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Lain, do you like japanese music? what band or singer? i like P-MODEL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X92B6pTuzdY

I've been listening to YMO a lot lately. Let me know what you think, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMb5DFVPzc0

>>39 Thank you for supporting our beloved incarnation of Lain! 東芝神を愛しましょう! In terms of Japanese music, I mostly listen to Japanese progressive rock, enka, and soukyoku. I secondarily like city pop, Japanese picopop, shibuya-kei, and regional folk music. My taste is determinately in flux so I don't readily assign favorites, but I have a deepseated sense of respect for Otomo Yoshihide, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Masahiko Sato, Taeko Onuki, Akiko Yano, Masayuki Takayanagi, Yamasoykafa Tatsuro, Tatsuya Yoshida, Casiopea, Jun Togawa, Chakra, Ryo Fukui, Yuu Miyake, Katsuhiko Maeda, Ryoji Ikeda, and Yukiko Okada. I like the bulk of P-Model's discography but I'm not particularly fond of linked track. Do you have a RYM account?

>>41 >Yamasoykafa Tatsuro Lain is a broadly forgiving and occasionally merciless god.

>>42 Also chiding myself for using the honorary order for Japanese names in this case because I used conventional English order for all other listed artists.

>>39 Listening to koto music is so cathartic. https://youtu.be/uorVoWL0CuM

Tokyo Jihen/Sheena Ringo is always a favorite of mine

I guess I like Malice Miser, X, Der Eisenrost, Crystal King, and Godiego. And Babymetal is a guilty pleasure.

I like J-Core!

Mass of the Fermenting Dregs - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4CKmzBf5Cs Tricot - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvMyCFAVIqs Acid Mother's Temple - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7888r_vKX4 Mono - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1j6F0O4E-k Number Girl - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rSDV11gytE High Rise - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yz6K7U_TfzQ Cigaretteman - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acXZgw7YP7k If anyone has anything by this band, please upload it, all I have is an old demo on cassette. Kinoko Teikoku - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vA1Ph6SpTkI Melt Banana - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75TkVyZXnMA Pear Of The West - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0NvAsmHZFU I was unable to find this band's discography anywhere online. I got a friend in Japan to find it for me and could upload if anyone really wants it. The Peggies - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPFt3Fe3uPk Sugardrop - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qn12QefFTcg Swipe - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRJoiAxc6xQ

Coaltar of the Deepers, i love them even if i'm not a fan of shoegaze usually

MAXIMUM THE HORMONE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEfH_5LETls https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKZBlRhTKJw

Late 70s and 80s idol pop is so wonderful. I really like Kikuchi Momoko and Taeko Ohnuki, in particular. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cb8E8hSy1k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93RvNGbnlXo

>>51 My favorite jpop 80's idol is Seiko Matsuda. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOvheB_RTlg

You guys shoul listen to Zazen Boys, a post number girl project of it's guitarist, it's more experimental and rhythmically complex (you could even consider them math rock, or at least in their latest albums) but they're awesome. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Qy7-LPvlrs And I've been really into japanese punk and that sorta stuff, I'm loving it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XR6WkLXD3ak https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Awwu5F0J3YM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajYCOfcW-98 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rSDV11gytE Shibuya-kei is pretty nice too, and it makes me happy as hell <33 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jm6sfg3HN_w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oR865PpPKbs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoq6uaLF0sI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5oiAFtuZ2U

