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  1. Posted

    Loved this thread so much, lol. There were a lot I didnt remember.

    Surprised I didnt see any of the following:

    - "What do you mean [insert vk indie band] has already disbanded?? They only released 4 singles and one maxi album, who does that??"

    - "Did they shoot their PV in a church?? Such a Malice Mizer rip off".

    - "Plastic Tree is sooo in love with Radiohead, they got their name from one of their songs, so its obvious". I made that mistake myself, but actually the song Fake Plastic Trees came later than Plastic Tree.

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    On 28/5/2017 at 2:06 AM, Purlpi said:

    Gracias por intentar revivir el thread! ;w; 

    He estado bien out por el trabajo, pero dado que mi trabajo paga cosas de Jmusic, pues ni modo (?).

     

    Yo tengo la suerte de vivir en la Ciudad de México (o como le llamábamos antes: Distrito Federal), y además trabajo en un medio de prensa, así que he ido a varios conciertos como fan y a otros como prensa. 

     

    Como fan he visto a BLOOD (bueno, fue "por accidente" más bien y no por fan), Miyavi, Versailles, X JAPAN, DIR EN GREY (2 veces), ONE OK ROCK, Kanon Wakeshima, VAMPS (2 veces), Jupiter y BAND-MAID (a este último más que como fan, fui por curiosidad). Por trabajo he visto a Masami Okui, Kaya, An Cafe, LiSA, SCANDAL, girugamesh, Eir Aoi, Kalafina, ROOKiEZ is PUNK'D, Ladybeard (¿contará?) y °C-ute. Hay algunos conciertos ya anunciados para México este año, pero aún no sé si ir pues este año viajo a Japón y planeo ir a conciertos allá. So far tengo planeado (y ya incluidos en mi itinerario) ir a ver a THE ORAL CIGARETTES, BUCK-TICK, exist trace, Linkin Park+ONE OK ROCK y si se anuncia la Halloween Party de VAMPS de este año, pues también :) Quiero incluir más, pero eso implica trabajar más y sin descanso, así que ya veré. Cruzo los dedos para que MUCC haga gira en las fechas que voy, porque me los perdí la vez que vinieron a México y vivo arrepentida por ello.

     

    Yo tengo otra pregunta para ustedes: ¿Cómo fue que empezaron a escuchar Jmusic?

    Tremenda suerte, has visto a hartas bandas <3 <3 <3

    Personalmente también entré un poco por el anime, específicamente porque en un CD de Dokan (esa revista española de anime) venían hartas canciones, y cuando las escuché me gustaron varias, pero las que más me llamaron la atención fueron L'Arc~en~Ciel y sobre todo LUNA SEA. Después pasé un buen tiempo hurgando por todos lados y ahí me encontré con ZI:KILL, nightmare, PIERROT, GLAY, Dir en grey, Plastic Tree, rice, etc. Ahora estoy un poco obsesionado con el visual kei antiguo (80s y 90s), y fue gracias a eso que entré a este foro :)

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    On 18/4/2016 at 4:16 AM, Thorathora said:

    I don't know why but even for music outside of visual kei, to me music from 80's to early 2000's were always great for me. My favorite bands are Sleep My Dear, Rouage, NéiL, Missalina Rei, Lavender, Phobia, and Sense of Shape. I also like some indie vk bands from the 90's like Cassis (1998), Rain, Dys ti Quele, the list could go on...

    I certainly agree with you on that... Most of my favourite albums are from that year span. Also I LOVE old school vk favourite band lists, so i'll definitely check out the bands i didn't know.

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    On 3/9/2016 at 2:28 PM, Hico_atami said:

    Hola ! Poco movimiento por acá. Tomando en cuenta que los hispanohablantes tienden a abrumar un poco con tanto derroche de carisma xD

    Jajjaa, cierto. A ver si podemos reactivar un poco el hilo abriendo la conversación...

    ¿Quienes han podido ir a ver a bandas en vivo (japos obviamente) y cuáles han sido??

    Por mi parte he ido a ver solamente a Dir en grey y X JAPAN en Chile. En algún momento PLASTIC TREE anunciaron su venida para acá, pero cancelaron... me devolvieron la plata, pero me dejaron quedarme con la entrada, asi es que la tengo ahí guardada junto con las otras decenas de entradas de conciertos jaja.

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    ¡Qué gusto!

