What are essential albums from Japan?
>>51572341
>>51572341
Also I was in Japan a few years ago and listened to fuck ton of Shoegaze. It's insanely popular over there.
well i mean there's a lot of music from japan i mean thats like asking for essential albums from britain or the US
>>51572380
too bad shoegaze suuuuuuuucks
>>51572409
ayyyy u fukn #rekt me m9 lmao
Everything by Nujabes
>>51572380
Listening to this right now.
It's so good.
I recommend Tipographica.
zeuhl or whatever it is called
>>51572341
good thread op
>>51572409
is "shoegaze sucks" the new meme?
>>51572537
Anything with Tatsuya Yoshida.
This, Ruins, a few others.
fishmans - long season
/r/ing some psych stuff
>>51572608
Well, Vision Creation Newsun is a must.
>>51572608
Acid Mother's Temple and the Melting Paraiso U.F.O.
Ghost
White Heaven
Les Rallizes Denudes
There's tons. I could go on forever.
>>51572341
http://www.psfrecords.com/new.html
>>51572608
Fushitsusha
Les Rallizes Denudes
Ghost
High Rise
White Heaven
the list could go on...
also check out the tokyo flashback compilation series
![Fantasma_album[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/uFjyjs5.jpg "Fantasma_album[1].jpg")
>>51572608
kikagaku moyo is a good modern psych band
Japan has the noise rock/psych combo on lock.
Les Rallizes Denudes, Mainliner, Shizuka, Up-Tight, Fushitsusha, Kousokuya, LSD March....
>>51572697
What is this?
>>51572710
meme music
>Michio Miyagi - Masterpieces of Koto
>Boredoms - Soul Discharge
That's really about it.
>>51572710
Kashiwa Daisuke - Program Music I
Glitchy modern classical stuff
>>51572704
my nigga
GOAT indie pop here. Seriously, this is good shit.
>>51572537
The French did it much better.
>>51572728
please be b8
>>51572341
more jap rap?
>>51572380
I listened to this last night, it was pretty awesome. Anything else by her I should check out?
>>51572552
not everything is a meme you fucking idiot
>>51572816
I remember listening to this one girl who was like 16 a few weeks back. It was actually pretty damn good, can't remember her name for the life of me though
>>51572816
>>51572873
just found her, she goes by daoko.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDzgw03y73I&feature=youtu.be
>>51572380
Wanna blog about it a little? How did you realize it's so popular?
>>51572937
thats pretty tight
>>51572816
this is pretty much where my interest in jap rap production stops. No one over there even compares to this guy in quality
This, Kuchu Camp and Setagaya are all classic japanese albums. Great for anyone who wants comfy music
>>51573355
woops forgot cover
>>51573379
Why are fishmans all of the sudden mega popular on /mu/? I knew everyone had a hard on for them on RYM but I haven't seen them too much on /mu/ save for this past week
![1327164098_inlay_1[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/ZK4LkzJ.jpg "1327164098_inlay_1[1].jpg")
essential
>>51573444
im not sure about the last week but Ive been shilling long season and there stuff in different threads for the past few years. Cool to hear theyre popular on other sites
>>51573513
stop
>>51573533
nope
>>51573141
yeah not so fast my friend.
Kenmochi Hidefumi, Tsutchie, tusenenori, dj okawari are all good and worth checking out.
>>51573444
Then you must be new.
>>51572376
this
>>51573379
this
and pic related
>>51573595
Nope, been here since 2009. Just been seeing posts saying "fishmeme" and shit with the cover of long season attached over the last week. Or maybe it was only once now that I think about it.
>>51573629
i forgot this too
no question
>>51572341
The only japanese shit I know, I've been listening to it on repeat the whole week.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goD4y00Aeug
>>51573681
fuck yeah son
>>51573697
but that's their worst, anon
>>51573722
>game
>their worse
this is an objectively wrong opinion
Can I suggest this band, or is that boring?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLoUY1kA4ZY
this shit right here
>>51573749
they're pretty great
>>51573733
>not triangle
>not recognized dream fighter as one of the best pop singles of all time
stay pleb
>>51573787
they have more lp's than GAME and Triangle you arrtard
>>51573797
no shit sherlock, I was just proclaiming my objectively correct opinion that triangle is their best lp
>>51573856
but we werent discussing that idiot. we were discussing how you said GAME was their worst, then you said how triangle is their best implying you only knew of two lps (which you just might considering youre that dumb)
>>51572816
Beautiful album.
I also recommend pic related to OP
>>51572850
Not the guy you're replying to but I personally like pic related more.
>dat seventh song
Muh dick.
