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Two new versions and, all the remasters. Can't wait, it's gonna be awesome. All the 're recordings are gonna use their old equipment I bet, at least ushinai from its snippet on their vine page.
Where'd you see info about rerecordings/remasters? All I've seen is that TRIPPER has rerecorded guitar & bass, and is remixed; and DEJECTED RAIN has a different arrangement... (Both of those were already present on OUSIA-dispersed-.)
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Eh ;( I'm ejecting from this band immediately
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Cool idea for a thread! SE tracks are one of the [many] things that made me love VK. I found them to be so dramatic and self-involved, almost decadent (tho now I realize a lot of them are just a way to beef up tracklists without spending much $$ lol).
Phobia - ミ・ミ・ナ・リ (MI・MI・NA・RI)
I also love the song “Replica” from the same mini-album (COUNSELING), which could be considered an SE, tho it has spoken word on top. I think I listened to those two SE tracks more than the proper songs.
Dué le quartz - (untitled secret SE tracks)
Both of these were from their LAST TITLE single. The first is a normal SE, which I've always found cool. The second is a “marimba” medley of the band's top songs. Very pretty, and sentimental.
Madeth gray'll - Seimei no Shuuen (生命の終焉)
Obvi. VK version of “My Favorite Things”, which I've always thought was hilarious.
VIDOLL (ヴィドール) - PISAROTO AFTER SEX (ピサロトアフターセックス)
Short and sweet! VIDOLL had a number of good SEs, but I always thought this one was funny.
Mar'derayla (マーディレイラ) - rest of insects
Another band with great SEs! This end of this one is so compelling―I always wished it was a full song
I could go on forever, but I'ma stop
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Damn, never been a fan of SCREW, but the web shop ver sound so cool that I'd want to buy it lol
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Oh cool, I just bought their "Hankouki" single which has DREC code... I doubt there will be any info but I hope there's a booklet or something.
Cool! Please let me know if there's any info~
Having absolutely nothing to do this saturday, I decided to do some more research only to find 鬼革命社 (Kikakumeisha):
EDIT: Wait, I'm confused now... Is Kikakumeisha the name of the project? Because he released this song as "Yukika" on an omnibus.. Is it possible that he was going to release it as a full band but ended up doing it by himself? (If the case that Kikakumeisha was not a sublabel)
Wow! I didn't know about that. It seems to me that Kikakumeisha was a sublabel, just by context (plus, the 社 character means “company”). Good find
Has there been any confirmation of MALISEND being part of Ains???
The only official evidence is Brand X's listing for their upcoming CD. (Notice that their previous CD was not by Culminate/Ains!)
There's also some circumstantial evidence that assures me the Brand X thing isn't just a mistake. For example, they've been playing with Ains bands a lot recently. Also, you'll notice that certain posts on their blog are in the same writing style as Ains staff (eg. compare MALISEND's privilege listing to this DIAURA one).
So, imo, Culminate is a sublabel of Ains. Maybe Ains doesn't want to officially “claim” MALISEND because they are not sure of the band's success? Or maybe it is a financial scam, idk. But either way, Ains staff is certainly managing MALISEND in some capacity, at this point in time.
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Yeahhhhhh not good.
I was afraid of this when they showed up in suits and thought reviving METEOROID for a day was a good idea
.METEOROID legit sucked, and it's a shame to see them going back in that direction. Now I'm glad I didn't buy their best album.
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lol, I wish I had a conclusion to give you!My brain is slow today. You should have exposed the topic as an essay presenting your conclusion at the end.
I think ETC's first release through CLIMAX was the BLACK BOX thing, and everything previous to that was from the original label. The ones with UPC like DREC-XXX are from that label (I guess it stands for DRop cafe EtCetera). But I assume it wasn't an official company (like how bands say their label is "office XXX" or something). Wish I had some better info on that.Can't find the edit function on smartphone but if anyone has a release by malisend it should be fairly easy to see if yukikas name is credited for executive producer.
Edit:found it lol. Also what releases did etosetora release through yukikas first label?
Edit 2: slightly off topic but has anyone ever seen a physical copy of a release by yukikas first band? Or even a picture?
