Kojima games owned: All major Metal Gear Solid Games & MGA's, and other spinoffs. Policenauts for Playstation, Saturn and 3DO. Snatcher for PC Engine, Saturn and Sega CD. Zone of the enders games for PS2. Boktai games and Lunar Knights.
Is there anyone who likes to listen Japanese pop, rock, or sometoher genre?
I like to listen pop, rock and some trance/eurobeat.
My favourite artists are Ayumi Hamasaki, Utada Hikaru, BoA, Move, Hinoi Team, Globe, Gackt, Koda Kumi, TM Revolution, High and Mighty Color, AAA and also Namie Amuro.
Kojima games owned: Zone of The Enders Anubis: Zone of The Enders Metal Gear Solid Metal Gear Solid: VR Missions Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater Policenauts (PS)
Honestly, this is kindof ironic, cuz I'm using my sis' Hikaru Utada (Movin' On Without You if you're curious) as an upper at the moment (shitty month this' been). She's allllll about Jpop, so I hear alot of it by proxy. But seriously, I love the pillows.
Kojima games owned: Snatcher (kinda) Metal Gear (kinda) Metal Gear Solid Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops
I do :o
I listen a lot to japanese music. There are a lot of artists that I like, but my favourites are Shiina Ringo and Tokyo Jihen, Bonnie Pink, Hikaru Utada, capsule, m-flo, L'Arc-en-Ciel, The Pillows and a lot of Anime/Videogame OSTs, particulary Ichiko Hashimoto of RahXephon Soundtrack fame.
I don't have a specific favourite genre of music, so I'll basically listen to everything that sounds good (to me). As you can see, there's Rock and Jazz in Ringo and her band, Pop-Rock in Bonnie Pink, R&B and (experimental-)pop in Hikaru Utada, electronic in capsule, electronic rap in m-flo, etc.
"I hear it's amazing when the famous purple stuffed worm in flap-jaw space with the tuning fork does a raw blink on Hara-kiri Rock. I need scissors! 61!"
SNATCHER SERIES Snatcher (Mega CD) [European] Snatcher (Saturn) [Japanese]
POLICENAUTS SERIES Policenauts Pilot Disk (3DO) [Japanese] Policenauts (3DO) [Japanese] Policenauts (PlayStation) [Japanese] Policenauts (Saturn) [Japanese] Policenauts (Saturn) [Japanese]
ZONE OF THE ENDERS SERIES Zone Of the Enders (PlayStation 2) [European] Zone Of the Enders: The Second Runner - Special Edition (PlayStation 2) [European]
BOKTAI SERIES boktai: The Sun Is In Your Hand! (Gameboy Advance) [European] boktai 2: Solar Boy Django (Gameboy Advance) [European]
OTHER SERIES Penguin Adventure (MSX) [European] Kabushiki Baibai Trainer Kabutore (DS) [Japanese]
KOJIMA-RELATED GAMES Konami Krazy Racers (Gameboy Advance) [European] Super Smash Bros. Brawl (Wii) [American]
I used to listen to a lot of Japanese bands when I was 15. the pillows, L'arc 'en Ciel, Ripslyme, Dragon Ash... I grew out of most of them.
the pillows are the only ones I still listen to.
Favorite Game: Shenmue I, MGS, Snatcher, Zelda: Ocarina Of Time.
Kojima games owned: Metal Gear (NES) Metal Gear: Ghost Babel (GB) Metal Gear Solid (PSX) Metal Gear Solid 2: Substance (PS2) Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence (PS2) Policenauts (Saturn/PSX/3DO) Snatcher (PC Engine/Mega CD) Zone Of The Enders (PS2) Zone Of The Enders 2: Special Edition (PS2) Super Smash Bros. Brawl; it counts, right? ;P
Can anyone please give me any recommendations to someone who likes electronic music a hell of a lot. The only one I've found is Susumu Hirasawa, who is very good (one of my favourite electronic artists now). Are there any more worth pointing out to me? Thanks in advance.
To Henry Spencer:
If you listen to Susumu, than you listen to one of the greatest (my personal favourite too). The thing is, he is quite "unique", or at least I haven't found another artist who resembles his sound.
However, I recommend you to check out capsule's work, particulary Lounge Designers Killer and, the last one, FLASH BACK, because both of them represent the extremes of their sound: one is more cute electro-pop (and a bit noisy) and the other is more melodic, heavy beat and euro-sounding.
For more experimental electronic sounds, you should definitely go for Cornelius. Again, I'd recommend one of his first albums, 69/96, and the latest one, Sensuous, to notice the different possibilities in his sound that you'll get throughout the discography.
As for electronic, that's probably the best I can recommend you.
But if you like capsule's LDK, you can always pick up some Perfume album for more cute electro-pop. It's a 3 girls band produced by capsule's dude, Nakata Yasutaka.
Oh, I forgot to mention Fantastic Plastic Machine, but I really don't like the guy's sound. One or two nice songs, the rest is garbage (imo). You could like, tho, I don't know.
"I hear it's amazing when the famous purple stuffed worm in flap-jaw space with the tuning fork does a raw blink on Hara-kiri Rock. I need scissors! 61!"
Favorite Game: Shenmue I, MGS, Snatcher, Zelda: Ocarina Of Time.
Kojima games owned: Metal Gear (NES) Metal Gear: Ghost Babel (GB) Metal Gear Solid (PSX) Metal Gear Solid 2: Substance (PS2) Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence (PS2) Policenauts (Saturn/PSX/3DO) Snatcher (PC Engine/Mega CD) Zone Of The Enders (PS2) Zone Of The Enders 2: Special Edition (PS2) Super Smash Bros. Brawl; it counts, right? ;P
No problem :D
Well, there's no other artist with that kind of sound that I know of, but at least he released a GREAT amount of albums, so there's always enough! There's also his 2 first bands discography, Mandrake and P-Model... It's a huge list if you combine the bands and his solo works :x
"I hear it's amazing when the famous purple stuffed worm in flap-jaw space with the tuning fork does a raw blink on Hara-kiri Rock. I need scissors! 61!"
Favorite Game: Shenmue I, MGS, Snatcher, Zelda: Ocarina Of Time.
Kojima games owned: Metal Gear (NES) Metal Gear: Ghost Babel (GB) Metal Gear Solid (PSX) Metal Gear Solid 2: Substance (PS2) Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence (PS2) Policenauts (Saturn/PSX/3DO) Snatcher (PC Engine/Mega CD) Zone Of The Enders (PS2) Zone Of The Enders 2: Special Edition (PS2) Super Smash Bros. Brawl; it counts, right? ;P
Yeah, I'm looking into those now, I only have four of his solo effort albums so far. I am looking forward to divulging in his other works though, in the bands and such. Varied career, alright. Practically worked in all of the genres that matter, pretty much.