Ok. I just spent an evening not listening to Band Maid and The Wagakki Band. I discovered Asterism, Sokoninaru, Garharic Spin and Glim Spanky. In other comments I've mentioned that I'll be 70 this year. And I have to say, as a musician and someone who loves great music, it's never been a better time to be alive. These Japanese bands are incredible. F*****g INCREDIBLE. WOW!!!
5:43 Yes, that's the bandleader and boss. It's amazing how she has been able to keep this circus on the road for 12 years now, and still keep growing and evolving despite all the personnel changes and C19. I have a huge respect for this band, even if I don't love every single song they put out. Great reaction, as always!
These bands, be it Band Maid or Gacharic Spin, are simply the technically best and most talented , rock music has to offer at the moment. The top of the rock evolution pyramid . There are almost no other opinions among people with a musical understanding . I love your channel because this is where these talents are recognized.
I am like you. I also have mostly japanese artists on my spotify list, and as CD and FLAC purchases. They are always so proficient andd passionate in their trade.
@@NanaMediacollector Me too! I switch to non-Japanese bands once in a while to change things up, but always go back to bingeing Japanese bands very quickly.
It's thanks to the internet and RUclips and the like we are able to get access to far more music than ever before from great bands all over the world that we would never have had access to locally otherwise. BabyMetal became a success because of RUclips, no one would have heard of them without it and the same is true of many other bands that music labels and radio have deemed worthless. I stopped listening to the radio well over a decade ago and went to burning my own CD's to using an MP3 player and now my phone to store music and I haven't looked back.
"There's so much talent our there. And we've missed so much of it. ... It's whether you get to hear them or not." This is exactly the point! And why have we not heard them? Because of the major record labels, and the appalling state of what is still loosely termed "radio"! There was a time when a DJ like John Peel on the BBC would seek out new talent and play them on his show. Because he knew just how much good talent was passed over by the major labels. We're lucky these days to have platforms like RUclips, Bandcamp, and others, where we can discover artists we otherwise would never, ever hear if we relied on "radio". Great reaction to this number by Gacharic Spin, and also to Mindset. These two songs are absolutely outstanding - best that I've heard so far in 2021!
I love your comments at the end re: talent out of the US. It shows how a good human and musician you are! I have been also trying to find new good music for the last year or so (I'm 53) and have had similar experience even in places like Iran!
Angelina has really come into her own since joining Gacharic Spin a couple years ago, which is very good for her and the band. She now brings them a third strong vocalist to fill more prominent roles with Hana and Oreo. Their songwriting and arrangements have evolved for the better, which was already good. More importantly, the sound production is more accurate and refined. When Yuri on drums returns, you'll see her more prominently featured in their videos.
imagine a "live hide" style super concert with Band-Maid, Lovebites, Gacharic Spin, a 4 or 5-hour concert, imagine in which state you will come out in the end.
I was waiting for you to do this song. Thank you. Yes, I have been trying to convince people that the talent coming out of Japan is phenomenal! Really wish I could see all these bands live.
so yeah Unseen World will probably be my album of the year, hard to see it being topped. But Mind Set might be my single of the year, I need to listen to Gacharic Spin new album a few more time to figure out where this song sits but its up there, so glad this band is still making music despite some of the troubles they had with lead singers.
I still think Band-Maid will be my all time favourite, just because their sound is unique even to my Japanese ears but Gacharic Spin sounds a bit more familiar.
Comments here ring so true. While I've liked GS for a long time, I've surprised myself at feeling how easily Mindset and the album have propelled them into my top tier of bands.
Delicious live 2013 was one of best concerts I've seen gacharic spin awesome check it out if you can or at least ff to the 30 minute mark and watch an incredible up front and close to the audience for setsunaku and alive acoustic version be well
For Halloween: Gacharic spin is first metal band to star in a full-length theatrically released zombie movie “Metalca” (2013) , trailer ruclips.net/video/frdsa0owpTA/видео.html and full movie ruclips.net/video/GZa1dBW5s8k/видео.html. Multi-talented. (Never found copy of "Dead Banging" English sub version but not necessary.)
Bandmaid , Lovebites , Unlucky Morpheus , Gachric Spin , Asterism , Sokoninaru , Dir en grey , Lisa - X , Yoyoka , Nemophila , etc etc .....What they all have in common is High Energy ....which is a main feature of Japanese bands and musicians in general ....))
Great reaction again. Gacharic Spin - together with Bridear- were my first love of japanese female bands - thanks to my wife. I loved the rough power four at the beginning (Koga, Tomo-Zo, Hana and RIP Army). But I think the actual set up is the best since a while, Angie is a power house. Gacharic Spin was and is together with Maximum the Hormone and Sokoninaru one of the most inspiring bands, close after Band-Maid, which still is and will stay as my top of the tops.
Ryan, you do know the core 4 plus singer Fuki of Unlucky Morpheus make up the band Doll$Boxx? 14 MVs, one for every song, most from 2012 when they were supergroup yet still only only 24-26 yrs old, think you’d love em. And someone mentioned Sokoninaru, and you mentioned Hong Kong, so I’ll recommend Elephant Gym from Taiwan. Brother/sister plus drummer, together since high school, international jazz awards, simple instrumental songs with incredible musicianship. More complex playing, but subtle, less chaotic hardrock result. I personally like this side of them, the college party side… ruclips.net/video/gPh4knv3U7U/видео.html Oh and can’t remember if you’ve seen Jfemathrock band Tricot www.tokyoweekender.com/2020/02/brief-guide-japanese-math-rock/
Always love your insightful comments! Covid has dampened travelling and observing different cultures but you and other reactors make up for up by taking us along your journey of discovery of non-main stream music. Thank you for sharing it with us!
