Japanese Music Recommendations

Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2007 12:59 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

hey all, can someone recommend some artists for me? i see here that most of the recommendations here is for rock and pop, so i don't know if this genre is popular in Japan. i'm looking for .. how can i explain this... clubbing music. what kind of music do japanese clubs play? i'm thinking of hip hop/r&b. i mean, like korea, there's Bi and Se7en, but what about japanese music? is there some equivalent? i cannot think of any japanese artist off the top of my head right now that has music similar to that style, something with a good beat to it.

thanks in advance!

Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2007 8:09 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

There's only one song right now I can think of that can be considered as clubbing music...CHOOSEY LOVER by Tohoshinki...but of course not all their songs are like that. But I'm addicted to it right now! The music video is so hot! Hihi! Smile

Posted: Sat Jul 14, 2007 8:09 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 3:23 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

Some artists I am listening to right now (links are to their respective wikipedia articles):

L'Arc~en~ciel (Great J-Rock, been a fan of them for a long time now)
THE BLUE HEARTS (They are basically legends from late 80's-late 90's. They're really good)
GO!GO!7188 (Funky rock/pop band, really fun to listen to)
MiniMoni (Who could resist cute little girls singing about strawberry pie Tongue

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NewS (Good 'ole boy bands with good voices)
Arashi (Another good boy band)
Monkey Majik (Okay, well they are Canadian, except the drummer, but they sing in both English and Japanese and are considered a japanese band and have a really cool and unique sound to them.)
KAT-TUN (More boy bands lol)
Utada Hikaru (It's Utada Hikaru I'm sure someone has recommended her already lol)
Aural Vampire (Funky jtrance, which seems to be a bit non-existent..)
High and Mighty Color (J-rock! I went to their concert at Acen, they rocked so much)
Perfume (Techno mixed with a bubbly sound and cute lyrics)
Funky Monkey Babys (Yes, spelled "Babys")
KinKi Kids (So cute and their new 10th anniversary album "39" just came out)
GReeeeN (Odd name, but good sound)
Abingdon Boys School (Cool jrock band formed by T.M. Revolution who you should check out as well)

Okay I'm going to stop now... list is getting a little long lol..

Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2007 12:05 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

thanks MitsukaiKuroi and reisheru!! will check those out! Big Smile

Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2007 8:14 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

how are the funky monkey babys? I've been interested in them for awhile but I haven't heard anything about them. except Kuma from Gokusen is in it.

Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2007 2:26 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

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Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2007 3:51 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

I think he is. or something. he's on the picture of one of my song things with the funky monkey babys and seeing as reading japanese is not one of my specialties I have no idea what it says. lol

Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2007 4:32 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

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Posted: Sat Jul 28, 2007 9:52 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

i will 'try' the Perfume jpop/techno group that egg-chan listed before....
if it has the same style or close to "Aural Vampire" it will be すごい！

if anyone know more bands like Aural Vampire please tell us!

Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 12:15 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

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Posted: Sat Aug 04, 2007 6:49 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

Love YUI, Utada Hikaru, Asian Kung Fu Generation and Do as Infinity
What about the singer KOKIA? She seeems more well-known in Europe than in Japan... lol in fact I don't really know!!
Is there anyone who know a good site to listen to japanese radio? (currently I listen to a french one radio nozomi)