I like me some nipponese rock. My new favorite band happens to be Japanese. They are called NISENNENMONDAI and they frickin' RULE. Circular, hypnotic, post punk, nip/kraut, tightly woven mess of beauty. Check music:

http://www.myspace.com/nisennenmondai

buy the gorgeous double vinyl reissue set of both of their first 2 discs from righteous online retailer:

http://www.fusetronsound.com/label.php? ... NNENMONDAI

If you like This Heat, CAN and all girl Japanese groups that slay thy facthen you will like this band. Also, if anyone here can speak/write Japanese and would like to help me by translating a few emails to these young ladies about releasing music on my label Barge Recordings please PM me....google translator ees no goot....

enjoy your new favorite band....

~ian

I listen to Ohbijou quite often recently. It really reminded me of SOMETHING, but I couldn't figure what it was, it was driving me nuts. Moment of revelation came yesterday: His Name is Alive.

John George Peppers wrote:Yura Yura Teikoku. That roughly translates into, "The Imperial Sway." THey are real good psychedelic fuzzed out rock band. They frequently jam and are the best unknown Japanese band by a country mile.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynEeHz3VcbQ

I dig it!

Has anyone mentioned Electric Eel Shock? Those guys are a blast and put on a great show. They have a lot of fun.

I think the opening 3 or 4 lines of this song say it all:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7eQjLrgmdI

Ty Webb wrote:Has anyone mentioned Electric Eel Shock? Those guys are a blast and put on a great show. They have a lot of fun.

I think the opening 3 or 4 lines of this song say it all:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7eQjLrgmdI

Electric Eel Shock is such a fun Japanese metal/riff rock band. For the uninitiated I highly recommend Go USA! over the Beat Me album. Not that Beat Me is bad, but not nearly as inspired.

I would love to see this band live. It has to be fun as fuck. I am still kicking myself for not driving to Milwaukee when they played the Cactus Club a year or so ago.

Hey, once again:

mySpace is good for something.

I love Meat Eaters, and I wish they had more recorded music.

charliedon'tsurf wrote:I would love to see this band live. It has to be fun as fuck. I am still kicking myself for not driving to Milwaukee when they played the Cactus Club a year or so ago.

Several years ago, I saw them at a tiny club in NC with my buddies in RPG. Unbelievably fun show. There were only about 50 people there for their set, but that's a pretty good crowd in such a small space. They went at it like their lives depended on it and it was just incredibly infectious. It is impossible to watch those guys do their thing and not smile.

"Sex Drugs and E-Mail" was a real highlight.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJ4YQ8heDpc

高円寺百景 or Koenji Hyakkei have been getting a lot of play lately.

Think Ruins, except with even more Magma damage.

Billy?

here is a great site where you can listen to japan underground music :
http://japan-underground.dl.am/
they allow you to download music via rapidshare.
great way to discover more or less recent groups...

cyril

burun wrote:高円寺百景 or Koenji Hyakkei have been getting a lot of play lately.

Think Ruins, except with even more Magma damage.

Koenji Hyakkei are awesome. There's also an element of brain-damaged Andrew Lloyd-Webber in there, with the modulated vocals and such.