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Land of the Rising Sound CD in U.S. stores now!

Land of the Rising Sound CD in stores now!

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Land of the Rising Sun compilation CD information:
From underground basement livehouses in Shimokitazawa to Osaka’s American Punk epicenter and Shibuya’s all night mixture melo-core shows comes the new sound to break open the system. Hand-picked bands that strive to do it differently and prepared their sound for the next wave of exports out of Japan. The time has come, almost 20 years since the 1st Japanese music invasion, 30 years of manga rebellion cos-play and now along side shocking Visual J-rock comes the next generation of Japanese genki-rock to hit the U.S. market with a bold new-type mobile suit distortion mix. It’s time to get your passport and break into the Land of the Rising Sound.
EXCITER - BOMB FACTORY
Japan has become the coolest culture movement to capture the minds of hipsters, filmakers, teenagers, kids, Suicide Girls, designers, and anyone who can identify with Death Note, Playstation, Iron Chef, Gundam, Famima, Visual Kei, Tranformers, import cars, Mr. ichiro, and Speed Racer. It's gone across the board and iconic with "what's high-quality next." Along with the upgrade-coolness of Japan comes the new music from Japan to form the next wave that is about to go big stateside whether it be Jrock, Jpop, Visual, Jturntablism or Jreggae. When you see major rock festival promoters of the Warped Tour, Family Values, and Taste of Chaos tours revamp their headline formats to feature shock-visual bands from Japan and instantly see these new bands capture the hearts of the next generation of rock fans nationwide; you cannot ignore the future that will be the next big thing... even Hot Topic is betting on the rise.
Land of the Rising Sound Vol. 1 rips back the ninja-skin and exposes the vibrant real sounds that have been in the driver's seat of the stronger underground pulse of music scenes from Osaka to Tokyo. Not to be confused with the old Japan rock invasion of 20 years ago, this is the new J-indie rising sound... fresh start, hyper cool Shinjuku style aggressive look at what's been keeping Japan pushing forward and what is now blowing the frames out of today's segregated cookie-cutter American music genres. This cd will guarantee to get the new genre of Japan "mixture" out into the open and take the "mash up" to the back room of the club and bash up all perceptions of that genre.... this is an anti-pop-format soundclash with Ultraman's finger on the death note trigger.
Just keep in mind that most of the songs on Land of the Rising Sound flex vocals in manga English and even some of the bands (Fade) have Americans on the mic backed by Japanese band mates that grew up in New Jersey in the 1980's Japan bubble economy. This cd brings forth the Beat Takeshi style of cinematic audio that incites addiction to be replayed over and over. In addition to newcomers there are familiar friends of the N2O Records family such as Smorgas that come with anthem hard driving bullet train blasting tunes like original "Deadman" and "Smoothrider." To keep it fresh.... in Japan you'll see tons of metal girls making music and toting around guitars in soft cases.... we made room for Datura, which is a 4 piece dark evangelion J-metal girl band ...something hardcore lurks within these girls. Datura is fronted by Karen who grew up in the US and sings dark echoey lyrics in fluent English.
SMOOTHRIDER - SMORGAS
Catch the next wave out of Japan and discover the Land of the Rising Sound with N2O Records... out nationwide and Amazon.com 6/24/08.
LAND OF THE RISING SOUND VOL. 1 CD
1.Exciter - BOMB FACTORY
2.Surf 99 - UZUMAKI
3.Discord - BOMB FACTORY
4.N2O Collaboration - ZUMAKI, RAW, N8LOC
5.Kyou no Story - NO HIGH ROLLER
6.Smoothrider - SMORGAS
7.All The Way - BOMB FACTORY
8.Radio 8.15khz - UZUMAKI
9.Secret Admirer - DATURA
10.Revolution - NO HIGH ROLLER
11.Deadman - SMORGAS
12.Drifting Away - FADE
13.P.O.P - NO HIGH ROLLER
14.Beautiful (Live version) - FADE
15.Bonus Audio - N8LOC'S TOKYO STORIES
(Live Manga, Backstage, Shoutouts & More)
Total time: 62:24

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Member Since: 5/15/2008
Band Website: n2orecords.com
Band Members:

Uzumaki is JYU-vocals ATARU-vocals YOSHIO-guitar TERRY-bass DUTTCH-drums DJ Product from HED PE gave me their demo back in 2004. Osaka’s mixture loud rock band that knows how to rock a party. Their Gangima Night Tour is something to check out. Recently signing to a major label, they have worked hard at keeping mixture music alive. Look for their full album Sonic Break the Barrier on N2O Records in the U.S. and a tour to break the system!

