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Woo, another fan of enka! Post some songs that you like occasionally, won't you? Enka is underrepresented on this subreddit.

I can't really recommend any compilations. I did a quick search and found this Crown disc which is like a best of 60s enka that was released on their label. I know Columbia has a huge series of 30-song CDs covering practically every year, from the 50s to the 80s - browse around below the Crown disc and you'll find most of Columbia's and some more from Crown. Columbia also has a series of pre-war music (up to 1960 actually, I think) compilations: here is 1940-1945 and the rest are below.

I only speak a little Japanese, but I'll do what I can to help you.

So the bands name is フレデリック or Frederic in English and I've only found 6 of their songs on YouTube.

Here are their Albums on Japanese Amazon and some kind of different album of which I don't know anything about.

Also, English articles here and here.

Bonus, one of the girls in the video. :)

EDIT: I just found out that this is a repost, so here is the original thread (I think): Frederic - Oddloop

I've ordered a bunch of CDs from Amazon Japan over the years, and they're pretty quick to ship them to me on the other side of the planet. Here's one of them and you'll find a few more if you scroll down. The price on all of these is pretty good too.

https://www.amazon.co.jp/gp/aw/d/B00RNI9L6G/ref=mp_s_a_1_3?__mk_ja_JP=カタカナ&qid=1498855439&sr=8-3&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_FMwebp_QL65&keywords=Rei+Black+banana&dpPl=1&dpID=41uJUO67y6L&ref=plSrch

Don't worry about it, just a downvote. Probably someone who doesn't like non-music content on this sub. Anyway. I looked around and you weren't kidding when you said "one of the most unknown ones too". One of the commenters in "RAY-NA" said "このアルバムをあちこちで探しているけど見つからない。", "I've looked for this album everywhere, but I just can't find it."

I could barely find anything but I'll just give you what I got. Wolf on Japanese Amazon. The digital music section is much more extensive than the physical purchases (23 pages), but I have no idea if you can buy digitally from Japanese amazon in North America, I only have experience with physical purchases.

Whether the stuff on amazon is actually their music or not, I was too lazy to check, sorry.

Outside of that, I also found another one of their albums not labelled properly under the author name, so it wasn't included. Their may be more of these if you search the word "wolf" under the "CDs and vinyl" section".

edit: I just found another artist listed that seems to be the same band here.

Less important is this fan website about them. It gives some info, and I can try translating it if you want, but I doubt it would be giving you much help apart from knowing who is who in that group picture.

edit: oh and I found another fan website, but it implies they only ever released one "full album", which I find odd. Maybe the stuff on amazon isn't even them, or maybe this guy is talking nonsense.

I found yet another fan site after but I'm guessing you're sick of them. One thing noteworthy was said in it though, saying that one of the band members said "if Matsumoto won't be singing there's no reason to do this band" upon breaking up.

Anyway I've got a headache so I'm gonna leave it at that. Hope it helped.

edit: and btw I say "fan site" but it's more just single posts on blogs by people interested in that kind of stuff.

Following this!

I really like my CD of Joji Hirota & the Taiko Drummers ...and for something a little more unorthodox, I really enjoy the Kodo remix album Sai-Sou just for rocking out purposes. Kodo of course has a lot of albums, so I think this one is pretty novel.

You posted another song by her the other day, and I'm pretty sure I told you where to get it didn't I? Option 1 or Option 2

If you go with Amazon, you can log into your American Amazon account and navigating will be the same as with Amazon is in America. If you get confused, having Google translate plugin for Chrome is a big help sometimes.

If the price is too steep for you, shoot me a PM. I do have the album, after all. But if you can afford to buy it, please do.

For any new Polka fans out there, you can get two of their EPs on US Amazon digitally:

https://www.amazon.com/Honenuki-E-P-POLKADOT-STINGRAY/dp/B01M2C424Q/ref=sr_1_1_twi_mus_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1498597372&sr=8-1

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01CZGU6K0/ref=dm_ws_sp_ps_dp

I hope The new one shows up there soon too. I love this video.

this is just information for vinyl lover and nujabes lover.

it may be sold out soon. don't miss it.

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Limited Edition Vinyl Pre Orders Up

https://www.amazon.co.jp/Metaphorical-Music-LP-Analog-Nujabes/dp/B07HK2TZ7R/ref=sr_1_1_twi_lp__1?ie=UTF8&qid=1539413875&sr=8-1&keywords=nujabes+lp

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Ok_Rock


http://oneokrockfu.blogspot.com/p/biography.html?m=1 (Some even consider them as "metal rock".)

https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/kanjo-effect/id525691875 (...fusing "punk" and "HARD ROCK" together... )

http://www.biebob.be/concerts/?ee=183


http://www.amazon.com/35xxxv-One-Ok-Rock/dp/B00R44RNS2 ("...a hard-rock version of 30 Seconds To Mars Or Yellowcard...")

http://genius.com/artists/One-ok-rock (Some even disregard the "alternative rock" completely and consider them "metal". )


http://www.mtv81.com/features/live-reports/j-pop-acts-rock-out-at-rock-in-japan-2013/ ("...play agressive hard rock..." )

I'll continue adding more references if ever I remember all other reference sites, but for the meantime, yup: you're welcome. :)

And Amazon Japan! Makes things a bit easier for me.

https://www.amazon.co.jp/%E5%A4%A7%E6%AD%A3%E7%BE%A9-%E3%83%9D%E3%83%AB%E3%82%AB%E3%83%89%E3%83%83%E3%83%88%E3%82%B9%E3%83%86%E3%82%A3%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B0%E3%83%AC%E3%82%A4/dp/B01MYFIMHP/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1487609671&sr=8-1&keywords=%E5%A4%A7%E6%AD%A3%E7%BE%A9

So hard to pick a favorite... After Princess Mononoke I think Spirited Away is my favorite. Or Howl's Moving Castle.

If you can get your hands on this you can have a bit of everything.

If you want to listen to it now then you're gonna have to buy it off itunes or something: https://itunes.apple.com/jp/artist/kinoko-di-guo/id521644940

Will probably need to do some region trickery to be able to buy.
If you're okay with waiting a few days, you can try Amazon JP or CDJapan, both of which ship overseas.

http://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B00N79QM6M/

http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/product/DAKUKDZ-159

Yo wtf chikan otoko is now a live action??? OMG


edit:
Got too excited that I forgot to read your whole post.
Can you put up the link for the movie?

edit2:
Well you can buy it here for like 5 dollars. Apparently she only had this single under warner music label.
Also you can sample the song here.

Last thing I've heard from her music wise is this live record. I'm guessing nowadays she only does modeling stuff or something related to that?