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Post by tangerinesun on Aug 8, 2017 7:39:09 GMT -5
Gt. sister Kame of Gusya Ningen, acting like she's picking one up for the first time A sodden musicalityHere she is again with other-sister Vo. Au and some version of the band, plus special guests Idiot-nyan and Chubby… Gusya Ningen "Sate, mondai desu (Well, It's A Problem)" with Baka-nyan + Debu2017 APR 14 by otsilennhet^e (06:19) 2017.4.14 Akihabara Club Goodman
Gusya Ningen www.gusya.net/〜〜〜 Seattle Death Surf from some years before: Gusya Ningen "LOLICON Love Song"2014 SEP 07 by SMATSU2009X (04:17) ぐしゃ人間 「ロリコン愛歌」 2014-08-20 at Shimokitazawa MOSAiC〜〜〜 Two-person in-store at Disk Union for a maxi-CD of three songs about death. The event was billed as "Let's talk about death while gracefully sipping tea with the sisters." Gusya Sisters Acoustic Live at Shimokitazawa Disk Union2013 SEP 30 by otsilennhet^e (07:36) From "Shine/shinja okkana..." The "Die" PV is here → http: //youtu.be/vkLjaclS_yE
Live version double feature! youtu.be/pwVyHHP5DDo
Gusya Ningen www.gusya.net/If you're puzzled about why they would change bass players in the middle of a song at Shimokitazawa MOSAiC, the braided 'do is just a wig. 〜〜〜 Kame's twitter: @gusyaningenAU's twitter: @augusyaauGusya Ningen (ぐしゃ人間) = Fool Humans They are… the alternative to alternative, too independent even to be indie. The standard take is they set out to be gonzo psychedelic art noise, like Boredoms. Their blurb at Disk Union starts off: Formed in 2003. Lyrics that feel negative but also a bit interesting, for a hardcore sound that encompasses progressive, doom, post-rock-like avant-garde, heavy and decadent songs. A sodden musicality that is not trapped in genre...
〜〜〜〜〜 ice cream studio The "record" in 33RECORD Where Kame was shot by marz.marz with Gusya Ningen. Recording? Partying? Judging by the photos, Ice Cream Studio is the closest you can get to working in a hot, drafty, noisy corrugated steel warehousing shed on salvaged gear from 40 years ago. Actually, it's exactly that. THIRTY THREE RECORDIndeterminacy-focused. Community label-focused. 33RECORD is not quite a place. It's a communally managed (?) record label, associated with ice cream studio in some industrial district of Tokyo. Also, the people who hang around in and record at ice cream studio. They brought you OCTOPUS CAMMY and PAPAL VISIT. On Facebookwww.facebook.com/33record.JPICE CREAM STUDIO. It's only "record", but it's still "record". Who's visiting?At twitter@33record_JPN twitter.com/33RECORD_JPNHomepage:33record.net/At YouTube: www.youtube.com/user/33recordJPAt Vimeo: vimeo.com/33record
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Post by tangerinesun on Aug 8, 2017 8:10:10 GMT -5
More Dark Idol What you get when you add death metal lyrics and growling to theme music for a Touhou Project computer game. BiS and BiSH started this stuff, then BABYMETAL hit and there was LADYBABY and now the whole planet is in ruins. 〜〜〜〜〜 In English, they go by "Not Secured,Loose Ends" and they're consistent about no wordspace after the comma. The Japanese name Yukue Shirezu Tsuredzure I would say means "boredom without knowing where you are", but there's enough slack that you could as well say "lost and nothing to do". Datsuryoku gekijou-kei is "Exhaustion/Passion System", the made-up name for their genre. Official Facebook: www.facebook.com/YUKUESHIREZUTSUREZURE/〜〜〜〜〜 First the hit: ゆくえしれずつれづれ(Not Secured,Loose Ends) "MISS SINS" Official Music Video2017 MAR 01 by ゆくえしれずつれづれ 公式YouTubeチャンネル (03:51) From "Datsuryoku gekijou-kei" IDOL unit Yukue Shirezu Tsuredzure (Not Secured, Loose Ends) the music video for "MISS SINS", the title track from their second single "MISS SINS" released on 2017/3/1 (Wed)!