Bomb Factory is JUN-YA-vocals KAZUYA-guitar JOE-bass SHIRA-drums I DJ’ed hardcore, metal and jungle with MC Raimon (Junglist Youths) at their 18 year Greatest Hits show at Unit in Shibuya with 10-Feet. We did “uchiage” (after show party) and figured out that they needed to be on this compilation. They do all their vocals in English and combine punk, metal, indie and pop all into one catchy big and tight sound. We will be releasing their debut U.S. album out Summer 2008.

Datura is CATHY-vocals KANAKO-guitar&santur KAORI-bass MACKY-drums&chorus Finding a talented Japanese female metal band can be difficult, but to find one with a singer fluent in English is not possible... we I found one. Datura is dark and ethereal metal that introduces traditional Japanese instruments in their songs. Cathy who grew up in the U.S., sings with power and emotion as the band produces a crunchy loud hard sound live. The band broke up in 2007 but hopefully they will play live again. We released their album There is Always Another Side on iTunes.

Smorgas is RAIMON-vocal, AINEE-vocal MAKOTO-bass YOKO-Drums SENSHO-guitar I met Raimon at a Congo Natty jungle show at the Liquid Room. I was surprised to meet this young Italian Japanese kid that could rap in Japanese and English over drum and bass and metal. DJ Starscream soon remixed 2 songs of Smorgas and featured them on his album The New Leader. Smorgas was the mixture band to make it big from the underground, fusing D&B, rap, metal and pop. Raimon ended the band and is now fronting the Junglist Youths. We co-produced some songs on their debut album and will be releasing their songs in the U.S. We released 2 Smorgas EP's on iTunes.

Fade is JON-vocals KANSEI-guitar SHINGO-guitar NORIYUKI-bass RUI-drums I first saw Fade at Uzumaki's Gangima Night at Shibuya Club Asia on my birthday 2005. This is the first band I saw live with an American singer that speaks fluent Japanese, and 4 native Japanese players. The interesting history of Fade is that Rui and Kansei both grew up in the U.S. and formed Fade in Japan. They met Jon as he was about to return to the U.S. forever. The rest is history. Fade sings only in English. We released their 2 EP's on iTunes this year and more to come as well as a U.S. tour.

A-LOCK-vocal KING-mc K.I.D-mc U-SAKU-guitar SHOW-bass KAOSS-dj No High Roller’s King came out to L.A. with Uzumaki for recording sessions. I was impressed by his try-anything attitude. He rocked the mic with Uzumaki's Jyu & Ataru for General Malice's dj set. The set blew up and I kept in touch with King while going back and forth from Tokyo to Osaka. We’re producing their new heavy Osaka J-pop melodic metal rap sound. We’ll be releasing their new songs in 2008.

Influences: New video uploaded today 6/24/08 to celebrate
the Rising Sound U.S. record release, thank you!
Please watch all videos in high quality www.youtube.com/freeburning
Fade "Better Scarred" live in Tokyo at Club O-Crest 6/13/08

Fade "Beautiful" live in Tokyo at Club O-Crest 6/13/08

Jun-ya picked me up in Aoyama and we went off in his American left hand drive Astro-van all the way over to Akihabara to this secret underground studio.... loaded my Canon GL-1 with a tape and we rolled through "Viper".... J-punk, J-rock, indie go Rising Sound!

Sounds Like: Nihongo Information Yoroshiku!
2008年6月24日、危ない音楽の波に乗 り、“Land of the Rising Sound” 第一弾がジャパニーズ音楽新世代の為、アメ リカにやってくる!
Bomb Factoryを始め, UZUMAKI, RAW, No High Roller, Smorgas, Datura、Fade等、“Land of the Rising Sound”は、過去のJapanese Music Importを覆しそして興奮の絶えない完全なる” Mixture”アルバムとなっています。
またこのアルバムは、マンガ(日本文化)を 通してアメリカの若者に最も影響を与えた日 本インディーズアーティスト達が名を連ねた 新しいタイプの“Mixture”でもあります。
“20年前に日本で起きたロックブームとは また違う、これは真新しいジャパニーズイン ディーズである”- 閉ざされた扉を切り裂 き、サウンドレベルを上げていく。
“Land of the Rising Sound” は、日本が誇るハイパーでクールな新宿スタ イルを取り入れ、そして今日のステレオタイ プなアメリカ音楽の枠を超えて新しいスター トを切ります。また、Hip Hop, Rock, Punk, Emo等を重ね合わせ、普通ではありえない音楽 スタイルでまだ誰も触れていないMixture Musicを作り上げました。

