Hey /mu/, what are the best Japanese band

The Pillows

Weebs leave this board

>>75077849
early MONO, Kashiwa Daisuke, World's End Girlfriend are essential

>>75077849
not the best probably but there's buffalo daughter

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bA41iuCmex4

>>75077849

Susumu Hirasawa. All of his albums are incredible, Planet Roll Call is especially spacey

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZ58d_maW3k

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zd6s59_DbVg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwJoG_gG1ac

PIZZICATO 5

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eC2qR6jBgE

>>75077863
Shit, that one's great. Even if they're basically remembered for FLCL in the west, it's more of the other way around there.

Fishmans

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbXdfzBkxS8

There seems to be a lot of great recommendations in this thread, I'll definitely be checking them out

Acid Mothers Temple - Anthem of the Space

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Sugar Babe
Yellow Magic Orchestra (if they count)
Happy End

>>75077849
Boris (obviously) https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hZDstZ1-EAI
Boredoms https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zdPCt5ZEf40
Hiperson https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7AiWWk0oryg

Taj Mahal Travelers

The Blue Hearts

>>75080605
KICHIGAI ATSUKAI SARETA HIBI

>two threads on page 1 that are basically "hehe guys whats sum good music :D"

you are enabling this behavior if you give even a single recommendation. We have a very extensive wiki of music to select from. use that

>>75077849
weaboos should be publicly executed

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>>75077849
OP. You want this band. Trust me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNVEbleRdgA

>>75080719
die

>>75080758
>complaining about weeaboos
>on 4chan
>started specifically as a weeb site
>the website that has filters that will lead to baka desu senpai with the sole objective of keeping non-weebs out
Where the fuck do you think you are?

>>75080605
Fucking choon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YP8Z-uXkzGo

>>75080799
go on /a/ and make a thread asking for anime recs, see what happens. mu is full of people eager to spoonfeed because it gives them a chance to show off their superior tastes in music

Toe

>>75080863
anime is garbage, why would i want recs for it

>>75080875
you dont have to like it, just using it as an example dumb fuck

>>75080951
>Everyone on /mu/ seems to know him, but I've never seen anyone else recommend him
hmm... wonder why?

>>75077849
Acid Mothers Temple and all their various formations and subgroups, La Novia and Anthem of the Space are good starting albums. If you find yourself liking them you're in for a treat because they have crazy amounts of material

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6rsBngxbuA

>>75080995
yep, lots of niche artists ITT. definitely not all the same ones that always come up
Rec threads are fine if OP puts a little effort into it. Maybe mention one or two albums that are in the ballpark of what he wants, not "rec me anything really as long as its japanese"

SEXY SYNTHESIZER

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>>75077849

The Beatles

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgatoSO-ABI
starts one minute in

>>75077849
-Clams - S/T
-Ai Aso - Lavender Edition
-White Heaven - Out
-Angel'in Heavy Syrup - III
-Fushitsusha - Live 1989
-Ghost - Lama Rabi Rabi
-Flipper's Guitar - Doctor Head's World Tower
-Suishou no Fune - Prayer for Chibi
-Kinoko Teikoku - Uzu ni Naru
-nisennenmondai - Neji / Tori
-Momoko Kikuchi - Adventure
-Pasteboard - Glitter
-Mizutani '70 / Les Rallizes Denudes '73
-Rollo - Pinhole
-Ryuichi Sakamoto - Illustrated Musical Encyclopedia
-Seaside Lovers - Memories in Beach House
-Space Streakings - 7-Toku
-Supercar - Three Out Change!!
-Teengenerate - Smash Hits!
-Yoshinori Sunahara - Take Off and Landing
-Various artists - Oz Days Live
-Various artists - Half Dreaming: Asian Shoegaze Compilation

where tf fishmans...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FL7xO92hRDI

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looking for vocalists with a similar vocal timbre (deep) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5CwXuyNfoc
do you know any?

>>75082802
get this garb off my board

>>75077849
Maybe try Supercar

>>75080951
Lol, I talk about him all the time.

