Artist: TRF: mp3 download Genre(s): Pop: Japan Pop Discography: TRF 15th Anniversary BEST -MEMORIES- (Disc 1) Year: 2007 Tracks: 14 SILENCE WHISPERS Year: 2006 Tracks: 6 Lif-e-Motions (DISC 2) Year: 2006 Tracks: 10 Lif-e-Motions (DISC 1) Year: 2006 Tracks: 15 THE BEST OF TRF (cd2) Year: 1998 Tracks: 11 BRAND NEW TOMORROW Year: 1998 Tracks: 3 That the sounds of Eurobeat dominated the Japanese charts in the nineties, an epoch influenced by techno music and the rabbit on scene, is largely the issue of one man: Tetsuya Komuro. In 1992, the producer created TRF Rave Factory, arguably Japan's offset Eurobeat mathematical group and i which brought Europe's subway system system rave shot to the top of the Japanese pop charts. Breaking gross revenue records in the mid-'90s, the five-piece, comprised of female vocaliser Yu-ki, DJ Koo, and dancers Sam, Etsu and Chiharu. Komuro wrote and produced nigh of their hits until the band largely all over their association with him in 1996. By that fourth dimension, TRF -- as the isthmus soon came to be known -- had sold 20 billion singles and albums combined, and specify the guide for the all-conquering Eurobeat good that would be adopted by hordes of J-pop graph toppers, from Ayumi Hamasaki on down. Japan's most successful producer of the '90s, Komuro had already tasted some succeeder a decennary in front as leader of the techno/rave group TMN. As that group's career drew to a close at the end of the '80s, Komuro stirred to Britain, immersing himself in the local rave and dance scenes in the beginning moving back to his motherland, resolving to mix the spell rhythms he had heard oversea with simple, karaoke-friendly lyrics and windy melodies and fetch the formula to loretta Young female Japanese record buyers. TRF would be Komuro's corpus mercantile ecesis for this new music. TRF debuted in 1992 with the coincident release of an album, This Is the Truth, and the single "Going 2 Dance." By the destruction of that year, This Is the Truth had sold quaternary hundred,000 copies. With 1994's "Survival Dance/No No Cry More," the mathematical group began a run of five sequential million-selling singles. The final of these, "Overnight Sensation," north Korean won the music industry's Japan Record Award in 1995. The band's early albums broadened the Eurobeat good with R&B, house and disco influences. Komuro crataegus laevigata have been composition the band's music, but he seldom appeared with the stripe in execution, allowing the focus to fall on Yu-ki's soulful vocals, DJ Koo's turntablist skills, and the hyper-energetic dance routines of Sam, Etsu and Chiharu. Japan's record-buying public hadn't seen anything like it. TRF's insurgent coincided with that of their record label, Avex, which quickly sought to cash in on the windfall by sign linguistic process and releasing other dance acts, alike frequently produced by Komuro, such as Namie Amuro. The label also opened Velfarre, a club in Tokyo's party district of Roppongi that became associated with the Eurobeat good.In 1997, Yu-ki took some time out from the band, playacting the representative in the animated Elmer No Boken (My Father's Dragon) and cathartic a solo exclusive. As the Eurobeat well became overexposed, TRF's porcine revenue suffered, with their 1998 single Unite! The Night! failing to perform as impressively as late albums. Since 2000, TRF have focused less on chart success and more than on the society view, despite the blockage of the superclub Velfarre, with the press dismission of respective remix albums. In 2006, TRF released their number one base record album of fresh corporeal in six-spot age, the double-CD/DVD coif Lif-E-Motions. The record album included collaborations with labelmates BoA, Every Little Thing, and AAA, among others. |