今日日本のエンターテイメントが多くアメリ カに普及し、今こそ日本の新しい音楽“The Land of the Rising Sound” を是非ここアメリカで見せる時だと思います 。
曲の最後にボーナストラック(the hidden N8LOC’s Tokyo Stories featuring live manga and other surprise audio bento)が収録されていますので、そちらの方㠂‚お楽しみください。 お勧め: 1.Exciter - BOMB FACTORY
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3.Discord - BOMB FACTORY;
 4.N2O Collaboration - UZUMAKI, RAW, N8LOC;
 5.Kyou no Story - NO HIGH ROLLER
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9.Secret Admirer - DATURA
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Total CD time: 62:24)
Japanese Media Relation - Yu Saito(斎藤 裕)電話番号 323-965-2234 [email protected]

Record Label: N2O RECORDS
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Toyota's New Personal Transporter... I want one

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NY84C0v6QMU We all here at N2O Records want these things..... cool and way better than that Segway...
Posted by Land of the Rising Sound CD in U.S. stores now! on Fri, 01 Aug 2008 03:32:00 PST

Bomb factory - DOWN - guitar cover version

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3R63m0vH5Uo Yeah this guy is hardcore, gotta give him some props. C'mon everyone.... shows us you can play too!...
Posted by Land of the Rising Sound CD in U.S. stores now! on Fri, 01 Aug 2008 11:35:00 PST

Bomb Factory - %XCITER guitar cover!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lNM-AgIflc Hey, check this out! We found this dude on youtube that does all these Bomb Factory covers, really fun, who's down for a cover song contest?...
Posted by Land of the Rising Sound CD in U.S. stores now! on Fri, 01 Aug 2008 11:33:00 PST

2 more to 800!

Thanks for getting us here and then there..... we never could have thought this concept cd would connect with so many of you. Rising Sound... let's go!
Posted by Land of the Rising Sound CD in U.S. stores now! on Tue, 29 Jul 2008 12:29:00 PST

Lyrics for RADIO 8.15kHz - Uzumaki (track 4 on cd)

Many of you have requested lyrics for all the Japanese songs on the disc.Here is RADIO 8.15kHz by Uzumaki, as romanized (romaji) so you can sing along even if you can't read Japanese... ya' know like ...
Posted by Land of the Rising Sound CD in U.S. stores now! on Tue, 29 Jul 2008 10:52:00 PST

Lyrics for SURF 99 - Uzumaki (track 2 on cd)

Many of you have requested lyrics for all the Japanese songs on the disc.Here is Surf 99 by Uzumaki, as romanized (romaji) so you can sing along even if you can't read Japanese... ya' know like old sc...
Posted by Land of the Rising Sound CD in U.S. stores now! on Tue, 29 Jul 2008 10:50:00 PST

Rising Sound Tour Update!

It's really awesome so many of ya' have added us andjust have expressed your support for our compilation cd.It's almost 800 friends and that is subarashii!As we get closer to booking dates for our tou...
Posted by Land of the Rising Sound CD in U.S. stores now! on Mon, 28 Jul 2008 11:23:00 PST

Rising Sound Tour Update!

Hi! Thanks for checking in and spreading the word on our indies style J-rock. There just isn't enough out there, but that's why we are here right?We love all of you and how you are all rocking such co...
Posted by Land of the Rising Sound CD in U.S. stores now! on Thu, 24 Jul 2008 12:55:00 PST

Win a free Rising Sound cd contest!

We all know you are wondering what they lyrics say or mean in some of our songs in the Rising Sound player! Many of you have asked and also wanted to translate them... cool! So we decided to make a fu...
Posted by Land of the Rising Sound CD in U.S. stores now! on Wed, 16 Jul 2008 04:49:00 PST

DDR master rocking doubles on DDR at Anime Expo 2008!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWVlWEuKv0Y You gotta watch this dude! Not one but two footpads!We were going to dub some Rising Sound music underneath but it's too funny even without it!...
Posted by Land of the Rising Sound CD in U.S. stores now! on Wed, 09 Jul 2008 02:08:00 PST