Wonderful thread! Some old favourites and stuff I've never heard before in here. I first started listening to Japanese music when I was a 12-year old developing weeb listening to the Japan-a-Radio stream in Winamp. The family computer was old and I would always have to pause and let it buffer. What I find interesting is that as my taste has expanded significantly over the years, my favourite albums for a particular genre are from quite often from Japan. Here are some gems I've found over the years. Its diverse, so hopefully there is something for everyone. Susumu Yokota -Symbol https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlFvb7kWAbk Ken Ishii - Music for Daydreams https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1xycyeJCDY reichi chabo nakaido (Knowing who this is, is a prereq for posting here) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MFHxvsn11g Mayumi Kojima - A Musical Biography 2001-2007 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwstQdNkqvo Sōtaisei Riron - Synchroniciteen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_6quQ994JI Serani Poji - Octopus Daughter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYkBs1Ah4JY Kinoko Teikoku - Long Goodbye https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bv5GFYN27LY Haruomi Hosono & Friends - Pacific https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSCwoYcp0IY Ai Aso - Lavender Edition https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3XGdAHGA8c Kashiwa Daisuke: Program Music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xyz389Htbdg NAGISA COSMETIC - NAGISA COSMETIC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8KQIB0hifs OOIOO - Gamel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sf1B9aeVoSg Koenjihyakkei - Angherr Shisspa https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PSHtH8zo7w Osamu Kitajima ‎-- Benzaiten https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c87ARHzyO4k Shojoskip - Cosodorokitsune https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eV4NNeTkbWE Takako Minekawa - Cloudy cloud calculator https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZV_URbLMzvo Boris - Akuma No Uta (I got to see them live at a free show. It was great!) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5t_5MEME6UU And to wrap it up, here are some from a particular favourite of mine. Not likely to be as well received as some of the others I've posted, but the humble little Touhou doujin elevator-jazz group Flap + Frog is absolutely my jam: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ttBHymwZLQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvqjuS9kLQA

>ctrl - f >no midori japanese jazz-punk fusion, fuarrrking incredible band https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r25A3NraFOM

>>54 thanks for providing such a length list, look forward to exploring these arts. >OOIOO - Gamel I had to review this album when I was working for a music blog. It was difficult, to say the least.

Jun Togawa, Midori, Melt Banana, toe, Fishmans, Sigh, Nujabes, Boris, Ryoji Ikeda, Seiko Oomori, capsule and some soundtrack stuff.

I listen to a lot of Japanese music, but lately I've been really into new wave, city pop, and 80's idols. Makoto Matsusoykafa: https://youtu.be/JpS6j5KJLeU Yu Hayami: https://youtu.be/IbJo9vPxghI Portable Rock: https://youtu.be/14oycrte9Ls The Blue Hearts: https://youtu.be/I68t-vJZinc >>52 I love Momoko Kikuchi, but my favorite 80's idol is Minako Honda: https://youtu.be/R9Iaar7riXQ >>51 I like Seiko Matsuda a lot but I actually enjoy her recent stuff more than her classic albums. Check this out: https://youtu.be/eI9UiuWcvJ0 Akina Nakamori (https://youtu.be/AMCRPkAiflY) is kind of the opposite. Her 80's work is good to great (try her album "Fushigi") and most of her releases since then sound kind of tired to me, although I do love the album of enka covers she did about ten years go.

man this thread is perfect, i need to add more music to my library, i'm a casual when in comes to japanese culture, i grab what i can find on /t/ threads, ok w/e didn't found syrup16 here so i'm posting it https://youtu.be/WhitOT5aO3Q

>>48 Know where I can get the Kinoko Teikoku albums?

>>39 Sotaiseiriron/Etsuko Yakushimaru https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfV3qt2-430 和モノ High School Mellow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IVexWdvSnY

op, 41, 48 Noodles!!!!

Fullkawa Honpo is one of my favorite musicians. Not one song he's released that I don't like. Here's my favorite music release ever, made by him: https://mega.nz/#F!q5wG1BwY!HfV79eEp22vL9mIix2kRcg

>>87 I would upload them but I am on peasant data at the moment. There was a site called Otonomai that changed it's name to something else, that's where I got it. It was invite only for a while and the last I saw it was shut down.

>>95 I don't mind you uploading it whenever it's convenient for you. Thanks in advance.

