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The very 1st Thread for Taichi Mukai
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Last edited by Corvina; 27th October 2017 at 12:29 PM. |
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Tracklist for BLUE:
1. 楽園 (Co-Produced by Julian-Quan Viet Le / LeJkeys) 2. FLY (Co-Produced by Kai Takahashi) 3. Can't Wait Anymore (Co-Produced by MONJOE / MIRU / 荘子 it) 4. Lost & Found (Co-Produced by CELSIOR COUPE) 5. Great Yard (Co-Produced by starRo) 6. BLUE (Co-Produced by CELSIOR COUPE) 7. 空 feat. SALU (Co-Produced by mabanua) 8. 眠らない街 (Co-Produced by mabanua) 9. Conditional (Co-Produced by grooveman Spot) 10. Teenage (Co-Produced by BACHLOGIC) 11. ONE (Co-Produced by CELSIOR COUPE) Bonus Tracks 12. [Bonus Track] 君にキスして (Co-Produced by Kan Sano) 13. [Bonus Track] FREER (Co-Produced by Masahiro Tobinai) FREER is the tie-in song for the new Galaxy Note 8 CM: https://www.instagram.com/p/BatSYBPA_F3/ PV for FLY And today he also released the PV for Sora feat. SALU One of my favourite songs and also completely in English is ZEN: His English is good altogether. But afaik this is his only song in English, he prefers to write profound lyrics in Japanese.
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I'm surprised to see that someone made a thread for him! Sora sounds really good! And I didn't know that he's going to release an album.
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Well, why not? I follow him pretty much since his major debut last year and apart from me and now you I know at least two other people here listening to him.
And I hope there are a lot more people checking him out now as well! Sora is No. 1 on the R&B charts on iTunes. He's happy.
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I LOVE him. I love everything he put out. I'm rooting for him!
edit: I just listened to SORA and finally he released something I'm not too excited about lmao. I'll still support his album! the cover is really cool. Last edited by hud; 28th October 2017 at 05:44 AM. |
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What's a good idea to open a thread for him. Thanks Corvina.
I hoop that BLUE'll have edgier songs. FLY and Sora are good but nothing outstanding. |
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Thanks for making the thread!
I'm really looking forward to BLUE. I loved all the songs on the PLAY mini-album, I like Sora (though it's not the most memorable song so far), and FREER sounds promising. He seems to be on a good roll, I hope he stays on that track. |
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You're welcome, guys!
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It's definitely better than 24 for me, where I liked about half of the songs. From the new ones, I like Sora and the preview of FREER. Not so keen on FLY. But I have quite high hopes for the full album, hope this won't turn out as a problem later, haha.
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I think the album will definitely have stellar tracks. it seems to be the pattern for him, since the beginning of his soundcloud account he's all about quality.
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I hope we'll get some previews for the album (even though the release date isn't even that far away at this point)! |
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A new collabo song!
Guerilla - Akko Gorilla x Taichi Mukai from her second EP being released this week. This is quite a different side of him!
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Album is almost there!
Today the official PV for FREER was released. EDIT: Album is out now, e.g. on MIUSIQ. And it is album of the week on Spotifiy Japan!
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It's also up on iTunes and Spotify worldwide!
I've listened to the whole album a few times already. It's so good!! I really like almost all of the songs, only a few I don't care for as much (Nemuranai Machi, Kimi ni Kiss shite). Rakuen, Lost & Found, Great Yard, BLUE, and ONE are all huge highlights. I honestly wasn't expecting to like the album this much, but so far, seems like it's one of my favourite albums this year! |
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I guess we think pretty much the same about the album and our favourite songs (again).
It is a nice album! The first half of it (till Sora feat. Salu) is really strong, the second half is weaker. I don't like Nemuranai Machi, Conditional and Kimi ni Kiss shite. I love Rakuen, it's my favourite! But I also like Lost & Found, Great Yeard, Blue, One and FREER. The album is currently on #13 on iTunes Japan and #52 on iTunes Thailand.
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Last edited by Corvina; 29th November 2017 at 11:01 AM. |
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We really do think alike; I was also about to say in my previous post that I found the first half of the album (up until Sora) stronger, but then scrapped that part because I was getting too wordy. But yeah, the second half is not quite as good.
My favourite song is definitely BLUE, I've been listening to it over and over again. It's so catchy and the melody is lovely, it sounds sweet and fresh, it's got all the emotional punch of a good ballad with zero sap... Nice to hear how the album is charting! I hope it does well. |
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Sorry to bump the thread with no news, but I just wanted to share something: yesterday, I got a bunch of CDs from my friend who'd gone on a trip to Japan and done some shopping for me, and one of those CDs was BLUE! And something that hasn't been said about the album yet: the packaging and product design for this release is gorgeous! It doesn't come in a standard jewel case but a cardboard case that looks and feels very nice! The best part of the physical release is the booklet - which isn't actually a booklet! Instead of a booklet, the case houses 12 cardboard slips with gorgeous gorgeous pictures on one side of each, and extensive liner notes (seven cards worth of them) and lyrics and production info on the other side! Many of the pictures also have English sentences scribbled over them, most of them are easy to read but occasionally the handwriting makes you work a little. I'm not sure if my description does the actual product justice (probably not), but I want to emphasize that this album is a gorgeous physical product! For anyone who likes collecting CDs, I'd say this one is extra-worthy of your money because it really looks like it's been produced with care and effort. It became one of my favorite items in my CD collection right away because it's both gorgeous and special.
Oh, and I'll gladly share pictures if anyone is interested. Last edited by Kacku; 19th April 2018 at 03:15 PM. |
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^ I'm very interested in seeing the packaging! I had a friend on another forum that bought it and said it's beautiful but I didn't get to see any pictures. I would appreciate if you share them with us!
I've been enjoying BLUE so much more now, I like basically all of the tracks. sadly, the collabs he's being featured recently aren't my thing. |
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^ I took pictures, they should be viewable here but let me know if there's an issue. I hope the pictures look decent, I know I wasn't working with the best lighting and equipment but some really assaulted my eyes while I was uploading and rotating them, I felt like I could see every single fiber on the cardboard.
I've also continued to enjoy BLUE, it's such a good album and hasn't gotten old at all. And I haven't really liked his newer collaborations either, I hope he goes back to doing his own thing soon. |
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Well, he posted he finished recording today on his Instagram.
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New digital releases announced!
Love EP (limited) Release date: 2018.06.27 1. Siren(Produced by tofubeats) 2. MALIBU(Co-Produced by CELSIOR COUPE) 3. HERO (Co-Produced by CELSIOR COUPE) 4. FURUSATO (Co-Produced by grooveman Spot) 5. cuz of you (Co-Produced by CELSIOR COUPE) 6. Blue – Acoustic Session with Kosuga Tsuyoshi(cro-magnon) ※iTunes Only Siren single Release date: 2018.05.30 Produced by tofubeats, retro sound. So happy about new stuff and even more happy, that most of this stuff is co-produced by CELSIOR COUPE - lots of my favourite songs are done by him!
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Last edited by Corvina; 19th May 2018 at 07:05 AM. |
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