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http://www.wigglefish.com/stories/0001_0004_0040.cfm?ID=946
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| | Visual Kei, which was developed in Japan, boasts beauty as the main theme, where musicians are represented as absolutely gorgeous, or can be described as very cool and very distinctive. | | | Today, 20 years after the birth of Visual Kei, Visual Kei is no longer a patent of Japanese music fans, the tornado of Visual Kei has blown to inland China, blown throughout the whole south east Asia, and at the same time has a distinctive impact on Europe and North Americans. | | | Shortly after, Visual Kei developed strongly in Japan, besides the fact that it has become more varied, the unique quality of the style and breath-taking visual effects became a bright spot in Japanese music scene, initiating a tremendous shock wave through the Japanese Rock and roll music scene, bringing about countless fans adoration. |
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http://twilighthush.com/silverash/article1.html
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| | Kurai's Translations |
| | Visual kei loosely combined several genres together: the atmosphere, minor-key phrasings, and theatrics of gothic music; the lead guitar and (sometimes) guitar tone of heavy metal, as well as use of riff as melodic phrase; and the energetic drumming of punk. | | | Most visual kei fans this side of the pacific are teenagers or college students, and many are immature (to say the least) in their understanding and appreciation of music. | | | In this sense visual kei takes most liberally from the rhythm of speed/thrash and the consonant harmony and melody of heavy metal, as did progenitors X Japan and their late 80s contemporaries. |
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http://proxemics.net/honyaku/history.html
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| | dragon-tear.net forums - Visual Kei |
| | One facet of Visual Kei is the androgynous behaviour and the frequent cross-dressing. | | | The origins of visual kei is very debateable because there are a number of other bands that had the visuals and such, but did not make the scene as large as X Japan did. | | | Like X Japan started it, but they were never really solid visual kei, they just kind of started the genre but they aren't necessarily the best example of what Visual Kei is, and what it has blossomed into since they started it. |
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http://www.dragon-tear.net/forum/showthread.php?t=4011
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| | Kurai's Translations |
| | Visual kei loosely combined several genres together: the atmosphere, minor-key phrasings, and theatrics of gothic music; the lead guitar and (sometimes) guitar tone of heavy metal, as well as use of riff as melodic phrase; and the energetic drumming of punk. | | | Most visual kei fans this side of the pacific are teenagers or college students, and many are immature (to say the least) in their understanding and appreciation of music. | | | Visual Kei was an underground music genre that sprung to life in the late 80s/early 90s around several Japanese urban centers, most important being Tokyo. |
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http://proxemics.net/honyaku/history.html
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| | Gothic.net Community - Visual Kei |
| | Visual kei is a music scene mostly in japan that combines great music with visual performances and looks. | | | Almost all visual kei is indie, and most of them arn't too well known with the excpetion of Dir en grey. | | | 09-28-2005 01:48 AM Not that you asked me, but I would say no. This maybe becuase I dislike Marilyn Manson and _like_ visual kei, but the reason I would argue with is that: At least the visual kei music I've heard, it all has a paticular sound/feel that Marilyn Manson doesn't have anything near to. |
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http://www.gothic.net/boards/printthread.php?t=464
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| | THE J-ROCK SAGA! -- guide :: the neophyte's guide to j-rock and visual kei |
| | typically, visual rock bands have a very ellaborated image, shifting between a variety of styles, like goth, punk or glam, many times receiving influence from manga/anime [some of those fictional universes are influenced by visual kei as well]. | | | very succinctly, visual kei is a musical movement originated in japan &; although it has spread to other asian countries – that finds its roots in western rock from the 70's and 80's. | | | despite this, visual kei's audience is comprised mostly of young people; older folks tend to stay away from it. |
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http://www.jrocksaga.com/site/content/intro.php
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| | Visual Kei |
