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KOREAN JAPANESE INDIE-ROCK / SHOEGAZE give them to me

Vas

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Eastern Youth (Emo)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-ZCWcI9Zls

Soutaiseiriron (Indies)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Atc0ERea7nE

Wienners (Punk/Indies)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cf-ACPn1TQ4

Rin Toshite Shigure (Punk/Indies) (Very good guitar playing and very energetic drums. Controversial; not for everyone)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSFy7DdlQAA

Ogre You Asshole (Post-Punk)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvuo4kX9_vI

Toddle (Indie/Alt-Rock)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Euem1rEdQaE

YMCK (Chiptunes/Jazz) (this one is controversial... it's pretty much songs that sound like old American jazz standards transposed with famitracker.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrzWXqZGO2I

Urbangarde (lol you tell me. Don't know if they are 'independent' in the traditional sense, but they are definitely not mainstream.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r98SsoFeYuc
 
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Space Acorn

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Tokyo Shoegazer - Crystalize
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRVkFgJrQnk

[edit] Just beaten to it, but that's all I've heard - will be giving this thread a look over for sure.

Also, don't think you'd really consider them indie, but The Pillows are straight up one of my favourite bands - they're kind of like 90s pop-rock. Good album to start with is Little Busters. They have lots of albums and a great many good ones - anything between Living Field (this ones kind of jazzy, heard previous one is good too) to Happy Bivouac are all top notch.
 
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paranoidhero

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Sugardrop
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qn12QefFTcg

Shojoskip
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVUsK6G-5-o

Civic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kA9pn-kntc8

Cowpers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXKZREZty_U

Cattle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lW_el-OBAC8

Apple Light
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dksDN7x06zc

Honeydip
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQyHz_inGo8

The Romp
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4CTKs9FocY

yourboyfriendsucks!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBN0Rct7kAo

Shelling
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p90ck89f4XM

Mash
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJrX7JEe-gI

Hartfield
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5PP877GDFw

Pasteboard
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvUvTtSU1F8

Dive
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpPQNWQVwkA

.........
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKLCC46xTDc
 
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Jintor

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also props OP this is my fave genre i just haven't had the time to go out and ask for recs/check recs (I was working off a list kurita had in the old place...)
 
totowhoa

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They don't play anymore, but Asobi Seksu is an American band featuring a Japanese American singer with dual language vocals. https://youtu.be/pbyI3Z5Voms

Already mentioned but Toe is an amazing band that has a bit of shoegaze in them. Very math rocky too.
 
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grmltr

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Jintor said:
also props OP this is my fave genre i just haven't had the time to go out and ask for recs/check recs (I was working off a list kurita had in the old place...)
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I was unfamiliar with the old place, hopefully we can fill this out ... I love all the recommendations so far!
 
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man i should probably go actually pick up some My Dead Girlfriend albums huh. this is some dope shit
 
Vas

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Yes, this band was the whole reason I got into Japanese independent rock. They did a split with one of my favorite Emo bands of all time (Cursive) and I heard a song on this record called "Ashioto" and it blew my mind. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Fg5zuTGk1o I thought the fretless bass and ride-cymbal work when the guitar busts in were really engaging and unexpected. Then he starts singing and he sings in a rather traditional-sounding Japanese scale. Like melodies that sound very esoterically Japanese. it's one of a kind... I haven't heard every band in the world obviously, but I can say with confidence that I at least have never heard another band on Earth that sounds like Eastern Youth. Check it out!
 
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awww fuck op i'm gonna spend hundreds of dollars on albums in the near future and it's your fault indirectly
 
TuturuJones

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I used to listen to a lot of Japanese music, these are the only ones I still listen to regularly. All three are superb and incredibly choices to add to your music collection. Angel'in Heavy Syrup is a noise/shoegaze/psych rock band from the 90s, they're deep, loud and ethereal, you'll feel the air being sucked out from you throught all songs, I highly recommend them and they're probably my #1 band.

Next is Doji Morita. She started her music career after her best friend took his own life and you can see it embedded into her songs, ranging from songs simply asking "Why?" to songs wondering what he would've done in her place. Slow and harmonic, they're love songs from the other side of the spectrum.

Now for Midori, I can't say much from them other that they're just plain fun to listen, noisy and rythmic. Just give in.

I can recommend some more, just ask if you want. I'll post some other random videos since I can't think of something else to write.

Angel'in Heavy Syrup
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfEH9lWDIvo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saT0RtYv11k

Doji Morita
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0O34unEnCU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuvar7AMbgE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XtYFZ3ZdFc

Midori
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUZo_4pPIqg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTcjCGbjk54

Rosa Luxembourg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEvv1wrWn8c

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_W9qHDesQ8
 
Jintor

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the true joy of being into lots of japanese bands is spending all your time when you visit japan in second hand stores trying to find cheap albums/singles, forgetting entirely the amount of money you spent to fly there in the first place
 
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grmltr

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TuturuJones said:
I used to listen to a lot of Japanese music, these are the only ones I still listen to regularly. All three are superb and incredibly choices to add to your music collection. Angel'in Heavy Syrup is a noise/shoegaze/psych rock band from the 90s, they're deep, loud and ethereal, you'll feel the air being sucked out from you throught all songs, I highly recommend them and they're probably my #1 band.

