Listen to! February

It's March already, but here are some songs I've been listening to lately.

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Plus: Yesterday Block B performed in Helsinki, Finland, to some 1500 people. Like my friend said, it's hard to believe there are so many people in Finland who listen to K-Pop. However, the venue was very nice and full and the atmosphere was damn amazing. Block B was sweet and the show was very pleasing!
It's great to have this kinds of events in your homeland. However, the delivery of information about them is still very lacking and the organization of K-Pop events is only taking its baby steps.

I'm eagerly waiting to see how far we can go.

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Introducing: EXILE TRIBE

EXILE TRIBE is another Japanese mess of brother- and sistergroups, units, collective units and subunits. But they're awesome. Their basic idea is that they have vocalists & performers separated - some members of the group are purely dancers. Here's a chart for you to understand the parts of EXILE TRIBE:

Simply: HIRO created J Soul Brothers, which became EXILE. Later, second (Nindaime) and third (Sandaime) generations of J Soul Brothers existed. THE SECOND from EXILE is basically the same group as Nindaime J Soul Brothers. There's also a unit called Generations (from EXILE TRIBE) and some other minor units. Many of these artists above are also part of the main group EXILE. E-Girls is short for EXILE Girls unit, and it consists of units Dream, Flower and Happiness as well as some original members.
EXILE TRIBE is a collective name for these units.
There was nothing simple about that.

What is simple is that their music is great. And that their "Short Versions"
of songs usually last for 5 minutes. It's heaven.

Listen to! May

Long post ahead. Mostly random thoughts. Hope you enjoy, please do comment ♥

First off. People are always talking about the big entertainment labels in South Korea, but can we talk about Japanese Avex Group for a moment? One actual musical powerhouse that is. I still haven't had time to get familiar with all their artists, simply because there are so many of them! They're really advanced both musically and visually. Avex is the current label to names like Gackt, Ayumi Hamasaki and Namie Amuro, as well as the Japanese base for artists like BoA, 2NE1, After School, Super Junior and U-Kiss. They're launching new artists all the time, god damn it. So often that they don't even have time to all of them - Da-iCE switched to Universal Music Japan some time back because Avex didn't have time for them. That's not nice.

Anyway, here's one great Avex group, VIVIVID, which you should totally check out if your taste is even close to mine.

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To other great music. I'm starting with BTL's Too-G. Nice song. But are these the guys that-- no, they're not them. They just look, sound and feel the same. Even the name of the group and the song sound familiar. Get over your everyone-needs-to-be "hiphop" groaning, South Korea.

Last up is the new Berryz song, which I do like a lot. It's another song that shows the skill of empathy Tsunku has. I really hope Berryz are, indeed, proud, because at least I'm very proud & thankful of them.

What's your favourite song right now?