ARTIST IDENTIFIED!? The Most Mysterious Song in Japan UPDATE | Tales From 2chan #4
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THANK YOU SO MUCH SAKURA!!
This is really off topic but also I want to thank you for helping me become comfortable in my liking and fascination of Japanese media, for years I repressed it so I wasn't a "weeb." But you and Hazel's channel has really resparked my interest and the joy Japanese media gives me. So thank you so much for that!!!
Also, please take your time and sleep reeeealllyy nicely with your precious puppers before the chaptering!!
So does that mean the song on the internet is not the full song
@@Usagi2380 Full version of Fly Away and Wagamama are both available on TH-cam.
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Love it bestie!
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Imagine if that politician IS the mysterious singer who shunned her idol past for her new career...
Even better- the photos of the search results show she’s with the Japanese Communist Party. This is OUR song now, comrade.
Oh, also: The People's Idol.
She's 43 so she was just a kid when this song was made 😅
as much as i'd love that to be true the timeline of when the song was released doesn't match up with her age. she would have been 11 the year op purchased the tape, so she almost certainly wasn't even in double digits when the song was actually recorded. i've heard of idols starting young but not THAT young. plus the singer's voice sounds way too mature to be a little kid. (but for the record "fairly unremarkable local government official with a secret idol past" sounds like a great premise for a comedy anime and now im sad that doesn't exist)
@@zsofiszatmari3132 király akkor nem csak én nézem Paul street női személyiségét :'D
@@sillyd0gIt's probably a unknown singer who wanted to try getting into recording for anime or show openers as that city pop was a popular style at the time and it wouldn't be a stretch to say that the singer had some inspirations from a few other female singers at that time.
Heads up: MIDI is a universal way for digital synthesizers to talk between each other, not strictly how the synths produce their sounds. It's a bit like saying you're making a cake and the ingredients are the cookbook and the measuring cups, not the eggs and flour.
Ahh, thank you for that. Not gonna lie, I wasn't sure how to word that part to accurately communicate the point lol
@@SakuraStardust It's cool, just wanted to give a heads up! I'm just a Internet anon with an opinion, but I think in the future, it'd be be better to word it something like, 'Introduced after the advent of MIDI, a way for synths to talk between each other.'
It's a common misconception, and I really hope you took no offense to the comment 😀The video's really good.
Yeah midi is the digitized notation of musical properties like the note value, velocity, etc coded in 8 bits. There is actually no sound behind it; you need to add a digital instruments to play what is essentially sheet music and conductor.
Well technically the cookbook and measuring cups are ingredients to making the cake. I have an odd love for those you're wrong but you're right kind of statements.
@@coyoteartist Just trying to translate it into loose terms, as measuring cups are a method for transferring ingredients from one place to another much like MIDI is a way to transfer messages between compatible devices.
It is amazing that this song was even found. Knowing the disposable nature of the idol business, I would not be surprised if it was by someone that got kicked to the curb before she could make a debut.
Hearing @blameitonjorge j gives me such a comfy feeling in an odd way lol, I’ve been a follower of his for a gooooood while & his voice has always been soothing while still yet having this harrowing tone to me & idk why that comforts me but it does lmao
whenever i think of spooky content, blameitonjorge’s account and voice comes to mind. he’s like the customer rep for spooky content 😂
He has a great voice for sure :3
I love that guy, his videos are always super interesting
Love his vids, spooky stuff lost media been watching him for a while
These updates for the hunt for the Akiba tape are a breath of fresh air, seeing how so many things aregoing right with it. I really feel like within the next year or so the origins of the tape will be found. Bless everyone working to finally solve this decades long mystery.
Really sounds like a historical romance OAV ending. Glad to see all the new details. Amazing the original owner responded with new info!
The original owner did prove quite difficult to make a connection with, but now that we have established a trust with him, he has been very helpful, as well as interested in any further developments that the team can discover.
I love that you include footage of you investigating in your videos. Really adds to the overall quality and feel.
Thank you! I’ve seen other creators take that approach and though it looked cool lol
I honestly think that despite the name, ARA was just a company that manufactured cassettes and didn't really have much to do with the production of the recording
I agree
if that's the case, then why the name was crossed out?
