What are some Japanese music essentials? Anyone got a list?
Electronic: DJ Technorch, goreshit, m1dy
Jazz: tokyo active neets, studio tram
Folk: foxtail-grass studios, whisper studios
Orchestral: MiddleIsland, Unknown dimension
i know this is short but should get you started you can find all this at dojin.co
>>63648018
theres links to essentials in the sticky
>>63649167
oh shit forgot:
metal: Undead corperation
i'm not a huge fan of metal but this is the best metal band i've heard from japan
>>63649184
Yeah try memecore
I always dug Eastern Youth, came across them because of their split with Cursive. What Can You See From Your Place is a fav.
>>63648018
Hip-Hop:
Buddha Brand - 人間発電所
Rip Slyme - Good Job!
DJ Krush - Strictly Turntablized
Haicali - ハルカリベーコン
group_inou - _*
Kenichiro Nishihara - Humming Jazz
RHYMESTER - Ecotopia
DJ Krush - Jaku
Shingo Suzuki - The Abstract Truth
Scha Dara Parr - Wild Fancy Alliance
Kimidori - s/t
King Giddra – 空からの力
Tha Blue Herb - Stilling, Still Dreaming
DJ Honda - HII
Kohh - 梔子
Uyama Hiroto - A Son of The Sun
Daoko - Dimension*
NITRO MICROPHONE UNDERGROUND - Nitro Microphone Underground
Lamp Eye - 証言
Shing02 - 歪曲
Audio Sports - Era of Glittering Glass
m-flo - Planet Shining
Nomak - Calm
>>63649986
and, of course, fucking Nujabes
oh, and DJ Okawari as well
Here is a list:
http://pastebin.com/Cca07HuB
Phew
Boris
Les Rallizes
Worlds End girlfriend
Melt banana
Flower travellin band
Midori
Kyaru pamyu pamyu
Nujabes
Boredoms
Merzbow
Keiji Haino
This are, at least on mucore
moro
Listen to this album. Fucking great.
>>63652925
is that future funk or actual jpop
>>63652925
good taste
and i thought you were just some shitposting trip
listen to YMO and Ryuichi Sakamoto OP. absolute essential.
>>63652953
J-pop but kinda jazzy lounge/funk influenced
came out in the mid 80s.
Future funk people just sampled it a lot.
It's way better than any of that stuff t b h
>>63652956
Nah f a m
Only Japanese album I've listened to all the way through.
>>63648018
a bunch of dudes here made one pretty recently but it's pretty much a "albums that are both good and japanese" not anything really essential.
>>63648018
I don't know but an anon recommended me this and I liked it
Someone post the new essentials chart.
Luminous Orange
385
Yoshiko Sai
Takako Mamiya - Love Trip
Taeko Ohnuki
I've also taken a liking to フレネシ recently, but I don't think that will be for everyone.
Everything from Yellow Orchestra members.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ssrV7Ms3rw
Any love for My Dead Girlfriend or Shojoskip?
https://youtu.be/-OVEUYVEpBw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4CKmzBf5Cs
Gotta post Haruomi Hosono and Miharu Koshi.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6wwtZXGta8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ed2Qf5H_1f4&list=PLF977562226DF4F10
>music
Just read the sticky you cunt