Argentina ZonaIndie picks most impressive songs

Recnetly, Music Alliance Pact member; Argentina ZonaIndie posted 5 most impressive songs from all new musics listed up during 2009.

Argentina ZonaIndie
http://www.zonaindie.com.ar/

Some time ago the MAP network turned one, so we're already able to put together a ranking with the issues that we liked most of the posts published during the year 2009, excluding of course to ourselves that we selected for each edition. They can listen and download items from the list below (after all we are going to upload a file, but we are having problems with Internet connection). As always, we invite you to share your favorites in the comments.

Here are song lists and juke box that you can enjoy anytime.

Emmy The Great - We Almost Had A Baby (mp3)
http://bit.ly/awOytI
Rana Santacruz - Cajita De Barro (mp3)
http://bit.ly/a2GPYO
Sirkus Bjover - Heavy Metal (mp3)
http://bit.ly/d0HCY2
LAY LOW - Last Time Around (mp3)
http://bit.ly/9fCXWb
Two White Horses - Good Times Are Gone Forever (mp3)
http://bit.ly/d01EFh








Also please remember Japanese new music that Jpoplover chose in 2009. thanks.
http://jpoplovernet.blogspot.com/search/label/Music%20Alliance%20Pact

LITE - The Sun Sank



SEBASTIAN X - Wonderful World







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HiGE

HiGE [hi:gae]
http://www.myspace.com/higerock

Hailing from the constantly evolving city of Tokyo is the equally, ever-evolving dual drummer quintet known as HiGE (pronounced hi-gae). The name translates from the Japanese word for "Beard" or "Mustache", which might possibly explain why many a bearded man appear in so much of HiGE's artwork and imagery.

The musical output of HiGE is quite an exquisite merger of disparaging sounds, at times uplifting, kitschy and primitive, at others it maintains the moodiness of psychedelia in pleasant contrast to the best hooks from alternative styled classics. Simply put, HiGE might very well be a fine anthemic merger where the Beatlesque meets the Nirvanaesque, yet firmly grounded in the world of the 21st century.

Hige available @iTunes Music Store worldwide
http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/hello-my-friends/id98697944



# members
Yuki Saito (Guitar & Piano)
Hisashi Suto (Vocal & Guitar)
Tomoyuki Miyakawa (Bass)
Hirotoshi Filipo Kawasaki (Drums & Percussion)
Koichi Koteisui Sato (Percussion & Drums)






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Sakura JPOP tunes part.2

Spring seems be approaching, doesn't it!?

Sakura (Cherry Blossoms) are Symbolic icon for Spring. And some of Sakura (Cherry Blossoms) songs has the theme for school graduation and departure, in other case they has for starting new life. (They are almostly message songs, not love song.)

How many songs you know Jpop songs whose title includes Sakura (Cherry)?

kobukuro - sakura (2005)



Tsuru - Sakaura (2009)




Kyogo Kawaguchi - Sakaura (2003)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uL_UCYFRADg



Janne Da Arc - Sakaura (2000)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nuntVd390o



Sakura
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherry_blossom
Hanami
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanami


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Sakura JPOP part.1

Spring seems be approaching, doesn't it!?

Sakura (Cherry Blossoms) are Symbolic icon for Spring. And some of Sakura (Cherry Blossoms) songs has the theme for school graduation and departure, in other case they has for starting new life. (They are almostly message songs, not love song.)

How many songs you know Jpop songs whose title includes Sakura (Cherry)?


Masaharu Fukuyama - Sakura saka (2000)


Naotaro Moriyama - Sakura (2003)




Ketsumeishi - Sakura (2005)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnieKxden8U



FUNKY MONKEY BABYS - Sakura (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzsiAUP9iyE




Sakura
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherry_blossom
Hanami
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanami


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Recochoku - JPOP weekly chart 1/27

Jpop "chaku uta fullsize" weekly chart (27th January)
on Recochoku, the biggest mobile JPOP music shop
http://recochoku.jp/
http://recochoku.jp/recochoku_ranking/weekly_full.html




No.10 masaharu fukuyama - hatsukoi
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1px7kiuFVes

No.9 kana nishino - dear
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxwS24Ui82s

No.8 Teruma Aoyama + SOL from BIGBANG - Fall in Love
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0x_3aiYrYwE

No.7 BENI - Sign
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6s6VwxxdaaQ

No.6 Tiara - Kimigaishietekuretakoto feat. SEAMO
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IiJBjpEY1E



No.5 Kaela Kimura - Butterfly
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kh3d3VsPhOs

No.4 FUNKY MONKEY BABYS - Namida

No.3 Hilcrhyme - shunkashuto
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sl-BDzmORX0

No.2 YUI - GLORIA

No.1 Mika Nakajima - Always









No.3 on Oricon Weekly (CD Sales) - 2010/1/25
http://www.oricon.co.jp/rank/js/




Sakanaction available @iTunes Music Store worldwide
http://itunes.com/sakanaction







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Sakura JPOP Songs part.4

Spring seems be approaching, doesn't it!?