I would not dismiss it being a solo project of Arika Takarano seeing how there is a gap between Ali Project albums between 1988 and 1992.
There HAS to be a way for this to be asked directly of them.
They denies being involved with the tape just a few days ago :((
The video started with a mysterious song and ended with two mysterious songs and a partially lost anime. Whoops!
The only (completely irrelevant) information I have is that Wagamama is also the name of a chain of Japanese restaurants in the UK. I hear their adverts on the radio a lot.
It would be hilarious if the mysterious song turned out to be an ad jingle for MSG.
Uncle Roger would love it.
I have a theory about ARA (Audio Representatives Association):
What if ARA was a small underground recording studio that existed during the 70s and 80s for people to record demos of their songs? Or was the only company to produce high quality songs for small to big projects like anime or videogames or commercial jingles? Well, this might be the case.
Because, I recall back in my college days during the time I go to a small underground recording studio (not in Japan but similar), the recording studio would provide equipment including music instruments, recording equipment, and a soundproof room for a small price. And yes, they can provide the tapes for free (or CDs) with the studio's name on it. So what I think is that ARA could be just a small recording studio that most companies would go to just to do demo recordings of their music. And they may have sold goods as well such as blank compact cassette tapes under their own brand (either ARA or ARA LTD).
ARA may have closed down during the economy bubble burst (around 1989 or early 1990), which led to an outcome of some indie bands disbanding or people not getting interested to become a pop singer at that very point. Or worse, not wanting to take commissions. We can safely say the closure of this mysterious recording company may be part of the downfall of the economy bubble burst. And whichever artist or major company has hired them to do demo recordings, may have cancelled and so, liquidating all of the assets they have, valuable or invaluable. Most of the valuable assets are sold while the invaluable ones were sent to second-hand shops. Which may correlate to the tapes that tekibaka bought at that time (because 50JPY is cheap in 1990). Who knows how many demo tapes were there but we can see that there may be more than just two demo tapes that have contain demo songs made by idols from its hayday or commissions by companies, making some of their employees who are talented with singing (and may not want to be an idol), to sing jingles written by ARA.
Today, if people try to search for ARA under Audio Representatives Association or ARA LTD, it will either give different search options or may give different companies under the same name but not the same target.
I can bet that people would say "this kind of small niche company would not close down if big companies would ask them for commissioned work". Yes, I know that. But this is only a theory. A total speculation. And also by then, most of those major companies already have their own studio. So it would be like a "why would a major company rent out a small underground studio for?"
But yeah, it would be very interesting if it were the case.
That very interesting theory
I don't think ARA would have been really 'underground' or small - I think it would have been a contract studio of a decent size. They obviously were big enough to stock, use and distribute cassettes with their own named labels on them (including variants of the print, so they probably had gone through a number of batches over time) - evidently they wanted to be known and they had the cash to brand everywhere. Of course though it was bubble era Japan and many businesses would have been flush with cash to spend on the niceties so maybe this was just an easy done thing.
I think there's no real qualms as to why a major studio might use a contract house for - major studios do a lot of subcontracting, sometimes credited and other times not. If you check the recording information on a small artist released signed to a big label it's not surprising to bunch of other company names pop up in the credits list. As for closing down, it's easy to mismanage so no surprises, there could have been a plethora of reasons why they might shut their doors but the bubble burst is definitely a very likely catalyst of the era.
A spanner that would be thrown in the works is whether or not the blackout happened at liquidation or maybe this batch of cassettes has actually passed through an intermediary who might have been related to ARA at some stage but acquired and re-utilised their consumables post ARA - therefore the content may not be of the ARA period. It seems to me that if you were to blackout the logo for liquidation that you would have blacked out all the content on the labels as well. Perhaps these were blank excess stocks to start with and they were liquidated or disposed of, hence only blackout of the logo.
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If they were "limited", they should exist in a company register. The name suggests the may have began as a business partnership.
The ai vocal comparison being the creepest thing ever (second only to the first recording ever. That "au clair de la lune" is nightmarish)
The problem with this kind of AI, it introduces a lot of noise. I mean it changes the vocal.
