2013 11:04 (five years ago) Permalink

i hope it's more "spring of life" than "spending all my time".

― clouds, Monday, 2 September 2013 16:48 (five years ago) Permalink

Yeah, "Spending All My Time" is one of the greatest singles of the 2000s, and the video is amazing/hypnotic/creepy/brilliant. New song above is great, too—this is one of my most anticipated albums of 2013.

― 誤訳侮辱, Monday, 2 September 2013 17:11 (five years ago) Permalink

"1mm" is good.

― EZ Snappin, Monday, 2 September 2013 17:43 (five years ago) Permalink

"1mm" is good.
--EZ Snappin

yeah, it is. I'm excited.

still think "spending all my time" was a weak attempt to try to break into non-JPN territories. kinda edm eurotrash garbage imo. gimmie the bouncy, blue-skied instead perfume instead plz.

― original bgm, Tuesday, 3 September 2013 02:17 (five years ago) Permalink

Yep, seemed slight to me. Magic Of Love was a massive return to form.

― Chewshabadoo, Tuesday, 3 September 2013 07:11 (five years ago) Permalink

Spending All My Time is my fave single of this period. Not remotely un-Perfume-y but still something kinda new and fun for them to try, adding some sounds they usually don't have in their arsenal without ever fully stepping into another genre. Spring of Life and Magic are both the definition of safe to me and not as good as their b-sides but being Perfume that still makes them very listenable indeed.

One of the new album tracks is over 7 minutes so it's all looking good, with the promise of a flashy video for 1mm as well.

― abcfsk, Tuesday, 3 September 2013 07:16 (five years ago) Permalink

Oh and one thing that's made the safer recent Perfume singles interesting as well is Nakata experimenting with close to no vocal effects at times.

― abcfsk, Tuesday, 3 September 2013 07:18 (five years ago) Permalink

"Magic of Love" is OK but yeah, a pretty safe bet; it kinda sounds like a rewrite of "Natural ni Koishite." I think "Mirai no Museum" is the weakest single they've released from the upcoming album.

― 誤訳侮辱, Tuesday, 3 September 2013 13:50 (five years ago) Permalink

yeah, I haven't been blown away by anything released since JPN really. largely competent and fun and listenable but pales a bit compared to the more adventurous stuff nakata's been doing with kyary.

still, i can't imagine i won't listen to this new one like crazy!

― original bgm, Tuesday, 3 September 2013 14:55 (five years ago) Permalink

oh wait, I forgot about "hurly burly" - that one rules

― original bgm, Tuesday, 3 September 2013 14:59 (five years ago) Permalink

Quite a few fans are pissed that Hurly Burly isn't on the tracklist.

I thought Kyary's latest album was pretty great and she has a few masterpieces under her belt. In general I think Nakata's work with Perfume's got an emotional core and melodical genius to it that gives it weight compared to Kyary's fun time tunage, even when playing it safe.

Everything is relative, I would give all Perfume albums 10/10 and no song less than 8/10*.. then you get a couple of 8 singles in a row and it can come off as doomsday. But all the vibes I'm getting from this album is that it might work very well as an album indeed, and actually be a bit on the experimental side outside of the singles. Putting album mixes of singles there is a great choice. (The members talked in a recent interview about a few 'light' Perfume singles having been released in a row, and they have actually been their lowest selling singles in a few years)

* well, maybe.. http://youtu.be/ZMy_2UaQb-c

― abcfsk, Tuesday, 3 September 2013 15:17 (five years ago) Permalink

This on the other hand is definitely a solid 8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuPwFMTTYPo

― abcfsk, Tuesday, 3 September 2013 15:21 (five years ago) Permalink

those early tracks are hilarious.

In general I think Nakata's work with Perfume's got an emotional core and melodical genius to it that gives it weight compared to Kyary's fun time tunage, even when playing it safe.

yeah, I can see that. as much as I like kyary, she doesn't have a song with the emotional whallop of "electro world" or "polyrhythm" or "chocolate disco" or "dream fighter" or etc. etc. (not yet anyway)

and yeah, omitting "hurly burly" is a weird move for sure.

also, I don't really hate "mirai no museum" like everyone else seems to. it's... pretty likable, I think? def on the generic side but kinda gives off pleasant serani poji vibes that I can't really hate on.

― original bgm, Tuesday, 3 September 2013 16:10 (five years ago) Permalink

and how does his work with Capsule compare? I feel like it kind of gets the short stick re: the recent albums (though honestly outside of Fruits Clipper I dunno if I've heard a Capsule album that's been good all the way through)

― frogbs, Tuesday, 3 September 2013 16:16 (five years ago) Permalink

yeah, the capsule stuff is all really spotty but worth digging through for the gems in my experience. but I haven't heard it all.

sugarless girl is the best of what I've heard. love the title track and "starry sky". things get progressively more EDM-ey from that album on.