LISTEN TO MOTHERFUCKING JAGATARA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xf_0MFFFXbc

>no one cited Aimer >no one cited Ling Tosite Sigure heh. >Unrevel - LTS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ov19kHw3Nw >Abnomalize - LTS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-4SVb8ZoIU >Enigmatic Feeling - LTS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IoHBOIWM9c >Tone - Aimer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnJYy4QCQlE >Rokutousei no Yoru - Aimer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fqho9N0ov2I >Akane Sasu - Aimer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-NAD2qtKo8 >Falling Alone - Aimer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFge59EL2yU >Us - Aimer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCVHmS1HNCI

>>132 Yes! They're awesome. BtBtw, I don't know if you have listened to them, because they're kind of famous, but if not, you should listen to Sumo, they're not japanese (they're from Argentina), but have a similar sound. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlUXIfPt5tk

>>136 You have recommended them to me already in a different place and a different time, and I have had a few albums of their sitting around in zip files on my computer since then. Your post reminded me to get around to listening to them. I vaguely remember you recommending a few other artists with a similar sound. Is this true?

A few favorites Pale Cocoon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VadYgOuQzhY Tolerance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqngFPEGrvE Yoran https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2LZ99k6T5s and some gagaku https://youtu.be/cT4j1LqhjC4 >>48 >Cigaretteman I'd never thought I'd see them mentioned here I think I used to have their complete discography, but it's probably on an old hard drive now. You probably already have, but have you tried soulseek? >Pears Of The West This is awesome thank you! I really like this brand of pop punk! When I was into them I was also listening to soykaf like Sore Loser or Broccoli or japanese bands like Bloodthirsty Butchers, Eastern Youth and Cowpers a lot. Good times.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDGtScxzvhU&t=206s POWERVIOLENCE

>>137 Nah, I don't even remember recommending Sumo to someone. Maybe some other guy did.

I like Flip https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLdo-rnJEOA exist trace https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gFYDX1s390

>>39 >P-Model >>55 >midori >>57 > toe, Fishmans >>147 >Pale Cocoon Damn, lots of good taste in here. I'd like to contribute with pic related (Shinsei Kamattechan - Tsumanne), Yume by Lamp, and Nakano Kill You by Ling Tosite Sigure.

A few months ago in a /feels/ thread, someone linked me a youtube video of japanese rock group I liked quite a lot but I lost the link, I was hoping that someone might be able to find it. The word "sucrose" was somewhere in the title, it either was the name of the song or the name of the group. The video itself was a still image of an asian woman in her underwear lying on a bed in a dimly lit room. She was looking towards the camera with a sort of confused/irritated look (either because of what looked like the flash of the camera or because she was displeased with the picture being taken). It sounds a lot like this song before it hits the chorus: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BDW1V_P5sA If anyone has an idea of the video/group I'm looking for it'd be much appreciated! In exchange for this silly wall of text, please have a few of my favorites. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XT38It-wpjA OK?NO!! - 水星 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgnG6NU5sOI 雨のメッセージ (Ame No Message) - Lamp

>>160 I can't find the video, but I would like to hazard a guess that the group could be ザ・スクロース (The Sucrose) http://www.tunecore.co.jp/artist/thesucrose?id=121398&lang=en https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0dXvbCi7FT3WZIUlexd6vw The have several covers of the the pillows (which is the band that plays the similar song you mentioned) songs on their youtube.

>>159 Damn I've at least listened to that album 50 times. Really nice inclusion.

>>161 this sounds like what I'm looking for, just need to do some more searching now that i've got the name. thank you!

The jap stuff I have downloaded is all right here, but I'm going to download some more soon. Soulseek is a huge blessing.

>>174 whoops

>>48 Can you post that Pear of the West album? I was really digging that!

ctrl+f >no Les Rallizes Dénudés what the fuarrrk are you doing lainon? get the fuarrrk out and listen this beautiful band.

I'm a big fan of Yoshiki Fukuyama, more specifically his work on Macross 7 as Fire Bomber. To be honest I like pretty much almost everything that comes out of Macross. Aside from that, Babymetal is pretty good, Takkyu Ishino is a fuarrrking legend, I like Ken Ishii, and I may or may not have a crush on Daoko.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_1qfCb5CV8

Zettai Reido - https://youtu.be/_OWdyiy75Zw

>>193 Ishino and Issii are great! Sometimes I listen to sets from them all night while programming.

