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Monday, May 26, 2025

Sonic Coaster Pop -- Usagi-chan Dancin'!(ウサギチャンダンシン!)

 

I don't know much about this duo known as Sonic Coaster Pop (or SoCoPo) that had its run between 1999 and 2002 but they were categorized as being part of the Akishibu-kei(アキシブ系)hybrid genre of Shibuya-kei rhythms as applied to anime and game music, which was (and maybe still is) concentrated in Tokyo's pop culture Akihabara district. Akira Suzuki and Chinatsu Furukawa were the two here and they provided their music through a number of releases and compilations.

One such compilation came out apparently after SoCoPo's disbanding. "Good compi" was released in 2003 under abcdefg*record and the second track is "Usagi-chan Dancin'" (Little Rabbit Dancin'). It's a bouncy number that occupies Track 3 of "Good compi" and as one person said on one site: "Think YMCK meets Perfume." I would probably push further on that analogy and posit that it can be a mix of YMO bleeps and bloops, Pizzicato Five's Shibuya-kei paint-the-town-red arrangement and a bunch of Precure vocalists on a major bender. The music video above is such that I can even suggest some Vaporwave (I do remember that Pocari Sweat commercial with Sae Isshiki). It's like tripping the light fantastic in a digital world.

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2 comments:

  1. "Good compi" has some Shoen Knife vibes and Usagi-chan Dancin'! is just tripping it's wild and I love the video that goes with it.

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    1. Hello, Brian. Yeah, listening to some of the other tracks, I do get that indies party vibe.

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