― original bgm, Tuesday, 3 September 2013 16:22 (five years ago) Permalink

mirai no museum was done for a children's movie ne?

i listened to abt half of "stereo worxxxx" or whatever before turning it off due to shitty rapping

― clouds, Tuesday, 3 September 2013 16:24 (five years ago) Permalink

I only made it through Stereo Worxxx once, but I love the album before that, World of Fantasy. When I just want huge head-crushing sound, I put on the title track at ridiculous volume (this does not make my co-workers happy).

― 誤訳侮辱, Tuesday, 3 September 2013 16:27 (five years ago) Permalink

will get that one then — i love nakata in sensory-overload mode :)

― clouds, Tuesday, 3 September 2013 16:31 (five years ago) Permalink

I've found that my favorite Capsule album is probably L.D.K. which is the one that precedes Fruits Clipper, and is a more of a transitional album between their earlier stuff and the more EDM/Electro House influenced material.

― MarkoP, Tuesday, 3 September 2013 16:32 (five years ago) Permalink

Never liked that one much, though I do appreciate the Hosono ref in the title :)

― frogbs, Tuesday, 3 September 2013 16:34 (five years ago) Permalink

the World of Fantasy video is a thing of wonder http://youtu.be/W4h8m74pyC8
there's a new Capsule album out the end of next month btw

― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Tuesday, 3 September 2013 17:11 (five years ago) Permalink

That video is what sold me on them.

― 誤訳侮辱, Tuesday, 3 September 2013 17:21 (five years ago) Permalink

yea that video is awesome

― original bgm, Tuesday, 3 September 2013 17:22 (five years ago) Permalink

Full video for 1mm http://www.jpopsuki.tv/video/Perfume---1mm/623c95ae935400520ba744d102d12f37

― abcfsk, Thursday, 5 September 2013 01:47 (five years ago) Permalink

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The album mixes have been downgrades lately so I'm happy they stay the way they were. I listen to Perfume mostly through albums and I want the 'real' deal.

― abcfsk, Tuesday, 21 August 2018 19:32 (nine months ago) Permalink

nice article that xp

― nxd, Wednesday, 22 August 2018 09:28 (nine months ago) Permalink

do they have a comp with the singles mixes? don't exactly want to track down 20 separate singles

― frogbs, Wednesday, 22 August 2018 13:14 (nine months ago) Permalink

it was only on Level3 and Cosmic Explorer where there were mostly new mixes for the previously released singles, Triangle and JPN just had one or two new mixes of previously-released B-sides on them too.

there's no compilation of all the single version of tracks but there's not that many and the singles are all easily available on streaming services, it's not very hard to track them down.

― ufo, Wednesday, 22 August 2018 13:31 (nine months ago) Permalink

four weeks pass...

Update: Le Me Know is a classic, A+ Perfume single, and with this great new Future Pop MV I'm ready to declare this year a Golden Age Perfume Year.

These are two of the best singles of 2018 and both get me emotional

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGlFxkWgI84

― abcfsk, Friday, 21 September 2018 20:39 (eight months ago) Permalink

holy shit that is one of their best mvs, which is saying a lot

― princess of hell (BradNelson), Friday, 21 September 2018 20:43 (eight months ago) Permalink

"let me know" is such an awesome song, can't believe nakata is still surprising me like this

― princess of hell (BradNelson), Friday, 21 September 2018 20:54 (eight months ago) Permalink

That video is amazing. "If You Wanna," "Fusion," "Tenku," and "Everyday" are still my favorite tracks on the album.

― grawlix (unperson), Friday, 21 September 2018 21:23 (eight months ago) Permalink

yyyyyeeeeeeIKES

amazing how all the imagery generally used to accompany dystopian articles about surveillance and social credit dictatorships are assimilated perfectly and neatly into a Perfume video slash advertisement for how great 5G is going to be

new album not kicking in for me, even the singles - something went missing in the latest replica, though my outlook has shifted as well the last two years and it's probably just me having a harder time enjoying almost anything

― Milton Parker, Friday, 21 September 2018 22:11 (eight months ago) Permalink

that shot of the three of them dancing, surrounded both on land and air by circling shopping carts & delivery drones is really something though

― Milton Parker, Friday, 21 September 2018 22:18 (eight months ago) Permalink

pop content never to be mistaken for mere entertainment etc

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-09-18/china-social-credit-a-model-citizen-in-a-digital-dictatorship/10200278
https://ehtrust.org/key-issues/cell-phoneswireless/5g-networks-iot-scientific-overview-human-health-risks/
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-5784487/The-roll-5G-wireless-service-massive-health-experiment-public-health-expert-warns-a.html