>>51573879
holy fuck you dumb sack of shit are you that fucking stupid?
just because we only happened to discuss two lp's doesn't mean those are the only two I know. God damn was your mom a meth head l2argue jpop fuck wit fuck you
>>51573943
wow youre not even smart enough to follow your own retarded logic which really shows that youre next-level dumb.
>>51573886
still one of my all time favorites
>>51573770
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-yX6JrhqpA
the ride never stops these guys are brilliant
![[GALS-007] group_inou - _.jpg](https://i.imgur.com/cLUZcfK.jpg "[GALS-007] group_inou - _.jpg")
Pic related if you like some really fun music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_os8HqfxHc
>>51573943
Jesus dude it's fucking Perfume, chill.
![SAPPUKEI-cover[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/Pz4rvn9.jpg "SAPPUKEI-cover[1].jpg")
My personal favorite, but their whole back catalog could be considered essential.
>>51572380
Link?
>>51573960
I'm glad you're waving your e-peen around for the world to see. got to have something to luck at other than your fetal alcohol syndrome fucked up face you piece of shit. go flash your underaged genitalia somewhere else mckayla maroney
>>51573971
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXI4UlPDfp4
the greatest band in the world? perhaps
>>51574022
lmao wow look how mad you are. maybe you should rub one out and come back, youre ruining everyones good time.
>>51574036
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3l8sNAWwa-8
how do they do it? release flawless jams for so long, they have like 15 albums and they are all near perfection
>>51574082
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OF5Cp7tCQck
have you ever heard a guitarist and bassist so in sync as these guys, brings a tear to my eyes
>>51574057
just did. Yeah in all sincerity perfume are sick. I do think triangle is their best LP but game is pretty alright, too.
JPN is their worst imo and level3 is about on the same level as game just with better production
>>51574127
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQT02uqDlYk
Imagine if you could if Black Sabbath only kept getting better with every album
![Ruins_-_Tzomborgha[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/CXzCZ8J.jpg "Ruins_-_Tzomborgha[1].jpg")
Ruins - Tzomborgha
>overly-technical math rock meets zeuhl
http://www.mediafire.com/download/0k4mgxzm19q/Tzomborgha.zip
>80 replies
>no Midori
Amazing
I absolutely love bloodthirsty butchers at the moment. They've easily shot to my no.1 favourite band ever.
https://soundcloud.com/smegglehead/tracks
>>51574157
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmV6ESAjrdc
these guys could fuck my bitch
tfw theres so many good albums you cocksuckers will never know and desecrate because you are too stupid and dont ever take initiative
>>51574006
They have the best videos
>>51574207
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImvkB8fL8OA
they could fuck my mind too, and they do, everytime I listen to them #woah #wow
>>51573594
DJ Okawari is terrible.
>>51574251
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-BT87Y3P_M
how can the worlds most talented band not get the love they deserve??? help rectify this pls
Toe (pic related album is incredible), Envy (go and listen All The Footprints...) and Melt-Banana (listen to Fetch or Cell-Scape) are all pretty damn great Japanese bands.
>>51572341
http://youtu.be/iQLb3aq-xs4
>>51574347
this guy is srsly probably the best surf guitarist of all time
>>51574347
fuck yeah son, great LP
>>51574347
>japan.mp3
>>51573787
Obligatory
is this one gud
>>51574199
because they're mentioned on every jap thread
stop being a basic bitch
>>51573355
Their last live album is also great.
>>51574874
yuhhhhhhhhh
>>51573697
Best album cover
there's a guy on YouTube that uploads a lot of japanese shoegaze albums.
I've been really enjoying it as of late, tons of good stuff on there. I would post link but I'm on mobile
>>51573635
There are posts in the archive complaining about how often it's posted dating back a year or so.
Can someone give me some recomendations for japenese hip hop?
In my opinion by far the best album from Japan. It is incredible superior my friends. Also their concerts are amazing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zfcqBWwGAE
>>51573960
JPN is great, but there are one or two dud tracks
>>51574347
My mother fucking nigga
>>51574008
my nigga. although I prefer sgda
>>51574766
most of this thread is basic bitch shit mentioned in every jap thread
>>51574347
I was gonna listen to this today but then it got all cloudy and I can't listen to surf rock when it's all cloudy outside
>>51572341
Merzbow Discography
>>51574766
Rude. How 'bout this?
Mute Beat discography
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNfmXdfpugc
>>51575034
aah yeah!
>>51574993
COTD are GOAT
the forever dvd is insane
>>51573721
my nigga
>>51575035
this band is like nails on a chalkboard for me
>>51575021
you seems to have forgotten to what this thread is supposed to be.
jazz fusion/math rock
nigga stuff
>>51575091
an echochamber of a bunch of retards who got here 3 months ago jerking off about albums people were talking about 4 years ago?
>>51573721
>>51575076
Well fuck I was going to post that. Have something similar.
