Revisiting every theme covered by Japan Link with never before played songs!
| Kicking the show off with some female R&B, just because. You can buy ACHARU's EP on iTunes:
http://itunes.apple.com/ca/album/butterfly/id436957240 |
| Black Butterfly acharu - Butterfly (EP) 
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| Dust Diamond acharu - Butterfly (EP)
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| Some reggae, because that's the music I used to pitch my show to the station. |
| Kizuna BIGGA RAIJI - (digital single)
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| Encore (feat. ET-KING) MEGARYU - Ienakatta "Arigatou" (single)
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| The highest charting releases of the month, since the first time I was on the radio was doing a year-end countdown |
| Everyday, Kashuucha AKB48 - (single)
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| Let's try again Team Amuse - (single)
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| "Lonely" songs and "Energetic" songs were the next topic I chose. Looking back, that's incredibly vague... |
| Hostile To Me salyu x salyu - s(o)un(d)beams
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| C'mon, Let's Go KREVA - (single)
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| Japanese and Western collaborations and cover songs were next. Hitomi Yaida's song is a Japanese cover of "Don't Dream It's Over" by Crowded House. |
| Never Ever (feat. Substantial) ZANE - Melodic Flow |
| Yasuragi wa Mada Saki ni Hitomi Yaida - Dojo Mitai na LOVE (single)
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| Next I was able to cover a Japanese indie rock concert in Toronto called next Music From Tokyo (http://www.nextmusicfromtokyo.com). After I covered this and conducted interviews with Kulu Kulu Garden and mothercoat, the station offered me a permanent show, and of course I was ecstatic!! |
| Rakuen andymori - Kakumei |
| Gigangirl Giganboy OWARIKARA - Iggy Pop to Sanbika
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| Seijaku no Ie goomi - Mega Mittsu |
| Tori (live at The Biltmore Cabaret) Kulu Kulu Garden - (myspace exclusive) |
| fake a fake mothercoat - egobag
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| Also that weekend in Toronto, I went to an anime convention called Anime North (nerrrrd, I know). I saw ~Selia~, vocalist of the duo Seileen, live and played his songs and some anime themes during the subsequent show. |
| Requiem D-moll Seileen - Requiem D-moll |
| Sekai de Ichiban Koishiteru Shuuhei Kita - (single)
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| Another early show, I played instrumental tracks. and got a phone call asking me to playing something more upbeat, and told by the morning DJ that it sounded like the music they played when no one was here. So I never tried that again... |
| Detected Ajapai - Detected (EP) |
| A theme I enjoyed finding tracks for was Soushoku Danshi (Herbivore Boys) and Nikushoku Josei (Carnivore Girls), or as I interpreted it sensitive male vocalists and strong female vocalists. This theme is probably the closest to what I listen to in my spare time... |
| SOUND BOY THRILLER lecca - m-flo TRIBUTE ~stitch the future and past~
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| Naturally Yuya Matsushita - (single)
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| ...but not as close as the time I played tracks from my top last.fm artists, and drove the online listener count down to one. |
| miss you m-flo loves melody. & Ryohei Yamamoto - ASTROMANTIC |
| POP DIVA (HOUSE NATION Sunset In Ibiza Remix) Kumi Koda - Koda Kumi Driving Hit's 3
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| New World w-inds. - Another World |
| Due to the low listener count of that episode, next episode I challenged myself to play songs from artists I'd never had on the show AND the "themes" were songs credited to the producer and indie artists... |
| WAVES Q;indivi+WISE - (digital single)
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| KITAINEIRO (feat. I AM ROBOT AND PROUD) YOMOYA - Yawn
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| I had guest DJs The Ninji (http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/TheNinji) and DJ Midli (http://www.facebook.com/DJMidli) come on to do guest DJ sets. When I met The Ninji, I was so excited that he'd played a song that I recognized, BANZAI by MISA!! |
| BANZAI MISA - MISA CODE |
| I had my friend Fun Punch (http://therapy.ghost-lights.org/) come on, and she played some Korean songs. |
| DR FEEL GOOD (Korean Ver.) RaNiA - Teddy Riley, the first expansion in Asia
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| LONELY 2NE1 - (digital single)
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| DJ Midli came on solo to do a J-Euro set |
| talkin' 2 myself (EUROGROOVES fashion mix) Ayumi Hamasaki - ayu-mi-x 7 presents ayu-ro mix 4
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| I went to Fan Expo and did a bunch of interviews for CKCU. It was extremely rewarding,a nd I got to meet my favourite Canadian singer, Cory Lee |
| Interview @ Fan Expo Cory Lee - (CKCU Exclusive) |
| MoFo Cory Lee - Sinful Innocence |
| My friend Dave Watson came on to play some underground rock music. He asked me to play a Shonen Knife song to correspond with the recent topic I covered of deceased artists. Their drummer Mana Nishiura, who played with them from 2001 until 2004, died in an automobile accident in New Jersey in 2005. |
| Map Master Shonen Knife - Heavy Songs |
| Riot Sugar (feat. Ian Astbury) Boris - Heavy Rocks (2011)
