new album out June 27
I'm very excited for this as Superman last year was excellent and the singles released so far are all great. I don't know how they manage to be so prolific and consistent, certainly one of my favourite pop groups in the world right now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qPSHOTzidwhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOqkqOY2E44https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GC3sHcS0VLc
― ufo, Sunday, 1 April 2018 14:53 (five years ago) link
album is out and dope as heck!
― Simon H., Friday, 29 June 2018 13:21 (five years ago) link
it's as great as always from them, certain to be one of my favourite releases this year. I love the more mellow direction they've gone in this time - very late summer night vibes, kinda balearic in places and ending with two gorgeous synth-drenched dream pop tracks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_epnF4YjQo
the latest single from it, The Bamboo Princess has a very Bjork-esque sound with its orchestration and beats and a great video too
― ufo, Friday, 29 June 2018 14:53 (five years ago) link
https://galapagos-japan.tokyo/en/
they released official lyric translations here & track commentary here, nice to see
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyF2MRWNoas
and here's a live performance of The Bamboo Princess with a full orchestra, really beautiful
― ufo, Tuesday, 3 July 2018 17:34 (five years ago) link
I didn't realise we had a Wed Camp thread! Galapagos was not as immediate a listen as Superman was for me but it's still great - their sound is so varied yet so distinctively their own. "The Bamboo Princess" is so damn beautiful.
They've also done the score for the movie Neko wa Doku Mono, in which KOM_I plays a cat: https://open.spotify.com/album/6btY0OvITMAa9aV0EpfeC7?si=-JngavX4TO6eDDtQqktOeg
― Roz, Thursday, 26 July 2018 08:34 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWI-VukpyTk
!!!
― ufo, Friday, 3 August 2018 05:01 (five years ago) link
omg yessssssssss
― Roz, Friday, 3 August 2018 06:34 (five years ago) link
Awesome.
As for Galapagos, having two long, slow songs at the end was a bit unexpected but "The Sand Castle" in particular is quite lovely.
― Jeff W, Friday, 3 August 2018 10:28 (five years ago) link
Sounds like a great band! Can't wait to listen to all of their songs. There are 94.
The lead singer KOM_I is also on the new single by The Chvurches, "Out Of My Head" - https://youtu.be/4w9Zs_OfEgs
― sbahnhof, Saturday, 11 August 2018 21:27 (five years ago) link
this band is GREAT.
― Hmmmmm (jamiesummerz), Friday, 26 October 2018 15:38 (five years ago) link
best pop band in the world!!!
still love this album so much
― ufo, Friday, 26 October 2018 15:41 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jFtNOPhJvY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9oBVKqID7g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEGjoWVJKNk
they also have the absolute best music videos around
― ufo, Friday, 26 October 2018 15:53 (five years ago) link
have they played outside of Japan + immediate neighbours?
― Hmmmmm (jamiesummerz), Friday, 26 October 2018 16:17 (five years ago) link
Totally. Too lazy to look it up rn but I have converted at least three people into Wed Camp fans just by showing them the "Jeanne D'Arc" video.
xpost they played SXSW a couple of years ago!
― Roz, Friday, 26 October 2018 16:20 (five years ago) link
they've been to the US a few times for SXSW and Tyler the Creator's Camp Flog Gnaw festival (he's a big fan apparently), and played a few festivals in Europe, but that's all they've played outside of Asia i think
― ufo, Friday, 26 October 2018 16:21 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMrBunWgwBM
prolific as always, they released a new single last month that I'd missed up until now because it didn't get a video
it's more of a slow-build than they often go for but it's great once it gets going. the singer from yahyel's voice goes really well with KOM_I's too
― ufo, Sunday, 2 December 2018 15:59 (five years ago) link
European dates in the spring/summer!! whoop whoop. includes Primavera Barcelona, so praying for Primavera Porto as i'll be at that one
― Hmmmmm (jamiesummerz), Thursday, 6 December 2018 14:50 (five years ago) link
new EP Yakushima Treasure is out on April 4, there's a preview of a track here as part of a trailer for a documentary about its creation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBde4wUtkHQ
Kenmochi Hidefumi, who's usually the group's main producer and writer isn't involved this time - instead Oorutaichi who produced and wrote "The Sand Castle" on Galapagos produced the entire record, and the track previewed is in a similar sort of vein to that.
