The Japanese Shoegaze Scene
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- Опубліковано 10 чер 2024
- 0:00 Intro
2:01 Walrus - 光のカケラ [Fragment of Light]
3:00 Coaltar of the Deepers - No Thank You
4:15 Xinlisupreme - Tomorrow Never Comes
5:33 Luminous Orange - Drop You Vivid Colours
6:29 Hartfield - True Color, True Lie
7:30 東京酒吐座 [Tokyo Shoegazer] - Crystallize
8:28 きのこ帝国 [Kinoko Teikoku] - Eureka
9:23 死んだ僕の彼女 [My Dead Girlfriend] - Hades
10:37 Other Groups
11:12 Conclusion
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My Favorite Japanese Shoegaze songs:
5. Haru no Gyouninzaka - Coaltar of the Deepers (from No Thank You)
4. Reason - Hartfield (from True Color, True Lie)
3. Summer's Gone - Honeydip (from Portable Audio Science)
2. Drop You Vivid Colours - Luminous Orange (from Drop You Vivid Colours)
1. Hakuiki - My Dead Girlfriend (from Hades)
Songs Featured in the Video:
Oeil - Urban Twilight (2007)
1. Strawberry Cream
Flipper's Guitar - Camera Talk (1990)
2. 恋とマシンガン [Young, Alive, In Love]
Walrus - 光のカケラ [Fragment of Light] (2000)
3. 光のカケラ [Fragment of Light]
4. Dyed
Coaltar of the Deepers - No Thank You (2001)
5. Good Morning
6. Haru no gyouninzaka [Gyoninzaka in Spring]
Xinlisupreme - Tomorrow Never Comes (2002)
7. Kyoro
8. All You Need Is Love Was Not True
Luminous Orange - Drop You Vivid Colours (2002)
9. Drop You Vivid Colours
10. Utatane no Hibi (L'ecume des jours)
Hartfield - True Color, True Lie (2004)
11. Reason
12. A Sorrowful Heartland
東京酒吐座 [Tokyo Shoegazer] - Crystallize (2011)
13. Just Alright
14. Bright
きのこ帝国 [Kinoko Teikoku] - Eureka (2013)
15. 平行世界 [Parallel world]
16. Musician
死んだ僕の彼女 [My Dead Girlfriend] - Hades (The Nine Stages of Change at the Deceased Remains) (2015)
17. 吐く息 [The Last Stage of Change at the Deceased Remains]
18. Hades in the Dead of Winter
Cruyff in the Bedroom - Carillon Blue (Single) (2002)
19. Carillon Blue
PLASTIC GIRL IN CLOSET - DAWN TONE (2020)
20. HEART & SOUL
Sources:
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www.theguardian.com/music/201...
Mass of the Fermenting Dregs is arguably one of the most solid Japanese bands out there. Still active today
Agreed, although I never really thought of them as shoegaze
100% agreed. Very surprised to not see them on the list.
Id see them more as hardcore math rock
they are one of my favourites. Although not all their tracks are straight up shoegaze, but also noise rock and alt rock, the inspiration is definitely there.
i love masudore, i actually got to meet them in august alongside seeing them at their first ever uk show, genuinely had me crying at the end lmao
Pasteboard
Strawberry cream oeil
My dead girlfriend
Cornelius
Kinoku teikoku
Yuragi
Tokyo shoegazer
Hartfield
Coaltar of the deepers
Luminous orange
Ucho nekoku
For Tracy Hyde
Tokenai name
Collapse
800 cherries Romantico
Hades in the dead of winter
Long goodbye
Uzi ni naru
Syvyys sphere
Topography of the white sea
Cruyff
Ultra velvet
Honeydip
Lucid express
Foresaken autumn
Tramontina
Xinlisupreme
The milky tangerine
Hitsujibungaku
April blue
The florist
Dotstokyo
Ray Green album
Supercar
She her her hers
Shinsei kamattechan tsumanne
Plant cell
Moon in June
Spool
Homecomings
Kirinji
Seventeen years old
Berlin wall
Downy
Kensei ogata
Storywriter
Dive early sonic June
Lemons chair
Pizzicato five (shibuya kei genre)
Cq
Clams pnut butter irony
Honeydip summers gone
Freezing butterfly
Beautiful world parannoul
Walrus
Asobi seksu
Cosodorokitsune shojoskip
Fantastic plastic machine dear Mr salesman
Plastic girl in closet
Flippers guitar
Russian
Motogonki
Velvet and velvet dolls
Devushkin son
Czech
Naked souls
Ecstacy of st Theresa
Dynamo soda stereo
Los hermanos Brazil
Gorduratrans
Terraplana
Nao ao futebol moderno
Sonhos tomam conta
Lo penninsula
Thank you!!!!
