Official /mu/ Japanuary
It’s the start of a new year, and here at the /mu/ skype group, we have decided to try something entirely new: the first annual /mu/ Japanuary festival.
Here’s the basic idea:
>listen to one Japanese album a day
>come to the thread
>discuss it
Over the course of January, each we will listen to music from the glorious nation of Japan, and then come back to the thread to discuss, review, and chat about our listening experiences. We have made a listening calendar for the entire month (linked below), but we highly encourage all anons to make their own personalized charts for the month. If you don't have an album to listen to for a day, refer back to the original chart for suggestions. The idea is to expand your taste and hopefully find some new favorites in the process!
On the 31st of the month, we will do a listenalong of a secret album, most likely through dubtrack.fm or /mu/tant radio. The album will be revealed at the time of the listenalong, but not until then!
Below are the links for the main calendar and download links (on mega) to the albums on the chart. Also feel free to share any of your favorite Japanese albums, if you so desire.
sorry the thread went up late, i was asleep when it 404'd
*holds up chopsticks* >_>
Mega to 90% of albums
https://mega.nz/#F!0oBQQAZJ!HzoFhLUplfK8-OXS-p62lA
to the anon from last thread, this is really good.
Last thread was pretty fun, looking forward to this one too.
>>61466082
Jeez what took you so long
Also >>61466256
No problem mate, glad you liked it. Like I said I can't find any of their singles so if any anon comes across them they'd be my god for a day.
If you're interested you can get their latest album from CDjapan. Mine came with an A4 poster and demo CDr while it wasn't even listed (which made my day obviously).
>>61466847
Sorry it took me so long, there were 50 posts left till bump limit, so i figured i could of slept, and i accidently slept in.
Also, how much did you pay for the album?
>>61467006
It falls under their special request service so with service fee, domestic and international shipping I think it was about 45 euros including postage. Definately worth it though.
Does anyone here like 44°+?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEEFA2p_TMo
Interesting selections, will be sure to try this out.
>>61467242
eh, not really my thing, but not bad.
Finally found a working link for Hypnotic Underworld by Ghost, all archive links were dead.
For anyone who still needs it for Japanuary
Ghost - Hypnotic Underworld
>Japanese psychedelic rock/psychedelic folk jam band, features guitar work by Michio Kurihara who you may know from his work with Boris, White Heaven,YBO2, Cosmic Invention, and more.
https://www.mediafire.com/?80g95wvuj2z5uob
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYJ76O6e6Qo
>>61468152
awesome, thanks dude. will listen now
>>61468152
Just popping in to say I love this
>>61468325
Listening to it for the first time atm, I'm liking the atmosphere so far. It's smooth, layed back with eerie undertones, which is pretty cool.
>>61468385
The album has quite a bit of variety, so you're in for a ride
Even though I'm not going to be committing to Japanuary, I will share all the Japanese music I already have uploaded
385 discography
>noise rock, punk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EY8_WNOXfA
https://mega.nz/#F!gk8TATAC!F9kQHliGIGOY3PTMG0D0iA
Five Melt-Banana albums
>noise rock, noisecore
>includes Scratch or Stitch, "Charlie", Cell-Scape, Bambi's Dilemma, and Fetch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcqC8LSoBws
https://mega.nz/#F!00czwQhR!XahfRgmxM633r1aQd3iYwg
Three Ghost albums
>psychedelic rock, psychedelic folk
>includes Snuffbox Immanence, Lama Rabi Rabi, and the one already posted above
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIhfpneHvZg
https://mega.nz/#F!gwsQmQxJ!B0Qd2Hu0yQFSJhF8E90mpQ
I know these are essential and most people already have these albums, but why not post them for the sake of convenience anyway?
where's ex-girl
>>61468470
Pretty cool brah, downloading the Ghost albums right now.
Here's some idol-noise for who's interested
>nicked from the archive again
Hijokaidan x You'll Melt More! - Watashi wo Noise ni Tsuretette (2015)
>Japanese, experimental, noise, idols
>cute girls yelling over loud noises
Sample: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=LT5nsPlQ2iw#t=188
https://mega.nz/#!fUN1zAoY!W1sFcN8onJCGA3cDwpQJd3bA6sc5bLKiu3WSvhXMip0
>>61468409
Jesus you were right, definately gonna listen to the albums >>61468470 posted.
>>61468554
Post it yourself instead of complaining
>>61468630
looks interesting, downloading this too
Who here likes Church of Misery?
>>61468630
>Hijokaidan
Anon, you rock. Didn't even know this existed. Thanks
>>61469691
Check out Made In Studio and their other live shows
Also try some of these
>>61469740
Hijokaidan - Made in Studio? Never heard of that one either. Off to find a link... Thought I had all of Hijokaidan's stuff. Also need to investigate Ghost.
Thanks for the chart anon.
>>61469856
Yeah that album
I can share some more Japanese noise and avant-garde stuff when I get home, if you want
>>61469880
Definitely interested in the Made in Studio album. You gonna be on /noise later?
>>61469992
Perhaps
I'll line up some Japanoise essentials
>>61469691
>>61469856
The archive is a treasure trove for Hijokaidan if you sift through all the dead links.
Can any of you reccomend (or share) some good cutesy Japanese noise pop/rock/punk stuff?