Great reaction - you could see and feel the moments when you feel shocked or get lost in the music. Also helps that you're affirming our own opinions! 😉
Incredible amounts of talent, yes. But also a lot of courage to try new things and entertain and surprise. All these bands may go wrong sometime, but it will not be because falling short.
To echo Matt Knowles below, Unseen World is absolutely my favourite album of the year but Mindset and I Wish I rank right alongside it. Throw in some Nemophila and Hanabie and this has been my favourite year of music ever.
And this week has been great for new MVs from B-M, Hanabie, Nemophila.... These groups are so productive and their music such high quality it's hard to keep up. Definitely not complaining, keep em coming!
I was musing other day on reddit that it would be cool if Gacharic and Band-Maid got together and made some songs ala the old King Crimson "double trio" style. All these musicians are so talented I bet they could find a way to make it all work. Just don't let Misa and Chopper slap at the same time, the world might implode. And I totally need Akane and Hana trading eights in a massive drum off ( I like Yuri also but Hana as a drummer is special.)
@@RyanMear you were 100% right about one the most talented MUSICAL ARTIST I've ever seen in Hana Sano I've followed her ever sense I started listening to jrock way back when
Well, that locks it up! Time to download this album. As for the music scene in general, I literally can't keep up after YEARS of hunting. Between the Maids, GS, Sokoninaru, D_Drive, Tricot, The Warning, etc, etc.... I'm thinkin' this is another golden age of music.🤯 Thanks again, Ryan!
I fell in love with Hanna when I first watched Doll$Box, don't remember the song, but she was the drummer on that song, and did some growling. Very impressive, and I'm 64. Not creepy, really. I just appreciate the blue hair and magnificent talent.
Glad to see ya back giving them another go and enjoying it. I was waiting for that first 40seconds to pass knowing what is to come and watching your face. I imagined you thinking "Oh this is rather melodic very relaxed not like either of the first two" Then the close up of Angelina's face and your face starts to change as well ... lol. She has really come into her own over the couple years she has been with the band as far as her voice goes real growth. Also, glad you found the Hana video of her doing Smells Like Teen Spirit when home confinement and covid can't even stop her from making music.
They call themselves "live entertainment bands" (especially Koga and Hana, who lead the concept). They are chasing the "entertainment band" they believe in, regardless of genre. That intention was passed on to Angie, and at this year's "NAON no YAON Online Live", she shouted between songs, "Never put out the fire of entertainment even in such a situation."
I don't know. There was a stand in drummer, Hana was playing guitar instead of drums ...Hana, Tomo, Oreo, Angelina, Chopper... and the drummer. I guess only officially, there were 5 of them there but with the drummer there would be 6.
@@RyanMear Yah, I forget about Japanese acts’ propensity to use support musicians that aren’t officially in the band. But i thought, in their case, the drummer was permanent seeing as how Hana was on guitar with Tomo Zo. Anyhow, they’re kickass in every incarnation I’ve seen them in, just MORE SO with Angelina and the new drummer.💪🏻🤘🏻
@@bigbrutalbassbeer410 Yuri, the new(ish - since 2019) drummer was on maternity leave at the time this album was recorded and the Music videos were shot so Hana recorded drums for the album and you see her playing them in the Mindset video. For I wish I they included Levin in the video, although you hardly see him. He was the stand in for Yuri when they toured whilst she was on maternity leave with Hana playing 2nd guitar.
They have so many fantastic songs I wish some reaction channels would give a little more time to some of their older stuff as well . All the new stuff is fantastic and GS has done nothing but challenge their limits only to discover there are none. Winner Danganbeat Yugenjikou Geration gap Imawoikiteru. Spring 2013
I just discovered them through a complicated maze via BAND-MAID, Nemophila etc. They have so many great songs, so many styles, I don't really know where to start! I'm still trying to take it all in. They're probably one of the most varied and technically accomplished bands in the world.
Angie's performance in this one and MindSet really makes me hope they'll have her take over more of the main vocals. Hana and Oreo are fantastic, but - IMHO - Angie is a way better singer. Also.. @ 2:49 (In the MV, 4:50 in the reaction) It sort of sounds like a valve breaks.. Gives me the chills every time for some reason :)
This is one of the best along with mindset that GS have put out Over the years they keep managing to change things up and direct there music to keep it fresh and relevant .Koga is the only one not singing she admits to being tone deaf when it comes to singing LOL so the others let her do the shouting parts and she does quite a bit live !! .Yuri (Dr) is back now and getting fit and back into it she sings as well. There support Dr, Levin the only male to have played in GS (Metallic spin did have a male singer ) dint sing .Hana has been working on her guitar skills over the last 2 years but will never match Tomo-zo as she is a Alian princess 3 million years old from the planet Nicorin who travel the Galaxy looking for a band worthy of her talents and found GS LOL (Tomo-zo's Stage character who always makes an appearance live and one song on a album with just her singing .
Well Hana was a guitarplayer (and even bassplayer) first! She only started drumming because her friend Koga had started Gacharic Spin and had no drummer - go figure ...
@@RyanMear And if Hana needs help with a guitar lick. She can just go over to Takayoshi Ohmura's house. (Kami band,BabyMetal) And go hang out with him and the guys. Seems to be a close knit group of elite lvl players. Oh...She also played with Hideki (Kami Band, BabyMetal) as well in her first band.