― Milton Parker, Friday, 21 September 2018 22:23 (eight months ago) Permalink

wow that's a truly fantastic video

not really sold on the album at all, it's fine i guess but not at all thrilling like they used to be, and Cosmic Explorer at least had "Relax in the City" which was really sublime if not 'exciting'. nowhere near as bad as nakata's solo work at least

― ufo, Saturday, 22 September 2018 03:30 (eight months ago) Permalink

Fun fact: a couple of days ago I explained--to someone I don't generally talk music--that "Dream Fighter" is one the greatest things I've ever heard. They were bewildered and wholly unmoved upon looking it up.

― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Saturday, 22 September 2018 05:35 (eight months ago) Permalink

"Polyrhythm" is still one of my favourite songs ever

― ufo, Saturday, 22 September 2018 06:06 (eight months ago) Permalink

Fun fact: a couple of days ago I explained--to someone I don't generally talk music--that "Dream Fighter" is one the greatest things I've ever heard

lol i was actually expressing this very thing yesterday, it's still the most mindblowing song i've heard in the past ten years

― princess of hell (BradNelson), Saturday, 22 September 2018 07:24 (eight months ago) Permalink

I've tried telling trad prog-rock guys they should listen to Polyrhythm because it has polyrhythms in it (sort of). They weren't buying it, sadly.

― Category: Animist Rock (Matt #2), Saturday, 22 September 2018 09:18 (eight months ago) Permalink

should we do a singles poll? they have such a great run

― ufo, Saturday, 22 September 2018 10:56 (eight months ago) Permalink

yes!!!!

― princess of hell (BradNelson), Saturday, 22 September 2018 13:20 (eight months ago) Permalink

POLLyrhythm - Perfume singles poll

here we are then!

― ufo, Saturday, 22 September 2018 14:00 (eight months ago) Permalink

touring "Asia and North America" next spring, no dates/venues yet

🌟 Very excited to announce that we will be doing an Asia and North America tour in Spring 2019! Can’t wait to share wonderful moments with you again. ❤️ Stay tuned for more details coming soon. #FuturePopTour #prfm pic.twitter.com/YvlqXeLUqh
— Perfume_um (@Perfume_um) September 22, 2018

― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Saturday, 22 September 2018 22:55 (eight months ago) Permalink

That 2014 NYC concert was fucking amazing. I am seriously thinking about going back next year.

― grawlix (unperson), Saturday, 22 September 2018 23:46 (eight months ago) Permalink

btw see them live if you can

first us tour was the best show i’ve ever seen

― princess of hell (BradNelson), Sunday, 23 September 2018 00:48 (seven months ago) Permalink

I wanted to tie in seeing one of their arena shows with a forthcoming Japanese trip but it didn't happen, not least because the tickets are about £150.

― Category: Animist Rock (Matt #2), Sunday, 23 September 2018 01:33 (seven months ago) Permalink

<3 that video

― nxd, Monday, 24 September 2018 08:51 (seven months ago) Permalink

that video, holy moly

new album isn't really clicking for me but that's alright. I feel like the run up to and including JPN is more than most will ever accomplish and the rest is enjoyable enough. I like 超来輪 on this one.

great GREAT live act. seriously, go see them if you can.

― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Wednesday, 26 September 2018 04:32 (seven months ago) Permalink

one month passes...

NA live dates are up!
http://www.perfume-web.jp/cam/FUTUREPOP/world/

― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Monday, 29 October 2018 18:16 (six months ago) Permalink

two months pass...

An interesting Forbes interview

― grawlix (unperson), Wednesday, 2 January 2019 23:51 (four months ago) Permalink

Also playing Coachella

― abcfsk, Thursday, 3 January 2019 06:59 (four months ago) Permalink

And yeah they had some good answers

― abcfsk, Thursday, 3 January 2019 06:59 (four months ago) Permalink

so so cool that they’ll be at Coachella!! Happy to see that the fest is still at least *trying* to reach for unique acts, even tho the American festival landscape - Coachella usually included - is so homogeneous these days.

Having a hard time getting into Future Pop. I like Tenku, but that’s pretty much it. Everything else feels very...um...”early-2010s” EDM?

I prefer the techno-disco of everything through Level3, which in retrospect is a pretty consistently bangin’ album.

