DENKI GROOVE – EDISON POWER [EJISON-DEN] (2000)

lyrics by TAKKYU ISHINO & PIERRE TAKI
music by TAKKYU ISHINO & DJ TASAKA

A mystery of a song, but very Denki Groove. Seven full minutes of seemingly meaningless lyrics, sound effects, and a fun beat. 2000’s VOXXX is generally a pretty good album, even if it’s a bit more on the experimental side compared to some of the band’s other albums (save for “Nothing’s Gonna Change,” there’s a dearth of real pop singles).

There are rumors on the internet that this song was banned from radio airplay in Japan due to “causing unease in listeners,” but I can’t substantiate this claim. Fun to think it might be true, but also I don’t know who in their right mind would play this song in the first place.

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DENKI GROOVE – N.O. (1994)

lyrics and music by TAKKYU ISHINO

There’s a translation of this song floating around on the Internet already, but I wasn’t happy with it, so I decided I’d try my hand at it, partially because I don’t want to only post Togawa content here.

This was one of Denki Groove’s biggest hits, reaching #6 on the Oricon and living in pop culture afterwards. More modern weebs would probably know them for doing the opening theme for Devilman Crybaby, which is actually pretty good.

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