Not Secured Loose Ends, brand new single "MISS SINS". ☆ Global Fans Mobile Site: mufan.jp/nsle/
◯ Pro:Nobuhide Imamura(codomomental) ◯ Dir:wataru asai(LINKA ASSOCIATES INC.) ◯ Shooting:wataru asai・alff(LINKA ASSOCIATES INC.)
◯ 公式サイト:yukueshirezutsurezure.com ◯ 公式 Twitter:twitter.com/yukuetsurezure(Mixed Japanese/English song lyrics in the full description at YouTube.) 〜〜〜〜〜 Then the followup: ゆくえしれずつれづれ(Not Secured,Loose Ends) "Loud Asymmetry" Official Music Video(Original Version)2017 AUG 02 by ゆくえしれずつれづれ 公式YouTubeチャンネル (03:26) From "Datsuryoku gekijou-kei" IDOL unit Yukue Shirezu Tsuredzure (Not Secured, Loose Ends), the music video for "Loud Asymmetry", the title track from their third single "Loud Asymmetry" released on 2017/8/9 (Wed)!
(* Note: Please brighten up the room and take a look)I don't know why they want you to make your room more cheery, but they must have their reasons. Mixed Japanese/English song lyrics in the full description at YouTube. 〜〜〜〜〜 Live, a bit more tame: ゆくえしれずつれづれ(Not Secured,Loose Ends "Play with Nietzsche" Official LIVE Video2017 MAY 11 by ゆくえしれずつれづれ 公式YouTubeチャンネル (03:27) "Datsuryoku gekijou-kei" IDOL unit Yukue Shirezu Tsuredzure (Not Secured, Loose Ends) perform "Play With Nietzche" at Shinjuku LOFT, at the finale of their seven-city one-man tour "MISS SINS TOUR 2017", March through April 2017.◯ Tokyo/Osaka/Nagoya free one-man tour "pandemic"5/4 (Thu) Nagoya Club Quattro5/15 (Mon) Shinsaibashi SUN HALL5/31 (Wed) Shibuya WWWFree admission, all performances (1D extra)
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Post by tangerinesun on Aug 18, 2017 2:57:56 GMT -5
It's Lost Decade Aidoru, Bēbē!!Probably the golden age of idol, when it was most like itself 90's Era AIDORU(1990〜1999)Medley2016 SEP 01 by 19901999idol (51:08) Japanese-language publications about idol pop music 1990–1999
● BOOK "The Idol Winter Period: A Time to Look Back on Light and Shadow www.amazon.co.jp/dp/4401643364
● BOOK "The Idol Song Disc Guide" www.amazon.co.jp/dp/475722155X
● BOOK "Luxury Song (((80s))) Sound Guide 538" www.amazon.co.jp/dp/4925064681
●WEB Summary of famous '90s-era Idol Recordings matome.naver.jp/odai/2141294998960266001
●WEB "Idol Pop Database" www.idolpopdatabase.com/index.html
Japanese 90s Idols (Female)
CoCo / Riko Nishiyama / Yuko Hanashima / Eri Tamura / Yumiko Terio / Yoko Terako / Chisato Moritaka / Wink / Sachiko Suzuki / Shoko Aida / Riho Makise / Alisa Mizuki / Rie Miyazawa / Michiyo Nakajima / Maki Miyamae / ribbon / Hiromi Nagasaku / Arimi Matsuno / Aiko Satoh / Miki Sakai / Sakurako Club Sakura Group / Kanako Ogata / Harumi Inoue / Hiroko Kurumizawa / Noriko Kato / Miki Nakatani / KEY WEST CLUB / Maki Mochida / Miho Kanno / Yumiko Takahashi / Tokyo Performance Doll / Satomi Kihara / Miho Yonemitsu / Ryoko Shinohara / OPD / Namie Amuro / MAX / Ranran Suzuki / Tomomi Kahara / Asaka Seto (Megumi Ieda) / Melody / Akiko Hinagata / Yuki Uchida / Takako Matsu / Rie Tomosaka / Ryoko Hirosue / SPEED / Ami Suzuki / Checkicco / Mikuni Shimokawa / Asami Kumakiri / Mami Fujioka / Taiyo and Ciscomoon (T&C Bomber) / Morning Musume.〜〜〜〜〜 Idol music — some things about it don't change. Looking at a decade in time-lapse shows you styles blowing by like dust in the wind, while the thing they're styling stands like a rock. The songs themselves deserve to be forgotten the way you're definitely going to forget them. They might be pretty good songs, actually. Time throws a harsh light on weaknesses, but they were turned out by the top people working, for the biggest possible demographic slice. When that works well, the results are very happy. Dorky PUFFY are here in their bushy hair and dungarees. But as everyone knows, the songs are just an inconvenient necessity. Listening to this in the background while you look at something else is just a huge waste. The whole point is marveling at young girls singing and dancing together, forever and ever amen world without end. One alone might be amazing enough, but when you have 10 of them together in a pack, it lights up the sky. What you see in this sampler is idol more the way it should be, from an anxious time when Japan was frantically trying to figure out how to bring prosperity back. It's pretty pure. There's no irony at all, almost. So, what they're doing above all is selling a vision of girlhood. It's salable, because it's valuable. If you understand what's going on, it can be a good transaction with no