| | "Visual kei" is a term referencing the habit some (mostly male) bands of dressing in colorful clothes (including feather boas or fur coats), dying their hair all sorts of unnatural colors, or wearing make-up (specifically lipstick). | | | The purpose of visual kei is to make the band "stand out from the crowd," which putting on a dress and dying your hair green often does. | | | "Visual bands" are those bands that practice "visual kei." (Simple, ne?) The result is often an androgenous look that certainly grabs attention, and that is the point of visual kei. |
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http://www.geocities.com/gatoranime/visualkei.html
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| | Visual |
| | Visual kei Visual kei is a genre within Japanese Music that is unique in that the members of such a band take on appeara... | | | Visual area V4 Visual area V4 is an one of the visual areas in the visual area V2, and posterior to visual area PIT. | | | Visual binary A visual binary resolving power of the telescope is an important factor in the detection of visual binarie... |
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http://www.brainyencyclopedia.com/topics/visual.html
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| | Visual Kei |
| | But while the principle of visual kei as a form of expression is the same, the style is quite different from glam music. | | | It's become apparent that visual kei has become more of a fashion movement than an actual music genre. | | | Now that the concept of visual kei has been altered by mainstream media, the line between visual rock and other groups of music is becoming more and more fuzzy. |
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http://www.gardens-of-harmony.freeservers.com/vk.html
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| | Concrete Jungle - Visual Kei |
| | VISUAL KEI - The translation of visual kei is 'visual type', which was a movement created my J-rock bands in the 1990's. | | | Although many of the J-rock bands who are considered visual kei are male, alot of them wear enough make-up fr them to be seen as either androgenous or even female. | | | Young female fans can often be seen cosplaying as their favourite visual kei J-rocker at conventions. |
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http://www.ruinme.tk/concretejungle/zvisual.html
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| | Visual Kei - Psychology Central |
| | Members of Visual Kei bands often wear striking makeup, style their hair in dramatic shapes (reminiscent of "hair bands" from the '80s) and wear elaborate costumes. | | | Within the field of Visual Kei are several popular 'sub-genres', including Gothic Lolita, EroGuro and Angura Kei, which form particular visual styles. | | | Visual Kei bands, being defined primarily by visual style, do not necessarily play a specific type of music. |
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http://psychcentral.com/psypsych/Visual_kei
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| | Visual kei census 2003/2004 ~ Home |
| | This census is aimed at trying to take a general stab at the number of visual kei fans foreign to Japan who are at the moment in circulation and to etablish their general profile. | | | will also be considered a part of the amalgamation of Visual kei for the purposes of this survey. | | | If speficially you are a fan of Angura kei and not Visual kei, please note this in the |
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http://www.intuxication.org/~vksensus
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| | Gothic Lolita - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Thus many Japanese "Goth Clubs" will also feature a guest DJ playing J-pop and Visual Kei music, tea and cakes in the chill-out room, doll decorations, and other items designed to appeal to the Gothloli sense of European nostalgia. | | | Gothic Lolita was influenced and popularised by the imagery of more feminine Visual Kei (or "visual rock") bands. | | | Visual Kei is a Japanese form of rock music defined by bands featuring performers in elaborate costumes but whose musical style varies. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elegant_Gothic_Lolita
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| | Cosplay.com - View Profile: ~dark+alice~ |
| | I´m singer of two german Visual Kei bands´cause I took nearly 4 years singing lessons I also like drawing and writing my own stories, but I don´t have time to do it ;_; | | | Animagic 2003 #o1 Visual Kei Cosplay ->Kengo [Noir fleurir] Bonenkai 2004 #o1 Visual Kei Cosplay ->Machi [Lareine] AnimagiC 2003 #o3 Visual Kei Cosplay Connichi 2004 #o2 " " " ->Jyui [Vidoll] | | | Was cosplay 2003 animagic - we went on stage with our Noir fleurir Cosplays and the audience started to sing "omocha no miisha" It was so great! |
