Japanese fuzion

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It has certainly already been said here (by me or others) but people who like Kukeiha Club happy-melodic-funk, like their joyful shooter tunes, the Tokimeki Memorial stuff and most of their arrange work, should really check the inspiration sources for this fuzion style, namely Japanese groups like T-Square, Casiopea or Jimsaku.

Note that Casiopea and T-Square only perform instrumental music.

In fact the guitarist of T-Square (Masahiro Andoh) produced the first Kukeiha Club non-VGM album (and maybe more), also he composed the great Gran Turismo 1 & 2 soundtracks and some of the Arc the Lad music.


If i talk about it right now, it's because i recently grabbed a DVDs set of Casiopea and T-Square playing live together, simply named : Casiopea VS T-Square
And damn it's great, so refreshing, so joyful, it's really cool to see those guys playing because they're so happy when they perform.
Also the tunes selection is very good to me, not much mellow tunes, rather fat-groovy ones, the most well-known work of both band is here (yeah "Truth", the cult F1 anthem from T-Square! ), also the arrangements are fine (the 2 bands play together on the 2nd DVD!) and there are nice surprises (drums solos, bass solos).

The DVD itself is a lesson about how live concerts should be filmed, mixed and produced, it respects every musicans and many tunes got 3 angles of video.
Here is the tracklist of the tunes played (with some streaming bits of video) : http://www.geneon-ent.co.jp/music/vs/list.html

So if you'd have liked to see some Kukeiha Club music live, i think you'd really enjoy it too.