Sakura (Cherry Blossoms) are Symbolic icon for Spring. And some of Sakura (Cherry Blossoms) songs has the theme for school graduation and departure, in other case they has for starting new life. (They are almostly message songs, not love song.)

How many songs you know Jpop songs whose title includes Sakura (Cherry)?



aiko - Sakura no Toki (2000)



Remioromen - Sakura (2008)




Kii Kitano - Sakura Saku (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1p0U297bTU4



Ikimonogakari - SAKURA (2006)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHbZOvJfNSo








Sakura
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherry_blossom
Hanami
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanami


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New Sakura Tunes

Spring has not come but I feel warm than usual, today. In this season, New Sakura songs of JPOP appears. Here Pick up Sakura songs.

Yuzu - SakuraE (3rd Feb release)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajeC0773eX8


Shonannokaze - Gachi Sakura (10th Feb release)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3XvI1ctKek

JUJU - Sakura Ame (24th Feb release)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gmk2j84ikCc

AKB48 - Sakura no Shiori (trailer) (17th Feb release)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bt-ge3gYWQ



Sakura
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherry_blossom
Hanami
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanami


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NIKASAYA (indie)

Nikasaya – Siroi Ohisama from the album; One Summerheim (mp3)

In the summer of 2009, Hiroshima based songwriter Nikaido Kazumi and Tokyo’s Saya (Tenniscoats) met at Guggenheim house, in Shioya. Overlooking the bay of Kansai, the pair set about recording a collection of songs that capture moments of utterly euphoric song, housed in a shimmer of incidental soundscapes. Album; One Summerheim melds free-pop structures with elegantly intertwined vocal harmonies.

Harmonies Trailer


Nikaido Kazumi
http://www.myspace.com/nikaidokazumi





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Sakanaction Breaking Chart #JPOP

Sakanaction available @iTunes Music Store worldwide
http://itunes.com/sakanaction



Smashing Big Hit!!
Sakanaction now amazingly hits the JPOP chart.


No.3 on Oricon Weekly (CD Sales) - 2010/1/25
http://www.oricon.co.jp/rank/js/

No.3 JAPAN COUNT DOWN (TV TOKYO) - 2010/1/23
http://www.tv-tokyo.co.jp/jcd/

No.4 on CDTV - Countdown TV (TBS) - 2010/1/23
http://www.tbs.co.jp/cdtv/

No.9 on Music Station (TV ASAHI) - 2010/1/22
http://www.tv-asahi.co.jp/music/

No.3 on USEN Chart - #JPOP - 2010/1/24
http://music.usen.com/modules/A/content0026.html

No.4 on iTunes music store Japan - 2010/1/24
itunes.apple.com





No.10 on Space Shower TV chart - 2010/1/24
http://www.spaceshowertv.com/chart/

No.6 on J-wave - TOKIO HOT 100
http://www.j-wave.co.jp/original/tokiohot100/

No.3 on FM802 - OSAKAN HOT 100
http://funky802.com/hot100/

No.2 on HotExpress (FM RADIO domestic) - 2010/1/17
http://www.hotexpress.co.jp/chart/





No.2 on Tower Records online - 2010/1/17
http://tower.jp/chart/1746?chartYear=2010&chartMonth=1&chartType=5

No.1 on Tower Records Tokyo Shibuya - 2010/1/14
http://tower.jp/chart/1741?chartYear=2010&chartMonth=1&chartType=3

No.36 on Recochoku Chakuuta Full - 2010/1/24
http://recochoku.jp/recochoku_ranking/full.html

#musicmonday SPACE SHOWER MUSIC CHART 2010/1/24

SPACE SHOWER MUSIC CHART
http://www.spaceshowertv.com/chart/
2010/1/24




Sakanaction - A Look Around (Aruku Around = walk around)

Sakanaction albums "Shin-Shiro" are now available On iTunes Worldwide
http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/shin-shiro/id319880104




No.10 Sakanaction - A Look Around
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vS6wzjpCvec

No.9 LOVE PSYCHEDELICO - Abbot Kinney
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4n0cI60gyc

No.8 YUI - GLORIA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxDSE8muVFg



No.7 LOSTPROPHETS - WHERE WE BELONG

No.6 Namie Amuro - FAST CAR (from PAST＜FUTURE)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbNsXz00ZEY

No.5 Motohiro Hata - Ai
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WoCR4B_qNo

No.4 ALICIA KEYS - DOESN'T MEAN ANYTHING

No.3 flumpool - Calling from (What's flumpool!?)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzzYLMXywj0

No.2 Ikimonogakari - YELL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9gFVbe01Jc

No.1 9mm Parabellum Bullet - inochinozenmai
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6zpGDava9o







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Sakanaction Lylic

Today,
I found Sakanaction "A Look Around" Lylic translated into English at quartet4.net

hope you would enjoy Sakanaction!! Arigatogozaimasu.