For reaction?, Ohmura’s BDay concert, using Kami band, Gacharic Spin as multi-repeat annual guests(hostesses?). Here they are jammin Judas Priest all onstage together to close 2017. Mikio Fujioka’s last big stage appearance, RiP ruclips.net/video/wgTh6wZjtGE/видео.html Ohmura also contributed this music to GS album Gold Dash which was written (commissioned?) to support Paralympic athletes. Kishikaisei Reincarnate) Forever ruclips.net/video/08bci2ZjbTw/видео.html
I think that they're absolutely awesome in fact they are absolute GODDESSES. and l absolutely agree with you on the subject of the algorithm I think it os censorship and a crime against jumanoty and thst offends me at Saran level
You should check out more of their live performances, they are off the charts. The one you did (Lock On IIRC) primarily sticks out because of Koga's machine gun bass, but doesn't have the depth their newer material has. They moved away from their dance oriented stuff over the years and became more and more progressive, although they occasionally dipped into the realm of prog earlier, but those songs never gained any traction unfortunately. Tamashii from their latest Blu-ray would be a great one with twin drums from Hana and Yuri: ruclips.net/video/Jt7-GGRa3nc/видео.html And since you mentioned Hana's Smells Like Teen Spirit cover, they re-recorded Tamashii on Toy Instruments during the lockdown: ruclips.net/video/DzoxNWNnFpw/видео.html Or my personal favorite Broken Lover. That's an older one, but this one is pure anarchy in terms of stage performance: ruclips.net/video/yVTp3SESzpY/видео.html
Gacharic Spin and Bridear are offering me some great music, and they are getting better. Maximum the Hormone is still my 2nd favourite Japanese band but it might change.
Good stuff GACHARIC SPIN is probably the most talented band out now. Band-Maid has Kanami she the genius. But these ladies here now Also they can all sing. All them cam play any instrument TOMO-ZO is happiest and the most underrated lead guitarist. They ladies over years have done it all Funk, POP, Rock and Metal. Sometimes as you have seen several at one time. It great that you like all of us has got to experience the Japanese Invasion. But the Invasion has been held up by COVD-19. One band you have not done but just as good is Aldiuos and to see the powerball TOKI. They allot more good stuff out there you just hit the iceberg so far. Also it looks like your having more fun with your reactions. Thanks Ryan for outstanding job. Some of the ones doing Reactions nowhere near the level your own sir.
@@cepho8349 Yes i went back he did do Aldious awhile back I even had a comment. But I'm in a war zone I get allot going on sometime in my profession. So I forgot but I'm sticking to my option on Gacharic Spin.
I definitely have Gacharic spin on my play list, but as you stayed Ryan, so much music and time not listening to it wasted because I just didn't have access or knowledge of it, m to first experience was with Baby Metal probably by accident on RUclips about 5or 6 yrs ago, that led me to BAND MAID!!! Which opened my eyes to my new reality, Japanese rock/metal girl band's, before this I didn't even like female singers, now it's all I listen too, and because of yourself and other great reactors I'm able to get new band's introduced to me making my listening library larger again, instead of stagnant and boring, ganbatte kudisai Ryan and thanks for what you do, heck I might even start playing again.
If there is a more official reason for Koga's nickname someone could point me to please do. But what I found by searching was an electronic engineering term. An "F Chopper" is a circuit that uses electrical frequency (the "F") to control the flow of electrical power (by either allowing full flow or "chopping" it to some degree). It in turn is controllable via software. And what is music? Frequency. Frequency that moves emotions and affects behavior. "Soft" power (whether the sound is hard, soft, or something that hasn't been heard before). I don't know about the rest of you, but well done bass has always grabbed me in my very core.
Chopper refers to her bass slap style & power. I know that F is for Feramone, and it’d stuck before they realized the spelling. I don’t hear Japanese well enough to catch WHy pheromone, it’s in some radio interviews online. I think the name is from her Pink Panda days (approx age 18-23 ?) Rather than from high school (having licked up bass around 16, with drummer Hideki Aoyama and then guitarist/bandmate Hana; she also took lessons from onetime BabyMetal bassist Ikuo, who wrote my fav GS tune Broken Lover, see 2015’s live vid for the chaotic control that hooked me!). And hey, once you realize your signature bass and merchandise will be the FCK series, go with it!
Truly a stunning band and song, I'm very glad you carried on trying more from them even though you weren't enamored with the first track you saw from them!
Oh, one thing I forget to mention - it's not Yuri in this video, it's their tour support drummer LEVIN. Yuri has had a leave of absence for pregnancy for most of this year since February. Hana recorded the drums on the new album as well as her guitar and vocal parts and LEVIN has been touring with them. Yuri was still away when they recorded this MV so LEVIN was asked to step in. Yuri just returned to playing with the band a few days ago for their 12th Anniversary concert, she didn't play the whole 2 1/2 hour set, she played for about 40 minutes overall in two different parts of the show and LEVIN did the rest.
I'm still trying to get used to the former drummer playing guitar. I'm assuming you've seen Doll's Box TAKE MY CHANCE. The band has gone through a number of mutations over the years. They're tremendous musicians and they have a definite sound but I have a hard time getting into their style of music.
I am with you Ryan, I did not expect that change at all. So they do harsh vocals too, huh? Is throat singing also in their repertoire? I need to find out.
