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[Evec]

DIR EN GREY to hold European tour later this year

J-rock band DIR EN GREY have announced that after their performance at the “WACKEN OPEN AIR 2011” festival, they will be holding a European tour called “TOUR2011 PARADOX OF RETALIATION“.

The tour is scheduled to kick off on August 7th in the Netherlands, with the band heading to nine different countries and a total of 11 performances. The full schedule is available below!

TOUR2011 PARADOX OF RETALIATION

August 7, 2011 (Sun) – Tivoli, Utrecht in the Netherlands
August 9, 2011 (Tue) – Divan du Monde in Paris, France
August 10, 2011 (Wed) – Divan du Monde in Paris, France
August 12, 2011 (Fri) – Koko in London, England
August 13, 2011 (Sat) – Zeche Bochum in Bochum, Germany
August 16, 2011 (Tue) – Velvet in Rimini, Italy
August 18, 2011 (Thursday) – Club 202 in Budapest, Hungary
August 20, 2011 (Saturday) – Klub Studio in Krakow, Poland
August 21, 2011 (Sunday) – Columbia Club in Berlin, Germany
August 23, 2011 (Tuesday) – Nosturi in Helsinki, Finland
August 25, 2011 (Thursday) – Milk Club in Moscow, Russia

source: tokyofever

[destiny4ever]

Can I help spread the news ? (I'm already doing it tho)

Sure you can, in fact, thank you very much for doing so.

Since the deadline is sunday(that's early), I have to make my choice quick but there's so many songs..
There should be more songs up there too!

I’m going to extend the deadline to this coming Friday, so that in that way there is more time to nominate more songs. ^_^

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These are the nominees we have so far:


1) Naruto Shippuuden Opening 9
Song : Lovers
Artist: 7 nominated by naruto-niichan.

2) Gintama Ending 8
Song: Speed of flow
Artist: THE RODEO CARBURETTOR nominated by alphabeta

[alphabeta]

2) Gintama Ending 8
Song: Speed of flow
Artist: THE RODEO CARBURETTOR nominated by alphabeta

Woah, i never knew, i could nominate something without even PM'ing anybody . Not like i'm against it, it's just that, at this very moment, Speed of flow, is my favourite. But since we all know, how fast one's opinion in these kind of things can change, i might've choosen another song. Anyway, if it's possible to nominate more than one song, please add this one

ノンフィクション - SPYAIR

(nope, this song ain't available on youtube.)

Well, if you can, please add this one, if not, then just leave speed of flow as my nominee... wait, if not, does this mean, that i just... spammed

P.S. Yeah, also, as not to write the songs name in kanji... my wmp12 is showing this song as "non-fiction", so maybe it's better to change the name (assuming it gets nominated)

P.P.S. I just noticed, that the link in "speed of flow" is still linking to an old / very bad quality song-upload. I even changed the link in my OP, so i don't know how this happened, but please change the link in your post to this ---> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRbHI...eature=related (same song, just better quality)

[destiny4ever]

You can change your nomination until Friday (around morning/ early afternoon time EST). You can only nominate one song, so you still have time to decide between:

ノンフィクション - SPYAIR

and

Speed of Flow

Or you can nominate a totally different song.

[alphabeta]

I give up. For the last 2 days i've been trying to choose between

SPYAIR THE RODEOCARBURETTOR

And i choose ------> THE RODEOCARBURETTOR... (believe me, you don't wanna know the reason why )

So my nominee: Speed of flow

[yukilove21]

*Loves Sally*

I LOVE Visual Kei!

Some of my favorites are:
SID (The best ) (I will admit that the Kuroshitsuji anime made me love them. But they are the best~)
Alice Nine
An Cafe
Nightmare
Dir En Grey
The Gazette

The last one and the first one are my favorites~@!

[destiny4ever]

It seems we only have 3 nominees for this J-show :

1) Naruto Shippuuden Opening 9
Song : Lovers
Artist: 7 posted by naruto-niichan.

2) Gintama Ending 8
Song: Speed of flow
Artist: THE RODEO CARBURETTOR nominated by alphabeta

3) One Piece Opening 14
Song: “Fight together”
Artist: Amuro Namie nominated by Zeltrax.

I’ll create the poll and begin the contest in a few minutes. ^_^

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♪ Welcome to the J-Music Show!! ♪

Hello everyone!! Welcome to the J-Music Show. I am Destiny your VJ and I will do my best to make your time here on the show as enjoyable as possible.

