nada sou sou is quite melancholy but, yeah, its pop.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HQtFsu3G9f0

I'm sorry JaffaCakeMexica but all of those songs are 100% melancholy and 0% hapiness. I'm looking for something like 70% hapiness and 30% melancholy.

Im_A_Track_Man, that track is awesome (so catchy, funky, electric) but doesn't fit in this thread neither.
Please look at the very first posts for examples of Japanese happy sad tunes.

This kind of "happy melancholy"?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CFGBFq2vMLI

or this kind?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ISw4Q-z1uPQ

on an unrelated thing, evisbeats is from japan and is pretty good...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ta6OZmSalfQ
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ABbkd9ueKw8

I like happy-melancholy music as well, but im more into the "powerful shamanic warrior" vibes, like in this song from mongolia:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YJnVhp-8-uk

she has such a great singing voice, you can hear the open grasslands power in her voice.
Maybe its not chip related but i wonder if that kind of feeling could be captured in a chip composition?

Also, the "epic medieval warror quest" sound is a good style to go for in chip (in my opinion), like this epic tune from kitaro:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yhq8mG0x25E

id love to hear more "shamanic earthen chipmusic" (rather than "disco drunken")
props to the ancestors

Haha I missed this the first time. I didn't expect one of my covers to be in here.

Also something that might fit the bill is the Space Dandy opening, mainly the chorus (1:38). This one is a bit longer than the OP version.

https://soundcloud.com/im_a_track_man/v … it-version

Guys, I have updated the first post with a more detailed explanation of the feeling.

Miau and YMCK really fit the bill! The other ones are really close.

As someone who mainly does chiptune covers of anime tunes, I can say that A LOT of anime OPs and EDs are perfect chip material.
Also, step aside everyone.

I certainly think so. I think Rain really fits this "happy-melancholy" theme the best out of YMCK's catalogue. Cooshinator's post of that Marty Friedman video probably explained the entire idea of this thread the best; the largest distinguishing quality of Japanese music is that the chord progressions typically go more places than the typical Western [ I - VI - IV - V ]

Haha, by now everything ITT = sharing cool Japanese music
I dig it

( Oh, and a bonus: Houston from Katamari & Pokemon R/S/E credits music. )

Does any of YMCK's stuff fit the bill? e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4es7Pr1xKI

This song by Miau is one of my favorites, as well: https://soundcloud.com/heossentialts/mi … ning-music

And BlitzLunar's tracks for SBP: https://blitzlunar.bandcamp.com/track/hallway

TQ-Jam has been mentioned already, but he does indeed have a lot of great stuff that I think might fit https://soundcloud.com/tq-jam/mint-choco-mint

Nice vibe, summerish and lot FM bass but sadly it doesn't have "that" Japanese melody thingy I'm looking for.

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I was listening to some tracks by Fhána thanks to Comptroller and shit, it is an amazing band, perfect for this thread, listen to this one please guys:

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This video has a hilarious vibe

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oEzBsa-PY_M

OH WOW the second one is perfect!!!!!!!!, and the girl is lovely and sings amazing! Thanks for sharing!

So this type of music don't exist outside of japan after all? A non-japanese band singing in English/Spanish music like this will be a huge international success, I'm pretty sure about that. I don't get why no producer sees this opportunity.

I think the kind of happy melancholy harmonies you like can be made by using a lot of pentatonic major and pentatonic minor as well as the japanese scales which are close to pentatonic such as hirajoshi.

this thread! This is a type of sound I have also loved for years and never really been able to put into words, but I totally know what you're getting at: chipmusic, j-pop & anime openings, "happy melancholy", "Japanese melody and chords", yes yes.

A couple of examples I like:

(I actually covered this on my last EP)

And a more recent one, which I can't stop listening to:

I really want to try writing more music like this.

Yes! I love Shibuya-kei only for that reason, but I've only listening to Nakata Yasutaka works (Perfume, MEG, Kiary Pamyu Pamyu).

Dude, all of those songs are really amazing and are inside the sphere of what I'm looking for but FLIPPER'S GUITAR just blown my mind, that's the style in a guitar and a capella stuff (no electronics) it is a gem absolutelly!, thanks for sharing!

THE FIRST ONE!! THAT CHORUS OMG LOVELY! YEAH!

Those are more calmed down and chilled out, but them have the anime style 100% thanks a lot! The previous one, SUNSHINE is more close than this ones but we are starting to point our cannons precisely very fast! Thanks.

OHHH GODDD I CAN'T BELIEVE Flight Facilities - Stand Still feat. Micky Green EXACTLY IN THE CENTER OF THE SPOT, HOLE IN ONE! THIS, THIS, THIS, THIS!

Fortune Howl - "Paws" (bo en Remix) is awesome too but with more beat, breaks and romantic background and less melody.

[Future] Pa's Lam System - I'm Coming (Avec Avec Remix) YESSS ONCE AGAIN!! That feeling one more time, it is a mix of japanese jazzy chords progressions with a melody going from sad and happy all the time, I LOVE THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Chance The Rapper - Good Ass Intro (feat. BJ The Chicago Kid, Lili K., Kiara Lanier): The chords are there, but the rap and the vocals mess up everything, sorry but this one is going in the wrong direction.

AMAZING, 8bits and Japanese melody and chords feeling, love it!