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    48 minutes ago, chemicalpictures said:

     

    If you do understand how elitist and entitled that sounds, okay, to each their own I guess

     

    You do realize that they do instores to try to improve sales and bring more people to their concerts, and bonuses are there just because a regular release isn't appealing enough, right? Fighting modernity has never worked before and never will

     

    I for one am really happy bands like dimlim and dexcore are putting their releases on spotify and I can somehow support them, instead of giving them exactly 0 cents, which would be the case if I had to download their stuff.

     

     

    This is a weird thought. You wouldn't like everything to be on spotify, but would like for it to be readily available on itunes? So people who can't afford the asked price wouldn't be able to have the same access? If you wish to support them harder, there are a lot of ways of doing that with merch, physical copies, instead of limiting access to music. If xTRiPx released their stuff on spotify I would love it and still buy every release I could, because I want to support regardless of access, so stream would just be another form of revenue...

    The prices would be nowhere near as much as buying a physical CD and having it shipped to you. It would only affect anyone who for whatever reason doesn't have access to iTunes or Google music or Amazon etc, some form of digital distribution. The market would dictate prices just like it does with everything else and iTunes and the others could have a war to see who makes stuff cheaper. I guess my way of thinking is strictly from a gaijin standpoint.

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    The talk of loving to buy physical CDs/DVDs and all of the perks that come with it got me thinking about the (near?) future of the scene in a world where all music is digital. Very few computers come with a CD drive, Spotify and Apple Music are growing more than ever; Apple even dropping iTunes for a plain music app, and although the retro music renaissance is a thing with vinyl making a comeback, the future of physical media is looking grim. I definitely see Japan (especially since they still have CD rentals, something that is very rare or non-existent in the west) being dragged into the future of music distribution kicking and screaming; Visual Kei especially. VK popularized multi-type albums, single release campaigns and as far as I know (please correct me if I'm wrong) the live only singles. If Japan gets to a point where you need to buy a separate device to burn a CD and God forbid CD players in cars go by the way side, then their CDs will be a relic of a bygone era. 

     

    Honestly, the day video game consoles stop having CD drives, the DVD will die and DVD players will become VHS players (those are harder than hell to find), I'll be very upset as someone who's amassed a great many movies and such. There is also the fear of everything being lost forever. I'm sure all of us have cursed the heavens when we lose files and don't have a physical copy to back them up. I suppose itunes would be a solution, but if that ever crashed...well I don't want to think about it.

     

    Anyway, I look forward to seeing what everyone else thinks, the pros and cons of all of our cherished CDs and DVDs becoming not only obsolete, but useless...

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    14 minutes ago, Komorebi said:

    I hope they don't. I hate music streaming and I love the concept of buying physical releases, with all the bonuses included, and attending instores. I don't  want to have to pay three or four times what I'm paying for my cellphone plan just because listening to music now is sucking up my data too.

    Besides all that was mentioned, recording and studio time expensive and I guess smaller bands can afford more easily to start off with singles and EPs and grow from there. Newbie bands like Nazare can afford to release full albums because they record them in their drummer's bedroom.

    I wouldn't like everything to be on Spotify (although you could save stuff offline), but I would like for everything to be available on iTunes globally. It will never happen for plenty of reasons, but it would make stuff more accessible and cheaper and they could charge whatever they want in theory (not sure if iTunes has guidelines for pricing.).

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    15 minutes ago, GreatNorthernVK said:

    Many of these bandomen, unless they’re quite well established, or have enough mitsu patronage...can’t get by on music alone. Most of them have day jobs that they need to keep affording outfits and recording sessions. This will effect their availability to write new music, record and tour.

    Very good point. It's easy to forget that majority of these guys have day jobs and are the modern day equivalent of the starving artist, just in this case they're working at a gas station during the day and performing at night. I suppose there's those who make it as a host as well, but majority are surviving on the minimum.