>>51575067
Do you know where to get the dvd?
>pic related me at the aftershow party of their last show
The left guy is the former bassist
>>51575123
Oh nice, thanks anon.
>>51573594
>not so fast my friend
>>51575108
precisely
Pic related is great https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TO-2DErkmus
What do you guys think of Toe?
They remind me of Tortoise.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Atc0ERea7nE
If you don't like Sōtaisei Riron you should probably kill yourself.
>>51575322
If you don't like Sōtaisei Riron you don't know what happiness is.
>>51575232
they're fucking great. But it's kinda redundant talk about them on a japanese thread. Everyone here knows them.
>>51575179
seconding this
Reminds me of In A Silent Way/Bitches Brew
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISruzZMS91E
>>51574018
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZ1_UtI0WTA If you're still here anon, all I could find is youtube. Liking it though.
does anyone have a link for 'Fishmans - Long Season'? I only find it on 160kbs, and that's sad.
>>51575762
Seconding this, but I believe that all there is.
>>51574018
>>51575515
lrn 2 mega. it's in the archive you idiots.
https://mega.co.nz/#!69gV3RxS!ILvgNhvvtbPCbWQOpy3mkDe3_E5l5w7c9fNaAeKrk5I
>>51575762
>>51575915
>>51576136
>>51573444
I don't know if it's one guy or a few but for al least a year Long Season has turned up in sharethreads periodically which is where I found them. It's good stuff so I guess there was just a tipping point where enough people listened to it and shared it that it seems sudden
>138 replies
>no mention of this
>>51574006
I am way too high to hancle this video
>>51576208
Let me suck your dick, please.
>>51572710
look up "stella kashiwa daisuke" on youtube, it starts out very glitch but moves into a series of connected and similar progressions, that build on to eachother, i'm a huge pleb and when i listened to it for the first time i was put off by the glitchiness and ignored it, when i went back to it i resisted the urge to skip ahead and saw how the glitchiness at the start actually was building so well for the later moments of the song.
I think its pretty amazing.
>>51574993
oh dude I love this band, I have their whole studio discog minus a couple of EPs
Taste from the album Come Over To The Deepend has been my favourite song ever for tiiime now
essential
>>51572697
Write Once, Run Melos is better than Stella.
ctrl+f "sigh"
>no sigh
sigh...
>>51576392
underrated post
Some of L'Arc~en~Ciel's stuff like True is worth a few listens.
Fanclub is surely essential right?
>>51578562
It is yes
The GOAT comfy album.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VablHfbl5Cs
>>51574968
I follow him too, bretty gud
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWubfmD-UY92kgCct3PXvZQ
>>51576354
Can't recommend this enough.
Combines the catchiness and cute tendencies of pop with the harsh unforgiving epicness of metal.
But jokes aside i'd recommend pic related for anyone wanting to get into 80's jap pop
>>51576392
kek
>>51579267
> harsh unforgiving epicness of metal
how does it feel being 15y old on /mu/?
>>51579267
Mishio Ogawa was such a goddess in the 80s. Shame her solo output after that was a bit lackluster.
>>51579430
Read the rest of his post.
>>51579430
How does it feel not being able to read properly?
>>51579490
I know these feels ;_;
>>51576208
this picture is well-intentioned, but i think it misses the mark to some extent
>the only link you need is rbt.asia/mu/
is complete bullshit
and people should be educated about soulseek, rutracker et al
>>51579490
>>51579501
>>51576370
blasphemy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYxzq5Gyw6o
How has noone mentioned MONO yet?
Also good:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWOhl6vka4A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8vQ0T0juGY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CrDd_RcsCE
Salyu is my favorite female vocalist, it all started with this album/movie
give it a try, if you haven't
>>51573749
This is my favorite amongst all their shit, I don't know why it isn't brought up as much
>>51579700
dubs confirm, Flood is the greatest Boris album of them all
>>51579660
One of my favorite movies of all time, not even sure why.
I think it just captured the life of a music obsessed weirdo very well.
Syrup16g has become one of my favorite Japanese bands recently. They have a lot of feels in their music. Best albums
Copy
Cop d'Etat
Delayed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Vc6rh0OFzo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Se4nurcORnI
Requesting that one guy's pastebin of essential japanese traditional music.
>>51579985
http://pastebin.com/Cca07HuB
Not him, I made a Japanese share blog which you might also like
http://akirashare.wordpress.com
>no Utada
step it up plebians
>>51572850
EEEEEEEverything.
No, ok, I'll admit, I'm just a fanboy. To be honest, depends what you're into. These days she mostly have that jazzy vibe. The album everyone recommands is an exception, sort of.
But what she recorded is still awesome quality most of the time.