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YES, Kinoko Teikoku, my favourite Japanese band, and their Eureka, my favourite Japanese album, that has a special place in my heart since high school, so happy to see it here!
By the way, I enjoy Tokyo Shoegazer a lot too. Turnaround is my favourite record by them, it's absolutely stunning (while I can't deny that Crystallize, incredible album too, has probably the best album cover artwork I've ever seen :D ). The only thing that is bad about this band is the fact that they are not available on spotify. Also, another Japanese shoegaze band that I adore is Yuragi, they are definitely worth checking out. Great video, I really enjoyed it!
@@velotsyraptor_333 Thank you so much! Eureka is such an excellent album, it's great to see a fan of their music. I haven't listened to Turnaround yet but I'll definitely add it to my list of albums that I intend on listening to. I'll check Yuragi as well!
umi to hanataba is like my favorite song like ever
@@StainedGlassStories Yuragi, AO is bliss. So is their song, Unreachable. Just to name a couple. One of my favourite Japanese bands!
eurekas is my fav album too, but Flower Girl is my fav song from them, that damn song is something else
My Dead Girlfriend literally initiate me to shoegaze 🙏 What a great band, kinoko teikoku is great too ! I will listen to the others asap
Love My Dead Girlfriend! Wish I would have found out about them sooner. Hope you enjoy the others!
@@StainedGlassStories Must have wandered into MDG at teh same time as I've been obsessed for about a month with the band. Looks like some new tunes lie ahead now! Thanks for the tipoff
Im sorry for your loss
@@Stringer13ell you're really sweet but "My Dead Girlfriend" is the name of one of the band presented in the video 💀
@@dectika yeah I know. This is a joke
I’m surprised Pasteboard wasn’t mentioned. They are slept on!!
YES!!! Glitter is just a majestic album, I think everyone who loves shoegaze or pop's dreamier side should hear it at least once
Yeah, they’re my favorite band. Shame.
Glitter is beautiful!! Love squall and flipper so much
@@spicychashu and also breakbeats, and shoegazer, and freesoul.. and nowhere.. damn, it is just perfect😭😭
Thanks to tiktok a lot more people know about them now.
I'll always thank Kinoko Teikoku for introducing me to J-shoegaze during the end of 2020. I was pretty screwed emotionally & socially at that time so for them to become basically the soundtrack for 2021 was very special to me. I'd also like to mention a few other bands like kuhaku no yo, Pasteboard, dotstokyo, yuragi, CQ, Uchu Nekoko, and toddle. They're all awesome and they definitely need more ears on them!
Yuragi isn't a band.
It's a state of mind
SAMEE but for this year
Kokudo slope
same for my but it was more like march of 2019 that I was introduced to those bands through my own searching.
Yess love yuragi and kinokuteikoku
Mass of the Fermenting Dregs is another great one. Such volume from such a small band, and decent range as well. I got to Tokyo Shoegazer and Supercar through them.
Mass of the Fermenting Dregs is one of the best bands out there.
@@user-ck8pb2np5w Agreed. Saw them live a year ago and they're insane. My favorite shoegaze band next to Kinoko Teikoku. Really happy that they're still active and touring.
