Monday 23 June 2008

Dragon Ash

Dragon Ash   
Artist: Dragon Ash

   Genre(s): 
Pop: Japan
   Other
   



Discography:


The Best Of Dragon Ash With Changes Vol.2   
 The Best Of Dragon Ash With Changes Vol.2

   Year: 2007   
Tracks: 17


The Best of Dragon Ash with Changes Vol.1   
 The Best of Dragon Ash with Changes Vol.1

   Year: 2007   
Tracks: 16


UNION   
 UNION

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 3


Crush The Window   
 Crush The Window

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 3


HARVEST REMIXES   
 HARVEST REMIXES

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 10


Morrow   
 Morrow

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 1


HARVEST   
 HARVEST

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 17


Life Goes On   
 Life Goes On

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 3


Fantasista   
 Fantasista

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 3


Lily's E.P.   
 Lily's E.P.

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 4


Lily of da valley   
 Lily of da valley

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 14


Summer Tribe   
 Summer Tribe

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 4


Deep Impact   
 Deep Impact

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 4


Viva La Revolution   
 Viva La Revolution

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 22


Under Age's Song   
 Under Age's Song

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 3


Let yourself go, Let myself go   
 Let yourself go, Let myself go

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 4


I Love Hip Hop   
 I Love Hip Hop

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 3


Hi Wa Mata Nobori Kurikaesu   
 Hi Wa Mata Nobori Kurikaesu

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 3


Grateful Days   
 Grateful Days

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 4


Buzz Songs   
 Buzz Songs

   Year: 1998   
Tracks: 12


The Day Of Dragged On   
 The Day Of Dragged On

   Year: 1997   
Tracks: 8


Rainy Day And Day   
 Rainy Day And Day

   Year: 1997   
Tracks: 2


Public Garden   
 Public Garden

   Year: 1997   
Tracks: 8


Mustang!   
 Mustang!

   Year: 1997   
Tracks: 15


INDEPENDIENTE   
 INDEPENDIENTE

   Year:    
Tracks: 14




Dragon Ash started out from small punk rock beginnings to get one of the brightest groups in the ontogeny New Japanese Rock movement in the late '90s, blending crop up sensibilities with a hard-edged heavy, producing albums and singles that play like a tour of Western stone of the '90s. Lead isaac Bashevis Singer and guitarist Kenji Furuya, word of actor Ikko Furuya, met drummer Makoto Sakurai when they were jr high gear students in a Tokyo suburbia, and the two started playing together. Though temporarily sidetracked into following in his father's footsteps, Furuya gave up the few acting gigs that he was getting on TV dramas to boil down on music in highschool school. In 1996, knowledgeable what they wanted only needing some sort of mentor, they took on basso player Ikuzo Baba, ten old age their senior. Furuya and Sakurai had the talent and drive -- Baba brought see and a wealth of melodious cognition. Dragon Ash was born. The mathematical group debuted in 1997 with two EPs at the beginning of the year, The Day Dragged On and Public Garden, which showed their raw, hood hardcore style, influenced by another rock trio, Nirvana. By the ending of the year and time of their release, Mustang!, the chemical group had progressed from their simple punk roots to a portmanteau of pop, blue funk, hardcore, rap, and metallic element. Through 1998 their popularity increased, and by the time of Buzz Songs, their sound had coagulated to rock/rap, helped with the mixture skills of DJ Bots, wHO once in a while appeared on some songs. Two singles -- "Allow Yourself Go, Let Myself Go" and "Grateful Days," the latter featuring hard-core knocker Zeebra and soulstress ACO -- sold so considerably that they chapped the Japanese Oricon charts, normally reserved for crop up music, and went to number one. Now Dragon Ash had suit a four-piece, with DJ Bots indispensable to the combine. Their third album, 1999's Viva voce la Revolution, non only signified the arrival of the isthmus as a major grouping in Japan, merely was nonpareil of the first volleys in the New Japanese Rock movement. In 2000, Dragon Ash undertook the Total Music Communication Tour, touring Japan with a lineup that included other rising rock acts of the Apostles, such as Missile Girl Scout, Penpals, and Skebou Kings. Meanwhile, Furuya and DJ Bots formed a couple of sorts, writing and producing songs for acts such as Sugar Soul below the key Steady & Co. Likewise, Baba and Sakurai sidelined as a remixing unit called Motor Headphone, popping up on diverse compilations. If anyone had whatever doubts that the group was softening around the edges, 2001's Lily of da Valley was as hard, funky, and uncompromising as their earliest sour.





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