Piana

Nostalgic, Soft, emotional, beautiful.

Aco

Bold, experimental, unpredictable

Cokiyu

Soft, windy like a breeze, swinging like a child
(piano and frog is an excellent song)

Lullatone

childlike, fragile, sometimes music is made with all kinds of unconventional instruments, easygoing,

Moskitoo

wavy, soundwaves move in interesting ways, colorful

Tenniscoats

Eccy ft aco

Sawako

She's a sound sculptor, very interesting experience

Tujiko Noriko

Piana! That's it! I got one of her albums, deleted it I guess when I was cleaning out my hdd, and I've been trying to remember the name for a while.

I'll definitely check this stuff out since I need more music.

You might like Susumu Yokota. I've only really listened to Symbol, but it's a pretty interesting album. He's done pretty much every form of electronica so there should be something you like.

Lullatone and shugo tokumaru are awesome (though the latter is definitely not electronica)

Google"japshare" on wordpress for more cool, alternative japanese music

I'm very happy that this thread got started as japanese electronic music is really one of my favourite genres! I hope that more people will start to like it.

After Piana my life changed.

quincy Wrote:You might like Susumu Yokota. I've only really listened to Symbol, but it's a pretty interesting album. He's done pretty much every form of electronica so there should be something you like.

You're very right about that I just started to like it, very different from any music that I've heard.

This is pretty cool, shamanic?
This shamanic woman's voice and a piano together... and it all somehow makes sense really well together with electronic music.

And this is a wonderful dreamy and colorful video, goes great with his music if you ask me.

Thanks for recommending!

I think Japanese electronic music is pretty well known—for those who like electronic music. Those who aren't electronic music fans, if introduced, would probably like it because it's good, rather than "Japanese." ;p

http://www.noble-label.net/catalog/?en
The only release you ever need to listen to, in any genre, from any nation: Kashiwa Daisuke -

http://www.preco-records.com/
Motoro Faam -

https://www.facebook.com/pages/flau/95570197704
Geskia -

http://www.scholecultures.net/records.html
http://www.youtube.com/user/SCHOLEINC#p/u
Haruka Nakamura -

Hasymo (Haruomi Hosono, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Yukihiro Takahashi)

Aoki Takamasa -

And if you like Takamasa and Tujiko Noriko, you must listen to their collaborative release...

Yasushi Yoshida -

aus -

Edit - Oops! Forgot one of my favourites, Ametsub:

(couldn't find full tracks on YouTube of 'Linear Cryptics' but get that if you can).

Edit 2 - Fixed Ametsub link to reflect Linear Cryptics (first and superior album IMO).

Edit 3 - Shuta Hasunuma -

Some great finds in here. This thread rocks!

This group was good for two albums, until they broke up sadly

GIRLS TAPE STORE

http://www.myspace.com/girlstapestore

Free song

http://homepage2.nifty.com/girls/distance.mp3

This is a very pleasant track that I discovered on the "Pop Ambient" series from Kompakt Records. A grest series of ambient music compilations. The series is mostly German artists but these are Japanese.

Surprised no one's mentioned World's End Girlfriend yet. I've seen them a couple times in Shibuya. Amazing stuff.

i didn't click on any of those links so i don't know if they're electronica with like no singing or what.

but... i liked/loved school food punishment till they did the song for higashi no eden (especially their song killer).
the song they did for higashi no eden wasnice but the songs after that were shit... another good artist dead... before it was ikimono gakari who got killed by naruto

and i hate higashi no eden, horrible anime

and k-indie/electronica:

More trance/progressive trance-ish stuff, as opposed to glitch/ambient, but there's Hiroyuki ODA's "Thirty"

(a crossfade) -- full tracks are around and the album is actually available via amazon.com/itunes.

I've gotten people I know who hate vocaloid to listen to his one vocaloid album as well, and they liked it, example:

-- same style, just 'vocal'.

Also Onoken --

(Also, Kashiwa Daisuke is amazing, yes)

jettyke Wrote:Piana
http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/334/31075839.jpg

Nostalgic, Soft, emotional, beautiful.

Aco
http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/9714/ac...anmaye.png

Bold, experimental, unpredictable

Cokiyu
http://img89.imageshack.us/img89/897/tum...qe20ni.jpg

Soft, windy like a breeze, swinging like a child
(piano and frog is an excellent song)

Lullatone
http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/2471...latone.jpg

childlike, fragile, sometimes music is made with all kinds of unconventional instruments, easygoing,

Moskitoo
http://img840.imageshack.us/img840/6095/moskitoo.jpg

wavy, soundwaves move in interesting ways, colorful

Tenniscoats

Eccy ft aco

Sawako

She's a sound sculptor, very interesting experience

Tujiko Noriko

Thank you jettyke for all this. You are amazing.

howtwosavealif3 Wrote:i didn't click on any of those links so i don't know if they're electronica with like no singing or what.

but... i liked/loved school food punishment till they did the song for higashi no eden (especially their song killer).
the song they did for higashi no eden wasnice but the songs after that were shit... another good artist dead... before it was ikimono gakari who got killed by naruto

and i hate higashi no eden, horrible anime

and k-indie/electronica:

Lol! Your first link sounds suspiciously similar to shiina ringo's aozora

bizarrojosh, I'm very glad that you liked something

jettyke, seeing you're from Estonia, I wondered if you were familiar with Pia Fraus.
http://[video=youtube]http://www.youtube...5s[/video]


and to keep this post relevant, Filfla
http://[video=youtube]http://www.youtube...Rc[/video]

@quincy

I've heard the name of this band several times, but have never listened to them though, but sounds very nice.

Btw your Filfla video is really good, I like this kind of a style.
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Goosh, there's so much good music on this thread.

I'm listening to some albums of these artists, some are a really good find.

Susumu yokata's symbol
that trance vocaloid( unfortunately I didn't find the album of that song)
and I downloaded lots of albums on japshare too.

Midori Hirano

Experimental, strange? but very good, classical instruments like violins and piano are being used.


Gutevolk

easygoing, resembles lullatone a bit

A really interesting mix of Kyoka's shamisen and Midori Hirano's electronica.

Unique.

Antennasia

Velowitch's Trick

The Cat in the Mirror

This is Trip-hop

it's fantastic, this artist.
magical, mysterious

both are one of the best electronic albums I've heard in the past months!
....but requires some time getting used to

and yes, she sings in japanese too

EDIT:

haha, this video is great lol

Am I the only person who likes

?

@dizmox

Well her voice sounds really nice and
the beat sounds like something from the 90s right ?
surprise!

I think I like it.

She did the OP for House of Five Leaves. :3

jettyke Wrote:Antennasia

Holy cow, this stuff is awesome. Between this and Piana, I am a very happy man. Great music.

Soft stuff is nice, but does anyone know any good harder electronic sounding stuff?