regrets. Nobody gets made less of. Instead, the spirit of the performers propagates to the audience and everyone's rejuvenated. No amount of cheese can take away from that. It's what the world needs. Even when they're lip synching with microphones that obviously need to be plugged in, and are not. Things don't turn sour until you try to cheapen up the formula by reducing it to hot-button theater, or just high heels and thongs. The harmful cheapening is a phenomenon you see in every market. Competing sellers in search of profits try to give consumers less, for the same return. They look for the formula that makes your wallet open all by itself. If the public keeps buying, product standards go straight to hell, but hey — we're still succeeding, so let's do this more and more. We'll keep narrowing till we get to something rock-bottom cheap and reliable. What's worse, there's a reinforcing feedback loop. Not only do the sellers imitate each other, but when consumers accept inferior offerings, the next generation of producers says to itself, well, this is obviously what the market wants. And a new cycle begins, as we all spiral down together into the toilet. In these clips from about a quarter-century ago, the process is not so very advanced. Thank the editors for their part, but generally you can gaze open- mouthed at what the talent is doing, without once feeling like you should find somebody to apologize to afterwards. 588,850 views so far. They accumulate at the rate of around a dozen an hour, and a couple of them are me.
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Post by lazybone712 on Aug 20, 2017 22:27:01 GMT -5
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Post by tangerinesun on Aug 21, 2017 11:00:56 GMT -5
Here's a fan-made clip compilation of Mai and friends at play on TV. This is why I watch Nogizaka46 shows 2016 JUL 24 by Monsterstrreisand (01:04) There's a lot of reasons to watch Nogi shows, this is an example xD
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Post by tangerinesun on Aug 29, 2017 5:24:37 GMT -5
88 Kasho Junrei (八十八ヶ所巡礼)Well… this is a little nuts. MUROFEST 2017 booked 88 Kasho Junrei, night-crawling denizens of tiny basement bars, and had them open their section of the festival in a public park in a harbor in Odaiba at 11:30am on a Saturday in July. That's like an early-morning call for Dracula. Instead of shriveling in the sun, 88KJ expanded the club act and engaged the day trippers like a good-timey jam band. They seem to enjoy how basically weird this scene is. It's great, these people just got here in their ball caps, they're fresh and ready for anything. 〜〜〜 88KJ are closing their set with " Kindonichi" ("Friday/Saturday/Sunday") official MV here: youtu.be/5qH2A5UXSds As a courtesy to newbs, bass/vocal Margaret gives an orientation lecture for the first 03:30. Before he's done, he's got a twenty-something morning crowd clapping and singing: Yatteru imi no nai koto ga taisetsu, boku nari ni ganbatteru Yatteru imi no nai koto ga taikutsu, wake nado sagasanai de Yatteru imi no nai koto ga taisetsu, boku nari ni ganbatte Yatteru imi no nai koto ga taisetsu, wake nado sagasanai de
Ima wake nado sagasu na Doing meaningless things is important, work hard at it with me Doing meaningless things is boring, I'm not looking for any reason Doing meaningless things is important, keep working hard with me Doing meaningless things is important, I'm not looking for any reason Now I'm looking for something like a reason In a club, snake-skinny Margaret would have floor joists above to hang onto when he goes climbing, but here, if he loses his balance he's also going to lose his pajama pants. This is about a couple of lines getting extended as far as anything seen outdoors since the original Woodstock. 88 Kasho Junrei @ MUROFEST 2017.7.222017 JUL 31 by 22 (16:21) 88 Kasho Junrei 【 88kasyo.com/ 】 Vo.& Ba.:Margaret Hiroi Gt.:Katzuya Shimizu Dr.:Kenzoooooo
Ba. and singing and designated chief offender Margaret Hiroi's bass groans unnecessarily as he sings extravagantly; Gt. and staff officer and acting coach Katzuya Shimizu's stupidly technical guitar wails in a ceaseless downpour; Dr. and yakuza-movie heavy and sniggering Kenzoooooo's tough drumming amplifies them. Such rock music as simply cannot be imagined. A scrap of lighthearted Progressive. Who writes this stuff, anyway? The video clearly had some mileage before it ever got to this place.
