there will be tons of events every day, so probably best to check listings like these:https://www.tochoh.com/https://idolscheduler.jp/https://genvers.jp/event/index/all
and if there are specific acts you're interested in, twitter and so on
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Friday, 27 September 2019 18:59 (four years ago) link
and it's cool that 3776 is getting some hype outside the idol bubble. new album rules. but I went to an in-store recently and the crowd was still v much the idol otaku you might expect haha.
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Friday, 27 September 2019 19:03 (four years ago) link
Ano has left You'll Melt More with immediate effect. She was their most popular member by miles, can't see them lasting much longer without her.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-tXl0gajdc
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Monday, 30 September 2019 10:27 (four 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, 23 November 2019 11:46 (four years ago) link
the polyrhythmic breakdown in "evil things" is astounding
― ufo, Saturday, 23 November 2019 11:58 (four years ago) link
Oh this sounds interesting! Thanks for the recommendation, ufo.
― fragglerock, Monday, 25 November 2019 03:15 (four years ago) link
All prior discussion of 3776's Saijiki is underselling it - this is the album of the fucking year
I love little thought experiments and justapositions of western canon with classically Japanese themes, such as:https://youtu.be/lxdYQvLeBKk?t=2854
I wonder to myself how much this album is *aware* of it's presence in the west, and why it feels an obligation to create something so distinctly Japanese with aid of western classical canon. A YouTube comment puts it perfectly:
" The production is such a mesh of genres that it sounds like a logical conclusion to music "
I'd argue that it is the logical conclusion to western influence on Japanese ideology and self perception - that the next step will be become something beyond.
― 57mg/20floz, Wednesday, 11 December 2019 02:25 (four years ago) link
i still haven't really been able to wrap my head around it really, it's so dense with ideas
― ufo, Wednesday, 11 December 2019 02:41 (four years ago) link
I wonder to myself how much this album is *aware* of it's presence in the west, and why it feels an obligation to create something so distinctly Japanese with aid of western classical canon.
well, there's a lot of japanese music that quotes & incorporates canonical classical music, just as there is a lot of music that does the same everywhere. I very much doubt the artists were aware of the presence of this music in the west where, even now, it is still in the margins. as is still the case in japan. prior to the new one, 3776 was basically invisible if you weren't already following this stuff.
I'm guessing akira simply thinks these things sound cool. if you've heard the earlier versions of the tracks on the unmixed eps, they are certainly less dense even if they are essentially the same songs. the extra stuff got layered in to help create the transitions from track-to-track, giving it its dense, disorienting character. which I love.
it's also my album of the year.
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Wednesday, 11 December 2019 23:29 (four years ago) link
― 57mg/20floz
wow what a backhanded compliment, i don't want music to be "logical" or to conclude!
fortunately i don't really get either of those things from the record
― Agnes Motörhead (rushomancy), Wednesday, 11 December 2019 23:57 (four years ago) link
yeah, it is more like... a collage of things that sound cool together! not to downplay the work involved because it is significant but the album is kinda messy too. this is one of the things I like about it! imo it's like a fun dj mix, I don't really hear it as a grand lab experiment fusing east and west at all.
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Thursday, 12 December 2019 00:15 (four years ago) link
I'm fine with music concluding, gives me a chance to catch up!
― Daniel_Rf, Thursday, 12 December 2019 11:07 (four years ago) link
oh man this is wonderful. thanks for the heads up.
― Hmmmmm (jamiesummerz), Thursday, 12 December 2019 12:48 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-CML7Afw_o
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Saturday, 11 January 2020 10:48 (four years ago) link
recently got around to last year's final Koutei Camera Girl Drei releases (Dawn By Flow and the Be There EP) and they're very very good, wish i'd heard them in time for eoy stuff. Dawn By Flow adds in a dancehall influence to their pop-techno on a few tracks. it's not on youtube but i really recommend checking out "it's no go" which is a weird-but-great dancehall/drum & bass fusion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-pxZa-M7-khttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXSCR7vpF28https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqzIuiLBBc4
― ufo, Tuesday, 28 January 2020 19:42 (four years ago) link
nice creepycute MV for a song from the recent Maison Book Girl album
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dtrx_eov524
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Saturday, 15 February 2020 21:39 (four years ago) link
Lol wow that's amazing!
