Artist: Dragon Ash Genre(s):
Pop: Japan
Other
Discography:
The Best Of Dragon Ash With Changes Vol.2 Year: 2007
Tracks: 17
The Best of Dragon Ash with Changes Vol.1 Year: 2007
Tracks: 16
UNION Year: 2005
Tracks: 3
Crush The Window Year: 2005
Tracks: 3
HARVEST REMIXES Year: 2004
Tracks: 10
Morrow Year: 2003
Tracks: 1
HARVEST Year: 2003
Tracks: 17
Life Goes On Year: 2002
Tracks: 3
Fantasista Year: 2002
Tracks: 3
Lily's E.P. Year: 2001
Tracks: 4
Lily of da valley Year: 2001
Tracks: 14
Summer Tribe Year: 2000
Tracks: 4
Deep Impact Year: 2000
Tracks: 4
Viva La Revolution Year: 1999
Tracks: 22
Under Age's Song Year: 1999
Tracks: 3
Let yourself go, Let myself go Year: 1999
Tracks: 4
I Love Hip Hop Year: 1999
Tracks: 3
Hi Wa Mata Nobori Kurikaesu Year: 1999
Tracks: 3
Grateful Days Year: 1999
Tracks: 4
Buzz Songs Year: 1998
Tracks: 12
The Day Of Dragged On Year: 1997
Tracks: 8
Rainy Day And Day Year: 1997
Tracks: 2
Public Garden Year: 1997
Tracks: 8
Mustang! Year: 1997
Tracks: 15
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.
Manuel De Falla Paco De Lucia Ramon De Algeciras
