Real Japanese music
For the past 48 hours I’ve hard at work—yes, I do work occasionally—but I listen to a lot of music (”noise” according to my ancient Japanese neighbors). Today I found this Japanese hip-hop/breakbeat sound of the Japanese group called “Hifana” via our friends at PinkTentacle.com. Enjoy this YouTube animation and links to other videos at PinkTentacle.
I’ve been sampling sampling samples of Hifana in this iPod-ready, MP3 (6.8MB, 4:15min) with CD cover art and liner notes.
(Alternative MP3 link at my taro.podomatic.com podcast website.)
HIFANA’s website at hifana.com.
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May 18th, 2007 at 4:22 pm
Man, HIFANA, is AMAZING!
I discovered them randomly at the shibuya HMV, in 2005, and have been in love with them ever since. They have a couple albums out. One their first full DVD has a complete DVD to go along with all the songs on the album in an animated form. (Mr. Beer is a favorite.)
Nevertheless, check out their site, and defiantly go out and get the album.
May 18th, 2007 at 4:42 pm
On 5/18/07, Cory wrote:
> Man, HIFANA, is AMAZING!
> Nevertheless, check out their site, and defiantly go out and get the album.
HIFANA, is AMAZING. It’s f’ckin’ AMAZING other Japanese groups don’t * successfully * remix their 2000 year “back catalog” of traditional Japanese music…meh. I’m am globsmacked and dumbfounded by the piss poor foundation that J-Pop works from…double meh.
兎角亀毛 / とにかく/ tonikaku /anyway…Oops, I forgot the post the direct link to their website. Thanks for reminding me— I will post it now:
http://www.hifana.com/main.html