Whirlpool by Kinoko Teikoku (and their entire debut EP for that matter) is one of my favorite songs of all time. Such a shame they broke up but at least they released some incredible music in their time
I really wish they'd reform and go on tour. Shoegaze is getting more mainstream and the vocalist still performs their songs during her solo concerts. I know it's copium, but I just want to see them live.
I was pleasantly surprised to see a link to my old music blog listed in the description lol. Glad it's still helping people get introduced to the wonderful world of Japanese Shoegaze. Great work on the video and loved your selection of albums!
Hades is my favorite Japanese shoegaze album I’ve listened to. Hakuiki and hades in the dead of winter are definitely my favorite tracks
i love all these bands, but Yuragi and Uchu nekoko are most definitely my favourites out of the entire scene
yess
me too with kinokoteikoku up there as well ^^
Yuragi chefs kiss
uchu nekoko! 🖤
Talk about Uchu nekoko, you cant leave out kindan no tasuketsu that also gave birth to bubly summer.
I feel like Hades (and My Dead Girlfriend in general) gets even better if you know what the lyrics are about, I looked them up during my first listen and they elevated the music so much more. Few albums in recent memory have hit me emotionally as much as Hades did when I discovered it.
the day that Kinoko Teikoku announced they were spliting, something died inside me
DUDE! I went to Japan for a few months in 2008 and downloaded a number of albums to my iPod Shuffle, one of them being True Color, True Lie by Hartfield. Biking around Japan at night with the sounds of Hartfield in my headphones was a religious level experience. Also Boards of Canada are great biking/wandering music.
I love Coalter of the Deepers. Their blend of shoegazer with electro and death metal elements is fantastic and unique.
seeing so many of my favorite bands featured in this video has been so uplifting. thank you for producing this video, great stuff!
Luminous Orange is such an amazing band. I’m so glad I discovered them so long ago.
I didn't know about Japanese shoegaze music. It sounds fantastic. I'll be diving deep down this rabbit hole. Thanks for the recommendations.
So glad the video was informative :). I hope you enjoy!
Great video! Glad to see Coaltar of the deepers in the list, as i haven't seen a mix of shoegaze music with them yet, and the three songs you pointed out from that album are my favourite.
I wanna share some of my favourite music too
She border picture - Summer end
For tracy hyde - Ghost town polaroids
Would love to see if you liked them too
First time I’ve ever seen a vid mention coalter of the deepers. I absolutely love all their music and high recommend jt
They are so good! I am surprised they haven't gotten more recognition.
also for tracy hyde and dotstokyo/ray
Luby Sparks and For Tracy Hyde also deserves a mention in this list. I have quite a few more to recommend as well for modern Japanese shoegaze (been living in Japan for the past few years and going to shoegaze lives) but these 2 I listen to the most
I love Luby Sparks, knew someone who was friends with the singer
The new COLLAPSE album is one of the best shoegaze albums I’ve heard in a long time, highly recommend.
I will definitely give it a listen!
oh god oh god i gotta listen to it, I'm a fan of all of their singles, thank you
It’s so damn good!
My osusume : For Tracy Hyde and Seventeen Years Old And Berlin Wall
I will check them out! Thanks for the recommendation.
Kinoko Teikoku is my favorite Japanese shoegaze. But recently I found For Tracy Hyde, which is a good shoegaze band too
For Tracy Hyde-Hotel Insomnia. Fantastic record. It’s like Ride meets Lush. Absolutely brilliant
FINALLY!! I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR A VIDEO LIKE THIS!!
I loved it!! Please a part two soon!!
I also love Chinese shoegaze though I’m new into it, lucid express and foresaken autumn are my favorite Chinese shoegaze bands, I also recommend tramontina which is chilean, it’s so good
I will check Tramontina out! Thank you so much for your kind words Vanessa :). I would love to a cover the shoegaze scene from a South American nation next!
@@StainedGlassStories that would be great! People don’t really cover the alternative scene from here even though it’s huge. I think Chile and Argentina has the biggest shoegaze scene in the continent. If you can also check out el cómodo silencios de los que hablan poco, i love em’ 💓💓
love forsaken autumn! another good band from china is RUBUR
Would Dear Eloise be considered shoegaze?
