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discuss and share music from Japan
does anyone by chance know if the Hijokaidan x Jun Togawa album is out yet?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7K3hk4qeJoE
come on niggers get in here you've had enough memeing for the day
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZrSPI8tTvw
Any fans of The Buzz Mothers around here?
More good instrumental rock, one of the guitarists is from Low-pass
https://meatcubelabel.bandcamp.com/album/season-for-reading
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jd1jGch9zdo
>>61935819
I fucking love this.
>no 88 Kasyo Junrei
really /mu/ ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D90AOhojK3M&index=33&list=PL9nC_4SM9GfhWWaCrkMgkbl0xsFv80X-R
Anything out there like this?
>love Berserk and the OST
>only now looking into his solo stuff
>blown away
>>61936057
pretty much everything Jun Togawa has done is pretty good, would definitely recommend her
I'm getting really fucking tired of not being Jun Togawa
>>61936038
Good shit
>>61935739
I really like Japanese fusion/prog/post rock
Stuff like Shingetsu, The Square, Casiopea, Stomu Yamashta, Haruomi Hosono, Toe, Envy.
Stuff like this
https://youtu.be/1rxYw7Y45Eo
Hiromi is queen
Does anyone have files to share?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7Z_MMDVYrE
Kan Mikami is the shit
>>61937491
This is really nice
I made a chart for japanese rock with a complementary archive. You might be interested.
https://mega.nz/#F!09JS3YzB!gi5MmvrJRO0AUX2rsJVUlg
I have yet to find a city pop song catchier than this. Anything else similar?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAfGZvPnu-c
what do you call this kind of music?
>>61938386
so is America
>>61938307
Tatsuro Yamashita is probably my favorite pop musician ever
check out the genre City Pop for similar music, specially his album For You, the first song is probably the apex of the genre
>>61938402
I am Finnish you stupid weeaboo
>>61938402
Earth is a meme planet
>>61938142
p cool chart, is it finished or will you expand it?
>>61938142
>mp3
one job
>>61938307
>>61938307
I'm listening to Mieko Hirota atm and I'm really into it. Japanese soul. I'd recommend Lena Park and Hyolyn too but they're korean.
>>61938458
I might, but I don't plan too. You're free to do anything you like to it.
>tfw I love japanese music and film but don't really care for anime
Am I a weeb or not?
>>61938481
Sorry lots of these were hard to find in good quality. Most of it is 320.
>>61938481
Is there something specific you want? I might have it in better quality now.
>>61938307
I prefer Love Talkin' to this one, but it's more soul/funk than city pop i guess.
Also if anyone has anything that has a similar sound to this, i'd love to hear it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UELvVDDXEG0
>>61938504
nah youre probably good
a lot of people like japanese traditional culture, aesthetics, food, archeticture, the music, etc. but they're not weebs at all
>>61937491
Casiopea are the bad kind of Jazz Fusion but I still love them. The musicians in the band are just too good for the band to be shit.
>>61938574
I source all my music in FLAC then run
for i in *; do oggenc "$i" -q 5 -o ~/Music/"${i%.*}".ogg; done
>>61938504
I'm the same.
I think you're good bro.
Though I find complaining about weebs on this board to be the most retarded shit ever.
>>61938504
If your second language is something other than japanese and you enjoy the culture of your fifth language you should be alright.
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MARICE
MIZERU
What even is the appeal of Japan?
>>61939544
second biggest music market in the world
literally rose from atomic rubble to world superpower to underpopulated recession country in 60 years
shunning an entire country because anime is a very reddit thing to do
>>61938386
Anonymous is a meme name
>>61939544
qt women
interesting culture/customs
interesting music
good porn
good food
fucking difficult language
>>61939703
>fucking difficult language
people actually believe this
>>61939867
アホ山出て行け
>>61936241
Susumu Hirasawa is awesome, don't have any albums of his though.
>>61939960
reminder that Japan is a ripoff of China
>>61940024
deceptively to the contrary
>>61935739
I believe that album is out but it's not uploaded anywhere.
weeaboos leave now
>>61939867
私は日本語がべんきょうします。難しですよ。
>>61940073
>
he says on 4chan with several reddit tabs open
>>61940107
>>61939960
>>61940061
Japan is like a child compared to 4000 years of history.
>>61940229
You're trying to bait me into making a comment about how the communists destroyed chinese culture so that you can call me /pol/, aren't you? Well I'm not going to have it.
post your top 3 nip albums
>>61940275
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQNDCx_6sk4
Listened to this soundtrack for the first time the other day and damn it was good.
>>61940229
I am sorry my friend but civilization in japan existed just as long. It is true they borrowed a lot of culture and written characters from China, but a distinctly Japanese culture developed very early on in recorded history. That's like saying the United States is just a ripoff of Europe.
>inb4 people try to claim the latter statement is true
>>61940274
China's government might be shite, but its culture is still the best one. And they made bigger achievements than any other country.
