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I've been a huge fan of Shiina Ringo since I was 16 (I'm 30 now). Her music is literally the only thing in the world - including all music, tv, games, whatever - that I'm really an active fan of. While I prefer her earlier music, everything she's ever done has also been pretty great; even her worst stuff could still be called "high quality pop music." My favorite album is Kalk Zamen Kuri no Hana, which is unbelievably good and works very well as an album rather than just a collection of tracks, if that makes sense. Tokyo Jihen (the band she formed from ~2004-2012) is also great; not only is the music good, but all the musicians are actually extremely proficient, which is something that is sadly kind of uncommon. The bassist (Seiji Kameda) and drummer (Toshiki Hata) in particular are super good. It's a pleasure to listen to their lives, because they'll often rearrange the songs. Here is an arrangement of Karisome Otome (a solo song Shiina Ringo wrote*) they did that is great: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBvq-HMk1ro Honestly I'm kind of sad that Tokyo Jihen split up. Her music post-Tokyo Jihen has also been really good, but I think having the input of a collection of such talented musicians really helped with the production of her music. Here is another really good Tokyo Jihen song, Katsute wa Otoko to Onna: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RBF4ZblrgE Oh, someone mentioned Towa Tei so here's some collaboration between him and Shiina Ringo that is catchy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9qjVCi0ID4 * Shiina Ringo wrote the vast majority of Tokyo Jihen's songs, but this was written for one of her solo albums Another band I really like is Soutaiseiriron (Theory of Relativity). The singer is Etsuko Yakushimaru, who has also done some good solo stuff (though I prefer her stuff with Soutaiseiriron). Here is a cool song of theirs called Shikaku Kakumei (Square Revolution): https://youtu.be/Atc0ERea7nE?t=10m37s (actually that whole album is great, I really like Jigoku Sensei and Sawayaka Kaishain) abraham linksys posted:I came to this thread to freak out about finding this band only to find out it was in the OP the whole time! Alas, if only I'd read closer. Still, they're really, really good. This band owns. Ytlaya fucked around with this message at 00:18 on Jan 20, 2016 |
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I've only heard a few of Towa Tei's songs and was wondering if all of them do that thing where "stereotypical 1950's-sounding white man speaking english in a stilted manner" is sampled in the tracks. That aside, his music has a very distinct feel to it. I find it interesting when non-English music (in this case Japanese obviously) will randomly sample/use English words. I don't think there's really a parallel in native English-language music; I can't really think of any American songs that randomly sample Chinese/French/whatever words. I imagine it's related to English having such a big media presence in most of the world and most people in countries like Japan at least having some familiarity with the language due to studying it during their school years. So if a random English word/sentence shows up in a song, the audience would at least know "hey that's an English word/sentence" (even if they can't translate it), but if you had a random Russian word show up in a song the vast majority of people from any country not near Russia would just be confused and interpret it as a nonsense word.
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Gamma Nerd posted:I think Shiina Ringo fans will appreciate Seiko Oomori. Similar cluttered, eclectic approach to production, and I think she's more than a little inspired by Ms. Shiina - the cover of her debut gives this away. Haha, wow. The cover of Shouso Strip, for reference: 
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