Stuff like Midori, Shinsei Kamatte Chan and Xinlisupreme would be awesome
>>61470305
Otori is pretty good, I posted the link to it in the last thread
>>61466082
>that finale of Ai Aso's Chamomile Pool
>that build up in the future
every time
>>61466082
http://strawpoll.me/6443989
>>61470644
Already know them but they're pretty great. Love their rhythms.
Might join in on this
Seems like the first interesting general on here since /daily/'s early days
Maybe I'll even trip
Post yr top 20 if you have them
r8, h8, appreci8
Apologies for all the entry level stuff on here
Also, anyone here ever gotten the chance to see any of their favorite Jap bands live?
>>61471794
hipsterweeb
aka 'superwhite'
>>61466082
Who got DL link for second album, Bathtub Shitter - Lifetime Shitlist ??
ow its a lot more dead this time
>>61466082
I really fucking liked that Ghost album.
Also French February when?
>>61472585
That's uncomfirmed. This thing isnt very succesfull so i doubt there will be a Fr Feb
>>61471794
It's all pretty frequently posted but it's not bad, per se
Would have gone with different Kinoko Teikoku though
also qt background
Lmao looks like i cant post anymore today cause im banned again
Anyways i listened to the Ghost album and its pretty chill
>>61472726
Dude, your getting pretty high praise for this.
Just let it catch the wind for a few days
Does anyone here like charisma.com
>>61468630
highly rec this
hi Japanuary
I listened to this yesterday
great pop songwriting on this
city pop is GOAT desu
and although it wasn't on my chart I listened to Uchu Conbini's 染まる音を確認したら
it was very good math rock/pop
today I'll be listening to Ghost's Hypnotic Underworld
I think I'll be in for a treat
>>61475584
Casey listened to them and thought OLest was 6/10 and then loved another one of their albums
I have yet to listen to one of their full albums
Holy shit, Hypnotic Underworld was GOAT
Don't let this thread die
>>61481464
Sorry i cant post much without using my phone.
got any noesy black metal?
>>61482138
Have some Endon, they're pretty cool
Endon - MAMA (2014, Japan)
>Japanese noise/experimental/black metal
https://mega.nz/#!hpVkRTSA!Pu8S1_dC-hxPkWIL20Kf3o1ghzbJl4XARrn21ueQPvM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQ-leoDfB9E
>Spoiler alert:
>It's nicked from the archive again
Also I'm glad to see this thread is still (sort of) alive
Does anyone have Lamp-For Lovers in zippyshare?
>>61466082
tips fedora
alright I just listened to this
although it went on for a bit too long, it was very good
I can see why Abelian likes it so much
the hypnotic underworld part of the album was the best part desu
>>61484123
Honestly it's either that part or Ganagmanag that's my favorite
>>61478573
>the chorus on Piper
>>61482464
cool stuff senpai, thanks
been looking for this for ages
>>61484914
>>61471997
>Who got DL link for second album, Bathtub Shitter - Lifetime Shitlist ??
BUMP
>Japanese Rock starter pack
Archive with every album on this chart, except for Masterless Samurai.
https://mega.nz/#F!09JS3YzB!gi5MmvrJRO0AUX2rsJVUlg
Bit curious what people think of this chart. I don't see most of these albums when jrock is discussed.
Listened to Ikue Mori's Painted desert today. I was expecting something more like Class Insecta, but it was more in the rock direction.
Here's my calendar.
No Shintaro Sakamoto?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pZy434KE8M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EY6sWifUbrI
One of my favorite albums ever.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-pDs5Bw8js
>>61485563
nice meme
This shit is pretty cool. Anyone else digging todays listen?
Found Susumu Yokota - Sakura via this link http://www.thevinylfactory.com/vinyl-factory-releases/geisha-boogie-10-essential-japanese-records-that-no-one-is-looking-for/
>good ambient
https://youtu.be/9wSyAlo7AUA
BTW, anyone has link for Hiroshi Mizuhara albums or any pop-enka 1970's singer like him?
>Yakuza eiga soundtrack-tier
https://youtu.be/J6WtQDv6tV0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxBOBHWMNLM
>>61489224
Was pretty boring. I don't get the appeal.
>>61490964
Depends on what you like I guess. It's definately not as interesting as Ghost, but it's good simple fun nonetheless.
>>61491242
Maybe if I listened to it I'd learn to tell the difference between the tracks. Can't say I'm in a hurry, though.
>>61491853
listened to it more*
>Conga Fury - Bullshit Disaster
The shit-fi recording and high amount of noisy, speedy aggression is the type of shit I would come to expect of j-hardcore, but what I did not expect is that I would like it this much. I'm quite a fan of hardcore punk and some of its related genres (grindcore, nosiecore, etc), but the japanese usually impress me more with the slower, heavier, more psychedelic side of things (think Fushitsusha, LRD, even Flower Travellin' Band) and the things that edge towards punk and metal are kinda unimpressive to me by comparison.
Well, this one's not. Unlike Gudon, for example, the music here isn't too murky to make heads or tails of it and in fact it contains a lot of solid riffs, steady drumming, and idiosyncratic shouted vocals all happening at breakneck speed. This kind of music is all about energy and these guys have got the fucking energy, I love to hear this kind of stuff and love it even more to see this kind of stuff live (sadly barely get the opportunity, where is all the hardcore these days?). Pure numbskulled catharsis, which is quite ideal for me. This might not be the best hardcore out there, but it's certainly some of the more energetic shit. I recommend playing it loud when you have 10 minutes to spare and you need some dumb fucking guitar noise to fill your head when you are angry or just need to release some energy.
7.5/10
