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ROSIN MOON Japanese Music _____________________ MUSIC Electronic, Rock, Experimental, Pop, Exotica, Prog, Punk, Psychedelic, Jazz and stuff _______________________________ Location: Berlin Contact: [email protected] Intention: To spread artists names whom I passionately admire, and show emerging artists and music born from Japan.

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Kantorī myūjikku

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BUFFALO DAUGHTER - SIMOON

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Haruomi Hosono & Chu Kosaka - Arigato (1979)

Thank You.

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Bo Ningen - Gasmask Rabbit (2014) Psychedelic Music in Japan seems to be run by the common thread of fuzzy, feedback-y and doomy guitars and effects which is a probably a broad statement. But that is rather amazing and Bo Ningen is bringing my astonishment to the boil. Their compositions change from being soft-sounding and melodical to blowing your brain out, still not loosing the art of balance and of creating sounds seperated through thin white paper keeping them distinct. I wonder if Julian Cope would take his pen to write an extra chapter in the Japrocksampler about Bo Ningen.

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Hosono in the House from rosinmoon on 8tracks Radio.

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Among the plethora of Psych Fests spread epidemical all over the globe there is one standing out with an exceptional concept which is Tokyo Psych Fest. The members of Kikagaku Moyo set themselves to raise from the death what has been sleeping for too long in Japan. They want to bring ambitious and established bands from their shells and scrape them together to a center where they can inter-exchange. Japan doesn't seem to contain a collective rock'n'roll and psychedelic scene like the USA, Europe and Australia has, although bands like Acid Mother Temple or Kikagaku Moyo themselves prove that it has nothing to do with a lack of good bands. The shows are presented monthly with great bands from all over Japan and abroad (such as Moon Duo) for a bargain of only 500 Yen (3€ / 5$!!!).

The amazing psychedelic band Kikagaku Moyo will be releasing their second album Forest of Lost Children on Beyond Beyond is Beyond. You can preorder the record in physical or digital form here: http://beyondbeyondisbeyond.com/post/80889932571/kikagaku-moyo-forest-of-lost-children-pre-order

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Shintaro Sakamoto - In A Phantom Mood (How to Live with a Phantom, 2012) Shintaro Sakamoto began a new chapter of his career releasing his solo album 'How to live with a phantom' in 2012. He was the frontman and leader of the critically acclaimed psychedelic pop/rock band Yura Yura Teikoku which gained massive success and achieved cult status throughout the world. Immediately following their break-up in 2010, Sakamoto began recording as a solo-artist, playing all the instruments for his new project by himself. On his new album Sakamoto maintained the dreamy psychedelia of Yura Yura Teikoku adding some Funk, French Pop, Krautrock and crispy drum and percussion elements.

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Buffalo Daughter - New Rock (New Rock, 1998) Great electronic, krauty track by Buffalo Daughter from their 1998 album 'New Rock', which contains an eclectic mixture of electronic music and rock'n'roll. 

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Tadashi Kinoshita - Jigoku No Tenshi Akai Bakoun

Funky soundtrack from the compilation Killing Melody - Japanese Pinky Violence Films Music.

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Mariah - Shisen (Utakata no Hibi, 1982) With 'Utakata no Hibi' the band Mariah created the most mysterious album in 80s' Japan. It is a challenge to categorize their music that contains hammering new wave drum machines to traditional oriental instruments and cryptical Armenian female vocals... there is so much going on in their sophisticated songs, while they weirdly enough still remain quite minimal.

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The Mops - Iijanaika The 1960s in the western world brought out many anti-establishment figures in rock music. Proportional to this, in 1967 The Mops came to the fore often termed as the first psychedelic musicians in drug-free Japan. The video of this song depicts the confusion in some of the elder folks faces starring at the rebels, while the younger people celebrate the weird sound. First the high-schoolers formed as an instrumental garage group. The musicians were approached by a management team who agreed to look after their interests, but only on condition that they become a psychedelic band. Verliy you can say that The Mops changed the focus of 'Group Sounds' to psychedelic rock music and they were subsequently copied by many other bands.  But even though the Mops sported kaftans, beads and long hair, they were as Julian Cope said in his 'Japrocksampler' too tough, too jagged to be true flower people. Due to interest shift they later changed their style into heavy rock, which is another story. They eventually disbanded in 1972.

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Yura Yura Teikoku - Koi Ga Shitai Wah-wahs á la Serge Gainsbourg - who was very likely the influence for this beautiful song, precisely because Yura Yura Teikoku confess themselves as fans of the ingenious French composer.

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Yuya Uchida & The Flowers - In the White Room (Challenge, 1969) Before the Flower Travellin' Band was formed by Yuya Uchida and Joe Yamanaka to rise up to the sky as one of the best known progressive rock bands from Japan, Yuya Uchida & The Flowers were covering songs by Jimi Hendrix, Jefferson Airplane and Janis Joplin. Their album also gained notoriety for featuring all of the band members nude on the album's cover. Here you can hear their version of 'In the White Room' by Cream.

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Kikagaku Moyo - Dawn (Kikagaku Moyo, 2013, Cosmic Eye Records) Born in 2012 Kikagaku Moyo enriches the Tokyo Psych scene immensely with their creation of powerfully spacious, mind expanding music. They use a wide range of instruments like lysergic sitars, tribal percussions, electronic instruments and ethereal vocals. Their debut album is quite simple but at the same time really far out, taking neo-psychedelia to breathtaking levels.  Kikagaku Moyo will be attending the Austin Psych Fest 2014 alongside bands like The Horrors, Black Lips, Moon Duo, Acid Mothers Temple and many more.

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Ghost - Live with Me The Japanese band Ghost (not to confuse with the same-named Swedish metal band nor the Jap. visual kei band) is an amazing experience surfing on psych-kraut, hypnotic experimental droning and improvised space jam waves. The multi-instrumentalist Masaki Batoh founded the band together with the guitarist Michio Kurihara in 1984 and envisioned a community of like-minded musicians living a nomadic existence, drifting from Tokyo subway ruins to ancient temples. Till the 2000s they created various great albums, tremendously enhancing the Japanese underground music scene. The song 'Live with me' is a pretty hard recognizable Rolling Stones cover. (Video edited by video uploader, worth to watch, excerpts from animations of Jan Svankmajer, Zbigniew Rybszynski etc.)

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OOIOO - I'm a Song (Ooioo, 1998)

The side-project of Boredoms's drummer Yoshimi P-We and a few of her female friends is one huge insane collage of funny noises and congenial rhythms, an exercise in hyper-deconstruction of kitsch. Allegedly the band was founded as a 'fake band for a magazine photo shoot', in 1997 they opened for Sonic Youth.

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Sadistic Mika Band - Arienu Kyowakoku (Sadistic Mika Band, 1973)

Beginning with a Stones-like sound and turning to T-rex vibes, Sadistic Mika Band presents themselves as a worthy Japanese equivalent to the burgeoning glam-rock movement in the western world. In general the group is well reputed for their multifaceted music, which captures groovy prog, funky pop, hard rock and many more. Those who left the band in the 70s, such as Yukihiro Takahashi, Masayoshi Takanaka and Kazuhiko Kato, had successful carrers as solo artists and in new projects. The remaining members continued working on albums and collaborating with artists such as the pop-artist Kaela Kimura.