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He's talking to someone on FB now, so hopefully that helps. Thank you~
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Idk where to put this or how to title it... sorry mods! But I came across an old thread (Wtf is Ains), and thought I'd dump a short history of Yukika/Ains. Only it turned out to be way longer than I expected, and had some crossover with non-Ains labels. So... I thought I'd dump it in the general section. Maybe this can turn into a general discussion of vk labels? (Didn't see anything similar extant when I searched.) Anyway, here:
Yukika (雪花) is a dude who was vocalist of a band called ETCETERA (エトセトラ). They were on their own label, called ● drop cafe, which I think he owned. Later, they joined a bigger label called ● CLIMAX ENTERPRISE.
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Yayoi (弥生) is a dude who was in the bands Vice†risk and La'miss fairy, among many others. Back in the day, he owned a label called ● Eternal, which was in turn a sublabel of KISAKI's ● Matina label.
Eventually, ● Matina closed, and so did ● Eternal. Later―around the same time that KISAKI opened his new label ● UNDER CODE PRODUCTION―Yayoi opened a new label called ● CLIMAX ENTERPRISE.
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ETCETERA eventually disbands, and ● CLIMAX ENTERPRISE closes, whatever. Afterward, Yukika forms a band called Fils, but they operate without a label and disband pretty quickly. Yukika then forms the band CLUTCH (クラッチ) under his own record label, ● Culminate Screen.
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● Culminate Screen mostly had shitty bands, but there was this one group called CATHELINE (キャサリン)... They got a little popularity, jumped ship to Speed-disk, and became R-18, then R-15, then R Shitei (R指定).
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CLUTCH disbands, ● Culminate Screen closes, whatever. Yukika keeps at it, forms a new band called Buddy, and starts a new label, ● A heretic sound music.. Here's where it starts getting interesting:
Yukika gets lucky, and signs this band called ALSDEAD to his label. Somehow, they get a little popular, and he's probably making money from his label for the first time ever. Meanwhile, this little band called Valluna (ヴァルナ) starts hanging out around label (without actually joining), so that's pretty cool.
Cut to late 2009. Remember that Yayoi guy, the president of the label that Yukika's band ETCETERA used to be on? Yeah, that guy suddenly has a new label called ● FIREBALL―which has no artists, btw―and Yukika slides ● A heretic sound music. right in there as a sublabel of ● FIREBALL. That's definitely some tax evasion shit, right?
Like 3 minutes later, ALSDEAD mysteriously announces that they're “graduating” from ● A heretic sound music.. The next month, Yukika's like, “Hey guys, ● A heretic sound music. is closing.” (Haq;ch. and Navir, the two unsuccessful bands on the label, are just left to fend for themselves.) But don't worry! Yukika has formed a new label: ● Galaxy, which is also a sublabel of ● FIREBALL. (Yukika even co-sponsors one-day revivals of ● Eternal and ● CLIMAX ENTERPRISE with Yayoi, 'cause they're totes great friends now.)
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Btw, did you catch that? He transforms his label into a sublabel, then immediately closes it and forms a new sublabel under the same company. He keeps the one band who was somewhat successful, and drops off the other two in some barren desert somewhere. That's definitely some tax wizardry, right? Or maybe just a cute way to end those other bands' contracts?
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So ● Galaxy is here, and they've got the somewhat successful ALSDEAD band. Then, surprise surprise, Valluna (ヴァルナ) joins ● Galaxy.
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ALSDEAD was, like, doing pretty good. But right after their first release through ● Galaxy, they jumped ship to their own label, ● CTA Works ('cause they're assholes?). ● Danger Crue scooped them up after, which is a pretty big deal, 'cause, like... ● Danger Crue isn't major, but it's as close as most visual bands will ever get, and it has major distribution through ● SONY. It seems like they really fell off after that, but maybe that's just in the overseas community.
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That Valluna (ヴァルナ) band is doing well, like really well. Which, in the VK world, means it's time for a disbandment. So, Valluna (ヴァルナ) disbands, and the important members immediately come back as DIAURA.
DIAURA is doing super well; so much so that their album is distributed by the major label ● CROWN, which is rare for a tiny label like ● Galaxy. So Yukika and Yayaoi must be dragging home small bags of money every day, which is great. But eventually, Yukika gets smart, and is like “fuck this, I want all the bags of money”; so in early 2012, mentions of something called ● Ains start springing up. ● Galaxy is still publishing releases and sponsoring lives, but this ● Ains thing is being mentioned too.
Smash cut to March of 2012, and ● Galaxy has, like, lowkey disappeared, and all of DIAURA's activities are going through ● Ains now. Considering ● FIREBALL seemed to only ever be a shell company for ● Galaxy, I guess it closed too.
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I wanna talk about Yayoi some more.
