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Denki Groove is 20!
Yesterday was released Denki Groove's new album "20", named after their 20th anniversary... wow! Until the end of the week (August 23) LiquidRoom's café TimeOut is holding a free exhibition with photos, costumes and promo goodies from their whole career. Tonight I dropped by to check it out and also buy a T-shirt (I got the black one).
I've been listening to the album today and it's really good! I rarely do album reviews at all, but somehow this one just prompts me to do a track-by-track review. Here we go.
Opening track "Denki Groove 20 Shūnen No Uta" is a darkish track that reminds of "Mononoke Dance". The intro keeps reminding me of a recent Rodion remix for Fare Soldi's "Il vecchio e il mullet". Fun comic book video (below).
"Tarantula" is the album's first real single, with a killer video by Ukawa Naohiro (gone from YouTube for now though). Really nice techno track with a serious tone.
Track 3 "Ponkotsu Fantasia" breaks all the rules by kicking in with a cheap Casio (I used to have one with the same cheap beat). Awesome!
Then comes "Nanmaida?" and "Cat and Israel", both good techno beats and not too much vocals, they make for good pacing in the middle of the album.
With "Exotika" DG goes pop with some "tu-tu-tu-tu-tu" chorus. Then "Dark Red Sofa" has some 80's techno-cayo cheese, reminding me of the bonus-ish track on the Denki Groove X Scha Dara Parr album, "Machine shōjo Tam Tam".
"Pierre Taki No Taisō 42sai" ("Pierre Taki's 42 year old gymnastics") is a great successor to the "taisō" series. After seeing the video you'll just remember all the scenes when listening to the song. See it below.
Closing track "Fox" brings back a more serious tone, with some really cute melodies reminding me of Plone.
I'm not done enjoying this great album. You can start doing so too right now with the YouTube clips below. :) Also check out Denki Groove's brand new official MySpace.
"Denki Groove 20 Shūnen No Uta"
"Pierre Taki No Taiso 42sai" (see also 36sai and 30sai)
Larger sizes and more photos at Flickr
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Very nice! I look forward to when I can get a copy in the US. I'm so glad Denki Groove are back, I liked J-POP quite a bit, but only pieces of YELLOW, I hope this one sees them back on track!
Posted by Nick on August 25, 2009 at 08:08