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| I prepared for the Funding Drive a show too early, and put together a show with every number one hit on the oricon chart. It was definitely the most research I ever put into a program so far. |
| Odoru Ponpokorin ~Chibi Maruko-chan Tanjou 25th Version~ B.B. Queens - (digital single)
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| For the actual Funding Drive show, I had DJ Midli on, coverage of the second Next Music From Tokyo tour, and an unforeseen technical disaster when the mouse detached from the computer (and the back of the computer is inaccessible)... |
| moewe sgt. - perception of causality |
| ONEDAY Mass of the Fermenting Dregs - Zero Comma, Irotoridori no Sekai |
| Atsui Manako uhnellys - To Too Two |
| polka Susquatch - Water plant |
| The playlist "This Is The New Shit" used to be of the first things that came up when you searched for "Japan Link CKCU" on Google! Hooray for swears! |
| BLIND Ken Hirai - JAPANESE SINGER
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| The theme "Movie Night" was awesome for me during exams, since I just the the amazing soundtracks play... |
| HELLO ~Paradise Kiss~ YUI - (single)
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| My friend Fun Punch came back on and played some of her favourite Japanese alternative rock songs. She introduced me to the group STAn! |
| Sea Side Sex STAn - ROCK |
| DJ Midli filled in for me during Christmas, and he played a few Japanese songs that I sent him, but it was mostly his own stuff. This is one songs he didn't play - Last Christmas by Foxxi misQ, their final single before they broke-up. All three members are still active (YU-A and CHiE have solo careers, and DEM joined Fivesta), but are not as awesome apart. |
| Last Christmas (mashup by Foxxi misQ) Foxxi misQ - (single) |
| My 2010 year-end countdown included plenty of self-indulgence. In addition to a proper countdown, I played my favourite artists of the year, including Kanye and ARIA... |
| Lost In The World (feat. Bon Iver) Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy |
| SHOUT!!! ARIA - The Jukebox |
| When I played debuts from influential artist, I left out Kumi Koda because I feel like she's still a new artist, even though she's been around since 2000... |
| Take Back Kumi Koda - Affection |
| "From the Mainstream to the self-published" focused on the rise of Korean pop in Japan and doujin music (independent). So, to represent that, I've chosen two songs that can't be more opposite. |
| Bijin (BONAMANA) Super Junior - (single)
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| the note of satanism Love solfege' - the note of satanism |
| My thought process on putting Vocaloid (computer programs that sing) & Jazz together one episode was to contrast the technological with the organic. |
| The last 8 bars (feat. Megurine Luka) Draw the Emotional - Planetary suicide |
| Beautiful Things (feat. Amanda Diva) Kenichiro Nishihara - Life |
| Visual-Kei & Rap were two genres I put together because they are total opposites! |
| Someiyoshino R-shitei - (single)
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| Ms. Solitude Tamaki ROY - Acchi to Kocchi
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| Songs from the indie compilations "One Heart Japan". The proceeds from these albums go to helping the disaster victims.
http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/one-heart-japan-2011-vol-1/id431479381 |
| WA to WA Kenta Hirayama - One Heart Japan 2011 Vol. 1
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| Alright (feat. Mizuki) U4 - One Heart Japan 2011 Vol. 2
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| Sen no Yoru wo Koeta Melody acosof - One Heart Japan 2011 Vol. 3
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| One episode, my hard drive didn't work, so I aimed for trying to get albums from my show on the CKCU charts. Hopefully, I can do the same for OWARIKARA this episode!! |
| OWARIKARA no Kibun OWARIKARA - Iggy Pop to Sanbika
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| Yume Miru Kikai OWARIKARA - Iggy Pop to Sanbika
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| Next episode, I focused on the solo work from members of my favourite music group, m-flo. |
| falling for you... (feat. VERBAL (m-flo)) LISA - Disco Volante |
| That's Not My Name (☆Taku Takahashi Mix) The Ting Tings - We Started Nothing (Japan Edition) |
| When I did the episode on deceased artists, I completely forgot to play a song from the artist who inspired the idea, Tokona-X. To balance the deceased artists, I also played artists who debuted in 2011. Eryka is an artist who has released nothing but cover songs so far, but hopefully we can hear some original material soon!! |
| Nexxxt Big Thing Tokona-X - Toukai x Te0 |
| a love story ~Bukiyou na Koigokoro~ Eryka - Be With You ~Sora mo Asoberu Hazu~ (single)
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| I was really proud when I did an entire episode with artists that I'd never featured on my show before, since the main goal of the program is to introduce as many different genres of Japanese music as possible. |
| Give me BRIDGET - VI SENSE
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| Glory Days (feat. meajyu) YUKALI - (digital single)
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| Finally, my most recent episode featuring artist who've changed their name throughout their career and artists who have the same name. I ran out of time, but next episode will open with a song from RUMI the singer!! |
| Diary... Emi Hinouchi - (digital single)
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| RUMINATION RUMI (rapper) - Hell Me NATION |
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