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>>75082824
do you really want a (You)? take it and leave

Stalins

>>75082856
how bout u get some (taste)

>>75077849
While I wouldn't call it rock or spacey, I've always felt like Teruo Nakano had an outwordly feel to it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ip5hPq9ZLfs

>>75080951

No problem! Yeah he doesn't get mentioned a lot, it seems most know him for his anime stuff and not his solo albums unfortunately.

>>75077849
Tricot
Fishmans
Boris
Afrirampo
Acid Mothers Temple
Tokyo Shoegazer
Midori
Mass of the Fermenting Dreggs
Number Girl
Luminous Orange
Boredoms
Yellow Magic Orchestra
Tentenko
My Dead Girlfriend

That's just some random bands off the top of my head. Your best bet for finding Japanese music is checking out YouTube channels like Space Shower Music and Lute. You can find current shit there and then use the likes of RYM, lastfm and this board to delve further. There's also a pretty good chart from here that someone will probably post.

>>75080863
That's because /a/ is made of mega-autists. This is a good thread, stop derailing it. It's barely even a spoonfeeding thread.

>>75082802
i don't think her voice is all that deep
you might enjoy BILLIE IDLE's Momose Momo though
https://clyp.it/bndr5isw?token=738efcbf43230b95da6705b7fc10c04d

>>75083040
tenchan is not a band dummy!!

Already mentioned but Boris
Melt-Banana

Can we talk about how good Melt-Banana is?

>>75083166
I just found an easy example to give you an idea of what I was looking for. thanks for the suggestion. I'll look more into it. I have another webm (first girl singing) as example https://my.mixtape.moe/alvyin.webm

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My favorite japanese band is Uchoten, not quite post-rock, more like new wave/post-punk, but they experiment quite a bit with their sound.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4coUbDktPg

>>75083182
She's too good to be omitted, regardless of how many people she consists of.

>>75083192
Saw Melt-Banana a few months ago and they are fucking amazing.

>>75083303
speaking of Tentenko and bands, though, New ear CD release when?

>>75083300
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2QTIG-ZAqk

>>75083378
Not sure what new ear is but I'm interested in finding out!

Zazen Boys are a personal favorite. Go with the first s/t for blown out jazzy punk and the fourth for cleaner, funkier stuff. 2, 3 are great, and Stories is cool but really busy.
Also, check out Number Girl, Chirinuru Wowaka and Kimonos.

>>75083300
as Billie idle was mentioned before, have you heard their cover of bye-bye?

>>75083468
it was a band she had in May last year with Tanaka Junichiro (from ju sei, the same guy who also produced that alternate arrangement of "Kuruma" on Kogyou-Seihin) and biki, i think they only performed once though

more important, though, where is Florida's Kimiomo music video??

Mass of fermenting dreggs

>>75083396
Ah, didn't see this when I posted.

>>75083378
Didn't she do a thing with Captain Mirai once?

>>75077849
Post-Rock:
World's End Girlfriend - Hurtbreak Wonderland
Matryoshka - Zatracenie
Mutyumu - Ilya
Boris - Flood
Mono & WEG Collab Album
Kashiwa Daisuke - Program Music I

>>75083575
the closest thing i can find is that they both appeared at the Saruhage Rock Festival last year

>>75083303
Melt-Banana live sounds ridiculous. Incredibly jealous.

>>75083303
when i saw them the lead lady told some dumb stage-diving metalhead who was a friend of the opening act to fuck off, which was almost as good as the set itself

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>>75083522
>>75083396
Thanks, I didn't know them.
That's really cute, I love how the video is also like the Uchoten PV.
There's a Uchoten cover album released around 10 days ago, it includes bands like Lolita No. 18. I used to have it but lost it long ago.

>>75083529
we're never going to get it, are we
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYfr4KEANEA

>>75083757
Only person I've ever seen do that is STZA. Really appreciate when acts tell dickheads to fuck off.

>>75083884
10 days ago? I know of "the very best covers of Uchoten", but I could only ever find Floppy's cover.

I'm actually listening to the 2013 Music Hour currently.

>>75083529
It's all lost in the passage of time.