The new You'll Melt More! album is out and sounding excellent so far.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIR31yk4cdc
― tangenttangent, Wednesday, 4 March 2020 09:37 (four years ago) link
this record rules
― nxd, Wednesday, 4 March 2020 10:05 (four years ago) link
The first half is their lovely brand of pop-punk and then the last few tracks are free reign for whatever weirdness you want to put at the end of a 70-minute album.
― tangenttangent, Wednesday, 4 March 2020 10:46 (four years ago) link
Title track, WOW WOW WAR and Go Out are all brilliant. I guess focus isn't really their watchword and I can respect that
― strangely hookworm but they manage ream shoegaze poetry (imago), Wednesday, 4 March 2020 13:31 (four years ago) link
yehhh really loved freestyle zenbu too
― nxd, Wednesday, 4 March 2020 14:21 (four years ago) link
on constant repeat :D
― nxd, Thursday, 5 March 2020 13:04 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eevf7k8Chpshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqBUTHdZa-Q
really enjoying these
― ufo, Friday, 6 March 2020 09:03 (four years ago) link
dempagumi.inc's "moshi moshi internet" (the second video there) is so intriguing, it feels quite retro but in a way i can't really place and it's kinda proggy too
― ufo, Friday, 6 March 2020 09:12 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrggLg_hGE0
some kind of new peak for mashup pop?
― ufo, Wednesday, 11 March 2020 14:34 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyhcardbgiA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ku5-YnZwe7o
i like these singles from kalen anzai a lot
― ufo, Sunday, 15 March 2020 14:28 (four years ago) link
Nice of Dempagumi to drop their album internationally on my birthday. Moshi Moshi Internet and Nemadempa (which has been reworked) are the most radical things on it, and I’m slightly disappointed there isn’t more in that vein. Still an amazing collection though.
― Jeff W, Friday, 24 April 2020 00:59 (three years ago) link
finally got around to the dempagumi.inc album and i agree about those being highlights. still adore "inochi no yorokobi" too
― ufo, Tuesday, 19 May 2020 11:33 (three years ago) link
An EP appeared on Spotify last Friday too. Not sure what that’s about. Haven’t had a chance to listen yet.
― Jeff W, Tuesday, 19 May 2020 12:07 (three years ago) link
4s4ki’s stuff has been doing it for me lately, and this track in particular, which sounds a bit like if OPN went jpop
https://youtu.be/mQGEv3SgLQE
her full length is solid too. it’s all in spotify.
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Tuesday, 7 July 2020 15:58 (three years ago) link
hey look Ano is releasing solo stuff, I thought she might go full hikki after leaving YMM so pleasantly surprised
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqhVE_m1nfU
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Thursday, 3 September 2020 18:19 (three years ago) link
prominent p-model sighting @ 0:37! wish this sounded more like p-model tho.
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Thursday, 3 September 2020 23:28 (three years ago) link
toriena goes digital hardcore/breakcore/prob some other things with 'core' at the end:https://open.spotify.com/album/0IKpDSa4UJRYexL2bW1oGU?si=ybzk5I5ISBetyNdgu1xDSA
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Sunday, 27 September 2020 00:37 (three years ago) link
Definitely enjoyed that Toriena album!
Here's CHAI with a cover of Mariya Takeuchi's Plastic Love, ie the song that started this thread.:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhkQgyxzRzI
― vcrash, Wednesday, 11 November 2020 18:29 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvB9WaEzF9Q
i don't know if i exactly like this but it's an impressive level of kitchen sink chaos
― ufo, Thursday, 31 December 2020 06:25 (three years ago) link
cute song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SCbb297oJM
― abcfsk, Saturday, 13 February 2021 13:07 (three years ago) link
absolutely love the new yuki single
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSVWpPK8yaY
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Wednesday, 24 March 2021 19:44 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDd2gQWYRv8
― ufo, Thursday, 25 March 2021 06:12 (three years ago) link
Kids, don’t try the 🧠 in the microwave thing at home yeah?
― Jeff W, Thursday, 25 March 2021 07:18 (three years ago) link
whoa, gooooood vid
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Thursday, 25 March 2021 20:34 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bexHugfKowk
― abcfsk, Thursday, 22 April 2021 11:01 (two years ago) link
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 (two years ago) link
Yeah I think this is an introduction to the new line-up
― abcfsk, Thursday, 22 April 2021 16:44 (two 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 (two 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 (two 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 (two 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 (two years ago) link
those are cool
― abcfsk, Friday, 23 April 2021 06:23 (two 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 (two 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 (two years ago) link