I discovered your channel before Christmas, and I binged watched everything. I even found myself checking your channel every couple of days just to see if you uploaded a new one. You content is awesome and I am addicted. Much love from montreal!
Thank you so much! That truly means a lot :')
@@SakuraStardust The pleasure is all mine.
The image used on the "Yukifuru Yoru no Love Song" video is from a CD cover for a decently obscure (nowadays anyway, it was a manga that was never translated to other languages) old manga series called Koibito wa Shugorei. I didn't know anyone else even knew that one existed lol. It never had any anime adaptation (as far as I'm aware) but it did have drama/voiced acted CDs/cassette tapes and also music CDs/cassette tapes as merchandise at some point or another in its prime years. (I still wish to this day that it did have an anime...)
@@freebiedoesupscales Oof that sucks, I'd have loved to see it. I really like Koibito wa Shugorei 😭 I own the whole manga and some other merch from it.
I love this series so much!!! I'm glad there's other people around who know about it too!
@@aliceinavalon Koibito wa Shugorei solidarity...!☺
I know that the shop where the tape was originally found no longer exists, but has anyone tried to make contact to people who worked there? The tape could've been donated by a worker or they might have a small idea where it came from. It's a stretch, but it could be worth a shot.
My theory on this is, despite being very late to this mystery party, that it probably was an unknown female singer who was imitating another popular singer from that time, which is very common even in our day and age, so it wouldn't be a stretch to say it's a singer who was trying out a demo track that she recorded at a recording studio. Since the materials for recording were pretty simple and inexpensive at the time, it could be that she just used that tape which had the other singers song on it.
Either that, or it was an unknown who wanted to do what Takahashi was doing and wanted the production company to know that style is what she wanted to do, but then if it was turned away by that production company it would make sense why she would trash the tape by throwing it away. Then someone probably saw it and took it out and brought it into a store to trade it in. Not knowing exactly what was on that tape.
I know it's not intended to sound like that but the vocal "comparisson" bit sounds outlandishly creepy...
24:36 the vocal and guitar style both REALLY remind me of 山崎ハコ (Yamasaki Hako), who was already part-way through her career when she became associated with Victor Entertainment in the early 90s. This is important because her timbre was more rough and aged by then.😮
Thank you SakuraStardust for doing such an amazing job on this update video!
Despite being thoroughly involved in the recent version of this search, or perhaps because of it, so much of what we've discussed, theorized and discovered, has become quite a complicated mess in my own mind. Haha. This series of update videos are proving to be a great source of information and clarity, not just for the broader audience, but also for us deeply involved in the investigation. You've done a great job in showcasing the timeline of events, whilst also keeping it very entertaining to watch.
Gathering further information towards this search will indeed require reaching out as far and wide online as we collectively possibly can. Your videos have been instrumental in this, so for that, on behalf of the entire team and interested audience, we cannot thank you enough.
I eagerly await the future (and hopefully final) Part 3 update video ;)
Tantei Knight Scoop is a great show and I would actually bet that they would be able to get us closer if not solve the mystery. They take viewer submissions and that's been their format. If someone can find archives online of this show I would highly suggest to watch some episodes to get an idea of the kind of stuff they go through to satisfy viewer requests. The two big ones that come to mind are "I want to cook on a Mama Renji" and "I want to eat a shoe!"
Mama Renji was a toy similar to easy-bake ovens in the US where you would cook on a little stove top with a small pan. The problem is the toy was discontinued and the company was defunct. Plus both feature Chef Hayashi who I think is a reoccurring figure on the show since his initial introduction.
The research about ARA company limited won't be easy. A quick one in English returned me the various business profiles of non-durable goods companies based in Japan. Even done in the native language, there is no guarantee to find any solid info about a company with probably little relevancy in the music landscape. Unless you manage to find the name of a sound engineer and contact him/her. I think ARA wasn't completely defunct at the time the tapes were circulating and didn't want their name associated with unsanctioned music, so they censored the logo. Maybe ARA is a red herring: a group not affiliated to them acquired some of their tapes and the unknown idol recorded her demo over whatever existed before. To make it clear it's not officially from ARA, the logo was sharpied.