Not sure if you saw the small clip of Hana playing Smells Like Teen Spirit or the full 10+ minute clip, but the longer clip goes into details of how she made all her different instruments and sound effects. It shows her tuning the sound of a balloon and a small metal ruler. G is so many mm, F# is this many, a D is this many. She is crazy, and the world is a better place for it. For anyone interested, jump to 3 minutes 30 seconds. ruclips.net/video/oi2K1PmKJiM/видео.html
Well, damnit, don’t use the 3:30 link above. That only takes you to that time in Ryan’s video. I forgot that would creat its own link it and it won’t let me edit it. LOL. Just use the second link. I need to stop before I make things worse. Hey, was finally able to edit out first link.
Their self titled album, which this is from, isn't my favorite overall work from them, but I do really like this song, "Mindset", and a couple others. I feel like GS is, for my taste, more inconsistent. They're insanely talented, but each album, they are more songs I don't listen to that much, compared to the ones I really get into, and play often. One song from the new album that I was really surprised I liked was "Magic Umbrella Girl". I feel this album may be more of experimental thing, due to it being, iirc, self produced, and they're trying to figure out what their sound will be from here on in, with this lineup. And yeah, the screams are something you'd know about if you'd had ever checked out Doll$Boxx before this. Hana, the former drummer, now up front doing guitar, has some good screams.
I really wanted to like this song.. and maybe its just the mix... but it all sounds so muddled and.... muffled? What I mean is I can't really distinguish any individual instruments other than the piano and drums really. Maybe its just me.... I really want to like this song as I like most of what GachaPin has put out.. but this one... [sad face emoji]... but F Choppa Koga is still my 2nd favorite bassist... her style is like the other side of the coin from MISA and that's awesome. :) Cheers Ryan. Good video.
I apologize in advance for my English ( I learned the language from games and music , I might be weird to say + I'm tired too ) I haven't really found the music for me in 4 - 5 years, the new music just doesn't work for me. What I lost on an old continent or in America, I found in and around Japan . I didn’t have and don’t have a favorite genre of music. The point is to like it and find what I am looking for in it... ( I hope you understand what I wanted to write down ... 🤔) ... I wandered ... Japanese performers regularly use this technique to make multiple changes to styles or musical genres within a song , similar to this song . Interesting thing ... In theory, it seems like a bad idea, but the end result is brilliant. This trick has mastered the present: Gacharic Spin, Mary's Blood, Broken By The Scream, Passcode, Yousei Teikoku, Babymetal, Maximum The Hormone ... In the past: 「Story of Hope」, X Japan, Seikima, Show-Ya, Ningen Isu ... So it’s pretty common in the east and it works a lot and these are just so suddenly what came to mind . I find it interesting how many good performers and musicians, songs are hiding in the east, which are now popping up due to the covid downtime and conquering everything in the west. (They finally don't look at me weird because I listen to Japanese music) I would like to suggest another band and a song for you DESTROSE - MAZE (Music Video Sample) fun fact : "Destrose was a Japanese all-female heavy metal band formed in 2007. The group remained an independent band their entire career and experienced frequent line-up changes until going on indefinite hiatus in 2015. Although considered pioneers of the Girls Metal Band Boom, Destrose never achieved commercial success and is best known for the subsequent bands later formed by its many members .( Wiki , about the first time this is enough)" This band had 20 members . After it members formed new bands . Mardelas , LOVEBITES , Aldious , Mary's Blood / NEMOPHILA , FATE GEAR ... many others ... upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/timeline/sy5h0czqdygnd59gs5jrfeg18n38orr.png Hf 🤘🐇🕳
I have the impression, since they have this new singer, even she doing too well the crazy eyes that scaring me a tlittle, the music goes less in all directions and seems more digest, even if it's always crazy. XD (at least with this song and mindset) but it's almost too much for me on this one. I still prefer DOLL$BOXX stuff (I don't think you have react to this project yet?) Take care :)
Ok.
I just spent an evening not listening to Band Maid and The Wagakki Band.
I discovered Asterism, Sokoninaru, Garharic Spin and Glim Spanky.
In other comments I've mentioned that I'll be 70 this year.
And I have to say, as a musician and someone who loves great music, it's never been a better time to be alive.
These Japanese bands are incredible.
F*****g INCREDIBLE.
WOW!!!
Gacharic Spin are something else. Fantastic musicians and performers!
5:43 Yes, that's the bandleader and boss. It's amazing how she has been able to keep this circus on the road for 12 years now, and still keep growing and evolving despite all the personnel changes and C19. I have a huge respect for this band, even if I don't love every single song they put out. Great reaction, as always!
These bands, be it Band Maid or Gacharic Spin, are simply the technically best and most talented , rock music has to offer at the moment. The top of the rock evolution pyramid . There are almost no other opinions among people with a musical understanding . I love your channel because this is where these talents are recognized.
This is why i listern to Japanese Bands 99.9% of the time.Talent and song writing is off the scale imo.
I am like you. I also have mostly japanese artists on my spotify list, and as CD and FLAC purchases. They are always so proficient andd passionate in their trade.
@@NanaMediacollector So true.
@@NanaMediacollector Me too! I switch to non-Japanese bands once in a while to change things up, but always go back to bingeing Japanese bands very quickly.
It's thanks to the internet and RUclips and the like we are able to get access to far more music than ever before from great bands all over the world that we would never have had access to locally otherwise. BabyMetal became a success because of RUclips, no one would have heard of them without it and the same is true of many other bands that music labels and radio have deemed worthless. I stopped listening to the radio well over a decade ago and went to burning my own CD's to using an MP3 player and now my phone to store music and I haven't looked back.
