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Posted by Dojomaster26 on Jul-21-2010 06:52:

Shibuya-kei House Music

Shibuya-kei is a style of J-Pop/House that I have been getting into lately. It sounds very upbeat and perky, but not hyper. I would say this sounds like a different kind of Electro House. This is more like chic Electro from 2060 that has vocoder modified vocals over top of it...

and it seems to only be made in Japan:

Does anyone have more of this stuff? Is any of this kind of music being made outside of the land of the rising sun?

Posted by kadomony on Jul-21-2010 21:04:

Perfume fucking owns!

Posted by srussell0018 on Jul-21-2010 21:11:

Posted by Salegon on Jul-22-2010 01:24:

from korea. it's kinda similar, but different somehow

Posted by Dojomaster26 on Jul-22-2010 05:39:

Nice stuff Salegon! Do It and Star City Song are both pretty hot.

Check out Captain Funk. I'm really digging his new album, and thankfully its available in MP3 from the official Captain Funk site: http://www.tatsuyaoe.com/

Normally I have to either get lucky and find the songs I want on the US iTunes store, or get unlucky and have to buy the CDs off of Ebay (because anywhere else wants between $25-30 for a CD otherwise.) I hope more artists set up international digital stores soon, and quit with the awkward licensing deals that make "territory restricted" pop up on Beatport.

Posted by Joss Weatherby on Jul-22-2010 19:18:

I've wanted to find more Shibuya-kei... I'll check these out.

Posted by Mgz on Jul-23-2010 00:49:

quote:
Originally posted by kadomony
Perfume fucking owns!

+1

i am learning their dance and do it at rave lol

and this is electro pop, not house

Posted by floyd741 on Jul-23-2010 04:57:

It's like happy hardcore without the hardcore but... more happy. I didn't think it was possible, you've opened my eyes to a world of music that fills me with the most joy I've ever felt in my life. Never again will I be able to listen to anything else without it sounding gross and devoid of any emotion, like an ugly weed in the field of flowers that this music is. This is absolute beauty, perfect despite being no more than a simple electronic groove under the voices of three young Japanese women. My life can never be the same and I accept that wholeheartedly, seeing it as a ray of sunshine, no, an entire sky full of sunshine in what was a dark and dreary past. I can only hope that as I die, while my brain and body creep towards the end of my life, the last thought I have contains no more than two simple words: Sweet Doughnuts.

Posted by Schadenfreude on Jul-23-2010 05:17:

quote:
Originally posted by Salegon
from korea. it's kinda similar, but different somehow

oh man...i heard that stuff so much that i wanted to hunt them down and make galbi out of their flesh!

Posted by -FSP- on Jul-23-2010 06:21:

looks like house rulez has been posted.

just posting in this thread to say that this needs to hit the west imo.

Posted by Joss Weatherby on Jul-23-2010 07:22:

just watched a bunch of Perfume videos (well liek a few hours ago).

LOL those girls are awesome and holy shit at Capsule! Looks like we found out where GaGa stole all her shit from... at least in terms of looks!

Posted by linusson on Jul-23-2010 19:33:

Posted by LAdazeNYnights on Jul-23-2010 19:45:

quote:
Originally posted by floyd741

It's like happy hardcore without the hardcore but... more happy. I didn't think it was possible, you've opened my eyes to a world of music that fills me with the most joy I've ever felt in my life. Never again will I be able to listen to anything else without it sounding gross and devoid of any emotion, like an ugly weed in the field of flowers that this music is. This is absolute beauty, perfect despite being no more than a simple electronic groove under the voices of three young Japanese women. My life can never be the same and I accept that wholeheartedly, seeing it as a ray of sunshine, no, an entire sky full of sunshine in what was a dark and dreary past. I can only hope that as I die, while my brain and body creep towards the end of my life, the last thought I have contains no more than two simple words: Sweet Doughnuts.

this is like....what a rainbow sounds like. it's so beautiful.

Posted by floyd741 on Jul-23-2010 19:57:

quote:
Originally posted by LAdazeNYnights
this is like....what a rainbow sounds like. it's so beautiful.

No, it's even better than that. It's like a rainbow over a field full of flowers and unicorns and magical purple trees. If you walk a little further from the field it begins to get wet and you see a small pond of sparkling water with rainbow fish that look strangely like dolphins but they're not, because they told you so, because they can talk. Surrounding the pond, there are pixies darting from tree to tree, each one leaves behind a trail of the dust that smells of joy you've never felt (or smelt, for that matter) before. And there are some gay unicorns fucking in the bushes.

That's what this is.

Posted by srussell0018 on Jul-23-2010 19:58:

quote:
Originally posted by floyd741
No, it's even better than that. It's like a rainbow over a field full of flowers and unicorns and magical purple trees. If you walk a little further from the field it begins to get wet and you see a small pond of sparkling water with rainbow fish that look strangely like dolphins but they're not, because they told you so, because they can talk. Surrounding the pond, there are pixies darting from tree to tree, each one leaves behind a trail of the dust that smells of joy you've never felt (or smelt, for that matter) before. And there are some gay unicorns fucking in the bushes.

That's what this is.

nothin gay here...

Posted by Schadenfreude on Jul-23-2010 20:26:

quote:
Originally posted by -FSP-
looks like house rulez has been posted.

just posting in this thread to say that this needs to hit the west imo.

no.

it was one of the reasons i left an otherwise awesome country.

Posted by kadomony on Jul-23-2010 20:34:

some fapping material for lira

Posted by Joss Weatherby on Jul-23-2010 20:58:

quote:
Originally posted by LAdazeNYnights
this is like....what a rainbow sounds like. it's so beautiful.

I got diabetes from watching it...

Posted by jdat on Jul-24-2010 01:45:

Is this Shibuya sstuff supposed to make you wanna shop more? cause I sure ain't buying it!

Posted by srussell0018 on Jul-24-2010 01:56:

wait...is this thread not a joke?

Posted by Dojomaster26 on Jul-24-2010 06:09:

Shibuya-kei is SERIOUS BUSINESS!

That i-dep track is really nice. I almost want to slow it down and fit in into the ending of a Deep House set

There's one producer behind both Capsule and Perfume: Yasutaka Nakata. He has a pretty distinct style that comes through in nearly everything that he has worked with. He's kind of like the Stuart Price of Japan:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasutaka_Nakata

Posted by -FSP- on Jul-24-2010 08:20:

The vocals were made with a computer program called vocaloid.

Posted by linusson on Jul-24-2010 12:13:

This thread is fuckin amazing

Posted by srussell0018 on Jul-24-2010 16:25:

Posted by Joss Weatherby on Mar-15-2011 01:58:

Bump to remind people how awesome Japan is!

Also anyone got any new stuff?

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