Thank you for this deep consideration towards who or what ARA may have been. This has indeed been a common discussion among us over on the Discord. Regarding ARA specifically, we have many questions, but no clear answers at this stage. It makes sense that they would be an agent or middle-man operation in some capacity. Some kind of go-between for seemingly smaller artists and larger projects. Maybe they were a recording/editing house? A duplication service for cassette production? An advertising agency? Who knows? Extensive searches have been conducted online, but so far, outside of the three known ARA labeled cassettes themselves, we have not been able to find a single bit of evidence to substantiate the existence of this company.
For some reason I found a food company in japan called Alacarte- idk
Ever think some people know who the singer is but don't want to reveal her or even the purpose of the song?
Same here - today it's so easy to spread and find information... Secrets remained being so probably mean something... :/
Well, go ahead lol
"in the year 2000, which is 23 years ago now"
How dare you
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The akiba tape mystery has always amazed me in terms of how many heads come together to solve a case. I too hope that one day the artist gets identified.
Edit i worded my comment wrong and fixed it.
The actions of the OP are... suspicious. It's like he really wants the origins of the tape and song to remain a mystery. He apparently can't remember which shop he bought it from. The original tape was discarded. He uploaded a poor quality, short excerpt originally. He then uploads a video containing a second mystery song he didn't mention at the time. Something isn't right.
100% agreed
I love seeing the internet come together to solve mysteries! ☺️💖🔥
Another great upload Sakura Stardust, the more I hear about this Akibhara Tape it reminds me more of the Junji Ito Vinyl Disc Story.
I’ve been on and off watching your channel since the do not research iceberg and I’m glad I stuck around to see the channel progress this awesomely with mysteries like these :3c
Love to see some other mysteries getting taken apart while we wait on blacklisted idol part 2!
That ones coming up next!
This Akiba tape mystery thingy is very intriguing. I have been following your videos on it since I watched your “Do not search” series. Great stuff. 😗
As someone with an interest in synths and electronic music production, your research is really spot-on(I saw the correction you made in the comments but practically everything else was perfect). I was actually honestly taken aback that you were meticulous as you were!
Omg yeeeeesss!! i was waiting for a follow up sooooo long
After a long day of work, that video was the perfect thing to relax with. Thank you as always 🤘
I have so many fond memories at Radio Kaikan and Yodobashi Camera. I got a used copy of Final Fantasy 6 there and walkmans and discmans. Would love to see a history video on those buildings.
Hello!
May I please ask if you are a local to this area? If you are and you may be interested in assisting with the search, I would love the opportunity to ask you further questions. Thank you
@@sps4992 Nope I never lived in Japan. Only visited.
@@dooshmasta Ah. Still very lucky of you. Japan is such a magical country.
@@sps4992 Some parts yes. Try traveling West with a JR pass. You'll see a lot of wild stuff.
@dooshmasta I'll be heading back this year for a couple of weeks. I'll mostly be down in Fukuoka though.
I love it when creators I follow make collabs, It was a nice surprise to hear blameitonjorge!
As always, excellent work. Your vids are amazing- very interesting new details!
Small thing but I love the Angel’s Egg clips used at 10:00, I hardly see anyone mention that anime haha
Not the dislike on "we need grazy grace to cover this mystery" 💀💀 sakura wants no competition 👀
once more an amazing video, love your channel Alex
I like the idea that it could be a CM song. I mean they were common and also most of them were not preserved and published as singles or in albums. Sometimes I see listings on Yahoo Auctions of CM songs compilation CDs but it's pretty unlikely to find one of the Akiba tapes songs in one of them.
Whilst I'm open to this concept, I don't fully understand why a company who specializes in CM work would also be handling potential demo material from presumably unknown artists? If Fly Away and Wagamama were obvious CM jingle songs, I could understand them being potential jingle demos. Considering the content of Fly Away in particular, I struggle to imagine that song being used in a commercial sense. What are your thoughts on this?
I think Fly Away could suit into a commercial, since it feels very "themed," the pitch and the lyrics are a little eerie, and could possibly fit in something marketed towards giving that same feeling, same with Wagamama.
Also, it would kind of make sense that ARA would be a commercial or advertising company with a very brief lifespan; during that time, the company popped in and out pretty quickly because of the bubble.
