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InnuendOwO
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or: why japanese electronic music is so different from western electronic music despite having the same origins

i replied to a post @vespidazed made a day or two ago asking for people to infodump about music to them, just mentioning this stuff. they were apparently very interested in hearing about it. i started writing this up as a discord DM but very very quickly both ran into the character limit and realized maybe other people would want to see this, so i put it here instead. the formatting might be a bit awkward as a result, but i THINK this should still look ok!!


jay
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in reply to @InnuendOwO's post:

i'd be very curious to read more about intersections of these scenes with video game music. i know bemani/rhythm games were instrumental (pun absolutely intended) in promoting *-core, which reminds me of the Sota Fujimori take of the castlevania chronicles soundtrack for the psx remake, and soichi terada + however he got involved with game soundtracks like ape escape (and how he has a dance music career outside of games too)

This is just one small facet of japan's workings of early rave music from the 90s, there's like 10 other offshoots that happened more or less like this but with different origins and destinations. Look at the early ridge racer music and how that was pulling from what was called hardcore at the time (the older, sample heavy breakbeat stuff, pre gabber kick era) as an example, and stuff like "JAMES BROWN IS DEAD OR ALIVE" getting made over there. It's all super fascinating and it's hard to collect all of that info in a single place.

If there's any doujin circles doing pre 4/4 hardcore style stuff please let me know, that is 100% my jam and I'm sure there's some folk in a dark corner of the internet making crusty touhou rave tunes.

Also, for better or worse I've taken to describing that Particular Flavor that japanese produced tracks have as "Umami".

just some pieces of pedantry: exit tunes was never a circle, despite being tuned a lot to dojin, also hardcore tano*c was around way before the 2010's, even if their bandcamp starts at hardcore syndrome, their early work helped prop up a lot of musicians, one to note being dj technorch, whos actually written essays about jcore before!