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Post by tangerinesun on Sept 3, 2017 16:15:42 GMT -5
Some moderately sublime noise and some less so
This is Shonen Knife's friends Solmania live from around 16 months ago at BEARS in Osaka Namba.
solmania live@NAMBA BEARS 2016 29th April (part) 2016 APR 30 by fukugangallery (03:58) Shot from a gap in the stacked loudspeakers, so the focus is sometimes blurred by speaker vibration.
Eight years earlier, they were up to substantially the same thing, but although the fans are in rapture, the middle bit of this is pretty boring. Granted, you're not getting the sheer force of the live audio on YouTube.
SOLMANIA - Lady Apocalypse @ BAKUTO OSAKA 2008 2012 MAY 15 by DAX -Space Shower Digital Archives X- (06:14) 2008/9/7 BAKUTO OSAKA 2008
It would be hard to improvise, or even play a score consistently, with the gear they use. The signal chain can be rather chaotic. If they have to search for the way to dial in an effect on stage, it might be a long search.
There's really not much relationship between their gesturing and what comes out. That's because fine control over the output is so awkward and indirect. For me anyway, that detracts from the idea of this as a musical performance, because the equipment is responding to itself as much as to the players.
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Post by tangerinesun on Sept 3, 2017 16:35:23 GMT -5
Afrirampo's Oni solo guitar/vocal self-accompaniedPika from Afrirampo playing solo is probably pretty familiar, and feels somehow like what I'd expect. Oni playing solo another dimension completely, but two constants are the projection of her personality through the music, and the surprise factor when she turns the knob to 11. Oni solo of Afrirampo live in Kyoto2007 MAR 18 by Kevin P. Smith (05:35) Afrirampo's Oni performs solo acoustic at Urban Guild in Kyoto for the Picca Mosque event 3/17/07.Oni (from Afrirampo) in Tokyo on August 292010 OCT 04 by Ilse Vervaeck (06:54) Solo performance by Oni from Afrirampo. Somewhere in Tokyo (Hatchobari?) on August 29 2010. Amazing voice! Amazing performance!〜〜〜〜〜 This 2012 reunion gig is a bit like them turning back into Afrirampo right before your very ears. Editing sucks on the clip. Afrirampo (オニ & ピカ, Oni & Pika Reunion) 15-7-2012 @save The Noon2012 JUL 16 by BegoneDullCare (10:09) Afrirampo (Oni & Pika Reunion) 15-7-2012 @save The Noon
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Post by tangerinesun on Sept 5, 2017 17:34:30 GMT -5
Garage Rockin' Craze DVD October release
Halloween week. Coincidence? Nope. http://instagr.am/p/BYeXRzLF2hk The Tokyo garage-punk documentary film "Garage Rockin' Craze" has been scheduled for a DVD release on 25 October.
I think it's a great achievement for supervisor Mario who did the live show and interview recording, Clark, the bands in the scenes, the DJ, as well as all the knob-sans (because there are many others I expect).
Apart from the achievement… on completely neighboring ground, what's above all else is that there are still interesting things unfolding right now in the underground.
Suitable for people who aren't familiar with it but want to be, as well as those already familiar with it, who want to enjoy it again.
There will be a screening and live show to celebrate the DVD-ization on 27 October at Shinjuku Cinemato. Performers afterwards! Please support them!〜〜〜 I've never heard anyone called "knob-san" before, but I take it that those are all the production people responsible for turning various knobs.