>>61940382
>civilization in japan existed just as long
>Chinese formation began in 2070 b.C.
>Japanese formation began in 660 b.C.
>That's like saying the United States is just a ripoff of Europe.
You are right. In actuallity, the USA is a rip-off of all cultures if you really think about it.
>>61940615
>You are right. In actuallity, the USA is a rip-off of all cultures if you really think about it.
You cannot deny, however, that there is a distinctly American culture, a way of thinking or a method of doing things that pervade their way of life and differentiate from a European. The same applies to Japan.
China has a very good traditional culture and an interesting religious field with its institutions interacting with folk belief. However, imo Chinese society is in general slow in innovating or experimenting with new trends. Japan is quite the opposite, and this can be seen in their rapid modernization among Western lines in the late 19th century. I think this is where some of the appeal comes from, in that it is a "Western" country built upon a wholly different cultural foundation. China has modernized comparatively recently and has take a unique route that still keeps it an "Eastern" nation, in western eyes.
But on the lines of experimenting, this can additionally be see in the depth of their modern literature and particularly music. While China has very impressive works of literature (and their music scene currently is anything but barren), the Chinese again are slow to pick up on modern trends. This is why, I think, /mu/ has a fascination with Japanese music and not necessarily Chinese. Not because everyone is a weeaboo, but because there is genuine interest in music of Japanese invention.
>>61940615
Chinese culture, at least the one you tout with the achievements and such, no longer exists. There doesn't even exist a distinctive contemporary chinese sound like there does for most other countries.
>>61940107
私も。漢字と言葉の数は難しいですが、文法はそんなに難しくないと思ういます。
\https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6-AN8J385c
>>61939540
I never got into visual-kei, but I feel nostalgic all of the sudden.
>>61941415
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnP0i3WIeX0
bit more prog-rock (same singer, different project)
>>61940884
>This is why, I think, /mu/ has a fascination with Japanese music and not necessarily Chinese.
I think it's because China has been very closed minded in terms of media because of their soocialist government. They use their own version of Facebok, their own version of Soundcloud, etc.. This prevents several Chinese artists form sharing their material the same way as Japanese do. Besides, freedom of speech is limited because of the same socialist government. An example of this is Ai Weiwei, who has been arrested just for trying to express himself. As I sayed before Chinese culture is great but their government is garbage. What I sayed can also be applied to of why China doesn't really experiment with new trends.
>>61941253
Nigga. China is still innovating in the medical and technological fields.
I'm gonna tell you something. If China stopped eating dogs, kill their socialist government, and help the NASA, we would be living in Nibiru right now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtHdXH7JEoU
some shoegazing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqmLVvTOnL4
and some meth-rock
>>61941557
>we would be living in Nibiru right now
Is there a essential japanoise chart?
>>61939703
Pretty much this except for the porn
>>61941557
this
If Japan was occupied by the USSR after WWII they'd be just as poor/limited media wise as China.
>>61941557
If by innovation you mean building smartphones for pennies on the dollar so americans can make mucho dinero, I concede.
>>61939703
>good porn
>censored
"no"
pls stop your sino-japanese war guise
Fuck China. Their language is inferior, they're poor, they lack the based aesthetics and technology of Japan, the cities are even more crowded and polluted than Japan, they have no strong modern cultural exports, they got their shit kicked in by grorious nihon (I guess you could say "raped" but Japan will deny it), and you're destined towards a fate of building toys for America and praising mao no matter what your skills are.
Anyway back to Japanese music what are your guys thoughts on vocaloid? Normally I don't like it but I heard a Shoegaze album using Hatsune Miku samples and it was actually pretty good.
Does anyone have any more Japanese blues, or any other albums by these guys?
The Fuji - We Pray the Brooze
>Sample: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvIC3beF0Gc
>https://mega.nz/#!uNpwQQqK!bq4DT6kDpqj4LWIntbwyqmMKiyYJliNdfRqKqEjkuj0
>>61942097
vocoloid is trash for weebs like nightcore
>>61938352
I'd say they are Alternative Rock with shoegaze elements, maybe a bit of math.
Going to see tricot in a few months in my city. Pretty hyped.
Am I the only one still doing this Japanuary challenge??
So far, only the pop/ambient albums really pleased me.
>Meiko Kaiji
>Midori Takada
>Dj Pica Pica Pica
>Susumu Yokota
>>61940275
Yellow Magic Orchestra - BGM
Les Rallizes Denudes - 77 Live
Testpattern - Apres-MIDI
>>61942578
>vocoloid
>>61942737
Most people here are either from reddit or already normally listen to a great deal of japanese music. The challenge was doomed from the start.
>>61938386
I fucking hate these posts, stop quoting everyone
>>61935739
>Hijokaidan x Jun Togawa
I need this
>>61938444
doesn't make that anon wrong.