― KevRus, Friday, 4 January 2019 03:47 (four months ago) Permalink

In a rare cover performance Perfume do Ryuchi Sakamoto's Computer Obaachan https://vimeo.com/309652893

― abcfsk, Thursday, 10 January 2019 05:55 (four months ago) Permalink

awesome...never even heard the original

funny part in that interview..."we're gonna hit our 30s now"...that's nuts! their first single was in 2002!

― frogbs, Thursday, 10 January 2019 14:29 (four months ago) Permalink

Oh my, that cover! Amazing.

― emil.y, Thursday, 10 January 2019 14:37 (four months ago) Permalink

this rules

― nxd, Friday, 11 January 2019 10:19 (four months ago) Permalink

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/01/10/music/perfume-goes-back-dance-basics-ahead-coachella-debut/

― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Friday, 11 January 2019 11:13 (four months ago) Permalink

two months pass...

i've barely listened to any of their music since jpn but i'm considering seeing them live in nyc in a few days b/c it's rare that i'm in this city and i can't count on necessarily getting the chance to see them again

― dyl, Thursday, 28 March 2019 03:54 (one month ago) Permalink

do it! i can't afford to do it this time

― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Thursday, 28 March 2019 04:02 (one month ago) Permalink

Fucking do it. Absolutely. They were amazing last time. (I can't believe it's not sold out.)

― grawlix (unperson), Thursday, 28 March 2019 09:36 (one month ago) Permalink

thank you both for encouraging me to make the correct decision

― dyl, Sunday, 31 March 2019 04:53 (one month ago) Permalink

love that 'Secret Secret' is in the setlist! such a futuristic jam that I'd sort of forgotten about.

Lots of 'Future Pop' cuts as well, and yet no 'Let Me Know' or 'Tenku?' Kind of odd.

― KevRus, Thursday, 4 April 2019 17:49 (one month ago) Permalink

three weeks pass...

forgot to bump this but NYC show ruled.

I keep thinking about how, each time I see them, there are fewer and fewer songs that I'm really that into if I'm being honest. I mean, nothing from but JPN and no "dream fighter" or "game" but they did "tiny baby"? what!!!

but whatever, somehow still so much fun. and seeing "electro world" was cool. best band.

― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Thursday, 25 April 2019 04:00 (three weeks ago) Permalink

Coachella set: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x76b2de

If anyone can tell me how the visual effect in "Daijobanai" works (from around 34.00) I'd love to know, apparently there's no hidden screens or anything.

― Zeuhl Idol (Matt #2), Thursday, 25 April 2019 09:32 (three weeks ago) Permalink

The video has gone down for me (UK) before I got the time to watch it.

― Chewshabadoo, Saturday, 4 May 2019 08:49 (two weeks ago) Permalink

Ah, found it on another streaming service: https://www.bilibili.com/video/av50153659

― Chewshabadoo, Saturday, 4 May 2019 09:11 (two weeks ago) Permalink

Electro Link

― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Saturday, 4 May 2019 09:44 (two weeks ago) Permalink

Superstar!

― Chewshabadoo, Saturday, 4 May 2019 13:54 (two weeks ago) Permalink

here's my pox that no one asked for:

Daijyobanai
The best thing
Secret Secret
1mm
Spice
Magic of Love
Polyrhythm
Dream Fighter
Fushizen na Girl
FUSION

― KevRus, Tuesday, 7 May 2019 22:07 (two weeks ago) Permalink

Watched the Coachella last night with my daughters (thank you!). Despite the decent performance I was really let down by (a) the tracks conforming exactly to the album releases with the exception of an interlude (I think), and (b) half the time the camera people obviously had no idea how to shoot them to highlight the choreography, which let's face it is really the only "live" aspect of note. The 3D capture was also used pretty badly with insane rotations and pans unrelated to the music. I would have loved them to use more of the practical effect with the translucent screens onstage, instead of the overlaid elements on the video signal which I presume were shown on screens beside the stage.
It struck me how weird it must have been for them to come on stage to a muted reception instead of the place going nuts. Having seen video of some of their full performances in Japan, their home shows are on another level altogether.

― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Tuesday, 7 May 2019 22:31 (two weeks ago) Permalink

Yeah, the livestream was a cool showcase of technology, but kind of dizzying if you want to focus on the choreo.

The extended sets they played during their main tour stops were more impressive production-wise. Some unique non-album arrangements too (a glitchy transition from the outro of Secret Secret into an extended, mid-tempo trip-hop piece?!).

Future Pop has grown on me a bit. I think it’s way better than Cosmic Explorer.

― KevRus, Friday, 10 May 2019 01:29 (one week ago) Permalink

holy shit i forgot how perfect "daijyobanai" is

― clouds, Wednesday, 15 May 2019 14:15 (one week ago) Permalink

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