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>>75083949
Sorry, I meant to say 10 years ago lol, yeah it's the album with Floppy's cover of Pinokiwo. Lolita No. 18's cover was Key Mania.
GalapagoS (another band by Sharaku from Floppy) also did a Uchoten cover, "Collection":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GPHVpOChhs

The 2013 Music Hour CD set is great, bless the anon who uploaded it.

Boris for sure

>>75077849
You got some great recs already (Boris and Mass of the Fermenting Dregs are among my favorites), but let me give you some things you won't see mentioned often on /mu/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Qw0UVzMaY4&list=RD7Qw0UVzMaY4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnpByfhGtiA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwPOeqmnXMk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oKDGRpJbds Visual Kei if that's your thing, also check out Dir en grey in that case
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GVEtKz0AK8 Uchu Conbini get mentioned a lot but not in this thread apparently
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSFy7DdlQAA Vocals are love or hate, but you might still get used to them if you hate them

>>75084193
I've listened to Storm and Stress, but I haven't listened to this cover before.

Cosmo-Shiki released a new album only a few weeks ago if you were interested in that.

No worries, I'll try and upload the rest of the Long Vacation CDs for you, I've just been a little lazy lately.

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>>75084432
ohh it's you! I guess the Uchoten fandom is very small after all, haha.
Don't worry, take your time, did you get my last mail?
[spoiler]I also messaged you on soulseek, I found you by searching for Uchoten.. sorry if I seem like a stalker lol

>>75077849
i really like the oral cigarettes

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>>75084613
Yeah, I got your email, but I've just been a bit busy and I've been having to reply to a few others first instead.

Nah, I don't mind, but I just didn't realise you sent me a message at all, sorry. Anyways, I gotta get busy, so I'll try to keep in touch by email.

Also, I've been seeing a few Uchoten pictures lately, was there some event that I've been out of the loop with?

it's that time of year
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTtJ_e1I0r0

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Flower travellin band
Taj mahal
casiopea
Stalin
beatniks
Shonen knife
Jun togawa
Guernica
Kidorikko
zysygys
Miharu koshi
Picky picnic
Boredoms
Zeni geva
shizuka
Melt banana
Guitar wolf
Number girl
Shiina ringo
Zazen Boys…

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>>75085297

>>75085325
big black is an american band

>>75077849
Toe's For Long Tomorrow album.
LITE's For All the Innocence album as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWkFDEFhVxA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2PXesbX-u4

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>>75085297
p model
haruomi hosono
hiroshi sato
kedge
toshiki kadomatsu...

>>75085409
the front cover of my post >>75085297

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>>75085297
and also one of my favs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f09iEIA1NOg

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lBbQjw0XYOs
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TbyHvtJByT4
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cpBBmMywynI

Nobody on 4chan likes these japs...

The ERECTIONS

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>>75085939
they're dope dude

Fanclub is such a good album

>>75083628
excellent list friend

>>75083300
jap the cure

té
Daoko
Shinichi Osawa
Ruins
Keiji Haino
Kaoru Abe
Kazuki Tomokawa
Mad Capsule Markets
385
Midori

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>>75086488
They're way more influenced by Devo than The Cure.
But yeah, Kera's hairdos remind of Robert Smith. IIRC, his trademark Uchoten-era hairstyle was supposed to resemble the leafs of a vegetable, like in a turnip. Something to do with Kera's weird vegetable fixation (see: Mississippi video clip, or the song "Vegetable")
>>75084839
No problem, just found it funny to find you there. I'm trying to leave slsk on as much as I can because I'm on my way of downloading some cool stuff, like the Nagomu Pops Collection in FLAC, and a rip of the GAN remaster with the bonus tracks.

>>75086255
My negro

>>75084839
By the way I just checked on their site and yeah, just yesterday there was a festival with them and like 20 other artists, including Ohken (solo?), Ningen Isu, and many other artists I'm not familiar with. These nice girls Billie Idle too.
I hope we get at least some videos uploaded.

Motohiro Nakashima if you want some chill Japanese folk.

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Moonriders, and any other Keiichi Suzuki project
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMHk1czLV80

>>75086752
Definitely send me that GAN remaster some time. I've been very slowly downloading the Metro Farce "Past Future Animators Stands on Gaia" box set, but I've got the first CD downloaded.

