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Jpop Bass: Matsui Hiroshi, Motown nostalgia
The Matsui Hiroshi Power HourAll arrangements by Matsui Hiroshi (松井寛) / Royal Mirrorball
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Tokyo Girls Style (東京女子流)Himawari to Hoshikuzu (ヒマワリと星屑) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yduuHMe1KQ8Read more... ) -
TGS tomorrow
Welp, going to see them tomorrow at Jpop Summit, (Tomochin, too!) and I always want the artists I go see to have a good time, so finally, after all these years, I'm finally learning their names!
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Bad Flower, Inshouha Renoir
There's a TGS tag, and as you can see, their musical "thing" is mostly this super funky, syncopation percussion heavy style, with crazy great guitar solos.
Well, now they've gone and upped the guitars to mash this style with rock. Or something.
It's awesome.
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Fandom clash
TGS cover Kissing You. These tend to never get released due to licensing, but thank goodness for fancams.
Man, it was going so well, and then...
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Getting funky in loliland
Following in TGS's footsteps, Momoiro Clover Z's newest single "Roudou Sanka" is also a funky piece complete with a brass, jazz organ, a rhythmic bass part, and prominent syncopation in the percussion.
The production and the vocals are nowhere as nice as TGS's, but the brass all over the place, the short parts of harmony, and the cracktastic PV ( Read more... ) -
I ain't lying here
Not as good as Limited Addiction, but only in that the verse isn't as striking. That chorus makes up for everything. The arrangement doesn't also have as immediately memorable a hook, but in terms of complexity it's just as if not more complex than Himawari's, so I still love this song a whole freaking lot. The chorus is so good I don't even mind ( Read more... )
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