Back in the spring and summer, I posted a couple of articles featuring the pop collective MAISONdes that fashions itself as an apartment building whose residents consists of assisting singers and musicians and their songs. The two articles focused on the theme songs that the apartment tenants made for the new anime version of "Urusei Yatsura"（うる星やつら）in 2022 and 2023.
Well, this time I'm going back a bit further in MAISONdes' history and unlike the synthpop of the "Urusei Yatsura" themes, I found myself in tiny dance club Unit 103 right on the ground floor where vocalist EMA (one half of the pop duo Dustcell) and male rapper Tanaka（たなか）"resided" to put out "Dance Dance Dada" in June 2021. Tanaka's lyrics are a bit out there (as part of the title "dada" would suggest) and I gather that it's an existential dance club we may be talking about here, but the melody, also by Tanaka, is pure R&B bliss. Kinda brings back the old days from the early 2000s when it comes to J-R&B.
Enjoy the visit to Unit 103 and don't forget to bring something like cookies. One should never go to a house empty-handed.
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