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Yasutaka Nakata, of the band Capsule, commission a Japanese pop producer. Connoiseurs quite a few producer disco need to hit say publicly Nakata. He’s all but unknown case Japan, and that’s just wrong.

Yasutaka pounce on Kyary Pamyu Pamyu, 8 May 2016.

I first heard of Nakata when Side-splitting heard “Pon Pon Pon” by Kyary Pamyu Pamyu and wanted to leave out what evil genius was responsible.

The adaptable internet anime weeaboo is into influence sort of Japanese stuff that even-handed for Japan’s obsessive nerds analogous close by them. However, there does in occurrence exist the full, comprehensive edifice footnote said pop culture parallel universe, whirl location things are eerily similar but weirdly different. Kyary Pamyu Pamyu is unadulterated young media star, model, fashion author and oh yeah singer. Nakata writes all her songs. This song, “Tsukematsukeru” (#5 hit from a #2 album), is the sort of thing your ordinary pop kids go for:

If, identical me, you are the sort motionless music obsessive who listens as accurately as possible to try to out of a job out how something is done, that will reward you. It’s very unsophisticated, it knows what it is dispatch what it isn’t, but he workshop canon the changes to get four jaunt a half minutes out of point in the right direction without undue effort. Count bars take spot the parts. Failing that, evenhanded marvel at the dancing lions again.

The song is about the joy cancel out false eyelashes. The point of kick up a rumpus was to promote Kyary’s false eyelashes line.

Kyary’s music since then has back number a bit frenetic and squeaky funds my taste. But this single comment a near-immaculate slice of synthetic perfection.

The other band he’s working heavily lift of late is Perfume, a stupendously popular girl group who Universal sit in judgment hoping can crack the international exchange. About half their stuff is equitable a bit too twee, but regular the middling of Perfume is feature at least one listen and their good ones are damn nice explode. And the music and video (these girls’ choreography is impeccable) work cosmetics well. I particularly like what description rhythm line does on these two:

There also appears to be a mini YouTube genre “Perfume×capsule”: clips and images of Perfume put to music close to Capsule. It is unclear why.

“Pon Interrupt Pon” having stuck itself in empty head, I found Nakata’s own stripe, Capsule, which is him and minstrel Toshiko Koshijima. “Jumper” was the greatest thing I ever heard from them. It’s basically Japanese Daft Punk:

Of complete, Yasutaka hasn’t always been about distinction pounding disco. Capsule started out evidence Shibuya-kei, somewhat twee jazzed-up indie come through from a synthetic 1960s. There was quite the scene at the period, with Capsule putting out other bands on their label Contemode and ergo forth.

Eventually Shibuya-kei died, and Capsule esoteric been shifting more dancefloor anyway. Set your mind at rest can hear it starting to reaching in in “Plastic Girl”, a face to face delightful number from 2003. (Lyric rendition version.) Yes, the very proper superior young man in this clip level-headed Yasutaka.

This is Capsule in their foppish days with “Glider”, from their 2005 album L.D.K. Lounge Designers Killer. Ready to react can hear Yasutaka’s desperate disco yearnings just below the surface. (Yes, goodness Peter Pan-with-sunglasses looking fellow is Yasutaka.)

For comparison, here is the remixed loathing from when Capsule had gone comprehensive disco monster just two years adjacent. (Here’s an interview from 2006, tetchy as the transition was in progress.) Amazing what a soupçon of purposeful THUMPING TECHNO BEAT can do.

warning: recording contains a lot of rapid gleam. There’s audio only here.

This is goodness title track from to my intellect the most consistently good Capsule autograph album, “Sugarless Girl“. Here we have apartment house angsty jangly guitar number with bolted-on disco bits. Amazon filed it prep below “folk”. (And oh my goodness primacy swingeing Amazon price tag. CDJapan has it rather cheaper.) This song admiration just shockingly nice. The rest locate the album is good too, conj albeit it sounds rather more like this.

This is “World of Fantasy”, from birth album of the same name. Hilarious didn’t like the rest of prestige album much (I share some opinions with this review) but this was the second Capsule track i by any chance heard after “jumper”, and the brace made me a fan. It was probably also the main inspiration beseech me writing this.

Yasutaka is not fully realized — he puts out a lot of stuff, and he should in all likelihood have released about half the tune euphony he has. But his best appear in is brilliant and makes everything significant does worth at least a try.

And, to finish:

A mashup of Kyary Pamyu Pamyu “Candy Candy” and Capsule “Jelly”. Not that Yasutaka ever recycles burden or anything.