All the different elements in this and yet it blends together so brilliantly. What a band!
"There's so much talent our there. And we've missed so much of it. ... It's whether you get to hear them or not."
This is exactly the point! And why have we not heard them? Because of the major record labels, and the appalling state of what is still loosely termed "radio"! There was a time when a DJ like John Peel on the BBC would seek out new talent and play them on his show. Because he knew just how much good talent was passed over by the major labels. We're lucky these days to have platforms like RUclips, Bandcamp, and others, where we can discover artists we otherwise would never, ever hear if we relied on "radio".
Great reaction to this number by Gacharic Spin, and also to Mindset. These two songs are absolutely outstanding - best that I've heard so far in 2021!
I love your comments at the end re: talent out of the US. It shows how a good human and musician you are! I have been also trying to find new good music for the last year or so (I'm 53) and have had similar experience even in places like Iran!
It's a great feeling when a band you've loved for years releases new material, and it's top tier stuff like 'MindSet' and 'I Wish I'.
Angelina has really come into her own since joining Gacharic Spin a couple years ago, which is very good for her and the band. She now brings them a third strong vocalist to fill more prominent roles with Hana and Oreo. Their songwriting and arrangements have evolved for the better, which was already good. More importantly, the sound production is more accurate and refined. When Yuri on drums returns, you'll see her more prominently featured in their videos.
imagine a "live hide" style super concert with Band-Maid, Lovebites, Gacharic Spin, a 4 or 5-hour concert, imagine in which state you will come out in the end.
I would already be dazed and in a music high after BAND-MAID. To add those two would be beyond words.
So fxxking love this song👍
what a great song was not ready for that scream at the start.kick ass song!
I was waiting for you to do this song. Thank you. Yes, I have been trying to convince people that the talent coming out of Japan is phenomenal! Really wish I could see all these bands live.
so yeah Unseen World will probably be my album of the year, hard to see it being topped. But Mind Set might be my single of the year, I need to listen to Gacharic Spin new album a few more time to figure out where this song sits but its up there, so glad this band is still making music despite some of the troubles they had with lead singers.
Yeah Mindset and GDJYB's Ideo War are two songs that I find myself switching over to during my usual BAND-MAID marathons.
I still think Band-Maid will be my all time favourite, just because their sound is unique even to my Japanese ears but Gacharic Spin sounds a bit more familiar.
Comments here ring so true. While I've liked GS for a long time, I've surprised myself at feeling how easily Mindset and the album have propelled them into my top tier of bands.
Delicious live 2013 was one of best concerts I've seen gacharic spin awesome check it out if you can or at least ff to the 30 minute mark and watch an incredible up front and close to the audience for setsunaku and alive acoustic version be well
got the goosessbumpsat the same time as you^^
For Halloween: Gacharic spin is first metal band to star in a full-length theatrically released zombie movie “Metalca” (2013) , trailer ruclips.net/video/frdsa0owpTA/видео.html and full movie ruclips.net/video/GZa1dBW5s8k/видео.html. Multi-talented. (Never found copy of "Dead Banging" English sub version but not necessary.)
Bandmaid , Lovebites , Unlucky Morpheus , Gachric Spin , Asterism , Sokoninaru , Dir en grey , Lisa - X , Yoyoka , Nemophila , etc etc .....What they all have in common is High Energy ....which is a main feature of Japanese bands and musicians in general ....))
Great reaction again. Gacharic Spin - together with Bridear- were my first love of japanese female bands - thanks to my wife. I loved the rough power four at the beginning (Koga, Tomo-Zo, Hana and RIP Army). But I think the actual set up is the best since a while, Angie is a power house. Gacharic Spin was and is together with Maximum the Hormone and Sokoninaru one of the most inspiring bands, close after Band-Maid, which still is and will stay as my top of the tops.
Ryan, you do know the core 4 plus singer Fuki of Unlucky Morpheus make up the band Doll$Boxx? 14 MVs, one for every song, most from 2012 when they were supergroup yet still only only 24-26 yrs old, think you’d love em.
And someone mentioned Sokoninaru, and you mentioned Hong Kong, so I’ll recommend Elephant Gym from Taiwan. Brother/sister plus drummer, together since high school, international jazz awards, simple instrumental songs with incredible musicianship. More complex playing, but subtle, less chaotic hardrock result. I personally like this side of them, the college party side… ruclips.net/video/gPh4knv3U7U/видео.html
Oh and can’t remember if you’ve seen Jfemathrock band Tricot
www.tokyoweekender.com/2020/02/brief-guide-japanese-math-rock/
So I watched the Elephant Gym video.... that's just one of the coolest things I've ever seen. Thank you!
Always love your insightful comments! Covid has dampened travelling and observing different cultures but you and other reactors make up for up by taking us along your journey of discovery of non-main stream music. Thank you for sharing it with us!
Good job Ryan! I already liked this band before, but now after the screams and the heavier tones it turns out to be Love!!!
Great reaction - you could see and feel the moments when you feel shocked or get lost in the music. Also helps that you're affirming our own opinions! 😉
Incredible amounts of talent, yes. But also a lot of courage to try new things and entertain and surprise. All these bands may go wrong sometime, but it will not be because falling short.
To echo Matt Knowles below, Unseen World is absolutely my favourite album of the year but Mindset and I Wish I rank right alongside it. Throw in some Nemophila and Hanabie and this has been my favourite year of music ever.