This reminds me of a song made for the Jack Daniel's CM, which was later traced back to be sung by Clara Shinzato from the group "EVE." She was not originally credited, and the CM shows a clearly cut version, so probably there was a full-length demo version once.
@cchrispop That's very interesting to learn. Thank you.
I could definitely see Wagamama being used for a wholesome vibe. Fly Away would seem like a very unusual choice for an advertisement though. I personally interpret the lyrics as possibly meaning anything from a story about a break-up, or perhaps even about death. I can't imagine this being a very appealing theme for the purposes of advertising?
@@sps4992 That's true; most of the ads from that time that I saw were more bubbly, and the presence of Fly Away on a cassette with other affirmed artists doesn't really support the CM route.
But I cannot think about other cassettes that were bought with it or the "Ajinomoto gift," which I think was some sort of promotional vinyl, cassette, or CD gifted with a certain amount of product purchases.
Also, the fact that another cassette has been found with "Fly Away" on it makes me think that the song was "recordable" in some way from a certain source; I mean, it could be possible that both cassettes were demo tapes, but that seems odd too; maybe if it were a recording of an actual anime single, the lineup on the cassette would make a little more sense, but that doesn't really explain ARA as a company.
I mean, it doesn't seem like a record company or a company directly related to the music industry.
It seems more like a subsidiary of a major label dedicated to advertising and promotion.
@cchrispop I see that you're now beginning to understand my confusion. Haha.
Each cassette by themselves can be explained under their own scenario, but when putting all ARA labelled cassettes together, it certainly complicates things.
If every song was polished and ready to go, I could understand them being material for advertising. Given that we seemingly have two possible demo songs from theoretically unknown artists, it begs the question of what they're doing amongst the more well known material? The OP noted that Fly Away was found on a cassette that also featured a song by Yumiko Takahashi, as well as "other known artists". If it was just a mere mix-tape, then what is an entirely unknown song doing on that tape? If it is a demo song sent in for label attention, then why is it bookended by seemingly unrelated pop songs?
I'm often asking many questions, most of which are doubtful of the topic. This isn't being negative though. It's actually my own way of understanding and breaking down possible options. A process of elimination. I actually really enjoy engagement like this now, as it encourages deeper thinking, hopefully leading us closer to the correct answer.
Hearing this update gave me goosebumps
In a good way ofc. Awesome video!
Thank you so Much for uploading this video! Im glad theres a massive update on Fly away,
But also, when you're talking about Arika(AliPro) you whoopsied and called her Akira ahhhh
Yeahhhh I thought that was her name due to reading it incorrectly and then wrote Akira in the script 😓
AWESOME FIND! I saw the video about this song a few months ago
I GASPED WHEN I SAW A NEW UPLOAD ON YOUR CHANNEL! thank you for the amazing content! Can’t wait for blacklisted idol part 2!
So glad to see the mystery getting closer to being solved!!
I really want to know why OP threw the tape away. Who finds a tape with an unknown song on it, makes a post about it for people to help ID it, then chucks it???
After copying the cassette to mini disc some years ago, he no longer felt a need to keep the cassette. This is unfortunate, as we would LOVE to know a complete list of all the other songs that were on the cassette.
To me sounds pretty suspicious - a cassette and a topic that became such a big thing, something that curious can't be just thrown away... I'm not into idol culture at all, but I'd keep it just for the sake of it, at least as something historical)
@roxys4pb751 I accept how this action of having thrown the cassette away could be viewed as suspicious, but from what I've understood by talking with the former cassette owner, he disposed of the cassette long before the song became an internet sensation. I genuinely don't believe that the OP is playing any games or creating a false narrative. He has been very forthcoming with information and has never tried to gain any personal fame or attention via this story.
It's indeed most unfortunate that we no longer have the original cassette, but we do have the song, for which I am forever grateful.
@@sps4992 Thank you so much for the reply!
Ohhh, I see - if it happened long ago, he probably wanted to declatter or might have even been moving and had to get rid of the old stuff. I see now. We're truly lucky at least to have the song preserved!
@roxys4pb751 You're very welcome!
