J-Rock
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Otoboke Beaver – ‘Is The New Album Out Yet?’ Review
No-one does high-energy punk quite like this.
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Live Vault – Otoboke Beaver
The Tiny Desk could not contain this punk royalty.
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Otoboke Beaver – Super Champon Review
Hardcore punk about surviving daily Japanese life as women.
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Uchu Nekoko – Hino Ataru Basyo Ni Kiteyo Review
Shoegaze made pretty.
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Ayumi Hamasaki is live streaming her Arena Tour concerts on YouTube
Relive a decades worth of live shows
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uchunekoko – Kimi No Youni Ikiretara Review
Unknown Japanese shoegazers for stargazers
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Utada Hikaru – Laughter in the Dark review
20 years of superb music
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Sheena Ringo – Sandokushi Review
Creating a jazz-rock fusion all of her own
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Miku Hatsune and World Map Review
Vocaloid music has utterly caught my imagination over the last six or seven years since I discovered the rhythm game Project Diva on PlayStation Portable…
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“IA First Live Concert in Japan Party A Go Go” Review
Hopefully the first of many!
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Ayumi Hamasaki – “A One” Review
Ballad after ballad after ballad...
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Wowaka – “Unhappy Refrain” Review
Vocaloid is something I’ve recently got into over the last year in a huge way and one of my favourite producers is Wowaka. I’d only…
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Video Vault – ryo (supercell) Feat Miku Hatsune
The long awaited release of PS Vita’s “Project Diva F” comes in a few weeks (I cannot wait for the PS3 version next year) and…
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Game Review: K-On After School Live HD Remaster (PS3)
Ah my love of the Rhythm Action genre knows no bounds. K-On is a relatively popular anime which follows a group of school girls and…
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Ayumi Hamasaki – “Party Queen” Review
Ayumi Hamasaki. A tireless release schedule. I’ve noticed her albums with me personally seem to flip-flop between stunningly rocking pop tracks to more uninspired. “Party…
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Video Vault – Afrirampo
Could these ladies be any more stupidly awesome? Their latest album admittedly from 2010 We Are Uchi No Ko just arrived today. It’s going to…
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Live Vault – Gackt
Time for a samurai showdown?
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Utada Hikaru – “Passion” Review
Utada Hikaru, queen of the vocal tracks due to the general success of Hikari / Simple & Clean returned to the Kingdom Hearts and…
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Live Vault – Tsukiko Amano
Tsukiko Amano may be best known outside of Japan for providing her song “Chou” to the game Project Zero 2 (Fatal Frame). This is a…
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Afrirampo – “Afrirampo” Review
Afrirampo are like a firecracker of energy and sound. From the opening shouts of “Uchira Wo Ko Sastemiro”, a fourty second tapping and shouting song…
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Video Vault – Ooioo
Normally I don’t have two video vaults in a week, but I just stumbled across this and had to post it. I’ve yet to discover…
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Video Vault – Afrirampo
I’m not normally one for posting two video vaults in one week but I’ve just discovered my new musical craze. Welcome Afrirampo. Completely bonkers and…
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Chihiro Harada – Gitarooman Soundtrack Review
Chihiro Harada – a man whom after this outting making the music for the wonderful game “Gitarooman” deserves to be mooted as a rival to…
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Live Vault – Ayumi Hamasaki
Celebrating from her 10th Anniversary DVD of her Asia Tour, this week’s live Vault comes from Ayumi Hamasaki. Extra special this video is, as its…
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Higher Plain Music’s Top 10 Music Releases of 2008
Well in the previous post we told you what we’d bought, now its time for our top 10 countdown. There were some excellent releases this…
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Gackt – New Single
Gackt is back with new single entitled “Ghost” which you can preorder here. Although nothing is available about the song yet sadly, we shall be…
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Video Vault – Shiina Ringo
Shiina Ringo. We loved her rocking out before she went off jazzing around. Here’s one of my favourite videos of all time. The song is…
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Gackt Returns
Gackt returns after a year away with new single “Jesus”. Due for release on the 3rd of December appears to have no first press bonuses.…
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Shiina Ringo – Album Boxset Cometh!
Shiina Ringo has been having a very busy 10 year anniversary and now she completes it all with a box set re-release of all her…
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Calender Girls (And Boys)
Can you believe it that its only the 3rd of September and already we have 2009 calenders ready and waiting. Golden J-Pop queens Ayumi Hamasaki…
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Gackt – Returns With “Nine”
Gackt returns to the musical plains with an excellent sounding live boxset called “Nine”. I’m new to Gackt to be honest, although I’ve got a…
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Live Vault – Tsukiko Amano
This weeks live vault performance comes from J-Rocker Tsukiko Amano. Due a new album maybe in 2009, she first came to be noticed outside Japan…
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Shiina Ringo – New DVD
Good old Shiina is enjoying her 10 year anniversary a lot! Her latest release this year will be “Zazen Extasy”, a live dvd to Shiina’s…
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Tsukiko Amano – “Cho” Review
While not directly involved with the game Fatal Frame 2 (Project Zero 2 in the UK), Tsukiko Amano made a song called “Butterfly” inspired from…
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Shiina Ringo – 10th Year Anniversary Releases!
Shiina Ringo celebrates 10 years of music and to mark the event she’s releasing several new items. The first is a DVD with all her…