Going through the 2013 Music Hour, I can now definitely tell that Kera is covering Monogramme in one of the songs.

merzbow

>>75086905
It's been in queue for a week now, I'll try messaging the user next time I see them online.
I want the bonus tracks but I'm also curious about the remastering.
And you're right, てみやげ is the song by Monogramme on the omatsuri III album, that's pretty nice, the whole music hour set is great.

>>75085297
>Jun Togawa
>Guernica
>Picky Picninc
>Boredoms
>Melt Bannana

patrician taste. what's your rym akownt

>>75086905
Lucky me, I Just checked and they were online.
I talked to them and they were pretty nice and started the download right away.
I'm now comparing both my rip of the old version and the remaster of Kimi wa ganna no da... honestly I can't hear a clear difference right away.
I'll send you the album when it's done downloading.

Toe. Great post rock mathy band. My reccomedation is their album For Long Tomorrow to start, but all their stuff is good.

>>75080865
Came here to say this

good thread friends

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>>75087087
my favourite group actually is The Fall but im also into japanese music and is rewarding. maybe the future of music will be in japan i dont know.

>>75077882
*Weebs leave this thread, it's a whole fucking country not an anime.

>>75087866

">complaining about weeaboos
>on 4chan
>started specifically as a weeb site

Where the fuck do you think you are?"

>>75087897
Shit sorry, thought I was on webmd, legitimately sorry dude.

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>>75088030
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKPKmAF6xG8

>>75087897
best site to pick on weebs is 4chan.

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>>75088044
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbRyV6vmixw

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>>75088030
>>75088044
Love Jun and Guernica.

Here's a video of Uchoten presented by Jun Togawa (the interactions between Kera and Jun at the end are pretty funny)

>>75087815
>maybe the future of music will be in japan
fags like these just beg to be called a weeb

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>>75088087
And forgot the link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muFEur2eujQ

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>>75080758
>>75087866
>>75087921
>>75088061
>>75088097
fuck off mu fuckin drones, get it?

>>75088195
4chan isn't your safe space you fucking weeb

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>>75088097
my pal, i haven´t said future of music will be ONLY in japan, get it scum?

>>75088097
>>75088230
>weeb
You know how I can tell you've been here a couple months?

>>75087815
>the future of music will be in japan
did you just come from the 80s, Japan's stagnating all across the board

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>>75088230
neither yours

>>75088253
Nigga I been on your chinese pornsite since 2011. You probably dont even remember when this board was nothing but tripfags.

>>75084232
yes, thanks for posting

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>>75088097
here's my chart actually, pal from another thread.

>>75080789
I will check them out. At the bus right now, but cover looks interesting at least

I went to sleep when this thread was at ten responses, so it seems like there's a lot of good stuff in here. I'm bound to find something I like

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>>75077882
>>75088230
>>75080758
>>75087866
>>75087921
>>75088061
>>75088097

you listen the same fuckin (mu)retard music for drones (indie rock flavor of the month, pitchfork core, mu core) over and over little cunts, so i expect a little shit

(btw, cheers for THE MIGHTY FALL for their 40th anniversary)

>>75088508
Cool chart

>>75077849

Jizue for Jazzy type stuff, and pens. for Math-Rock. 2 of my favorite Japanese bands.

>>75077849
i absolutely love group_inou
sort of electronic rap i guess? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L31ac8QyFxk
hit me up with anything similar if any of you guys know any

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>>75080865
The correct answer

Can anyone help me refind a Japanese song

I remember it being punk rocky

the music video was in weird anime flash

there was a segment where some people were exercising and an anime boy with a front ponytail was rocking a glowstick and his head at a TV

>>75087815
Ok grandad. Thanks for that hot tip.

>>75087866
kys

>>75088266
... Despite having the strongest creative industries of any country in the world? You're full of shit. Name a more consistent film director than Sion Sono or Hirokazu Koreeda, a stronger product designer/distributor than Nikon, canon, Sony, Nintendo. They have strong, mainstream stuff in every creative sector which no other country has - even in Art with Murakami.
Just objective facts here, no need to get upset because you think a whole country is a cartoon machine.