His reasoning was as you described. After he had digitally backed up the song to his MiniDisc recorder, he no longer felt a need to keep the physical cassette around. I would have LOVED to have that cassette today, as it may have contained further clues, but alas, it's gone forever- probably at the bottom of a landfill, or possibly even incinerated 😥
Thank you for all of your wonderful content! I appreciate you and the effort you put into making a video! Your lighter content has been so comforting and helpful! Thank you!! 💜💜
You’re welcome! And hey, we have the same first name!!
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😱😱 that’s so lovely!!! Thank you thank you thank you!!!! 😊😊💜💜
@@SakuraStardust please continue to be your awesome self!!! 💜💜
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I think the singer of fly away is Mai yamane, they both have the same soft sad slow voices. Ive spotted similarities in Tasogare and Fly away in the voice.
Is it possible that the "ARA" company is merely the company that manufactured the actual blank tape itself? Like if you were around in the 80s and you bought a blank tape new, like blank-blank with nothing on it, there was usually a brand name that made the actual cassette. Big brands like Sony and Toshiba used make some, but usually, you'd just get a cheap brand, and I have a very hazy memory that makes me think it's possible that this was one of those cheaper brands you'd buy.
I'm happy this is the first time I got my name at the end of your videos for supporting your patreon.
wow, i really hope both of the songs are found. the second one is so soulful, i really like it!
actually the 2nd mystery song sounds beautiful actually
Hornaz_69 is also the person who recognized the dx7 in the most mysterious song on the internet the one that whang covered
Oh really? That’s awesome! I love those videos by Whang
@@SakuraStardust I was kinda shocked too but I guess not many synth experts are also lost media enthusiasts
I wonder which song will be discovered first the Akiba tape or the Wagamama tape. This was wonderful I love these mysteries relating to lost media songs , shows , movies and more. Cool video. ^_^
Just found your channel and I have to say, you have some really interesting content!!!
I just listened again to a song by Rin Kuwata (桑田りん) -- "Bokura" (ぼくら).
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It is the 8th song of the album which has a weird cover.
I think she has a similar voice and right kind of style, power with a short career and is a better possibility than the more famous and longer career singers.
If it is not her, then I think that this close vocal quality should be used as a search point.
Jesus girl I admire your persistence of searching thru the inter webs for this song. I couldn’t imagine doing all that searching before getting bored and playing OW2 instead. 😂
Wow another super interesting video! The pieces of the puzzle are slowly coming together.
Next time I go to used shops and Hard Offs I will check the tapes hoping to find some ARA logo around. :D
Just a small thing: ALI PROJECT singer is Arika and not Akira.
I never associated her to the akiba tape because I find the two voices too different. Arika especially in the 80s-90s had a lighter timber and used to sing higher. The singing style is also very different, as well as the style of the song itself. Also, at that time ALI PROJECT had only ONE song with a guitar (one in the whole first album) and that song was still way more "experimental" compared to the mistery tape one). The arrangement of "Fly Away" is quite simple to be honest (this doesn't mean that I don't like it. I love it ah ah).
And speaking of arrangement, Fly Away is definitely not the usual idol song and it sounds more like a song made by a normal female-fronted band.
By the way, ラブソングは唄えない is such a nice song! First time that I hear about Takahashi Reiko, so thanks for the information! Now I feel the urge to buy the record and use it in one of my DJ sets. XD
I don't think it actually is Arika either. I think it is someone else completely.
22:39 He WHAT??? W H. A T???? (SPOILERS MAYBE??)
YOU HAVE WHAT COULD BE THE ONLY PHYSICAL COPY OF A LOST SONG THATS BECOME ALMOST AN URBAN LEGENDARY, AND YOU SOMEHOW T H R O W I T O U T???
l o o k...as someone who's parents were hoarders, if they had something that important, it would've been put up and safe, not anywhere where it could've been thrown out.......how do you do that...
This is indeed quite unfortunate.
The OP's reasoning for this was due to having recorded the cassette onto mini-disc. After this digital transfer, he no longer felt a need to keep the cassette. Of course, years afterwards, we would have LOVED to have that cassette, as any additional information on that cassette could have been helpful to the investigation. Unfortunately though, that option is gone.
