Epik High's 2007 single "Love Love Love" from their album Remapping The Human Soul.
OK SO,,,
Japanese music fans in the UK never get a good deal when it comes to tours because no one ever comes here on tour,, that is all about to end thanks to the 100% Genki Tour!
The 100% Genki tour takes place over 10 days in May 2009, and will introduce contemporary Japanese acts to the UK. International audiences have demonstrated a growing interest in Japan’s music, and a wealth of talented artists exists in the burgeoning domestic scene, spanning the entire musical spectrum - from punk to electronica, from techno to ska. Young Japanese bands, producers, singers and DJs have their own unique sense of direction and style, due in part to the unique position of the country - increasingly immersed in Western culture, but still removed, culturally as well as geographically.
Bringing a taste of Japan’s exciting music scene to a UK audience, the tour will take in 4 of the UK’s best, most cutting-edge festivals.
| Date | City | Event | Venue |
| Friday 15th May | Brighton | The Great Escape | various |
| Saturday 16th May | Brighton | The Great Escape | various |
| Sunday 17th May | Manch ester | Futuresonic festival | Night & Day |
| Tuesday 19th May | London | Strummerville party | Under The Westway, W.London |
| Thursday 21st May | London | Stag & Dagger festival | The Queen of Hoxton, E.London |
| Friday 22nd May | Liverpool | Liverpool Sound City | tbc |

Emerging from the borderless youth culture of Japan, 80kidz began making music as a three-piece DJ unit in early 2007, and released their own limited bootleg mix CD “The Kidz Are Alnight No.1” in February of the same year. This mix sold-out rapidly and requests for DJ appearances quickly followed – they have since performed with the likes of Justice, Busy P, Boys Noize, Teenage Bad Girl, Hot Chip and Bobmo. “The Kidz Are Alnight No.2” continued to move things further forward for them, and a series of Myspace only unofficial remixes saw the threesome’s music blogged, discussed, and circulated around the world. This attention has built ever further with the posting of an original track, “Disdrive”, which was soon followed by official remix requests pouring in from autoKratz, Danger, Benjamin Diamond, Cazals, CSS, Black kids, the Shoes, Quiero Club, When Saints Go Machine, and Futurecop.

DE DE MOUSE is the brainchild of bespectacled Tokyo-based studio boffin Daisuke Endo. Following the lead of “chiptune” pioneers (and fellow Tokyoites) YMCK, DE DE MOUSE’s sound is characterized by feather-light vocals, housey beats, infectious synth melodies and lush production values. Unlike their near-contemporaries YMCK – DE DE MOUSE began life in 2005, two years after YMCK debuted – Endo does not base his entire oeuvre on soundtracks to games made for the 8-bit NES console. Instead, Endo’s layered grooves often take on a darker, more abstract bent that incorporates drum ‘n’ bass and ambient. DE DE MOUSE has won fans in Tokyo’s music and fashion scenes: as well as sharing live bills with the likes of HALFBY and BUFFALO DAUGHTER, it has also soundtracked fashion shows by Takayuki Suzuki, the costume designer of choice of J-pop stars such as Mika Nakajima.

The band’s first eye-opener into the world of music began with band leader, TA-1, first encountering Hip Hop music. At this time, TA-1 was simply a DJ but soon transformed into a drummer after finding interest in intricate rhythms. During high school TA-1 got together with classmates, Keishi (Vo.) and Hiroshi (Gtr.) and a band was born. Influenced by the ska boom in the late nineties they quickly become a ska-core band and upon moving to Tokyo, met a trumpet player named Honma, who was soon included into the group. Soon after, the band recruited a saxophonist and bassist thus creating the six-piece band known as “Riddim Saunter.”

