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Old 27th October 2017, 12:20 PM
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The very 1st Thread for Taichi Mukai



Taichi Mukai is a singer-songwriter from Fukuoka, born 1992/3/13.
Coming to Tokyo in 2010 after graduating from school, he joined a Funk/Jazz band as a vocalist to get first experience. He went solo in 2013 and released his first EP called POOL in March 2016, still Indie at that time.
Shortly after he signed with TOY'S FACTORY/MIYA TERRACE and started to publish his music through Soundcloud from April 2016 onwards as well as doing his first major releases.
Like that he gradually built a small following as well as getting attention from the Japanese public and abroad.
His first album called BLUE is scheduled to be released on November 29th.
In course of that he deleted all his original songs from his Soundcloud.

He writes all of his lyrics and music himself, usually supported by fellow artists and producers from Japan and LA.
Calling himself a "hybrid artist" and his music being genreless, he's mainly influenced by Black music, Electronica, Alternative, Ambient and Jazz.

Discography:

EP's
POOL [2016.03.30] (Indie)
24 [2016.11.16]
PLAY [2017.08.23] (digital)

Singles
FLY [2017.07.14] (digital)
空 feat. SALU [2017.10.27] (digital)

Album
BLUE [2017.11.29]

Official site
Official Soundcloud
Official Instagram
Official youtube channel

English articles and interviews:
http://www.billboard.com/articles/ne...ay-ep-remaster
http://www.moshimoshi-nippon.jp/23198

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Old 27th October 2017, 01:13 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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Old 27th October 2017, 03:11 PM
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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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Old 27th October 2017, 09:03 PM
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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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Old 27th October 2017, 09:23 PM
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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.

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Old 29th October 2017, 11:09 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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Old 29th October 2017, 03:25 PM
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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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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.
Oh yeah, I also love all the songs on PLAY!
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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Old 31st October 2017, 11:59 PM
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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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Oh yeah, I also love all the songs on PLAY!
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.
Same with me, I only really loved like three tracks on 24 and liked one or two other songs.

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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Old 29th November 2017, 09:44 AM
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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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Old 29th November 2017, 10:54 AM
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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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Old 29th November 2017, 12:18 PM
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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.

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Old 19th April 2018, 04:20 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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Old 19th May 2018, 06:46 AM
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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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