@@sps4992 YES! not only that but just imagine how much a collector would pay for it, he truly, truly made the dumbest mistake I've ever heard someone making. That's like throwing out a piece of gold because you already made a ring with it. Like yeah you still got something, but like...would you not sell the rest of the gold instead??
Not to just mention how important it was and how it could've provided a big insight if examined by the right person. Like my heart broke hearing it got trashed )':
@marsSbars I won't argue with you on that. I truly do wish that we still had access to that cassette. Sadly though, it's likely at the bottom of a landfill pit now.
The second Lost tape has been found
Even if it's just a dream
Yasuko Naito
That explains why tekibaka retweeted Sakura Stardust's first Akiba Tape video
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The New Mystery Song, ladies and gentleman! 😧
Awesome hearing blameitonjorge in this video!
love how everyone react when they find some random Mysterious song still not yet identified, even me when I found about Akibahara tape from you, I try to search the audio file not find it of course coz I cannot read Japanese but surprise when I just do random search in TH-cam, well the song sound pretty good which make me not understand why Japanese say its curse
Here we are!
Let's see progress!
Once everyone finds all the akiba tape songs I’m gonna make a TH-cam playlist to digitally preserve the tape on TH-cam.
Ali project is my favorite Japanese artist along with kikuo I was not expecting ali project to be mentioned!
Also will mention my third favorite because why not in Metro Trip!
Me too i was just listening to some Ali project songs before watching this video 😲
I don't think it's one of the band old's song. If some of their earlier lost productions were fond, with their notoriety, wouldn't they step forward and claim ownership? I am sure a compilation of the little known underground 80s songs can still fetch for good bucks, sold to newer fans. Of course, there is still the eventuality this song is disowned by the artist herself which might be why it was forgotten.
@@nozoto These are all questions that the team have been working through. One of the big hopes that we hold out for, something that is normally more of a hindrance than not, is for the artist to actually copyright claim all versions of the song on TH-cam. This was complicated recently when another musician released a cover/sampled version of this song, which did actually see them being automatically assigned such rights by TH-cam for a time being. I do believe that action has since been reversed however.
The more widespread and publicly known this song becomes, the greater the chance of the rightful owner stepping up to take ownership. It's by no means guaranteed, but it's not impossible.
WOOOO PERFECT TIMING!!
This is insanely interesting!
here's the link to 35:14 song th-cam.com/video/nW_oA6fkHZU/w-d-xo.html
Nice video, i love those stories about misterious or lost Songs, greetings from germany.
I live in the US, I swear growing up in the 2000's I remember seeing the ARA logo, but I could be crazy. If I remember to, I need to go through some old tapes to see if I can find it. Is there any possible connection between ARA and Audio Associates? Seems like there could've been some name change/buyout that happened at some point. Very cool video!
Ara logo where?
25:02 okay to me that sounds a bit familliar. the voice I mean, but the song's start is the same as Jeff Buckely's halelujah
I think sometimes when I see this or The Most Mysterious Song on the Internet mentioned, about all the mystery songs that don't have this power over us. What is it about these two songs that are so good?
there is a chance that fujimoto Mari might have been a pachison singer in the 80s as a majority of those singers were studio based and for all we know it was a allies they used
What is the definition of a pachison singer? I’ve heard that term a few other times lol
Pachison in my sense of term is basically cheaply made covers made by record companies and often times they gave fake names to singers but most of the singers have been revealed by knowing there voice like Ken Fujii or Osamu Yashiki as well as female singers like Mari Sasaki and often times the arrangements were made with synthesizers
Pachison can also mean pachislot songs from pachinko machines but nob
if your down we can talk on discord and I can explain more
These are a lot o updates, so I am hopeful that soon this will be found!
Great follow up video!! I really like the second unknown song. Is there a clearer version of it somewhere?
th-cam.com/video/Rk8UkGlmQWk/w-d-xo.html This is the original audio
@@shilota Thank you!
Ari Project is one of my favorite music groups
Hey, I remember those sound effects in the intro from some ga- *aren't them from the bootleg game CardHUNTER Sakura?* 🧐
what genre/type of music is does the song fit in? i actually really enjoyed it, and wanted to listen to similar artists. any recommendations?