Hidefumi has been producing some other artists in the meantime:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZfMQ-ydw28
Rinne Yoshida - "Mu" is fun dance-pop even though it feels very by-the-numbers for Hidefumi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxlEd_RDl8Q
he's also working closely with xiangyu producing quite a few tracks for her and their work together feels pretty reminiscent of the earlier wedcamp sound, this track is "mycorrhizal fungi"
― ufo, Monday, 25 March 2019 07:17 (five years ago) link
I don't quite get this band or their trajectory but yakushima treasure is lovely
― ogmor, Tuesday, 7 May 2019 12:20 (four years ago) link
i like it a lot even though it's quite a departure from most of their previous work, but that's explained by Oorutaichi handling production duties this time
i expect they'll return to their usual more pop-oriented sound soon enough but i would happily take more of this avant-folk-with-beats-and-field-recording-ambience thing they've come up with this time. "east" and "yaku no jitsugetsubushi" are my favourites
― ufo, Tuesday, 7 May 2019 13:35 (four years ago) link
Oorutaichi is a real trip. I get this song (??) in my head a lot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ap4iOlbrkk
ultimately I always felt he'd be better as a producer than a solo artist, so I'm definitely down for this
― frogbs, Tuesday, 7 May 2019 14:42 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEPgsDaM4Q0
new track with Ryan Hemsworth and it sounds exactly like you'd expect that to, in a good way
― ufo, Thursday, 26 September 2019 03:24 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRwHZ0nsbBY
kanano senritsu - "drop"
while wednesday campanella are on hiatus, their producer has gotten really into footwork and has been writing & producing for a lot of other pop artists
― ufo, Tuesday, 27 July 2021 10:30 (two years ago) link
Thanks. I was blaring SUPERMAN the other day and wondered what they were up to. Turned up thishttps://www.reddit.com/r/japanesemusic/comments/krraqn/kom_i_of_suiyoubi_no_campanella_wednesday/Treasure only involved Kom_i?
― maf you one two (maffew12), Tuesday, 27 July 2021 12:35 (two years ago) link
they haven't officially split like that reddit post claims, the twitter post linked there is just about kom_i getting new management separate from the group's management, someone just read too much into that. they are on hiatus at the moment though & it's unclear if or when they'll ever put out new material
yakushima treasure didn't involve kenmochi, yeah. it was all produced by oorutaichi, who worked on one track on galapagos too.
― ufo, Tuesday, 27 July 2021 13:00 (two years ago) link
as far as what kom_i has been up to lately, she's done a bunch of performances with experimental percussionist olaibi, who's worked a lot with yoshimi from boredoms in the past
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75QRGczUjiQ
― ufo, Tuesday, 27 July 2021 13:07 (two years ago) link
huh, interesting. I liked that yakushima treasure record. I'd be up for more of that.
that new footwork track ain't bad but I have to say that none of the post-campanella xiangyu stuff has done all that much for me. it's fine but I don't really go back to it and played those first few campanella records obsessively.
this remix has a little of the old magic tho:https://haretokidoki.bandcamp.com/track/remix-5
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Tuesday, 27 July 2021 15:05 (two years ago) link
'Drop' is cool and I think it might grow on me, but I wish it was a little more "full speed ahead", if you know what I mean?
Sampled a little of the kom_i & olaibi performance and I like it a lot, will definitely go back to that.
― emil.y, Wednesday, 28 July 2021 13:41 (two years ago) link
yeah, i loved that. thanks for sharing it!
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Wednesday, 28 July 2021 20:27 (two years ago) link
KOM_I is officially leaving Wed Camp, to be replaced by Utaha (who appears to be a street fashion model): https://www.instagram.com/utaha.89/
would be interesting to see where WC goes from here and of course, what KOM_I will be up to next
― Roz, Monday, 6 September 2021 03:43 (two years ago) link
a shame but looking forward to what they both do in the future
kom_i wasn't usually too involved in the music but she was an incredible performer and really brought a lot to the table there, so i hope her replacement can keep up in that regard.
― ufo, Monday, 6 September 2021 04:14 (two years ago) link
i guess it was another thread where we mentioned the new album, "Neon".It's great, and top to bottom I think their best yet! "Edison" has blown up on TikTok apparently. 15 million youtube plays!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tOIjOPZ5sA
― maf you one two (maffew12), Friday, 29 July 2022 18:47 (one year ago) link
yeah it was in the jpop thread
it's solid but not as exciting as wedcamp 1.0 at their best, it's a bit wedcamp by numbers but that's still very good
― ufo, Friday, 29 July 2022 23:24 (one year ago) link
yeah, I can't help but miss KOM_I and their distinctive early sound but it's still pretty cool
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Saturday, 30 July 2022 17:48 (one year ago) link
a pair of new singles recently, "tinker bell / hot pot commander"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0kjE4heEvk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkFqe3tZVpg
"tinker bell" is fine, though fairly by the numbers deep house for them, but "hot pot commander" is very fresh, hyperpop adjacent at the very least
― ufo, Sunday, 30 October 2022 01:42 (one year ago) link
have to say finally got round to listening to this LP and it just does nothing for me compared to the Galapagos stuff, just sounds ultra generic :-(
― Hmmmmm (jamiesummerz), Sunday, 8 January 2023 10:26 (one year ago) link
it's mostly been wedcamp by numbers yeah so far instead of the relentless innovation of wedcamp 1.0. i'm glad "edison" was a big hit for them at least though
― ufo, Sunday, 8 January 2023 10:39 (one year ago) link
i guess I'm also pretty by the numbers 😁
― maf you one two (maffew12), Sunday, 8 January 2023 12:40 (one year ago) link