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Japanese Music (Pop, rock and all 'dat) |OT|

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Kurita

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So.... Kawatani and Kachou are forming a vocaloid unit LMAO It's called 学生気分 (Gakusei Kibun)
Their first song is a cover of 小説家みたいなあなたになりたい from Gesu's latest album
http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm31298330?via=thumb_watch&at=title&state=unplayed&from=0

I actually can't tell if the male voice is a heavily modified Kawatani or if they're using the Fukase (vocalist of SEKAI NO OWARI) library. I think it's the latter? Wouldn't be surprised since they're like BFFs
 
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llehuty

Member
Zoe said:
Pray it doesn't get typhooned out!
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lmao @ the disclaimer on her page.

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Kurita

Member
Managed to get a ticket for Gesu no Kiwami Otome at Shibuya WWW X, which is a tiny ass venue (500 people), on August 1st, hyyyyyyyype!
 
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PillarEN

Member
Hey guys and girls.

Any Japanese bands that sound like 90s alternative? A grungy sound. Something like Nirvana or Failure. Looking for some honest gritty rock without Japanese quirky-ness. Something more moody and real. Doesn't have to be new either if you can't think of any modern bands.
 
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Ryuukan

Member
PillarEN said:
Hey guys and girls.

Any Japanese bands that sound like 90s alternative? A grungy sound. Something like Nirvana or Failure. Looking for some honest gritty rock without Japanese quirky-ness. Something more moody and real. Doesn't have to be new either if you can't think of any modern bands.
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Asian Kung-Fu Generation and every band they inspired (kurita bands)
 
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PillarEN

Member
Ryuukan said:
Asian Kung-Fu Generation and every band they inspired (kurita bands)
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Hmm... I just sampled a few songs (music video ones cause I can't find any songs on Spotify by them in my region). This is pretty close. Not miserable enough haha, but I'll try to branch out to some of those inspired bands to see if I can find something more to the sound I'm searching for.

Good tip anyway. Thank you.
 
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Priz

Member
This moving/transition for HMV sucks for orders. Had an order from last week that I was hoping would have shipped last Monday but didn't ship until today. Looking forward to it finally being here this week. (one thing popped up on iTunes US so I just bought it there for now...)
 
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Kurita

Member
DADARAY「Breeze in me」

PillarEN said:
Hey guys and girls.

Any Japanese bands that sound like 90s alternative? A grungy sound. Something like Nirvana or Failure. Looking for some honest gritty rock without Japanese quirky-ness. Something more moody and real. Doesn't have to be new either if you can't think of any modern bands.
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Not sure if that's what you're really looking for but hey, here's stuff that's a bit depressing

Age Factory
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYF2grnlIxc

Soredemo Sekai ga Tsudukunara
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AI4r6eiHeI0

Lyu:Lyu (now known as CIVILIAN)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xopz6T18ipo

KOTORI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gLQolnbXsA

Regal Lily
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-lYzz5BNo0

Syrup16g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kp4HbmxYQdg

ART-SCHOOL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KonpkzLTdg

Maybe some early Straightener
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OeVilAk_EY

Yureru
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIRPOTuIldM

ircle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svaWB0TyOoA
 
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PillarEN

Member
Oh that's a lot of examples. I'll get to that later.

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The album I ever bought from Japan (while I was in Japan) was The Strokes "Is This It". The reason being that I was living in the States at the time and due to 9/11 they replaced the song New York City Cops with a different tune (the other song is good too actually). However all the international versions had the original tracklist and also the iconic album cover of the hand in a black glove placed on a bare ass.
 
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Jakten

Member
PillarEN said:
Hey guys and girls.