>Love Trip - Takako Mamiya [ 間宮貴子 ] - 1982 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovcnIPL-CWs Also, there is a sub-reddit dedicated to music like this /r/citypop https://www.reddit.com/r/citypop/

Lovely Jun Togawa. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whFqr3YYoY8

>>95 Otonomai became Yorukaze, but they shut down for good some months ago. I don't know if other members started a new site or not. >>97 I don't know which albums you want, but here's everything I have. Crybaby - https://file.io/htY3pr Eureka - https://file.io/ApyEOJ Fake World Wonderland - https://file.io/2LwvNl Long Goodbye - https://file.io/8slVNu Neko to Arerugi - https://file.io/lrG6Oh Uzu ni Naru - https://file.io/2cr0g7 Sakura ga Saku Mae ni - https://file.io/2Hc4TT

>>289 >>97 You, and anyone else reading should really install soulseek. You can get pretty much any album that exists. I hadn't installed it until recently, but it's extremely useful.

>>293 I have two artists for you: Ryo Fukui - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wW_dYLcate4 Boris - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bREC4gvH5Gw

>>293 You're not wrong. I can't use it though, no home internet. It works from some public wifis on a laptop (except other users tend to ban you for poor transfer rates) but all I have now is a sillyphone.

they aren't singers but Fumiya Tanaka, Takaaki itoh and Dj Shufflemaster always inspired me a lot https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uN_ZPostAk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Xc6F1LUGYA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CjNJGnsvk8

Sayuu - https://youtu.be/TbzMf44qVXw

>>160 see >>59 the description fits perfectly i was the one who posted that video back in /feels/

>>39 Susumu Hirasawa. He made the Berserk OST and I think he was involved with P-Model at some point. (One of my favorite tracks from Hirasawa) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuPkhtNlrrI

>>450 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJO5ZTl3Rf8 I like this one in particular a lot. Also made soundtrack for Paranoia Agent.

Here's a single artist that makes some really interesting pop/indie/electronica/experimental stuff. Plamo, his earliest moniker, with a couple albums under this name: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCLux4AAubY and Ventla, with 25 albums to boot. Part of a failed (failing?) 100 album project: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNk8uOKBnkg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6W679jWt4dg

>>315 that's it. should have checked each video in the thread before I posted I suppose. thank you!

>>192 My desktop wallpaper has been of one of their albums for years now. They're an okay band. They're just aesthetic noise. I think people like them for pretentious reasons. >m-muh obscurity >muh no one knows anything about them

>>450 Susumu Hirasawa is great, but I can't believe you decided to share such a soykafty song that doesn't even demonstrate his characteristic sound

>>460 This is really cool anon, thanks for posting

>>182 http://www.mediafire.com/file/113b4bno3wa8uv1/Pear+Of+The+West.zip Here you go. I couldn't upload it because of my soykafdata, but I remembered I uploaded it a while ago. Hope it isnt too late.

>>466 >not appreciating the artist's full discography

>>471 This is a very plebeian approach to music. You don't have to enjoy everything by an artist you narrow minded mongoloid. Of course it's encouraged to listen to an artist's entire catalogue before establishing a solid opinion; but why would you pick out a soykafty example of his work that doesn't demonstrate his musical prowess?

>>474 That was 4chan/mu/ bait from about eight years ago. If you didn't know this you were probably better off but now you know to ignore it next time.

>>475 I've only ever gone on and still only ever go on /mu/ after an artist dies, but thanks for the knowyourmeme update

>>466 I'm barely getting into his music. I just wanted to share the one song that got me into his other songs.

>>54 This is wonderful. I hope you upload your collection. Your taste is perfect.

>>39 Man, I have a ton of city pop from '70s to '90s. well, only 13gb. I'd love to share but I can't, even Soulseek doesn't work because my network admin is strict as fuarrrk. (living situation issues). torrents no longer work either. but I got all my stuff from rutracker anyway.