A hyperactive one-man band / turntablist / organ playing whirlwind, who has created an worldwide internet phemenon. Tucker’s confounding, high-energy mix of rock and roll, punk, pop, and hip hop leaves critics fumbling for words. The electric organ fan site Electone Zone described it dizzily as “a 21st century Neo-Tokyo vaudeville show.” Other fans describe his sets as “performance art” (in 2006, Tucker appeared at Barcelona’s Sónar multimedia music and art festival). “Vaudeville” implies comedy, and laughter is the obvious response when Tucker spins the “Pink Panther” and “Sesame Street” theme songs, scratches records with his nose, or leaps shirtless into the crowd. Music critics’ vocabulary is rarely so taxed, but coming up with a way to describe someone not entirely hip hop, not entirely rock, not entirely retro, and perhaps not ever entirely serious has left many at a loss. Even Tucker’s show-stopping blazing organ trick is both a Hendrix send-up and a gutsy act of vandalism more punk than hip hop. Tucker’s mash-ups are knowing and often more than a little tongue-in-cheek, but his reverence for retro instruments and melodies goes well beyond the merely ironic.
If anyone is going to go to the Liverpool gig then let me know and we could have a Pyontube outing! :D
Ok, Ok, so maybe there are is no Sex on this blog post,,, nor will there be any lies, but one thing is for sure, there is a whole stack of videos lined up for you!
Pyontube is currently in the process of amassing a mega amount of audio and video for you to feast your eyes and ears on! As well a promoting the well known bands and solo artists on the site, we are also going to be showcasing the newest talent, both signed and unsigned to come out of China, Japan and Korea.
I know that a small number of our videos are not the best quality, but to counteract that problem we will be getting a large amount of our audio and video files from a hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiigh quality source and yes, we will be using our own money to keep your eyes and ears filled with the latest music, videos, news and gossip from the East!
This is where you come in!
Although we are using our own money to fund this, it would be nice for you to support Pyontube by visiting our friends and supporters over at YesAsia.com and YesStyle.com by clicking on their banners that are dotted around the site :D
No doubt the fashion concious of you have already seen the sparkley bags and bright tshirts on the banners :D
As well as promo
We will also be selling iTunes gift cards for both the American and Japanese iTunes stores. You can buy the Japanese cards over at a popular Japanese Toys, Gifts, Magazine and General Wackiness store online,,(you know who i mean),, but they are slightly overpriced for the cards they sell... in my opinion anyway!
So you can get access to the latest and greatest Japanese, Chinese and Korean music from a more legitimate and high quality source rather than getting the music and videos from second hand sources online that are just a little less legitimate ;)
Support your favourite bands by buying their music from iTunes as they recieve more of a royalty as they would from just selling albums via a regular store or cd's on stores such as Amazon.
Getting the music right off the shelf, straight from the recording studio, as soon as it is released is the name of the game in the eyes (and ears) of a music consumer and that is why Pyontube is investing in the newest sounds and videos as soon as they are released so you, our very much loved Pyonners, can hear the high quality music and watch the highest quality videos before they are muxed and chopped and changed by users of Youtube and the quality is sacrificed by constant tossing around on sites :D
Only the greatest quality will come from Pyontube from now on and with your help, we can create the greatest Asian music community on the net!
Thank Y'all for your time ;)
Love
Tsujigazm
Hello Pyonners!
I thought I would introduce a little section for sheet music to help the musically gifted or musically retarded play their favourite tunes to impress their friends and family :P
The first piece I have uploaded is from Final Fantasy X and it is called To Zanarkand.
Final Fantasy X: Piano Collections: To zanarkand
I love this track,,, bouncy, lively, just good.
I think you will like it too! Except Kurosawa who doesnt like this kinda stuff.
As you might have noticed already, this entry doesn't seem much appealing to the ones who don't really care enough to look on the not-so-very-bright sides of life.
Usually I only get philosophic when drunk, but right now daily life is getting to me - along with weather here in Denmark.
We all have our good and bad days - but it seems that the entire November month is hating on me. I'm ill with a bad-ass cold and I feel like shit all physically. To top that, I've felt like this for almost two weeks. >_<'' All my friends from esp. JF keep telling me that I'm always sick and such - and maybe they're right. I dunno. I think - since I had the flu a while back - I only felt 'really' well for a week tops, then I got this stupid cold. It's the irony of life. People keep saying ''better live your life while you have it''... how am I supposed to live my life when I'm freaking sick all the time? ò__ó;;
Other than that.. You know, we all have this friend who claims to be a best-friend but who never really seems to be giving anything, right? I have this friend. She's nice - sometimes. Mostly she has these crazy-ass mood-swings meaning that I'm always the target. If she has a good day she calls me 'sweety pie' and shizz like that. When she has her bad days she's always like ''may I kill you now?'', ''Why do you care to put on makeup when you're ill and look like shit anyway?'', ''You're so stupid'' bla bla bla~! She obviously likes to put me down just to make herself feel not as bad. Also she keeps giving me material stuff. To begin with I thought she was just being nice to me, because she knows that she earns almost 3 times as much as me and there I cannot afford that much.. but now I'm wondering if she only gives me material stuff so that she always got something she can use against me, you know? If I dun wanna take her shift one day (eg. because I have to sit my brother, take care of the dogs or just need a weekend off) she'll be like ''Sometimes I just feel like your bank-account. You only like me when I give you stuff and pay for you!''. It's really unfair and most of the time I have no idea where I have her at. I can never seem to figure out whether she likes or hates me, whether she's in a good or bad mood or whether I'm even her friend or not. Do you feel my frustration? Also she tends to talk about stuff she knows nothing about. >_<'' The other day during english class we were discussing the possibility of Obama choosing Hilary Clinton to be his Secretary of State. I then asked her if Hilary even KNEW anything about foreign politics where to she replied that 'doooh, she studied it on a high level at college'. BASHED into the ground verbally - just because I'm so stupid. Half a second after she said that - our teacher says that Interior politics actually is Hilary's strength. Suddenly my 'friend' pokes me and says ''She studied interior politics at college, you see!'' and I'm thinking like; 'but didn't u just say foreign politics?' I let it go for a while and then wondered, 'did she even study policy?'. I go on to my cell phone via WAP-connection, searches for 'Hilary Clinton wiki' on the browser and finds out that she studied law and civics on a higher level. Nothing about politics... And that's not the first time she 'claims to know when she doesn't know shit'. >_<''
Gah.. I'm totally ranting.
I should blog on LOLLIROCK, do my homework (since my school councellar apparently thinks that my grades suck) and clean my room. But I'm not in the mood. >_<'' Shiki's being annoying as well. she wrote me ''Aww, you seem down..? T_T'' and I replied ''I kinda am'' and then she just replied ''Okay thanks!'' O_O;; And I was like ''Thanks?''.. WHY ARE PEOPLE SO ANNOYING?!
I hate girls. >_<'' I need more guy friends in Denmark. -sigh-