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    51 minutes ago, nekkichi said:

    they released disorder in 2004, which only had ザクロ型の憂鬱 released as a single ahead of the album, and were slaving away with 3 type singles for most of 2005 with an EP same year.

    That predatory multi-type release thing would never fly in the west, but it's been a staple of VK, more than likely the labels rather than the bands coming up with the idea. This is another reason the industry doesn't want to move to streaming because you can't do that when you can just purchase individual songs from the other types.

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    1 hour ago, chemicalpictures said:

    It's a worldwide trend. Albums became less frequent, singles in the way japan do (before full albums) are much more common, sometimes not even being featured in albums. You can blame it on stream if you want, there are several studies noticing how spotify dictates even how songs are being produced nowadays (not that I see this happening in japan soon, as they are always stubbornly behind some trends).

     

    In a way it's good, it extends songs longevity, which lets artists focus more on delivering good content instead of always putting stuff out.

     

    And TBH, in the whole world music releases are a supplemental income to live concerts. Artists must survive with their lives, that's just the way it is after the internet. The sooner japanese bands understand that and adopt stream the way they should, the better for everyone.

    Yeah, I can't think of any band in the west that tries to actually make money on music sales. Like you said, they supplement it with merch and the percentage from shows. I mean I guess if Japan does ever move to digital; I mean they still have CD rental stores and most computers don't have a disc drive these days lol, Japan will probably be pushed into the future by force at some point.

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    So, I harp on this all of the time, so I thought I'd make a topic to dig into this. I come from the era of VK i.e. the mid 2000s where releases were every few months, if not every month and albums came at least once a year, at the bare minimum every 9 months. Today, I look at all of these new bands, sarigia, DEXCORE, TRNTY D:CODE, DIMLIM, so many I can name that have been around going on two years and their releases are few and far between and no album yet. Hell, SARIGIA have fallen off the face of the planet unless you go to their shows. 

     

    Anyway, I'm just wondering what you think it may be the reason for the lack of releases, especially albums from these and many other new bands? Is it lack of making new songs, a new marketing gimmick that's predicated on live only releases and stretching out time between releases or is it something else? I mean NAZARE are pretty much brand new and for better or worse they've released a wealth of stuff. I think it might be something to do with these coupling shows being more prevalent so they only have to play five songs or so a show, so they don't have to worry about stretching out a set list. Anyway, I'm suspecting that the true reason will be blatantly obvious.

  15. Posted

    1 hour ago, patientZERO said:

    While it may not be full-song or even performance length, but Dexcore members post tons of snippets of their lives on their twitter accounts.

     

    Here's kagami featured on Deviloof's ESCAPE during their two-man.

    And here's another of them playing Imitation:

     

    Yeah, that's what I meant, full stuff, but thank you. I just started following Kagami so I'll have to go through it all and check it out.

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    I was wondering if anyone knows of bands that it's nearly impossible to find live audio or video of? The first that comes to mind for me is DEXCORE, TRNTY D:CODE and a few others. I don't know if it's a thing where they ban phones at shows or people just keep it for themselves or what. I mean you go on Youtube and look at for instance this video Kiyoharu's show last December and the crowd was full of phones lol. 

     

     

     

  20. Posted

    I'd have to go with Kisaki and that's coming from someone who's been a fan of both UCP and DIR EN GREY concurrently for fifteen years. I personally don't see anything special about Toshiya and there are plenty better than the both of them.

  21. Posted · Edited by secret_no_03

    5 hours ago, yomii said:

    this particular post was deleted by instagram, but he's still there

    Oh okay, I guess I totally screwed up his name on there when I looked then. 😅

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    Well, Kyo takes inspiration from Kiyoharu and Michiro Endo, respectively. Kiyoharu takes inspiration from Kyo from D'erlanger and to a lesser extent MORRIE as well as plenty of pop singers. Ruki was never a roadie as far as I can tell, so besides interviews there's really no way to know the influence. I mean he is relatively young, so maybe some Yokohama bands from back when he got started with Mikoto were his earliest inspiration.

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