As an older shoegaze fan, I find it fascinating that there are now shoegaze bands all over the world.
So glad to see someone covering the most wonderful shoegaze albums to come out of japan! Such an untapped part of the shoegaze community :)
There's a japanese shoegaze album called mikgazer which is a collab album by various artists with the singer being hatsune miku. Personally my favorite tracks on the album are "千年の雨の終わりに" and "flashback 0217". There's also a vol 2 called postgazer that has a much different vibe.
Woah, I might give that a listen. I mean, who wouldn't when there's a track with the name "at the end of the thousand-years' rain" that's metal af
i love sennen no ame no owari ni so much its so good one of the best kuragep songs😭😭😭
Thank you for this. I have been interested in learning more about the Japanese shoegaze scene. I've heard of most of these, just don't know them very well. This is a very timely find for me, as I plan on exploring these sounds more in the new year. Much appreciated.
Thank you for this video, that Xinlisupreme record is one of my all time favorites, will check out more japanese Shoegaze!
You're very welcome Johannes! I'm glad to see another fan of their music. I hope you enjoy what you listen to!
Thank you for sharing these! Looking forward to checking them out
I have very limited shoegaze knowledge so this was really cool to learn about! Great editing and format - very vibey feel! I liked the way things were presented and you popping in and out to talk
Great video--I love Japanese Shoegaze, and you opened with one of my all-time favorite songs generally!
Great video, just what I was looking for.
really like the editing and aesthetics and color. subbed
My favorite Shoegaze band will forever be Luminous Orange, as are all of their albums.
They're so good! I'm gonna have to listen to some more of their albums. Walkblind is one of my favorite shoegaze tracks of all time.
@@StainedGlassStories If this is the case, I recommend you listen to her album Sakura Swirl
thank you. asian shoegaze and specially japanese shoegaze might be my favorite music scene, there is always a hidden gem
I can't wait to check more of these out, you do a great job of describing the sound!
Thanks Snail! I use a thersaurus
Thank you for this video man
My pleasure!
My huge thanks to you for making this video, can't wait to see your new videos
Thank you so much Bruh! I hope my future videos don't disappoint!
this was a fascinating and well put together video. Thank you for making this
Thank you very much Kandirocks for your kind words :)
Awesome picks for representing Japanese shoe gaze! I've always said Coaltar of the Deepers were like Deftones to the few people who know about both. They both blend wildly different styles and influences unapologetically. They're both still making music today even. Great video!
This is my favorite new channel 😎
I love your channel finally I found someone with same music taste! Keep up the great work 💪
Thank you so much noyak :)! It's great to see people with similar music tastes!
I've been listening to Japanese Shoegaze for YEARS, and it's honestly some of the BEST I've heard
Kinoko Teikoku was band that introduce me to japanese shoegaze and ofcourse Eureka is my favorite release from them. Not only introduced, but their songs hypnotized me to bought they album and i'm so proud to having Eureka CD, my 1st shoegaze CD!
My Dead Girlfriend's Hades is definitely the most memorable one of those eight. I'd like to recommend to listen to CQ if you've liked Tokyo Shoegazer -- it has the similar quality, vibe and even some of its members in it. Kamomekamome is much harsh, metal and psychedelic, but it is an astounding experience (especially the self-titled album). nakanoise (mostly the songs with live vocal) also is a sweet and soothing band.
CQ!!! I discovered them a month or so ago and I have Communication, Cultural, Curiosity Quotient almost on loop, Disco Crimson makes me have some sort of nostalgic feeling I can't explain, it just hits the right spots
Been digging japanese shoegaze of late. My dead Girlfriend started it for me. Another j-gaze band to mention is Go with Strangers. But they sing in english.
I literally never heard of this genre until now. Thank you
BEAUTIFUL WORLD - PARANNOUL
i love coaltar of the deepers
Me too! Definitely going to listen to more of their material.
