Gacharic Spin - Mindset Reaction and Discussion
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- Опубліковано 25 чер 2024
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The guys sit down and react to the song Mindset from the band Gacharic Spin!
Check out the original video here: • Gacharic Spin｢MindSet｣
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Gacharic Spin formed in 2009 when bassist Koga Michiko (stage name F Chopper Koga - one of the best stage names ever) and her old friend drummer/guitarist Sano Hana (Hana) decided to form a band. They were both in their early 20s at the time. A few months later, guitarist Midorikawa Tomoko (Tomo-zo) joined when an original member left. In 2012 keyboardist Suzuki Reona (Oreo Reona) joined and these "core four" have been together ever since. In my opinion, the band struggled finding an identity during the first 10 years. However, in early 2019 they added Yuri to play drums which allowed Hana to be up front on guitar. Yuri was not in this video and Hana was back on drums because Yuri was on maternity leave. More importantly, Koga discovered a young 17 year old high school vocalist with very little performing experience but with a great voice and abundant charisma. Koga invited her to audition as an additional vocalist ( all of the core four can sing, especially Hana and Reona). The young vocalist goes by Angelina 1/3 because of her Japanese, Spanish and Filipino heritage but fans simply call her Angie. These six are by far the best version of Gacharic Spin.
This is another Japanese band where all six are world class talents. Koga is an exceptional bassist and, like Misa with Band-Maid, her bass work always gets highlighted. It does help that she and Hana remain the primary songwriters. Speaking of Hana, not only is she a great drummer, guitarist, composer and vocalist (both cleans and harsh) she also played bass in another band. In my now almost 4 years of taking a deep dive into Japanese rock/metal, three artists have impressed me the most, and they are all three women - Kanami of Band-Maid (one of the best rock/metal composers in the world), Miyako of Lovebites (world class composer, guitarist and pianist) and Hana (the Dave Grohl of Japan).
I think it's worth mentioning that Tomo-zo is also a major song-writer for the band
For example IIRC she was the primary composer on MindSet, I Wish I, Kachi-Kachi Yama, and Replica, all 4 of their last two albums singles
All members contribute ideas even to songs other members bring, although final arrangement decisions when there's dispute falls to the original composer of the song
There is an in depth interview coming to UniJolt with Koga and Tomo-zo in the next few weeks that includes a number of in depth questions and responses about their writing process
Oreo also composes songs, for example Voice, Forever 19
@@r-tunes8652 Thank you for that info. Gacharic Spin is the seventh band that I have taken a dive into their history but I still have a ways to go. The other bands are Maximum The Hormone (who I have listened to for many years), Band-Maid, Lovebites, Nemophila, Asterism and Unlucky Morpheus.
Ya, The bass player is amazing. F Chopper Koga is her name. Love the song and band band.
My favourite band, I got to see them front and centre in Houston last night, one of the best gigs I've ever been to and I've been to hundreds, if not thousands, mostly metal
I'm actually having major post gig blues now and I don't normally get that
I saw some fan videos of that show and it looked spectacular. Wish I could have been there but glad to hear you had a great time. I can't imagine seeing a GS show and walking away disappointed.
When you listen to the bass singled out, as she does in her IG, you realize how intricate she is to the bands sound. I'd put her in my top 5 bassist ever. Just love these girls.
I'm reminded of the movie "Amadeus", where the king says after a complicated piece of music..."Too many notes"
Great reaction guys! And yes, they all sing. If you want more Gacharic Spin try their song I Wish I. You can check out a live version or the video, reactors choice! They do some interesting vocals at the beginning of the song 🤘😊🤘
funk meets jazz and had techno punk babies i love this group heard em a while ago still cannot wrap my mind around them no genre lock for sure for them
Gacharic Spin also play in a band called Doll$boxx together with singer Fuki from Unlucky Morpheus. Their sound is much heavier. Try the song Shoutdown.