Way back in 1979 (supposedly), some dude founded an entertainment company called EXCEL. That dude turns out to be Yayoi's father! In the 90s, ● EXCEL RECORDS released some omnibus CDs featuring Yayoi's then-current band, ANGEL DUST. (KISAKI's band, MIRAGE, was also on those CDs, so I guess that's how KISAKI and Yayoi hooked up, which lead to KISAKI giving Yayoi the ● Eternal sublabel of ● Matina.)
Anyway, around the time when Yukika closed ● Galaxy and formed ● Ains, EXCEL was reorganized into ● EXCEL ENTERTAINMENT, with Yayoi as the new president. The new ● EXCEL ENTERTAINMENT has had several clients―including KISAKI and some people from bands belonging to ● Eternal/● CLIMAX ENTERPRISE―but the company doesn't actually do anything, as far as I can tell. I guess it acts as a talent agency, but all of its clients are already being managed by record labels, so what's the point?
More recently, Yayoi formed the new record label ROCKSTAR RECORDS. (And, of course, all of that label's artists are simultaneously signed with ● EXCEL ENTERTAINMENT.)
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Ok, ok, it's 2012, ● Ains exists as its own entity, and DIAURA is helping Yukika drag home bags of money, which he gets to keep to himself this time. Now that he's making Trump Checks™, Yukika can afford to sign a new act, so he snipes people from the band RELOAD (リロード) to form Grieva (グリーヴァ). Just for shits and giggles, they're on their own ● Ains sublabel called ● MadWink.. (I truly assumed that ● MadWink. was created just for aesthetic reasons, but maybe it's some weird tax evasion thing too, idk.)
Grieva (グリーヴァ) is literally (literally, kids) a Dir en grey cover band (with other influences thrown in there, but it's mostly Deg), but they're like, killin' it. So Yukika tries to strike lightning twice, and creates a GAZETTE (ガゼット) cover band, Gossip (ゴシップ), also under the ● MadWink. sublabel. At the same time, KUROYURI TO KAGE (黒百合と影) forms under a different ● Ains sublabel called ● yamikakumei (闇革命). (Again, I assume the sublabel is for aesthetic purposes.)
Soon after, Grieva, Gossip, and KUROYURI TO KAGE release a coupling CD which is published by ● UNIVERSAL MUSIC. (This doesn't mean they're major, or that they left ● Ains. I'd assume it's probably some sort of test for ● UNIVERSAL MUSIC to see if they want to deal with ● Ains more in the future.)
Now, here's the most recent weirdness:
Some new band MEDIENA (メディーナ) appears, and they give off major “● Ains vibes”―in the sense that their graphic design is clearly done by the ● Ains graphic designer, and their release schedule is put together in a way that's similar to ● Ains bands. They're also always playing at ● Ains lives, but they clearly state that they're on a label called ● V-eyes RECORDS, which has nothing to do with ● Ains. ...Or does it? When their release was put up on iTunes, the publisher was listed as ● Ains; so I guess that explains that, lol. I personally consider ● V-eyes RECORDS to be a “secret sublabel” of ● Ains, though I have no official statement to back that up, and can't give a reason why they'd do that (tax stuff?).
There's also a new band called MALISEND, whom some people assumed to belong to ● Ains. I actually think that's wrong, at least when they formed.
Early on, MALISEND was clearly not using the ● Ains graphic designer, and their first releases were not announced in the same way that ● Ains releases are (ie. not using the same marketing staff). Also, tbh, their first look was not up to ● Ains quality. And finally, I want to mention that their first releases were completely independent (independent UPC & no label listed). However, their most recent release was through a new label called ● Culminate―and was published by ● Ains, according to Brand X. So, in my opinion, MALISEND did not form under ● Ains (like MEDIENA probably did), but is now signed to another “secret sublabel” of ● Ains. (Might the name ● Culminate be a tribute to Yukika's early label, ● Culminate Screen?)
And here we are
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To recap...
Yukika forms drop cafe
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Yukika's band joins CLIMAX ENTERPRISE
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Yukika forms Culminate Screen
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Yukika forms A heretic sound music.
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Yukika meets up with Yayoi, the former president of CLIMAX ENTERPRISE
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Yayoi forms FIREBALL, and Yukika transforms A heretic sound music. to a sublabel of FIREBALL
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Yukika closes A heretic sound music. and makes a new FIREBALL sublabel called Galaxy
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Yukika forms a new, standalone label called Ains
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Yukika transfers DIAURA to Ains and closes A heretic sound music., and Yayoi goes to EXCEL ENTERTAINMENT
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Yukika makes an Ains sublabel, MadWink., for Grieva
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Gossip joins the sublabel MadWink.
