Da-Little

Da-Little used to be an unsigned Japanese singer who uploaded covers of songs on popular Japanese video website, Nicovideo.com. His voice is stunning, and I can't help but favour his covers more than the original songs. Below are two videos I highly recommend.

The first song happens to be my favourite from this amazing singer, and the dancers are from TreeTop, which is a large and very popular dancing group, with a lot of members. And I mean a lot.

If I had issue finding information about Frenzy 프렌지 a few posts ago, it's a near impossible job to find anything about this singer. There is a little entry about him here which mentions that Da-Little is also known as Hiradon/ひらどん/hrdn, has a twitter, and is now the singer for the band Sputnik, signed under the label of Nextfarm, whose offical website has a PV on the main page, with several others if you take a look around and downloads to some of their songs. From what I've found, Sputnik is a rather happy, dancing, typical Jpop band... But I really feel it doesn't promote Da-Little's voice enough, as it often uses autotune which is desperately not needed. They are however, an interesting band and I really wish the best for them.



Radwimps

RADWIMPS is a fantastic J-indie rock band that began in 2001, and still continues to the present day. J-indie itself is a genre that can get overlooked by a lot of Japanese Rock fans, but RADWIMPS is a goldmine for great music. Their tracks vary but each have some kind of similiar 'feel' to them, most likely helped by the unique singer's voice and their deep lyrics which usually have more than one meaning to it.





As it seems to be the trend in a lot of Asian music, RADWIMPS also incorportates some English lyrics to their songs. Luckily, they do this quite well, and even include Eddie Murphy in 'Setsunarensa' below. I mean, come on. This just proves how awesome they are.



My personal favourite is probably 'Dada'. Most likely because the drums and sound is particually awesome.

 And finally, their most latest track 白日 which translates as - "Hakujitsu" which means "Broad Daylight" is a tribute to the victims of the Japanese earthquake in 2011. It is a touching song.