So, I snapped up some old school, Japanese electronic pop music yesterday from a band called Denki Groove (that would be "Electric Groove" in English). The albums that I got were UFO, and Flash PaPa MENTHOL, with the first being a collection of original tracks, and the other a remix album for the band's Flash PaPa LP.Both CDs came out in the early 1990s, so they have a retro sound as far as electronic music is concerned, but also with quite a bit of tracks that sound like they would be something that one might expect to find in a video game, at least melody-wise moreso than the instruments being used. I wish that I could understand Japanese better, as Denki Groove's lyrics have a tendency to be silly fun with a liberal dose of potty humor tossed in.
The most appealing part about there music for me, though, is how the band bounces back and forth between more traditional electronic elements (for their time), and more tangential stuff. So far, I've only tracked down some of their older stuff, and am on the hunt for some of their newer stuff. In the meantime, he's a Youtube link where the video has Denki Groove music in the background if you want an idea of the band's sound:
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