Sakanaction - A Look Around



Sakanaction - A Look Around (Aruku Around = walk around)
# Lyrics: Yamaguchi Ichiro #Music: Yamaguchi Ichiro
http://www.quartet4.net/?p=7800

I’m walking on a listless day, I’ve waited for a new night

I’m walking by myself, the moon above is sadness
I’m walking by myself, I’ve become a lonely person
I’m walking by myself, I looked down at my cold palms
I’m walking, I’ve waited for a new night

On this road I’ve just found the night light grows brighter
What am I searching for? I still don’t know

So sad, so sad, we’re now walking in the swell
Forgetting my fatigue
In this land, in this land, I seek the meaning to end it
And start walking again

Those correct words of yours set me straight
I’ll waiver correctly with you and see if anything’s true

The voice I hear pulls me in and soon I forget completely
We’re fickle and become separated completely
On this road I’ve just found the night light grows brighter
Not knowing what I’m worried about or what’s missing

Drifting, drifting, we’re now swimming in the swell
Forgetting my fatigue
In this land, in this land, I seek the meaning to end it
And start walking again

We worry, trying to know an unknown place again
Forgetting my fatigue
In this land, in this land, I seek the meaning of it starting now
And start walking again



Sakanaction albums "Shin-Shiro" are now available On iTunes Worldwide
http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/shin-shiro/id319880104




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Pass Prayer

It seems that Admission; entrance exams season has already starts here in Japan. Because we find out Candies and Snacks that are designed as Pass Prayer for school success, at seven eleven 24 and other Covinience shops. It's a very very japanese traditional Life Style. hum........ Grant a wish of passing entrance exams!




Here is Pass Prayer JPOP by Kie Kitano.

Kie Kitano - Sakura Saku











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TOWER RECORDS - No Music, No Life

Last year 2009, Japanese JPOP fans celebrated TOWER RECORDS Japan 30th anniversary. and Real cd shops, TOWER RECORDS Japan releases special compiled album of 30th anniversary, "No Music, No Life" (2CD) this month 2010. So many japanese bands are gathering. Jackets features Doraemon, I do not know why.




bands and artists
http://rhythmzone.net/nmnl/
Shohei Muto, MONKEY MAJIK, Ohashi Trio, 80kidz feat. Lovefoxxx, kariyushi58, HiGE, SOFFet with Tokyo Junkastic Band, Tomita Labo, clammbon feat. THA BLUE HERB, LOW IQ 01, dohatsuten, TRICERATOPS, the pillows, Ben Kweller, Caravan, Curly Giraffe, Tokyo SKA Paradise Orchestra, m-flo and more.

Tomita Lab - anokinosahitadeaimasho feat. Yuko Ando (NO MUSIC, NO LIFE Version)


Dohatsuten - No Music, No Life (Japanese Rock)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lw9-bwfZ9GA





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@lite_jp LITE US TOUR 2010

LITE GONNA do a U.S west coast tour with Mike Watt + The Missingmen!!

"LITE US TOUR 2010"　w/mike watt + the missingmen
http://lite-web.com/shows-en/

Mar 4 Phoenix, AZ - Rhythm Room
Mar 5 Los Angeles, CA - Bootleg Theater
Mar 6 San Diego, CA - The Casbah
Mar 7 Santa Barbara, CA - Muddy Waters Coffee House
Mar 8 Sacramento, CA - The Blue Lamp
Mar 9 San Francisco, CA - Bottom Of The Hill
Mar 11 Portland, OR - Dante's
Mar 12 Seattle, WA - Chop Suey

LITE
http://www.myspace.com/liteband
Mike Watt + The Missingmen
http://www.myspace.com/missingmen


LITE - tommorow









# new releases

Umineko Sounds released 2nd mini album; Uchu Ryoko yesterday.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z39V3516C3Y


Umineko Sounds
http://www.myspace.com/uminecosounds





Sonic Attack Blaster's new full album is out!! 20000Volt video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQJ0hYIIdhM


Sonic Attack Blaster
http://www.myspace.com/sonicattacksblaster








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