Learning so much on this channel
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thank you for this
You're very welcome!
if you like kinoko teikoku or anything like yuragi yall should check out "for tracy hyde" probably my favorite band ever. they have such amazing themes for their albums and usually have a short cinimatic film to go along with it :)
Nobody needed this till we needed it. Thanks man!
Thank you introduce Japanese shoegazer!I don't know Luminous Orange.I listen it song from this movie.And I like it.Thank you!
This is a great video!! Hope you cover the Post-Rock Japanese scenes like Mass of The Fermenting Dregs, I am so curious about that one too!
As someone who was into shoegaze back in the day, I'm happy and a bit surprised to see that shoegaze is still alive and apparently thriving.
I know, it's pretty incredible that there's such a thing as Chinese shoegaze!
You won me with the Samurai Cop reference. I love that movie
my favourite Japanese shoegaze band is 溶けない名前 (tokenai namae) I think they deserve way more recognition
thanks for the video!
Yay !! Another excellent video !! Thank ypu !!! 🔥
Thank you so much Ramiro! I'm glad you enjoyed the video :)
Summers Gone - Honeydip.
(thank you for assisting in discovering such a song as that)
great video, also like how you showed some not so known japanese bands!
WOW! Awesome into to Japanese shoegaze!!! Great job! Very informative and your insights are fantastic!
Thank you very much gumbygoalie61 :). I'm so glad that you enjoyed the video and I really appreciate your kind words!
Thanks for some love for Luminous Orange and Cruyff In The Bedroom.
My favorite shoegaze band is Pelican fan club for now and forever, what I like about this band is the vocals which are so clear in every song, there are changes in every album and a solid team, but strangely there are those who call this band not a shoegaze (on the contrary) but a band This is really amazing I fell in love with him. ..kolks and cruyff is amazing too
Thanks for giving Supercar a shoutout, one of my favorite bands, responsible for getting me into shoegaze (along with Jesus and Mary Chain), and electronic music
Cool video!
If you ever get the chance, PLEASE cover the J- Noise scene in japan. Bands like, Melt Banana, Midori, Boris, Bleach 03, This time we will not promise and forgive (more screamo than noise music but its edging there) are truly amazing. Been in love with all these scenes since I was in middle school. Thank you for the consideration!
checked out this time we will not promise and forgive, they're great! Thanks for the recommendation. Let me know if you have any more J-Noise recommendations
Boris 🥵
@@petrichorpse Dazzle Vision is pretty sick, not so much noise but has a lot of screamo influence, it’s interesting
Excellent video, my main man.
Really interesting video ! You made me discover a lot of bands, and I enjoyed my dead girlfriend the most ! Thanks for that, and I'll definitely check your others videos!
Hi from France !
Great Chanel !
Love this video. I've heard some American and British Shoegaze, but I didn't really get into it until a couple years back when I heard some Japanese bands trending online.
Thanks for all the music! I’m gonna go listen to all of it cause this music is that good. Also I’m gonna mention that Mass of the Fermenting Dregs prob has my fav songs of this genre
Im so happy you mentioned Xinlisupreme. their ep 4 bombs is one my favorite eps ever
one of my fav shoegaze outside of this is tokenainamae, they have a really unique mixing to their music even bad sometimes but the vocals just too good
Hades was a life-defining album for me. It solidified my love for the shoegaze genre.
It's such a beautiful bittersweet record!
Great channel, instant suscribe! ❤️👍🏼
Thank you for showing me "Coaltars of the deepers"👍
My pleasure :)
I would definitely recommend something maybe a bit strange but great nonetheless: alt-idol shoegaze from dotstokyo and RAY (latter is a somewhat continuation of the first), especially since they released an awesome album Green this year. RAY now is a real who's who of japanese shoegaze with works from people from For Tracy Hyde, AprilBlue, The Florist, cruyff, my dead girlfriend and so on
I appreciate the recommendation! I will definitely check them both out. Just looked up Ray, and I most say I love how their projects are named after various colours (Pink, Green, Yellow, etc.)