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KUROYURI TO KAGE joins the new Ains sublabel, yamikakumei
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Grieva, Gossip, and KUROYURI TO KAGE release a coupling CD which is published/distributed by UNIVERSAL (but they're not major)
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MEDIENA forms under an unofficial/secret Ains sublabel, V-eyes RECORDS
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MALISEND forms independently, but joins what might be another unofficial/secret Ains sublabel, Culminate
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Idk, I hope that was enlightening or entertaining to someone! Please let me know if you have any comments or corrections!
I've always found the world of VK record labels to be really fascinating. KISAKI's label history is deliciously convoluted, but I think Yukika actually beats him out, lol.
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My friend has been getting “the connection isn't private” error messages from Chrome when he tries to visit Monochrome Heaven.
The exact error that Chrome throws is NET::ERR_CERT_INVALID, so I guess it has something to do with the security certificate.
I suggested he try http instead of https, but it seems not to work for him. He's in Italy, and the issue only appears on his PC (he can access MH through his phone), for some reason.
Any ideas?
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In their song "ダンシングオールライト！" (Dancing All Right!), there are lyrics "とても冷たい夜に ぬるめの紅茶いかが" (In the very cold night, would you like a lukewarm tea?"
So I guess their present derives from their song.
I didn't know that, thanks
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Btw, the image background image says ニーナ, so I assume the band's name is NINA.
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Does the audience look just a bit sparse for that venue?
Anyway, looks like a good chance to see lots of the acts that haven't really had releases. Pretty cool
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A few general cases of aesthetic censorship:
Most of NEGA's releases have a PARENTAL ADVISORY logo, despite that being an American thing.
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SUGAR FORKFUL's Gougai features lyrics which are completely censored.
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As do several Dali songs. The song rubber, in particular, was originally released with the lyric page completely blank. Upon releasing a re-recording of the song on their best album, the band included lyrics in the booklet, but obscured them.
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I guess you might also consider some song titles/lyrics censored, eg. VIDOLL's 「一人斬りのクリ××ス」, which obscures the word CHRISTMAS.
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DIR EN GREY has made a habit of censoring PVs and releasing uncensored versions later. And more recently, THE BLACK SWAN uploaded a censored version of THE HOPELESS at the request of one of the nude models involved in the original version (probably the only non-aesthetic case of censorship, tho it ends up looking pretty cool anyway...).
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I'm sad and excited at the same time. But look... It can be an April Fool thing. lol
“April Fool's! We're actually disbanding”
Luckily, this isn't and UNDER CODE band, so that probably won't happen
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The vocalist's tone is very similar to AvelCain's Karma―sort of high, but rough, almost like a rusty hinge or something haha. (Not implicating “copying” or anything, just an objective statement.) Also, I can see it quickly getting old, but I enjoyed the vocalist's technique of singing “up” the last note of each phrase. It's interesting, at least. I could see him going on to do something successful after this band breaks up.
Instrumental isn't anything special, imo, but at least it sounds decent. They need to work on their presence/vamping a little bit too, 'cause atm it's not convincing (that 篠突く雨 band has the same problem).
Interested to hear their first releases in full! Hopefully they all appear here
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Oh no...
Makes me miss his elegant BAISER en Soi look... Guess we all have to grow up sometime tho
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I think, uh, these guys aren't exactly as famous as their feature credits might sound, but it's pretty cool nonetheless. I wonder how NOAH bumped into this project...!
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Yo, I love TBS and JIN, but OUSIA (the song) is in no way “breaking out of his shell.” Part of the middle breakdown, or w/e it's called, is straight up lifted from 虚しき「生」の寓意≒「死」の真意 lol
I mean, I'm into it!―he can write the same 12 minute song every year and I'll love it each time―but I hope he keeps striving for something that's actually new, 'cause this ain't it
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[SOLVED] Singles: Stupid Question
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Maxi is a prefix which means “big”, so it's literally just a “big single”. So it just means that it has more songs than a normal single.
In the end, it's just a marketing term, so it doesn't always mean the same thing. For example, most VK bands will consider a “maxi-single” to contain 3 songs, but UNDER CODE has released several with only 2 songs, and Kiryu has released a maxi-single with only 1 song...