Hey guys, I was wondering if you knew any good Japanese dance/house music with Japanese lyrics. I live in Japan but visited Russia and Turkey last month and noticed how popular dance/house was there. I found myself listening to a lot of the music I got there when I came back, but I have yet to discover anything like that here. I know there are plenty of dance/house DJs here but they seem to produce mostly stuff with English lyrics. Japanese pop music is just a little too genki and upbeat for me.


Also if you have any recommendations for Japanese hip hop...どうぞ！

Go down a few topics for hip hop...

http://forum.koohii.com/showthread.php?tid=4854

Wow, what a thread I just found

mikedough2 Wrote:Japanese pop music is just a little too genki and upbeat for me.

TOO GENKI?! impossible that's just normal for Japanese girls. Theres japanese trance if you can't handle upbeat stuff but I like Pop particularly the Korean pop crosses over into Japanese. and then i like hip hop so hip hop balances out the genki.

That's a really good question... like you said, the majority of dance/house music from Japan has English lyrics.
A couple of artists that came to mind are RAM RIDER and Jazztronik (mostly English lyrics, actually, but their song Tiger Eyes is an awesome track in Japanese).

I would also recommend looking into the discographies of DJs/artists even if they mostly have songs with English lyrics - if you do some searching, you will find some tracks in Japanese. As an example, most of DJ Kawasaki's songs contain English lyrics, but there
are a few floating around that are in Japanese:

Love (feat Aoyama Thelma)
Paradise (feat. COMA-CHI)

Their music is not going to help you learn the language, but Takkyu Ishino and Ken Ishii are a couple very good techno producers/DJs. I was lucky enough to see Ishino DJ at the Liquid Room on new year's eve, and it was a thrill to finally see him live after being a fan for >10 years.