@@StainedGlassStories You haven't seen Dotstokyo album titles yet :) They were pretty wild
Also, if you like noise and drone experimantation, you definitely should check out Boris - they did it all, from light shoegaze to collabs with Merzbow
I was looking for this comment, RAY is definitely one of my favorite current projects from Japan. I was really surprised when I learned who the team behind them was.
It's not quite shoegaze, but Romantico by 800 Cherries is really good if you are more into the dream-pop side of shoegaze. "Through" is a stunning 5-minute track that heavily focuses on a drone-like ambiance similar to "Blown a Wish" by MBV, and "Souvlaki Space Station" by Slowdive. I believe they were a Tokyo-based group, the album came out in 1999 around the time that shoegaze was really popular.
Toe and Boris both SLAP! Glad you Started with Oeil!
A man after my own heart. Cotd is such a great collage of different ideas and aesthetic, one of my favorite bands of all time, NARASAKI is a genius.
I was in a couple “””alt””” groups in Japan(although we were never popular even locally haha) and there’s still a scene out there in regional areas like mito or Hokkaido, and obviously Tokyo.
There’s the popular kids with the zankyou record influence and the popular UK alt aesthetics, there’s the hipsters who hate those kids, the weird sub genre guys (I played in a pirate black metal band once for instance), the US alt guys like me who did more grindy alt music (nirvana, pumpkins, acid bath, swervedriver) , etc etc… lotta drama as you’d imagine.
Pro tip: everyone likes Boris, just say you like Boris. Just don’t get into which album.
Shizuka no Umi from Dotstokyo made me towards into shoegaze music
Dotstokyo and RAY are both amazing
@@chomp-nc4qz I do agree with you. "I swim at night" from their latest album is pretty good too IMO.
@@pardosk7258 yess the bass is so good
I've heard that RAY is one of the most innovative modern shoegaze groups. I will check out Dotstokyo as well :)
Glad this showed up in my feed.
日本にもこんなにシューゲイザーのバンドがいたことに気づかされました。また、海外からこういう見られ方している事にも驚いています。ありがとうございます。
I faithfully listen to all of these
Thanks! I added some of these to my Apple Music. Looking forward to some good listening sessions
what stands out for me if talking about japanese shoegaze is definitely compilation album called Mikgazer, vocaloid meets shoegaze, couldn't be more japanese than that.
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Gracias profesormota! Mis mejores deseos para ti
@@StainedGlassStories sube más videos! :(
@@Floriografia ¡Habrá un nuevo video en unas semanas!
Holy hell, I've been trying to remember the band name Kinoko Teikoku for like 5 years. All I could remember was a cover with white flowers on a blue background
finally! thanks
Love Shoegaze, from Ireland to Japan! Thanks for the video
the Long Goodbye ep is my favorite by kinokoteikoku. It's absolutely incredibly, released the same year as Eureka too. Yuragi and Seventeen Years Old and Berlin Wall are newer shoegaze bands that didn't make the list that are also really good.
I am the biggest Kinoko teikoku fan and Eureka isn't their first album, Uzu Ni Naru (Become the Whirlpool) is. But thank you for mentioning my favorite band, it really made me feel recognized even though I listen to this niche music taste.
Very interesting, thanks for the video! Never been much of a Shoegaze fan, but rather a fan of Shoegaze infused music like Lantlos, Deafheaven or Alcest but this is very, very enticing none the less.. I think I might check out some of Heartfield or Kinoko Teikoku.
so happy to see a video on my favorite music scene, but you also happened to mention another scene I adore, being Shibuya-kei. Would love to know what others think of advantage Lucy, one of the coolest bands to come out of that scene. also my dead girlfriend is easily my favorite of the mentioned bands in terms of their shoegaze, but Coaltar of the Deepers is my favorite band overall for having such a unique tone throughout their discography
While coming from NYC, Asobi Seksu does have a Japanese girl singing on almost all of the songs, and man oh man, do I love their "Citrus" album. A perfect blend of MBV and JAMC.