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rjw  ·  3652 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Seventieth Weekly "Share Some Music You've Been Into Lately" Thread

Finally found out what that Japanese pop sound was that I really liked (and heard on the Katamari soundtracks, among other places) - Shibuya-kei (Shibuya style).

Cornelius is apparently the best known artist in this style:

Also, Kitasono Minami (found this guy on Soundcloud) did a song called エビはカニじゃない which is all kinds of fantastic. The title is romanised as "Ebi wa kani janai" which means "A shrimp is not a crab". I'm learning Japanese right now so this has taught me a few words:

エビ - ebi - shrimp (noun)

カニ - kani - crab (noun)

じゃない - janai - "not a" (verb)

wa is a particle that goes after the subject of the sentence, so in this case it is the ebi that is "not a" kani.