Try her last album http://www.otonomai.net/forum/index.php?/files/file/60918-shiina-ringo-hi-izuru-tokoro20141105320cbr/
If you like this one too, you can probably like anything else in between. There's also her secondary band, now dead, Tokyo Jihen. Would recommand the album Variety if you can only listen to one, but that's just, like, my personnal opinion.
>>51580237
You should write their names in english letters too.
Would make it a lot easier
>>51572608
Requesting J-hip-hop
4 real
>Tipographica
Looks very cool, thanks.
>>51572741
Magma actually invented it
>>51572816
http://www.chroniquesautomatiques.com/2013+japanese-underground-hiphop-cum-on-my-selector-mixtape.html
Really good mixtape.
Who BiS here?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRaMsDyW-XQ
I'm so sad they split, just discovered them with the last album recently.
This song is an exception but the whole album is really cool.
Plus thei clips and imagery was a breath of fresh air. Don't really like most idols, do you know any other "weird" ones?
I already know Seiko Oomori and Mariko Goto.
One last BiS song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P91AD3y6GyM
The melody is super catchy and the clip is really good too, it's like anti-idol imagery.
>>51581443
Rip Slyme
M-Flo
some earlier Dragon Ash
>>51581443
>>51581774
DJ Krush is very essential
GOAT shamisen music
I'm surprised i didn't see this album in this thread
>>51575322
Etsuko solo is better
There, I said it
>>51581443
charisma.com
>>51573444
I just got into them and I've been reccing the hell out of this album to other people on here, for example in the last comfy thread.
>>51581962
whats the english title I love the shamisen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_PndY44ROg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npyOGhQZjZs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwmW79BTfbI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRcWicaUvjY
>>51573720
>>51573749
accur8 m8 i r8 8/8
>>51579614
>Eksperimentoj
Kinda sounds like japanese Sonic Youth. Good.
>>51581443
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXUoQvGcf6M
2013 aoty
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLKO4yWY-0g
Tokimonsta
if you like noise
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuOluA1eki4
>>51582662
more like this please
>>51581774
>>51581795
I cant' believe Japan has no real hip-hop. I mean not only abstract and mainstream stuff everyne knows about...
>>51582427
Oh, that's actually fun.Thanks.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IINHpJrtvuQ
>>51581962
Do you have a mega for this, friend?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2KD1Q6Q_f4
>>51582870
I was really disapoint. The songs didn't sound as good as the single she made for anime these past years.
Should give it a new listen...
the fox god said u guys were losers
>>51579614
Mono is great. You Are There and Hymn to the Immortal Wind are better than anything EOITS has done IMO.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0TeCGIUM-U
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pu7szARRfs
Any guitar effects wizard here?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8Tncd7qNYU
I'm wondering what he uses at 0:07 to get that overdriven reverb tone
I'm not a big metal fan at all, but Uroboros by Dir en Grey is a fucking must-listen.
Dir en Grey have changed their sound a lot from when they started out, so you might like some of their earlier stuff too, but I don't think they've ever done anything as good as Uroboros.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_1b43jofOw
Anybody like Envy here? Their blend of screamo, hardcore, and post-rock is just fantastic
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yj_75EL9hF4
>>51583202
I used to really like them. They're kind of mediocre tbh
Don't even have to go through this thread to know it's the same shit as always.
>>51580499
>>51582304
seconding these 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBJMjyHLZTE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTjg5ILWy4o
>>51582945
I can't believe cunts like you still think shit posting is funny.
If you like good, fun rock, you can't go wrong with The Pillows.
I really like Japanese shoegaze
>>51579700
pretty sure its the most popular one on /mu/. that or feedbacker
>>51583374
Explain yourself.
>tfw unironically enjoy babymetal
>>51582890
>tokimonsta
>Japanese
ebin
>>51582518
>>51582982
It's called Tsugaru Shamisen (I think) by Chikuzan Takahashi. Don't have a mega but I have the CD at home and I'll upload next sharethread or something
>>51584198
Thanks man. I have a fetish for blind musicians.
>>51582406
Fuck no, on her own she's too ambitious for her own good and doesn't have the arrangement skills to make her ideas happen. She should go back to the band.
>>51572816
Good stuff.
Modal Soul is Jun's best album IMO, but all 3 Studio albums are great.
>>51575100
My nigga
>>51579547
>>51576370
As someone who's favorite album is Re: (so underrated, it takes a lot of listens to really get into it, I used to think it was meh), I can confirm this. However the first ~6 minutes of Stella are better than most of Write Once. The middle of Write is perfection though.
the best and going to work on a best of by going into the studio to re record, omokage lucky hole
call me pleb, but it worths
>>51583429
I can't take this cd out of my car. Send help.
Space Streakings!
>>51574344
>>51575035
underrated posts