Some Japanese bands, old and new. Take your pick: BAND-MAID [All their songs... really!], LOVEBITES [Break the Wall, Raise some Hell, and all the other songs], BABYMETAL [All their songs, because they are all different], MAXIMUM THE HORMONE [Yoshu Fukushu], DEXCORE [Earthworm], CROSSFAITH [Catastrophe], SiM [Killing Me], NINGEN ISU [Heartless Scat], UNLUCKY MORPHEUS [Black Pentagram], YOUSEI TEIKOKU [Astral Dogma, Patriot Anthem (Live)] and their other band: DenKare [Detonator], COLDRAIN [Die Tomorrow], CRYSTAL LAKE [The Circle], GIVEN BY THE FLAMES [Ronove], LONESOME_BLUE [Face the Fear], ANGRY FROG REBIRTH [2Step Syndrome], SILENTLY SHOOTING TRAITORS [Manipulate], ALDIOUS [Dominator], TRiDENT [Ambivalent, Spoopy, ...], BRIDEAR [Light in the Dark], CINQ ELEMENT [Destiny], MARY'S BLOOD [Marionette], GRAUPEL [Bereavement], DOLL$BOXX [Take my Chance], SOKONINARU [Tenohira De Odoru], HELLO SLEEPWALKERS [Flying Saucer], TELECiDE [Tied up Memories], NEKO [Ghost on a Record], MARDELAS [G-Metal], MERGINGMOON [Greyen], ROTTENGRAFFTY [Hallelujah], JILUKA [Mephisto, Overkill], BROKEN BY THE SCREAM [Emotion Cross-Counter], FATE GEAR [Unbreakable Wings], LYNCH [Devil], GACHARIC SPIN [Mindset], DIR EN GREY [Ningen wo Kaburu], X JAPAN [Kurenai], DAZZLE VISION [Second], DEVILOOF [Torture], JUPITER [My Enemy], NOKUTO [Life of Desire], GALNERYUS [Angel of Salvation], SAISEIGA [Ride On], BLOOD STAIN CHILD [Del-Sol], NEMOPHILA [Rise, Hypnosis], DADAROMA [Lucid Dream], JILUKA [Overkill, or Lluvia], HANABIE [We Love Sweets, Be the GAL], A CROWD OF REBELLION [Re:Create of the Re:d], PALEDUSK [Area PD], POLKADOT STINGRAY [any song], MUTANT MONSTERS [Abnormal], BLACKLAB [Insanity], ASTERISM [Fiction, Rising Moon, Unravel, or Church], NOISEMAKER [Hunter or Prey], BiSH [The Night When Stars Twinkle], SCANDAL [A.M.D.K.J.], DEEP GIRL [I kill], Mrs. GREEN APPLE [Inferno], BRATS [Doudatte Yokatta], THE ORAL CIGARETTES [Frenzy Hey Kids!!], GIRUGAMESH [Drain], LiLiHoLi [From Darkness to Light], THE DEVIL’S KILLING MERRY-GO-ROUND [Diabolos], OTOBOKE BEAVER [Love is Short], and many many more...
Gacharic Spin are now live in Houston Texas.....Band-Maid are now live in US, Hanabie are now live in Europe.... In the 70' 80' US and European Rock Bands invaded Japan, now Japanese Rock Bands invaded US and Europe, and the only different is that they are all FEMALE.......
And tons of American and European men love Asian girls that play talented music. Think Japan capitalizing on that.
As mentioned in another comment, the musicians in this video are the musicians from the band Doll$Boxx with Fuki, the singer from Unlucky Morpheus. The Doll$Boxx song Shout Down is definitely worth checking out 🤘😁🤘
I can't remember ever seeing or hearing such an energetic group as Gacharic Spin. And believe me, you haven't seen or heard anything yet! :) It's not for nothing that I like to call this band a mystery bag, where you just don't know what to expect next.
The fact that at this time Yuri was actually already their drummer and the reason why Hana was seen here again on them, has already been written and has to do with Yuris maternity leave at this time. Do you want to see both together? Then I just recommend her song Tamashii in the 2019 live version with the video ID "Jt7-GGRa3nc" and PLEASE together with a VERY special version of the same song which you can find under the video ID "DzoxNWNnFpw" (yes, the video name is in japanese). 😉
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_"Sometimes we laugh because we're sad or to hide our frustration"_ - from *Gacharic Spin* -「 I Wish I 」 🎶✨
This band is something else! This girls are so awesome, please check their song Revers Psycology Live or Replica (the music video) those are from their last album and are absolutely brutal
Gacharic Spin may be closer to your world than you think! They just played the Anime Matsuri show in Houston.
Here's a fan cam video of Mindset - the sound mix is not real good, but a nice close up of the bass player. ua-cam.com/video/-X_ZAC9FO0w/v-deo.html
GS started in 2009, with a lead singer called Armmy (Takae Ashitomi). They did a sort of highly technical punk-pop, but crossed genres a lot. They started to have friction between Armmy and the rest of the band, and then in early 2012 she left, officially for health reasons. She died in 2015; their work with her is very much worth seeing-here is an early one: “Setsunaku” ua-cam.com/video/vfzIt20_xXg/v-deo.html The girls were all just out of high school, and you can see they were already doing pretty advanced, technical stuff.