I may be wrong, but I think based on her other videos this may fall under the genre "citypop", specifically the 80s style.
Didn't Ali project denied that it was them who made Fly away but again, they could denying/lying due to the song's stigma
Thanks for a intresting video love this song for some reson from the first time I heard it. so it was fun to see more about it. Be safe and skilful. Pinge
that mystery song at 24:39 honestly sounds like something that would be at the end of a Leiji Matsumoto anime like Captain Harlock or something. Not saying it is, but it's got that same kind of vibe to it.
I used to have that drum machine. I bought it at a pawn shop in 1998, and sold it in 2010.
Yes, this needs to be on Knight Scoop!!!!
Hi! Very good video!! Will you do a video about the Most Mysterious Song on the Internet?
Whang has a very good video series on that :)
I watched a lot of your videos about a year ago and didn't subscribe for some reason. I had forgotten the username and tried finding the channel for like a week, and then I got this recommended today... That is a really weird coincidence. But I am subscribed now!
Omg I was just listening to this song
Holy crap! You reached over 100k!!! I'm always happy to see a small channel w/ 10k or so subs whenever I discover them blow up in a short amount of time. Like watching a teeny seedling finally spring into that houseplant; though unlike a houseplant I check YT far more often lol. Sakura has me interested in Japanese stuff I never thought I'd find fascinating. I know Halloween is many months from now, but I'd love to see her touch on Japanese spoopy lore. Or perhaps maybe on different daily things 20/30-year-olds do, like shopping, and they different types of restaurants they have, and of course I'd love to see what live music and art they do beyond what we westerners see. That said, at 13:45, what is that album next to your left arm that has that fantastic sketching on it? I love Japanese vinyl covers!
Imagine if it was OP who made the song
10:21 I'm pretty sure Rumiko Takahashi isn't THAT type of arti- * checks the spelling* Wait, nevermind.
I have a DX7 and an RX11, they are the sound of the mid 80's.
WOW! The Yamaha DX-7 and Yamaha RX-11 are what I dreamed of having back in the day. Can only get them used now.
Hey Sakura, I'm sorta curious about Idol Tenshi Yokoso Yoko's nine episodes. Is there like a forum where I can look at this? I would love to do research on this.
(I use a translator. Sorry😅)
There are promising leads on this song.
・There is a theory that this song was supposed to be a song by Akina Nakamori.
This was mentioned in the comments section of one of the videos by someone who heard this song as a demo song by Akina Nakamori. This theory may be correct, as the lyrics of the song are very similar to those of Akina Nakamori's "赤い鳥逃げた" (Red Bird Escaped)
Update: One thing I forgot to tell you. This theory is convincing enough, since "Wagamama (Even if it's just a dream)" was released in 1984 and "Akai Tori Egashita (The Red Bird Ran Away)" in 1985. It is possible that this is a demo tape by the same company.
Hello! Thank you for your comment! Do you know when the Akina Nakamori theory first emerged? Is it an old theory? I have never heard this theory before, and will share it with the group helping me search for this song!
I also want to let you know that the song “Wagamama” was identified recently! I made a community post about it on my TH-cam Channel page!
Appreciate the reply!
th-cam.com/video/fPbF5BmldEQ/w-d-xo.htmlsi=kbYl7qrLnYelWzRR
This video explains it in detail. It originally came from the comments section of a TH-cam channel called "Mino Music". Based on this, I did some research and noticed that the lyrics are very similar to "Akai Tori Escape"!
and I know wagamama's singer. She is Minase Sara.I want to listen full song!
Good night. Japan is night now. Bye!
That song at 25:00 I believe I heard it before, from doraemon old movies or any old anime that I watch it before if I not mistake it. I try to find that anime.
Hello!
If you believe that this might be the case, I would LOVE to hear the outcome of this.
If you have any idea of possible shows or movies to look into, the research team would love to help you out with this!
Thank you
18:17 Ah yes, Ajinomoto. They even sell some of their products over here, in France. My supermarket next door have some. I even buy their frozen gyoza every once in a while, as they're still cheaper than the freshly made ones. That's if I ever get tired of Italian style ravioli.