/r/japanesemusic

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Let's talk Japanese music. The goal is to be as far-reaching as possible, so that we can all share in our knowledge of the best music that Japan has to offer. Maybe you're a fan of classic rock? Or hip-hop? Contemporary pop? Traditional music? Noise and other experiments? You name it: we're interested.

Let's talk Japanese music. The goal is to be as far-reaching as possible, so that we can all share in our knowledge of the best music that Japan has to offer. Maybe you're a fan of classic rock? Or hip-hop? Contemporary pop? Traditional music? Noise and other experiments? You name it: we're interested.


RULES

  1. Be kind.

  2. No lyrics translation requests.

  3. No requests for or sharing of unauthorized download links.


PLEASE READ CAREFULLY BEFORE SUBMITTING MUSIC LINKS

  1. Music submitted to this subreddit must be created in or for the Japanese music scene/industry. Simply singing in Japanese or sampling Japanese music does not meet this criterion.

  2. No karaoke, instrumental covers, remixes or reaction videos. Additionally, any covers must be of Japanese music AND performed by artists in the Japanese music scene/industry.

  3. Do not submit more than one link by the same artist per day.

  4. Please tag your posts according to the following guidelines.

MUSIC AND PV LINKS: please use one genre and one year tags. Keep them general, for searchability:

Example: Artist - Song [genre][year]

tricot - POOL [Math Rock][2013]

FLAIR: Please use the subreddit flair to categorize your post.


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/r/japanesemusic

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What anime this music played in?

I feel like I listened to this song from my anime playlist, but It was a different version with a more eletronic/robotic voice, but I can't rly find it online easily even if I just type toki wo modoshite anime or something like that

Could you guys shed some light in it please? Not sure if Im just going crazy and this was a actually never in any anime xD

https://www.uta-net.com/song/47034/

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2024/05/05
15:23 UTC

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Your favorite Tetsurō Oda (織田哲郎) compositions?

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2024/05/05
13:08 UTC

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Denki Groove the Movie

Does anyone know where I could watch Denki Groove the Movie documentary? I am a very large fan of their music, and am only able to find DVD for about 80-100 dollars ... please let me know if any of you have been able to watch the movie somewhere online. Thanks!!

0 Comments
2024/05/05
12:29 UTC

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Any info on this super niche band?

Submarine Orca-go is their name but i cant seem to find any online presence other than spotify and yt music

2 Comments
2024/05/05
12:07 UTC

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MINORI NAGASHIMA - SALINGER (may 2024)

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2024/05/05
11:07 UTC

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ずっと真夜中でいいのに (Zutto Mayonaka de Iinoni) - 嘘じゃない ("Uso Janai" (It's No Lie)) [jpop][2024]

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2024/05/05
10:05 UTC

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please help me find this song

I remember listening to this Japanese rock/indie rock track when i was younger. It had a very catchy guitar riff and was sung by men. I believe it was unreleased..? (could be wrong cuz i may have listened to it through spotify) I primarily remember listening to it on youtube and it having a girl with her face couvered with some trippy looking background as the cover. I think the title of the track contained the number 6 and that the band that made it had the name “The _______” as in the (something) as their name. Please if you know anything let me know.

2 Comments
2024/05/05
08:16 UTC

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Ikebe Gakki/Ikebe Reuse, do they sell to foreigners?

Buddy of mine is visiting Japan right now and wants to buy a used drum from them (Ikebe), but can't download the app cuz he's not from Japan. He's curious if there'll be any problem buying from them as a foreigner, have any of you bought from them before? If yes, how's your experience?

1 Comment
2024/05/05
07:28 UTC

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Seireki13ya - ItoshiUtakataTo (Color Coded Lyrics)

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2024/05/05
07:00 UTC

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Please help what is the name of this song

Found this song on tiktok and it sounds heavenly I just can’t seem to find the title for the life of me 🥲 Thank you!

2 Comments
2024/05/05
06:09 UTC

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Piano + j-rock?

Trying to find a song! It has a very unique album cover with like a painting of a lady in a dress over a record? Very hype but can’t remember any of the details. Would appreciate any help I can get, thanks!!

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2024/05/05
01:26 UTC

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song identification

Sorry guys to spam you with such shitty request, but fucking youtube during surfing trought right panel recommendation i land on japanese song (NANI?!). Nothing spectacular...but i lost my acc where i can go trought watched history, and fucking YT algorithm in japan music are running in circles of 30-40 songs for me...and he won't recomend me the one i want :( identification should not be hard, coz as i remember song had shitload of views. MV was animated, camera on beach bar (?), with two dudes on sides of bar, and on center girls was sitting. She was dancing only i think during chorus. Oh and song was about fucking xD english lyrics was something about in simplication "lets bang tonight, oh oh oh"....i bet most of you know what im searching. Thanks!

3 Comments
2024/05/05
00:00 UTC

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What anime song *starts* with "never say never"?

I've been trying for months to remember what's the anime with a song (that I'm almost sure is an outro) that starts with something like "Never say never! Let's burn it up". It was a rock song, so it featured some heavy guitars. The initial phrase began before the instruments kicked in. It was a man singing, but I'm almost positive there were back singers too.

Here's a vocaroo of what I remember it being.

I can't remember if those are the correct lyrics, and I've been through every anime I've watched recently.

I know I listened to it on Spotify but I also can't find it there.

I feel like I'm going crazy! Please help?

6 Comments
2024/05/04
23:58 UTC

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國 - Huge Moon [Alt Rock][2024]

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2024/05/04
22:54 UTC

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Sadist in Live music.