Any Japanese bands that sound like 90s alternative? A grungy sound. Something like Nirvana or Failure. Looking for some honest gritty rock without Japanese quirky-ness. Something more moody and real. Doesn't have to be new either if you can't think of any modern bands.
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You might like CASCADE - Kill Me Stop

They are sort of grundge mixed with new-wave

Also maybe Thee Michelle Gun Elephant - Birdmen

Most of the stuff Tomo Furukawa does is fairly grundgy (I guess) too like: Guniw Tools - It's Usual His other bands are Nookicky and Shilfee and Tulipcorobockles but they are stranger sounding
 
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vincenzogrubb

Member
Catching up on some recent stuff:

Kenji Ozawa released a single back in February which was his first new music in about a decade I think, but the music video for it recently came out (featuring some special guests). Dude sure can write a pop song.

I've really been enjoying the new cattle EP. I'm in the midst of an addiction to this sort of well-produced 90s power pop lately. If you like THE PATS PATS you may like this too.

Asachill deserves more attention. Nothing groundbreaking, just quality Japanese electropop. Closest comparison here would probably be Yun*chi.

Fansub of the MC from the recent BiS niconico performance. Don't miss Momoland's moving speech.
 
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Kurita

Member
Details about indigo la End's upcoming album
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01. 想いきり
02. 見せかけのラブソング
03. 猫にも愛を
04. End Roll I
05. 鐘泣く命
06. 知らない血
07. ココロネ（Remix by Qrion）
08. End Roll II
09. プレイバック
10. 天使にキスを
11. エーテル
12. 夏夜のマジック（Remix by ちゃんMARI）
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Also dope live version of 渚にて幻 from the bonus DVD. Enon gets so into it near the end, jesus, I have goosebumps haha
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YowQNuu_Plg
Kinda wish they re-recorded old tracks from their indie releases. A lot of them could use a very small update to be as good as their recent stuff.

Kinda related, Ikoka from Gesu is starting an acting career. Wonder if her and Enon will star in a drama/movie together someday lol
 
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Nor501

Member
I found out about a band called The Collectors last night while researching The Mods and damn they're perfect for me. I fell in love with Groove Globe the second I heard it. And then to find out they did a recent ending theme for Dragon Ball Super. I love their look, their sound.
 
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jbug617

Banned
E-Girls news.

E-Girls will have 11 members
Dream is going to be disbanded and the remaining 3 members will not be part of E-Girls
Ami is graduating from the group and going solo
Shizuka going to focus on DANCE EARTH Party
Aya is going to work behind the scenes
There is no leader for E-Girls
The goal was that all the groups are on equal footing now.

E.G Family (The new entertainment project) lineup will consist of seven acts. E-girls, Dream Ami, DANCE EARTH PARTY, Happiness, Flower, ShuuKaRen, and SudannaYuzuYully.

Credit
http://aramajapan.com/news/music/e-...s-ami-graduating-dream-disbanding-more/76070/
 
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llehuty

Member
Dream is my least favourite E-Girls subunit, so no big deal, but I think they will have to get more vocalist in the other subunits at some point.
 
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Kurita

Member
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PillarEN

Member
Kurita said:
Details about indigo la End's upcoming album

Also dope live version of 渚にて幻 from the bonus DVD. Enon gets so into it near the end, jesus, I have goosebumps haha
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YowQNuu_Plg
Kinda wish they re-recorded old tracks from their indie releases. A lot of them could use a very small update to be as good as their recent stuff.

Kinda related, Ikoka from Gesu is starting an acting career. Wonder if her and Enon will star in a drama/movie together someday lol
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Wow. I looked up some of their songs. This is good.

By the way is that Suzu Hirose on the album cover?
 
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Kurita

Member
PillarEN said:
Wow. I looked up some of their songs. This is good.

By the way is that Suzu Hirose on the album cover?
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Glad to hear you like them. Kawatani Enon (the vocalist/leader) is pretty much a genius, dude has 3 bands going on at the same time (indigo la End, Gesu no Kiwami Otome and Dadaray, though he's just writing the songs for the latter) and all of them are freaking amazing lol

And no, it's a girl named Takiguchi Hikari, from an idol unit called drop (never heard of them before)
 
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Rainy

Banned
"The Floor" is great, love their stuff. Kinda wish they were somehow on Spotify haha. I might go about purchasing their mini-albums somehow though. Really like em.
 
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