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Post by lazybone712 on Sept 6, 2017 21:22:53 GMT -5
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Post by thegl0r on Sept 7, 2017 19:12:00 GMT -5
While stalking Abe Mao's Stalker Song around YT, I found this Gumi version of it and loads of versions by cute Japanese girls. Then there's this rather different stalker song. This isn't the cute schoolgirl who's just a little strange, this next stalking song is very different. Showing the very nasty side of stalking, with no happy ending... WARNING! Sorry, this next vid is really grim and uneasy viewing. You may prefer to not click on it. Ah well, how about staying in with some tobacco instead...
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Post by tangerinesun on Sept 8, 2017 18:00:47 GMT -5
Holy shit. Obsession on through to depression, that sure clears the table down to the 8-ball. Mao Abe's tune would still sound cute if her little girl had a sniper rifle, but that thing from Nasty Nit is just vile, vile, vile. I would never have clicked on that bit of sick if I'd known what it was. How about an advisory label? At least there was a catatonic abandoned girlfriend to cheer up with.
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Post by thegl0r on Sept 8, 2017 21:36:45 GMT -5
Holy shit. Obsession on through to depression, that sure clears the table down to the 8-ball. Mao Abe's tune would still sound cute if her little girl had a sniper rifle, but that thing from Nasty Nit is just vile, vile, vile. I would never have clicked on that bit of sick if I'd known what it was. How about an advisory label? At least there was a catatonic abandoned girlfriend to cheer up with. Whoops, sorry. I didn't think to include and advisory label. So I've added one now. I'm one for often listening to videos and not really watching them. So my first experience of this song was watching the first minute or so of the vid, then I just listened to the rest of it. I liked the sound of the song so played it a couple more times before actually getting around to watching the whole video. Then it was OMG! But I'd already got used to enjoying the song. Perhaps I shouldn't have included it in my post, but didn't think. I was into well over 12 hours of stalking versions Mao Abe's song all over the place. With a few diversions and random breaks and lots of cups of hot, sweet tea, a head full of painkillers that weren't performing their job and topped off with not sleeping enough. A feeble excuse, I've since managed to grab a couple of hours kip before getting back to stalking that song again. Yeh Mao Abe's song is really cute and it is one of the songs which makes me wish I could speak Japanese, just so that I could sing along. I've decided that perhaps I'll hold off on learning that beautiful language until I get reincarnated as a Japanese girl - then it'll be much easier for me to sing along. As added pennance, I'll offer yet another version here. Did I mention, I can't sleep just now.
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Post by thegl0r on Sept 9, 2017 1:18:32 GMT -5
Good morning. Here are a few gentle stretching exercises which you can do from the comfort of your favourite chair. A little something to ease you into a new day. Please follow closely...
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Post by tangerinesun on Sept 9, 2017 21:28:41 GMT -5
...I was into well over 12 hours of stalking versions Mao Abe's song all over the place. With a few diversions and random breaks and lots of cups of hot, sweet tea, a head full of painkillers that weren't performing their job and topped off with not sleeping enough. Yeh Mao Abe's song is really cute and it is one of the songs which makes me wish I could speak Japanese, just so that I could sing along. I've decided that perhaps I'll hold off on learning that beautiful language until I get reincarnated as a Japanese girl - then it'll be much easier for me to sing along. One more Stalker Song cover from amateur Mori ShotaroDid I mention, I can't sleep just now. SUTŌKĀ no uta is a really, really fine tune in a jingly way, and the harmlessness of the arrangement against the unease of the lyrics is what makes it go. I don't think you could improve on Abe's version in a lifetime of stalking, because of how good she is at singing loudly in a chibi little character voice. Aishiteru yo... ne. I love you (emphatic, masculine)... y'know (intimate, feminine). Not that that should stop you. When a male tries the same thing, it automatically gets more menacing. No way out of that, but stalking your object of interest is a particularly Japanese thing to do, because of taboos about approaching other people you don't know well. You've probably run into someone's archetypal personal confession about finally asking an attractive, eligible other individual for a date, after the two of you have stood in a cold sweat of unfulfilled potential on the same train platform every weekday morning of the world for five years, without speaking once. I think you should just break down and learn some Japanese. If it doesn't seem like a lot of effort, then you're definitely wasting a lot of time. But think how much easier your next preschool experience is going to be. Look at it as preschool cram school. They probably have that in reality, now that I think of it.
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