Being researching sadist in live music and been trying to find the name of the female band that performs sadist acts on men live?

0 Comments
2024/05/04
21:22 UTC

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水咲加奈 (Kana Mizusaki) - 鏡よ鏡 [2024]

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2024/05/04
19:11 UTC

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N-word said by japanese artist

What in The is this? Did this japanese chick just really said nigga. If she is fully japanese, she real dumb and uneducated

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZIJng14J2/

9 Comments
2024/05/04
19:05 UTC

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Trying to find an old Japanese song that had an insanely skilled female drummer.

TL;DR two person music video. 1 guy, 1 girl. Girl on drums, guy on electric guitar. Music video shot in high school interior locations. Song starts by finding male vocalist in locker/closet and he screams. Song is at least 8 years old.


It's a song with a male and female singer and the girl is on drums while the guy is playing electric guitar.

They're in a high school setting and wearing strange clothes that they change a few times throughout the video, kind of like when you're at a wedding photo booth and put on a bunch of weird accessories for the pictures.

My three strongest memories of this song are:

(1) The song starts with a cold open of a camera slowly moving down a hallway with just the quiet sounds of a Japanese high school, after school. The camera comes up to and enters a janitors room (?) and a man opens a closet/locker. Inside the locker is the male vocalist of the band. The two men see each other and scream while the camera jump cuts to the outside of the school and the song begins with a prominent drum beat. To get extremely detailed, the camera shot isn't looking at the front of the school at that part. It's like a 1/3 shot that is mostly sky and the top of the school (like with all the windows of a long hallway in view) are in the bottom left of the screen at an angle.

(2) Aside from the janitor (?) at the start, there are only two other people in this music video. The male and female band members. Those two are in various high school settings throughout the song. The main one I remember aside from the opening scene is when they're in the center of the school gymnasium. The girl is on drums and the guy is standing to her right on guitar. I remember their clothes looking strange here, like the guy is wearing a Chaplin stache and fedora? Maybe at one point they're in the school hallway and look like they stepped out of the Ed, Edd and Eddy "fad" episode.

(3) The drums are insane in this song. She was absolutely going off the entire time. It's the reason why I've been hunting for this song for over 10 years or since whenever I assume it got deleted off YouTube (I assume because I've checked my playlists a hundred times and haven't found it).

This next bit could be my memory rewriting itself since it's been so long, but I feel like the drummer girl looked kind of like the girl on the right in the thumbnail for FREDERIC -「oddloop」

Aside from combing through every music playlist I've made in the last like 15 years and not finding it, I also searched through popular male-female bands with female drummers for the last 20 years. Then I checked specifically Japanese female drummers in case she only did the one song. No luck. This was a massively popular song when I heard it originally, it wasn't like an 800 view video, it was huge at the time.

Please, I beg, I have been hunting for so long and can't find this song.

12 Comments
2024/05/04
18:10 UTC

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ジミー時田 (Jimmie Tokita) - Sunshine, Good Rider [Folk][1981]

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2024/05/04
17:27 UTC

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Kazumi Watanabe – Kylyn (1979) #NowPlaying 💿

Enjoying this immensely ❤️

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2024/05/04
16:52 UTC

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Help with Magic Carpet Ride by Pizzicato Five

Picked up the Made in USA comp album after several years sitting in a closet and was grooving with Magic Carpet Ride but something was bugging me and I couldn't place it until today. There's a piece of the track (starts at 0:24 and repeats throughout the song) - a sample most likely - that I swear I've heard before but I just can't place where I've heard it before and a cursory search online doesn't bring up much. Shazam can't get past the drum track and won't give any result other than Pizzicato Five.

If anyone here knows where the sample is from or what it has been used in, I am begging you to help ease my desperation to know.

1 Comment
2024/05/04
16:25 UTC

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Eve × Deu - フラットウッズのモンスターみたいに (Like The Flatwoods Monster) [rock][2024]

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2024/05/04
10:04 UTC

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Need help identifying a J-pop/edm song i clipped last year please

It says i audio clipped it on August 6, 2023

I can't seem to recall the YouTube video the music was used as a bgm. I clipped it because the creator did not put the song details in the description.

No luck either in searching for it in romaji & hiragana that i don't know if i am typing correctly ≧∇≦

Different kinds of music identifiers was used and still cannot recognize the song too ๏︿๏

Any help is deeply appreciated. I will sacrifice by fasting for a day and pray that you will get isekai-ed in your next life w/ happiness ʕ•ﻌ•ʔ

clipped audio

1 Comment
2024/05/04
06:09 UTC

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Looking for more information on band (I’m peaceful)

The Japanese shoegaze band I’m peaceful has one album on Apple Music called “Who are they” and nothing else. I’ve tried looking them up and besides one excerpt from Amazon music I couldn’t find any information on them or any other music they’ve released. If anyone knows something or wants to do some digging it would be greatly appreciated.

1 Comment
2024/05/04
05:21 UTC

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Loulalee − three out [Indie Rock][2024]

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2024/05/04
03:51 UTC

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turn this shit to the max brothas

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2024/05/04
01:52 UTC

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Wananabani-en - Carnivorous Plant[Japan/Experimental Rock](2023)

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2024/05/04
01:25 UTC

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f5ve - Lettuce [2024]

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2024/05/03
23:12 UTC

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bands like co shu nie, myth & roid, deathnyann

i've recently listenning to this bands i call jrock experimental, eletronic whatever. And im having a hard time trying to find any bands songs that sound similiar.

7 Comments
2024/05/03
20:53 UTC

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