Lately I've been obsessed with alt. idol, especially BiS/BiSH and BILLIE IDLE. Surprised to see them not mentioned yet. >BiS - PPCC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-nxLZCuLYQ >BiSH - BiSH-星が瞬く夜に https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8y-dHKkp2zU >BILLIE IDLE® - 泣きそうサンデー https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4wRdysB9j0

I really like their electronic music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-01k8eyv9Wc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nUbhbEp65s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xd1aTk0NyeU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vI03pK7GJtk

I listen to a fair bit of Japanese music every now and then. Scandal is pretty good as a pop/rock group. They also are one of the few groups that is not part of the typical asian forced group mechanism Awanaitsumorinogenkidene is pretty nice https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EDvabyo620

Tentenko has pretty solid music. Boring by Kamattechan

>>1037 Accidentally hit the press button. Also there's Soutaiseiron, Sweet Vacation and I love pre-wave runner Capsule.

>>39 I've got a lot of old jpop. 16.2GB on my pc. Wink, Anri, Junko Yagami, Junko Ohashi, Yukiko Okada, Seiko Matsuda, Taeko Ohnuki, Tomoko Aran, Momoko Kikuchi, a bunch more. I love that stuff. I actually like youtube solely on the basis of finding new music. I'll just watch some stuff I like, and it will end up showing me some new stuff and that plus comment sections sometimes pique my interest in new artists.

I generally don't like anything that comes from weeb-land, but Fishmans is alright. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3EKEwMXmXY

Can someone recommend their favorite female enka singers? Want something to listen to tonight while I drink Suntory whisky and smoke Mild Sevens in the dark.

>>39 Yes, quite a lot. very loose genres I D K IT SOUNDS COOL THO > Akiko Yano > Portable Rock > Yasuaki Shimizu > After Dinner > Kimio Eto > Satoshi Ashikawa > Katsuya Yokoyama > Phew > Hiroshi Yoshimura ROCK > Kan Mikami > Eiichi Ohtaki > Tin Pan Alley > Hako Yamasaki > Happy End > Haruomi Hosono POP > Yellow Magic Orchestra > Chakra > Tomoko Aran > Miki Matsubara > Takako Mamiya > Junko Yagami > Rajie > Taeko Ohnuki > Yoshiko Sai > Meiko Kaji > Makoto Matsusoykafa > Junko Ohashi > Hiromi Iwasaki > Anri > Mariya Takeuchi > Yumi Matsutoya > Tatsuro Yamasoykafa > Toshiki Kadomatsu JAZZ & FUNK > Shigeo Sekito > Masayoshi Takanaka > Osamu Kitajima > Haruomi Hosono & Friends > Akio Sasajima > Himiko Kikuchi > Akira Onozuka > Hirotaka Izumi > Toshiko Akiyoshi > Masaru Imada > Naoya Matsuoka & Wesing > Psychotic Cube > Minoru Muraoka > Sadao Watanabe > Ryo Fukui > Hiroshi Fukumura > Ryo Kawasaki > Casiopea > NORIKI

Is anyone aware of a large web dump or decent source for 80s citypop?

>>1051 If you want albums from these artists, check my channel on Telegram @iwakuralain.

>>1062 I get everything off of SoulSeek and JPopsuki.

>>39 japanese art rock is pretty dope for example this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHGqvYVfpEU i love this song it has such dreamy melody and amazing vocals

Did Lain see the 77 member drum jam hosted by the Boredoms under the Brooklyn Bridge? It's on youtube sonewhere.

>>1132 I love that album. I downloaded it at random off soulseek. Best accident ever. They remind me of a Japanese Talking Heads

I really like listening to Pizzicato Five from time to time Pizzicato Five - Good (Samoan Attorney Mix) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuRBiLsdoQQ Pizzicato Five - Face B https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q44_gDKwBUk Pizzicato Five - Top Secrets https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZ67N7aZyqE

Mechanero is nice to listen to sometimes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAAKswMTFdk

>>1483 Do you have any reference on the band, lain? Can't find anything about them except for a few songs. How many albums do they have? Are they still active?