Next is Doji Morita. She started her music career after her best friend took his own life and you can see it embedded into her songs, ranging from songs simply asking "Why?" to songs wondering what he would've done in her place. Slow and harmonic, they're love songs from the other side of the spectrum.

Now for Midori, I can't say much from them other that they're just plain fun to listen, noisy and rythmic. Just give in.

I can recommend some more, just ask if you want. I'll post some other random videos since I can't think of something else to write.

Angel'in Heavy Syrup
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfEH9lWDIvo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saT0RtYv11k

Doji Morita
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0O34unEnCU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuvar7AMbgE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XtYFZ3ZdFc

Midori
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUZo_4pPIqg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTcjCGbjk54

Rosa Luxembourg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEvv1wrWn8c

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_W9qHDesQ8
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Yo this is excellent! Please recommend more, as this stuff doesn't show up on youtube recommendations.. etc..
 
TuturuJones

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grmltr said:
Yo this is excellent! Please recommend more, as this stuff doesn't show up on youtube recommendations.. etc..
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Sure, no problem. I will say though, most of the stuff I have doesn't really fit in what you're asking for but if you dig it, I got more.

385 (In the same vein of Midori, noise-jazz-punk)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DJ8cHQx3CA

Shinsei Kamattechan (Noise)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eFNC3hLkNw

Gymnopedie (Fuzzion Jazz)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3GnrgBAwg0

Advantage Lucy (Pop Rock)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YEm4AL_MRI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gON6q2ecnbE

Carmen Maki (Did a lot of collaborations with different bands as well as a bunch of covers of western rock)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLEQCKVfy44

Flower Travelling Band (Psychodelic Rock - Really good albums, highly recommended)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6_oE_hlT_Y

Les Rallizes Dénudés (The birth of psych rock in japan)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoYVEQeJ4WQ

Keihan Girl (A guilty pleasure of mine, just very simple garage rock band but I really like them, the guitarist here, Ritsuko, would go on to become Shonen Knife's bassist)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sk7CxV50L0
 
Jintor

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also this may seem trivially obvious but I found a lot of recommends through this youtube channel, asian shoegaze. lotsa good stuff on there.
 
Dynamite Ringo Matsuri

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Man, I used to be way into the Japanese indie scene years and years ago, back when the only people discussing it were like... on Soulseek's JIR and Keikaku.net. Haven't followed the scene in a long time but my favorites were Number Girl and Ging Nang Boyz. With sites like Youtube, it's probably stupidly easy to discover new stuff nowadays.
 
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grmltr

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wandering goat said:
Tokyo Shoegazer - Crystalize
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRVkFgJrQnk

[edit] Just beaten to it, but that's all I've heard - will be giving this thread a look over for sure.

Also, don't think you'd really consider them indie, but The Pillows are straight up one of my favourite bands - they're kind of like 90s pop-rock. Good album to start with is Little Busters. They have lots of albums and a great many good ones - anything between Living Field (this ones kind of jazzy, heard previous one is good too) to Happy Bivouac are all top notch.
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OH GAWD the pillows are THE BEST can't wait for them in FLCL 2?3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhW81Ekacf4
 
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grmltr

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Dynamite Ringo Matsuri said:
Man, I used to be way into the Japanese indie scene years and years ago, back when the only people discussing it were like... on Soulseek's JIR and Keikaku.net. Haven't followed the scene in a long time but my favorites were Number Girl and Ging Nang Boyz. With sites like Youtube, it's probably stupidly easy to discover new stuff nowadays.
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.. honestly don't know anything from Number Girl or Ging Nang Boyz ... Post your favs!
 
Kurita

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I'm no really sure what you're looking for a couple of reasons, mainly because I never really understood what "Indie-rock" was, and this term isn't used in Japan. They use "Indies" to talk about, well, bands that aren't major, but I can't recall seeing "indie-rock" employed a lot in Japanese media (and if it is, it's to talk about Western bands). You posted Hump Back, who I love, but they're considered pop-punk/punk-rock.
Anyways, we'll see what I can do, but yeah, that list is just "rock" bands. At the end of the day it sounds good so whatevs!

Age Factory - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPKh_ODcitc
indigo la End - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTHG8pfG_UM
Pelican Fanclub - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86idQWINUZA
The Mirraz - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrSatE_HBaw
Buzz Mothers - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sESH5gEHQ6s
Hitorie - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eep7in0pHs
Regal Lily - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8gSwlEF7r8
Domico - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEfCtGHgaLk
Oisicle Melonpan - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71narokpy1I
teto - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ng3tAEa0NQM
Art-School - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwZBAHzBWi4
mol-74 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VU7TijJhUXE
KOTORI - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nq-n0ovuoQ
yonige - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0peQHYTZJ8o
Ivy to Fraudulent Game - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hA-HJmESJyw
 
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Steamlord

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Oct 26, 2017
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Most of what I would have posted has already been mentioned, but I'll throw in Uchu Conbini, a really good super chill twinkly math rock band with a female vocalist.

Pyramid
 
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