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OH DAMN...I totally forgot that !!! "slappin' myself in the face" !!!
https://pskmt.bandcamp.com/track/stage3-jupiter
My goodness, that's gorgeous!
Reminds me of the well known, but also always worth mentioning TQ-Jam!
https://noisechanradio.bandcamp.com/track/promise
He was one of the reasons I started out trying to make chip with Famitracker.
Ever listen to Shibuya-kei, Delek?
› Some classics / gems:
I think some of that might fit your description / what you're looking for.
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!
Cool, I think I understand what you're talking about a little more. How about these songs? I think japanese music from the 70s/80s really shows the formation of this style.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-xf5Pt1NrA (Edit: whoops, this is the wrong song
Most of Yamashita's good shit isn't on youtube. I think https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6Q8GNy186s works a little better tho, mainly the chorus)
THE FIRST ONE!! THAT CHORUS OMG LOVELY! YEAH! 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nf8QzEHCzDE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zVoOHgqj9k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRNobgLHRzA (Again, there're better examples from Matsushita but none are on youtube)
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.
Also, from what I've seen, that sort of feel has kind of become a trend in recent japanese & western electronic music, and I definitely think it stems from electronic music artists that grew up listening to japanese video game & anime music. Some examples:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaIoTmn29Gc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHkZPGgDb-U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbD_AJAgp8I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftSUchAdVTE (I think this one gives more of a gospel vibe harmonically, but the fast, almost cutesy instrumentation sort of pushes into the territory we're looking for)
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.
OH DAMN...I totally forgot that !!! "slappin' myself in the face" !!!
https://pskmt.bandcamp.com/track/stage3-jupiter
AMAZING, 8bits and Japanese melody and chords feeling, love it!
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.
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.
A couple of examples I like:
VIDEO1
(I actually covered this on my last EP)
And a more recent one, which I can't stop listening to:
VIDEO2
I really want to try writing more music like this.
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.
Last edited by Delek (Apr 11, 2016 7:44 pm)
This video has a hilarious vibe
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oEzBsa-PY_M
Last edited by JaffaCakeMexica (Apr 11, 2016 7:52 pm)
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Last edited by JaffaCakeMexica (Apr 11, 2016 7:57 pm)
This video has a hilarious vibe
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:
Last edited by Delek (Apr 11, 2016 8:05 pm)
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
Does any of YMCK's stuff fit the bill? e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4es7Pr1xKI
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. )
Last edited by cyancoloneels (Apr 13, 2016 7:47 pm)
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.
Guys, I have updated the first post with a more detailed explanation of the feeling.
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
Miau and YMCK really fit the bill! The other ones are really close.
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
Last edited by Im_A_Track_Man (Apr 17, 2016 6:17 am)
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
Last edited by JaffaCakeMexica (Apr 17, 2016 1:02 pm)
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.
Last edited by Delek (Apr 17, 2016 3:43 pm)
nada sou sou is quite melancholy but, yeah, its pop.