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Oh man, a Japanese music thread! Apparently I have more Japanese stuff than UK stuff in my foobar library so here's a long post incoming. There's a lot of pretty decent Japanese math-rock, with bands like Toe, Tricot or Lite. My favourite out of the lot of them is probably Ling Tosite Sigure, they manage to mix those math influences with post-hardcore and pop elements, and having a male and female singer adds a lot of dynamic to their tunes. Their albums have a bit too much filler imo but the Telecastic Fake Show EP is some of my favourite 15 minutes of music of all time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqYCMxhgeSU A band a bit similar to them are Mass Of The Fermenting Dredgs, they make very hard-hitting, upbeat rock music that blends alternative rock, shoegaze and post-rock. Their self-titled LP is an insanely fun record. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaTx9unXjLs Oh, and lately I've been listening to Shinsei Kamattechan a lot, they're a neat blend of dream pop/shoegaze and upbeat punk, with a handful of synths and vocal editing added. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGQfyyk7JCw Then there's Midori, who are a jazz-punk/hardcore band. Definitely check them out if you're into John Zorn and that kinda stuff, they're intense as hell. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGJ-sUvO5tg 385 are similar although instead of an upright bass there's a lot of slap bass going on. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EY8_WNOXfA Also Japan's got its fair share of glitch/post-rock bands. I've seen World's End Girlfriend mentioned here, but have you guys heard of Kashiwa Daisuke? He makes similar music to WEG but is a lot more post-rock oriented, April #02 is one of my all-time favourite albums. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYYpgGRmG6c Another band on the same label as these two are matryoshka, who make very pretty string-heavy ballad music, similar to Takk-era Sigur Ros. Oh and Mono, but you guys knew about them beforehand, probably. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaVu3IxxavA Then there's tons of Japanese noise bands, the most prominent being Merzbow and Melt-Banana. My favourites are Boredoms (especially their album vision creation newsun) and Nisennenmondai. The latter are really hard to describe, a krautrock band with an emphasis on noise and post-punk. Very dancable, my sister once described them as 'goa played on real instruments' and that's a pretty decent description. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huFA3jVoyT8 Lastly there's this band called downy that I really enjoy, they make some bleak/weird blend of post-punk, industrial music and trip-hop and it works ridiculously well. There's a side project of some of the members called dhal that is more heavy on electronics but similar in vibe and still very much worth checking out. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wishtr0sfE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oy_YduOxG7g I love the synth in the outro of the song so much, it's not even funny. And then obviously tons of weeby poo poo like anime OPs and Touhou arrangements that I also dig but let's not get into those. Satorr posted:What Japanese artists have you folks seen live? Babymetal, Bo Ningen, Mono, Lite. Not a ton, but they were all really good. Two things that are pretty high up on my bucket list are seeing Boris live and going to a Ryoji Ikeda installation sometime. Superimposition fucked around with this message at 01:02 on Feb 4, 2016 |
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Mass of the Fermenting Dredgs are reuniting btw. For those of you that are into fun alternative rock with some shoegaze elements. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9Vjk1tIygo
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