When Armmy left, GS had tours lined up in both Japan and abroad for 2012, and needed a lead singer. For the Japan tour various singers (including Fuki) filled in for different shows, but they couldn’t find someone good enough who could also commit to the band full time For their overseas tour Hana (who was doing drums and vocals and was effectively the co-leader of the band) took the lead vocals on herself. She also happens to play several other instruments. Here is a live performance of their track Across The Now from a tiny venue in France (filmed as part of their 2012 overseas tour-this was Hana's first test at taking lead vocals whilst drumming): ua-cam.com/video/_LnVAgqlE8g/v-deo.html
GS had had great chemistry with Fuki when she filled in for them, so while they were figuring out what to do with GS they contacted Fuki about doing a more metal project. This became Doll$Boxx. They wrote and recorded their first album at the end of 2012, then picked up GS again full time in 2013. This remains their main focus, and Fuki is busy with many projects including her main band Unlucky Morpheus, but they occasionally continue to perform together when their schedules permit. So Doll$Boxx can be considered a special project of GS.
Regarding the genre of Gacharic Spin, it's pretty much impossible to pin it down to any one thing, although by and large they'd probably fall very roughly in the "pop rock" genre although they really just do whatever they want at any given time. You'll find everything in their back catalogue from metal and punk to electro, dance, pop and ballads. Most of their recent work merges multiple genres.
In recent years, Gacharic Spin have added more personnel (a drummer, allowing Hana to focus on guitar and vocals, and dancers who also sing). Core personnel (these are also the members of Doll$Boxx along with Fuki):
Hana (Hana Sano): vocals, drums, guitar, keytar, other instruments
Tomo-Zo (Tomoko Midorikawa): lead guitar
F-Chopper Koga (Michiko Koga): bass
Oreo Reona (Reona Suzuki): keyboards, vocals
All of them can sing and occasionally take on lead or backing vocals. Hana and Oreo also do metal growls in some songs. Several other performers have rotated in and out of GS. Currently they list Yuri as their drummer and Angelina doing dance and vocals. Here's a fun video of them performing their track Hunting Summer: ua-cam.com/video/fWPyXZzeV3Y/v-deo.html Oreo takes lead vocals on this and there's a fun dueling keyboard solo between her and one of the dancers.
Here is Fantasy Medley, live, a medley of several of Tomo-zo's songs which are often named with a fantasy theme like Weekend Fantasy, Final Fantasy, etc: ua-cam.com/video/HLoqx_6B3Tw/v-deo.html
Finally, one of their most recent official videos, a remarkable excursion through fusion, electro-pop, metal and funk with some symphonic keyboards thrown in. Very few bands have the technical chops to pull off anything like this. “Mindset” ua-cam.com/video/QmL0V667QzI/v-deo.html
Best Prog Band today in my mind.
Everything we do, the Asians (in this case Japanese) can always do it better lol.
Frikkin' love Gacharic Spin (yep, you pronounced it right), and frikkin' love this song. Next you probably can react to 'I Wish I', 'Kachi Kachi Yama' and 'Replica'.
Great review of a band that has become one of my favorites. Yes, all of these women are extremely talented but don't assume that all of their songs are in this style since this band is a genre chameleon when it comes to music styles. Since you guys are more into metal try "Reverse Psychology" (live) ua-cam.com/video/D5iUvZWwJYY/v-deo.html or "I Wish I" (live and don't let the ballad start fool you) ua-cam.com/video/nhFse5ZBlLo/v-deo.html for a very hard metal/rock sound.
GACHAPIN played MINDSET in HOUSTON this weekend - ua-cam.com/video/-X_ZAC9FO0w/v-deo.html
Hey guys there is a new track from a new Japanese band called "East of Eden" Their track is called "Evolve" and it's right you alley !!! Please Please react it...... bye
Try an early rocker from GACHARIC SPIN with a different line up: SEKIRA RAIA (赤裸ライア/ Naked Liar, OMV, 2015 - ua-cam.com/video/DSx9z8ZdDM0/v-deo.html
🤘🏽LOVEBITES RULES🤘🏽
If they were an instrumental band I'd be into them, but the vocals are what keeps me from enjoying them. For me it's kinda disappointing but I see why people like them. Plus it seems like people that like Japanese bands, ONLY like Japanese bands...
Speaking only for myself, Gacharic Spin are my favourite band, but they're one of the few Japanese acts I listen to regularly alongside X Japan, Ling Tosite Sigure and Ningen Isu, the rest of the bands on my heavy rotation are British, American and European, for example Dyscarnate, Megadeath, Battle Beast, Marduk, Akercocke
Don't know where you got that last sentence from. Reactors like Wave Potter, react-o-mat, Party Like a Rockstar, who heavily feature the Japanese scene typically also love other bands and artists. Jinjer, Polyphia, Nightwish, Alip Ba Ta etc.
What is true is a lot have people have become cynical about the state of rock/metal, had their love of it revived by Japanese bands, and then found out that there are some great western bands too once you get past the cookie-cutter stuff that gets the most views.