I remember our time in the JCSA back at University of Toronto when we had our Monday night movie showings in Sigmund Samuel Library, ostensibly to help some of our members from Japan with their English comprehension. One of the flicks that we showed was Joel Schumacher's "Falling Down" starring Michael Douglas as an already wound-up citizen of Los Angeles who finally cracks and goes on a personal rampage. It was plenty of fun to watch.
Luckily, this "Fallin' Down" (without the formal g at the end of the first word) is far more jovial than Douglas' D-Fens character. A February 2015 single by technopop group Denki Groove（電気グルーヴ）, it's a simple and happy little synth-ditty by Takkyu Ishino and Pierre Taki（石野卓球・ピエール瀧）, and anchored by that bass synthesizer, the gang and the other synths take us listeners for a little march through the sky. Nice slightly Dadaist music video, too, with those soaring sky-flyers.
"Fallin' Down" peaked at No. 24 on Oricon and it's also a track on Denki Groove's March 2017 studio album "Tropical Groove" which went as high as No. 7. The song was also used as a theme for the TV Tokyo horror-comedy "Kaiki Ren'ai Sakusen"（怪奇恋愛作戦...Spooky Romantics） that was also broadcast in early 2015.
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