And this week has been great for new MVs from B-M, Hanabie, Nemophila.... These groups are so productive and their music such high quality it's hard to keep up. Definitely not complaining, keep em coming!
A recent discovery for me. A truly remarkable band!!!
I was musing other day on reddit that it would be cool if Gacharic and Band-Maid got together and made some songs ala the old King Crimson "double trio" style. All these musicians are so talented I bet they could find a way to make it all work. Just don't let Misa and Chopper slap at the same time, the world might implode. And I totally need Akane and Hana trading eights in a massive drum off ( I like Yuri also but Hana as a drummer is special.)
I can see a Band Maid and Gacharic Spin tour in the future and since both bands are all friends plus plus
That would be just GAAAH!
@@RyanMear you were 100% right about one the most talented MUSICAL ARTIST I've ever seen in Hana Sano I've followed her ever sense I started listening to jrock way back when
I think I just fell in love.. that was ridiculously good.
Those voices are fantastic
Well, that locks it up! Time to download this album. As for the music scene in general, I literally can't keep up after YEARS of hunting. Between the Maids, GS, Sokoninaru, D_Drive, Tricot, The Warning, etc, etc.... I'm thinkin' this is another golden age of music.🤯 Thanks again, Ryan!
Hell yes!
I fell in love with Hanna when I first watched Doll$Box, don't remember the song, but she was the drummer on that song, and did some growling. Very impressive, and I'm 64. Not creepy, really. I just appreciate the blue hair and magnificent talent.
I found that song, "Take My Chance" Link: ruclips.net/video/mu2z4Uf9Tgc/видео.html
Glad to see ya back giving them another go and enjoying it. I was waiting for that first 40seconds to pass knowing what is to come and watching your face. I imagined you thinking "Oh this is rather melodic very relaxed not like either of the first two" Then the close up of Angelina's face and your face starts to change as well ... lol. She has really come into her own over the couple years she has been with the band as far as her voice goes real growth.
Also, glad you found the Hana video of her doing Smells Like Teen Spirit when home confinement and covid can't even stop her from making music.
They call themselves "live entertainment bands" (especially Koga and Hana, who lead the concept).
They are chasing the "entertainment band" they believe in, regardless of genre.
That intention was passed on to Angie, and at this year's "NAON no YAON Online Live", she shouted between songs, "Never put out the fire of entertainment even in such a situation."
Great band and song! Always a musical roller coaster. Why was I sometimes seeing only 5 in the group shots but then in other shots there were 6?
I don't know. There was a stand in drummer, Hana was playing guitar instead of drums ...Hana, Tomo, Oreo, Angelina, Chopper... and the drummer. I guess only officially, there were 5 of them there but with the drummer there would be 6.
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Yah, I forget about Japanese acts’ propensity to use support musicians that aren’t officially in the band. But i thought, in their case, the drummer was permanent seeing as how Hana was on guitar with Tomo Zo. Anyhow, they’re kickass in every incarnation I’ve seen them in, just MORE SO with Angelina and the new drummer.💪🏻🤘🏻
@@bigbrutalbassbeer410 Yuri, the new(ish - since 2019) drummer was on maternity leave at the time this album was recorded and the Music videos were shot so Hana recorded drums for the album and you see her playing them in the Mindset video. For I wish I they included Levin in the video, although you hardly see him. He was the stand in for Yuri when they toured whilst she was on maternity leave with Hana playing 2nd guitar.
I like that they feature the person who did the things.
They have so many fantastic songs I wish some reaction channels would give a little more time to some of their older stuff as well . All the new stuff is fantastic and GS has done nothing but challenge their limits only to discover there are none.
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I just discovered them through a complicated maze via BAND-MAID, Nemophila etc. They have so many great songs, so many styles, I don't really know where to start! I'm still trying to take it all in. They're probably one of the most varied and technically accomplished bands in the world.
Great reaction! And great song l!
Angie's performance in this one and MindSet really makes me hope they'll have her take over more of the main vocals. Hana and Oreo are fantastic, but - IMHO - Angie is a way better singer. Also.. @ 2:49 (In the MV, 4:50 in the reaction) It sort of sounds like a valve breaks.. Gives me the chills every time for some reason :)
This is one of the best along with mindset that GS have put out Over the years they keep managing to change things up and direct there music to keep it fresh and relevant .Koga is the only one not singing she admits to being tone deaf when it comes to singing LOL so the others let her do the shouting parts and she does quite a bit live !! .Yuri (Dr) is back now and getting fit and back into it she sings as well. There support Dr, Levin the only male to have played in GS (Metallic spin did have a male singer ) dint sing .Hana has been working on her guitar skills over the last 2 years but will never match Tomo-zo as she is a Alian princess 3 million years old from the planet Nicorin who travel the Galaxy looking for a band worthy of her talents and found GS LOL (Tomo-zo's Stage character who always makes an appearance live and one song on a album with just her singing .
Well Hana was a guitarplayer (and even bassplayer) first! She only started drumming because her friend Koga had started Gacharic Spin and had no drummer - go figure ...
Wow.... what an amazing group of people
@@RyanMear And if Hana needs help with a guitar lick. She can just go over to Takayoshi Ohmura's house. (Kami band,BabyMetal) And go hang out with him and the guys. Seems to be a close knit group of elite lvl players. Oh...She also played with Hideki (Kami Band, BabyMetal) as well in her first band.