    Ya que salió ese tema, quiero sincerizarme (?) En la semana descubrí que me estoy haciendo vieja, pues mientras charlaba con un compañero de mi clase de idiomas sobre música japonesa (o más bien, mientras lo jalaba al lado oscuro y brillante al mismo tiempo de la Jmusic) caí en la cuenta de que este año cumplo 10 años escuchando Jmusic.

    Creo que mas que por el tiempo pasado, uno se siente viejo en comparacion con los niños y niñas que escuchan visual kei, jrock o kpop actualmente. Yo llevo 15 años escuchando esto, y la verdad es que encuentro que es super poco comparado con los otros generos musicales que escucho de antes. No me pesan esos años. Pero cuando voy caminando por la calle y veo a una niñita de 14 años con un parche de gazette o dir en grey me siento un poco viejo y me da nostalgia por los viejos tiempos.

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    I am no VK history expert and I always welcome people to enlighten me with more information. But as I know the Visual kei label didn't really become wildly used until the first half of the 90s, but VK and proto-VK bands date back as far as the mid 80s. So a lot of what we nowadays refer to oldschool Visual kei was originally not seen or tagged as such. Are Zi-Kill a Visual kei group? Many would say yes, because of the way they look and their band connections (and the label they were signed to). Other would say no and state that albeit being influential on the VK moevement, they were just a Rock band. True though, that VK was booming mostly in the first half to mid 90s and not late 90s. If I remember correctly, fans declared Visual kei dead already around 1998.

    That's the most interesting part for me, that obscure times when X and Color were on the rise. I listen to a few bands of that period (LUNA SEA, ZI:KILL, Dies in Cries, LUCI'FER LUSCIOUS Violenoue, Gilles de rais, etc.) but only recently I found myself REALLY interested in hearing more bands from that band. Even the so called proto visual kei bands like ROSEN KREUZ... I love that kind of happy-but-let's-not-exagerate-post-punk sound.

    That's the reason I started this thread, it seems this community is full with people that really know their shit, and I couldn't wait to hear more names from that era.

     

     

    Some things I like about the sound of old school Visual kei that got me hooked when I was exposed to it are the hypnotic sinister melodies, the change in speed and melodies in one song, certain way of playing the drums (I don't know how to define it technically...), subliminal voices, the dramatic theatrical singing style, etc. I don't find those things too often in modern Visual Kei, not at least in the way old bands used to do it.

     

    Fortunately for me, there are a few bands using that sound such as Crucifixion and La'Veil MiseriA and other bands that take some elements of the old sounds such as Sibile Bashir to name a few examples.

     

    I also LOVE that late 1990s early 2000s sound like Syndrome, Rentrer en soi, La:Sadies and early Dir en grey (can't get enough of the MISSA and GAUZE albums), so I'll be sure to check out those bands!

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    Does anybody listen to old visual kei, like early 90's kind of stuff? I'm not shure if this "old school visual" label really exists, and if it does, I don't know what years it covers. Once I found a video called "old school visual kei compilation" on youtube, and it included mostly late 90's stuff (La:Sadies, La'Mule, Aliene Ma'riage), but no ZI:KILL, D'erlanger, Kuroyume, etc.I really like that late 90's stuff though. Anyway, what do you guys think? Wanna share thoughts and recommendations?

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  24. Posted

    More than a week has passed, and I still have trouble accepting it. He was a great artist, he gave us a lot, more than we will ever be able to know. Visual kei itself has its root on the works, the antics and the creativity of this man. I find the words of Candy Warhol especially accurate to decribe my feelings:

     

    This affect me personally deeper than I thought.

    But more than a loss, as music lovers, we surely can appreciate what a great gift he left us behind. Thank you, David Bowie.

     

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  25. Posted

    Another ZI÷KILL fan, wonderful! I agree, it isn't quite often that people join the forum who have a taste for the more... original blend of Visual Kei. I'll be keeping an eye out for your Tumblr blog. 

     

    (Also, you can practice your Dutch with me, if you want to.)

    Yesss, I love ZI:KILL!! Ah that would be great, I used to live in the Netherlands you know, five years. Maar ik ben het taal een beetje vergeten, en ik verwissel het ook met het engels! OK, that was terrible, but I'm reading the Dutch thread in the International Lounge, and will try to talk there once in a while if you guys don't mind.

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