(I don’t know who the author of the fanart is, but if you know his/her name please let me know. I’ll love to give him/her credit for the fanart above)

This time all the nominees for the music contest are anisons (anime songs) and they all come from very popular series. So without further ado, I would like to introduce you to the nominees for the music contest :


The first nominee is:
Naruto Shippuuden Opening 9
Song: “Lovers”
Artist: 7 posted by naruto-niichan.

The second nominee is:
2) Gintama Ending 8
Song: “Speed of flow”
Artist: THE RODEO CARBURETTOR nominated by alphabeta

And last but not least, the third nominee is:

3) One Piece Opening 14
Song: “Fight together”
Artist: Amuro Namie nominated by Zeltrax.

Here’s the poll. You can start voting now; the poll will be opened until next Friday. May the best song win!

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Just stopping by to thank the members who have already voted and to remind the others to vote for their favorite song.

[scav]

heh J-hip hop thread, lets check that

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this song ain't bad
Teriyaki boy - sweet girl

[Asarii]

I'm surprised, and sad, that noone has mentioned Nobodyknows+ which was the first Japanese Hip-Hop band I heard and Hero's Come Back the first Japanese song I learned by heart (along with Nagareboshi Shooting Star by Home Made Kazuko. Other songs by them I like are "Whats going on" and "Winds of Wind".

This is a late reply, but I also like nobodyknows+. I got introduced to them by the first Naruto Shippuden OP. Hero's Come Back is iconic for obvious reasons, and I also like Kokoro odoru. It's an upbeat song that reminds me of a fiesta of some sort. Overall I love the rhythm and flow of the band.

[alphabeta]

shouldn't this round end already? Even though that means admitting my loss , i still think 40 views and 5 votes in three weeks show that this round's winner is a tie between One Piece OP 14 and Naruto OP 9

[BBB Banana]

I'm proud of you for nominating Gintama alpha

But mainstream stuff will always win

[destiny4ever]

Yes, the winners of that music contest are “Lovers by 7” and “Fight together by Amuro Namie”, I don’t know if they won because they are song from OP and Naruto respectively, but I must say I like both songs independently of them being songs from OP and Naruto. They’re both cool songs, so congrats to both of them!

@BBB Banana: Maybe we could have another music contest where not-main stream songs will be featured.

[destiny4ever]

Reviving this thread with news that I’m sure will make happy to all the Gackt fans here on MH:

Gackt/Gackpoid CD Is Gackt's 39th Top-10 Single
2 songs, first created with synthesized voice, set record for most top-10 singles by male soloist

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"Episode. 0," Gackt's first CD single in a year, sold 29,000 copies to rank #3 on the singles chart for the July 11-17 week. "Episode. 0" is the singer's 39th top-10 single since the limited edition of his solo debut, "Mizerable," was #3 back in June of 1999. Gackt had tied the male soloist record for most top-10 singles (38, held by Toshihiko Tahara since his "Ame ga Sakenderu" reached #8 nearly 19 years ago) — but thanks to "Episode. 0," Gackt now holds the new record by himself.

The two songs on Gackt's newest single, "Episode. 0" and "Paranoid Doll," were originally created by independent musicians mathru@KanimisoP and natsu (SCL Project) for a 2009 contest with "Gackpoid," a software that provides a synthesized Vocaloid version of Gackt's voice. Gackt had promised on the Nico Nico Live program at the time that he would record the songs with his own voice.

Kentarou Miura, the creator of the manga Berserk, illustrated the limited-edition first-pressing cover (another pic) for the "Episode. 0" single with a bundled DVD. Miura also drew the cover artwork for the Gackpoid software package.

Episode.0 - GACKT [PV]

Paranoid Doll - GACKT

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Destiny’s reaction to the news, to the covers and to listening the songs ->

[alphabeta]

Errrm... I don't know who decides this, but about how we make another round the J-show? I mean, the last one was in May and it's August outside. I've stocked up my knowledge of J-songs for quite an amount, so that I won't lose so desperatly like last time.

[phio_chan]

Anyone likes to listen to Kalafina here? I've just read at wikipedia today that they had released a new album called After Eden. I'm checking it out at the moment. The first song, Eden, is a rather positive, optimistic song. I feel like most Kalafina songs I listen to have this dark or sad atmosphere around it, so this is a great change for me. XD