thanks ill check it out now

That was very funny!  Thanks for the link

if you like hanoi team then you might like this song from s/mileage http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqKryI3Sl4U
all their other songs are really good too. They are rather new(2 years) and is part of the idol groups called Hello! project, look into the them, the best are s/mileage and c-ute. Mornining musume and berryz kobo, and buono are part of it too, but are just nowhere near as epic as s/mileage and c-ute.

Have you tried J-core?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBco062nIs8
It's less agressive than the European varieties.

Last edited by EratiK (2011 August 30, 4:11 pm)

do they have xfactor/japan got talent?

cannot find

Gaijinme wrote:

do they have xfactor/japan got talent?

cannot find

they have a show called stardraft.

like this is a girl who got discovered on that show for her monomane
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIQA8HBV … Al7iK9f11Y

and korea has those kind of shows as well as korea's next top model lol

anyways you can watch it on youku
https://www.google.com/search?q=%E3%82% … mp;bih=559

Would it be totally offensive to hijack this thread to make requests on my own behalf? If so, I apologize in advance, but I'm having a very hard time finding Japanese music I enjoy. I'm attempting to use music to give myself more immersion, because I can have it on almost all the time at work and home. Most of what I can find in the US, on Amazon, and via English-language searches sends me to the kind of JPop that I can't get too deeply into - that electronic high-pitched girl band stuff. Although I have found a few I can enjoy (Kalafina, which seems to combine World Music with JPop, comes to mind), most of them are a bit too mechanical for my tastes. I can enjoy them from time to time, and I have a strange and inexplicable weakness for Namie Amuro, but I'm getting frustrated that the market of available music here is saturated with electronic girl bands.

I am specifically looking for more male vocalists that aren't oversynthesized. Two I've found that I think are absolutely amazing are:
Hiroyuki Hanada
Chikuzen Sato
I know Sato was in a more electronic-based band called Sing Like Talking, and I'm on the fence with regards to their album stuff, but I've heard some "unplugged"-style live stuff that sounds fantastic. And Sato has an all-accoustic EP available on iTunes in the US which quickly became my favorite album to play, English or Japanese. I believe Hanada was in The Roosters before going solo, and is associated with some project or group called Rock N' Roll Gypsies now, or was lately. I have two albums of his, which were available on iTunes in the US, and I listen to them regularly. He's like the Japanese Rolling Stones, in my opinion. Genuine rock music without relying on a drum machine. I've found a lot of punk, and while I do enjoy that from time to time as well, I think I need something with more intelligible lyrics and cohesive melodies.

I am not ruling out female vocalists if the music is interesting enough to me. I have been enjoying Love Psychedelico lately, but it's a bit too much Japanglish to help me, I think. The constant shifting between English and Japanese is making me focus on the English too much and ignoring the Japanese.

So, those are the ones I know about. What I'm looking for is more music I can fill my iPod with. I know there must be a gigantic indie music scene going on in Japan about now, but I'm just not finding access to it.

You could use last.fm. One of the features there is that after you select your favorite artists the site starts to suggest you other artists that match your preferences.

yoeko
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1OZiofv9jc

cymbals
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xaxeda8L … r_embedded
some of their songs in english copmletely but the ones that aren't are nice lol.


andou yuuko
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMoBxGBl … mp;list=UL

aobouzu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOPUUZQg … r_embedded

shiina ringo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sw0dhiTHONQ

ali project
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyBbXv0LvsI

Okay, one final attempt. I have been searching for a loooong time now but I am not able to find any Japanese music that is more or less in the style of the fantastic Korean indie band Nell. For those who do not know their music, listen here:

- 현실의 현실
- 기억을 걷는 시간
- 멀어지다

A sound with a bite, difficult to find in the overload of cheap plastic or creepy Japanese music I hear so often. However, de gustibus non est disputandum. Any tip is welcome :-)

Block.fm
Most of the music is English but the DJs talk in Japanese. Plenty of Drum & Bass / Dub Step / Trance though.