For reaction?, Ohmura’s BDay concert, using Kami band, Gacharic Spin as multi-repeat annual guests(hostesses?). Here they are jammin Judas Priest all onstage together to close 2017. Mikio Fujioka’s last big stage appearance, RiP
ruclips.net/video/wgTh6wZjtGE/видео.html
Ohmura also contributed this music to GS album Gold Dash which was written (commissioned?) to support Paralympic athletes. Kishikaisei Reincarnate) Forever
ruclips.net/video/08bci2ZjbTw/видео.html
I think that they're absolutely awesome in fact they are absolute GODDESSES. and l absolutely agree with you on the subject of the algorithm I think it os censorship and a crime against jumanoty and thst offends me at Saran level
You should check out more of their live performances, they are off the charts. The one you did (Lock On IIRC) primarily sticks out because of Koga's machine gun bass, but doesn't have the depth their newer material has. They moved away from their dance oriented stuff over the years and became more and more progressive, although they occasionally dipped into the realm of prog earlier, but those songs never gained any traction unfortunately.
Tamashii from their latest Blu-ray would be a great one with twin drums from Hana and Yuri:
ruclips.net/video/Jt7-GGRa3nc/видео.html
And since you mentioned Hana's Smells Like Teen Spirit cover, they re-recorded Tamashii on Toy Instruments during the lockdown:
ruclips.net/video/DzoxNWNnFpw/видео.html
Or my personal favorite Broken Lover. That's an older one, but this one is pure anarchy in terms of stage performance:
ruclips.net/video/yVTp3SESzpY/видео.html
Thanks - I totally couldn't remember which vid it was where Oreo gets up on the keyboard :)
Best yet. Although was impressed by them playing Mindset live.
Indeed there is a guy on drums in this MV... we hope Yuri will be back soon. 😉
Gacharic Spin and Bridear are offering me some great music, and they are getting better. Maximum the Hormone is still my 2nd favourite Japanese band but it might change.
Good stuff GACHARIC SPIN is probably the most talented band out now. Band-Maid has Kanami she the genius. But these ladies here now Also they can all sing. All them cam play any instrument TOMO-ZO is happiest and the most underrated lead guitarist. They ladies over years have done it all Funk, POP, Rock and Metal. Sometimes as you have seen several at one time. It great that you like all of us has got to experience the Japanese Invasion. But the Invasion has been held up by COVD-19. One band you have not done but just as good is Aldiuos and to see the powerball TOKI. They allot more good stuff out there you just hit the iceberg so far. Also it looks like your having more fun with your reactions. Thanks Ryan for outstanding job. Some of the ones doing Reactions nowhere near the level your own sir.
@@cepho8349 Yes i went back he did do Aldious awhile back I even had a comment. But I'm in a war zone I get allot going on sometime in my profession. So I forgot but I'm sticking to my option on Gacharic Spin.
Thank you, Cecil👍
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I definitely have Gacharic spin on my play list, but as you stayed Ryan, so much music and time not listening to it wasted because I just didn't have access or knowledge of it, m to first experience was with Baby Metal probably by accident on RUclips about 5or 6 yrs ago, that led me to BAND MAID!!! Which opened my eyes to my new reality, Japanese rock/metal girl band's, before this I didn't even like female singers, now it's all I listen too, and because of yourself and other great reactors I'm able to get new band's introduced to me making my listening library larger again, instead of stagnant and boring, ganbatte kudisai Ryan and thanks for what you do, heck I might even start playing again.
That's GREAT!
If there is a more official reason for Koga's nickname someone could point me to please do. But what I found by searching was an electronic engineering term. An "F Chopper" is a circuit that uses electrical frequency (the "F") to control the flow of electrical power (by either allowing full flow or "chopping" it to some degree). It in turn is controllable via software.
And what is music? Frequency.
Frequency that moves emotions and affects behavior. "Soft" power (whether the sound is hard, soft, or something that hasn't been heard before).
I don't know about the rest of you, but well done bass has always grabbed me in my very core.
Chopper refers to her bass slap style & power. I know that F is for Feramone, and it’d stuck before they realized the spelling. I don’t hear Japanese well enough to catch WHy pheromone, it’s in some radio interviews online. I think the name is from her Pink Panda days (approx age 18-23 ?) Rather than from high school (having licked up bass around 16, with drummer Hideki Aoyama and then guitarist/bandmate Hana; she also took lessons from onetime BabyMetal bassist Ikuo, who wrote my fav GS tune Broken Lover, see 2015’s live vid for the chaotic control that hooked me!). And hey, once you realize your signature bass and merchandise will be the FCK series, go with it!
Truly a stunning band and song, I'm very glad you carried on trying more from them even though you weren't enamored with the first track you saw from them!
Oh, one thing I forget to mention - it's not Yuri in this video, it's their tour support drummer LEVIN. Yuri has had a leave of absence for pregnancy for most of this year since February. Hana recorded the drums on the new album as well as her guitar and vocal parts and LEVIN has been touring with them. Yuri was still away when they recorded this MV so LEVIN was asked to step in. Yuri just returned to playing with the band a few days ago for their 12th Anniversary concert, she didn't play the whole 2 1/2 hour set, she played for about 40 minutes overall in two different parts of the show and LEVIN did the rest.
yup,, i think f chopper is the girl sleeping,, and damn the band is so good
I'm still trying to get used to the former drummer playing guitar. I'm assuming you've seen Doll's Box TAKE MY CHANCE. The band has gone through a number of mutations over the years. They're tremendous musicians and they have a definite sound but I have a hard time getting into their style of music.
DOLL$BOXX is a super band they only made a couple of albums, just like NEMOPHILA a super band from many different bands.
I am with you Ryan, I did not expect that change at all. So they do harsh vocals too, huh? Is throat singing also in their repertoire? I need to find out.
Best of the goddamned best
I heard somewhere else that it is Koga who model for the nude girl, and she at least resembles.
It was her. Angie was too young to do it
@@RyanMear I never thought of Angel.
Not sure if you saw the small clip of Hana playing Smells Like Teen Spirit or the full 10+ minute clip, but the longer clip goes into details of how she made all her different instruments and sound effects. It shows her tuning the sound of a balloon and a small metal ruler. G is so many mm, F# is this many, a D is this many. She is crazy, and the world is a better place for it. For anyone interested, jump to 3 minutes 30 seconds. ruclips.net/video/oi2K1PmKJiM/видео.html
Well, damnit, don’t use the 3:30 link above. That only takes you to that time in Ryan’s video. I forgot that would creat its own link it and it won’t let me edit it. LOL. Just use the second link. I need to stop before I make things worse. Hey, was finally able to edit out first link.
That's gacharic! I meant to swipe-text fantastic and it auto-corrected to gacharic... which is kind of perfect.
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Alright... that's awesome. I think I could listen to her speak all day too.
Their self titled album, which this is from, isn't my favorite overall work from them, but I do really like this song, "Mindset", and a couple others. I feel like GS is, for my taste, more inconsistent. They're insanely talented, but each album, they are more songs I don't listen to that much, compared to the ones I really get into, and play often. One song from the new album that I was really surprised I liked was "Magic Umbrella Girl". I feel this album may be more of experimental thing, due to it being, iirc, self produced, and they're trying to figure out what their sound will be from here on in, with this lineup. And yeah, the screams are something you'd know about if you'd had ever checked out Doll$Boxx before this. Hana, the former drummer, now up front doing guitar, has some good screams.
I really wanted to like this song.. and maybe its just the mix... but it all sounds so muddled and.... muffled? What I mean is I can't really distinguish any individual instruments other than the piano and drums really. Maybe its just me.... I really want to like this song as I like most of what GachaPin has put out.. but this one... [sad face emoji]... but F Choppa Koga is still my 2nd favorite bassist... her style is like the other side of the coin from MISA and that's awesome. :)
Cheers Ryan. Good video.
Great reaction bro!!! Hey checked your band maid list..... think you need to " start over " ? Thanks for what you do 👍👍👍👍🦧🍌🙏
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i think you wold love FOCUS by SUKEKIYO
Thank you very much . We can agree that it was a perfect wish ?! 🙃😘 🎼🎵
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I apologize in advance for my English ( I learned the language from games and music , I might be weird to say + I'm tired too ) I haven't really found the music for me in 4 - 5 years, the new music just doesn't work for me. What I lost on an old continent or in America, I found in and around Japan . I didn’t have and don’t have a favorite genre of music. The point is to like it and find what I am looking for in it... ( I hope you understand what I wanted to write down ... 🤔)
... I wandered ...
Japanese performers regularly use this technique to make multiple changes to styles or musical genres within a song , similar to this song . Interesting thing ... In theory, it seems like a bad idea, but the end result is brilliant. This trick has mastered the present: Gacharic Spin, Mary's Blood, Broken By The Scream, Passcode, Yousei Teikoku, Babymetal, Maximum The Hormone ... In the past: 「Story of Hope」, X Japan, Seikima, Show-Ya, Ningen Isu ... So it’s pretty common in the east and it works a lot and these are just so suddenly what came to mind . I find it interesting how many good performers and musicians, songs are hiding in the east, which are now popping up due to the covid downtime and conquering everything in the west.
(They finally don't look at me weird because I listen to Japanese music)
I would like to suggest another band and a song for you
DESTROSE - MAZE (Music Video Sample)
fun fact : "Destrose was a Japanese all-female heavy metal band formed in 2007. The group remained an independent band their entire career and experienced frequent line-up changes until going on indefinite hiatus in 2015. Although considered pioneers of the Girls Metal Band Boom, Destrose never achieved commercial success and is best known for the subsequent bands later formed by its many members .( Wiki , about the first time this is enough)"
This band had 20 members . After it members formed new bands . Mardelas , LOVEBITES , Aldious , Mary's Blood / NEMOPHILA , FATE GEAR ... many others ... upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/timeline/sy5h0czqdygnd59gs5jrfeg18n38orr.png
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Thank you, and, yes, the amount of music I'm finding in Japan is staggering. Your English is great, don't apologize for it👍
@@RyanMear Thx 🙃
DESTROSE - MAZE (Music Video Sample) included in the video :
Captain Mina (G) - FATE GEAR
Haruna (Dr) - Lovebites
Miho (Bg) - Lovebites ( ??? )
Marina (Vo) - Mardelas
Narumi (G) - Disqualia ( ??? )
it lagged behind the novel ... sorry ...
pls react doll$boxx
I have the impression, since they have this new singer, even she doing too well the crazy eyes that scaring me a tlittle, the music goes less in all directions and seems more digest, even if it's always crazy. XD (at least with this song and mindset) but it's almost too much for me on this one. I still prefer DOLL$BOXX stuff (I don't think you have react to this project yet?)
Take care :)
Ryan Saara Aalto from Finland. Wo xin mamman chen Letting Go ( Chinese version ) and Monsters Live in 34 languages Eurovision song 2018 Finland.
Found a version of the video with English subtitles.
ruclips.net/video/UsBqOAJzKhQ/видео.html
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