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http://forums.cosplay.com/member.php?u=12658&page=2
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| | Kurai's Translations |
| | Bands like Dir en Grey which were once synonymous with the image of visual kei have dropped the title in disgust, and now pursue a more nu-metal, ostensibly experimental path--much of which fails as art but succeeds greatly as flavor-of-the-moment novelty. | | | Some bands, like Baroque and mucc, found a new path in punk/hardcore influenced songs (their title of visual kei is mostly due to their make-up, and little else). | | | Since all visual kei is "japanese rock" by default, there is a lot of conflation when fans use the terms. |
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| | Bands like Dir en Grey which were once synonymous with the image of visual kei have dropped the title in disgust, and now pursue a more nu-metal, ostensibly experimental path--much of which fails as art but succeeds greatly as flavor-of-the-moment novelty. | | | Some bands, like Baroque and mucc, found a new path in punk/hardcore influenced songs (their title of visual kei is mostly due to their make-up, and little else). | | | Since all visual kei is "japanese rock" by default, there is a lot of conflation when fans use the terms. |
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| | www.myspace.com/malicemizerfanboy |
| | Visual Kei King is in your extended network | | | Visual Kei King's Latest Blog Entry [Subscribe to this Blog] | | | I Am a Big Fan Of Visual Kei Bands. |
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http://www.myspace.com/9024883
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| | JRock Room Party... - Page 15 - Anime Central Convention Forums |
| | The reason visual kei fans are more vocal/appear to get more special attention than other j-music fans is because visual kei is such a unique type of j-music. | | | ...And I don't consider those European cover-band visual kei, because they don't make their own music, at least not to my knowledge...and although good musicians may be respectable, ones who only do other people's songs just aren't respectable enough, in my opinion. | | | You have pop all over the world, and rock, and jazz, and of course they all have their ethnic flavors depending on which country they come from, but only Japan has visual kei!! |
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http://www.acen.org/forums/showthread.php?p=56958
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| | EroGuro - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | EroGuro bands (most often seen as a sub-genre within Visual Kei or Post Visual by some fans) typically use shock visuals, as well as lyrics and live imagery, but look less feminine than traditional Visual Kei. | | | EroGuro and Angura Kei are two similiar movements, and in music are considered to be closely related. | | | The typifying element of EroGuro visual art is the macabre intermingled with sexual overtones. |
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| | COOL GIRLS JAPAN **Artiste News in Japan** |
| | The music of Shazna's recently released first album "Gold Sun and Silver Moon," a CD that has managed to sell over one million copies, is actually secondary to the trio's main impact which is visual. | | | Today, one sector of Japan's pop-rock "visual kei" movement duplicates the skill of their forebears in the world of Kabuki and succeeds in doing what their Western counterparts could not do: Tap into the influences of female culture to create a truly appealing visual art form that enjoys widespread popularity. | | | A representative figure of the branch of "visual kei" that emphasizes feminine qualities is the pop trio Shazna whose 21-year-old lead singer Izam looks exactly like a beautiful young woman. |
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| | Visual Kei |
| | Visual kei was originally influenced by Western bands such as Kiss, the Sex Pistols, David Bowie, etc. The movement began with X-Japan and is maintained in full force by Dir en grey. | | | Visual kei is black, white, and every shade of gray in between (that is how Glay got their name.) Visual kei must be listened to on a grayscale. | | | It is said that when Diru breaks up, that will be the end of visual rock. |
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http://www.angelfire.com/rock3/visual_scale/visualkei.html
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| | Digital.... |
| | If you don't know what is Jrock or Visual kei, then I suggest you look up more info or you can leave. | | | We had a conversation in the car, and I accidentaly said Digital Kei instead of Visual Kei. | | | This site is deticated to my favorite Jrock bands and Visual Kei bands. |
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http://digitalkei.seaofmirrors.com
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| | Miyavi's Tags - Last.fm |
| | eroguro kei hip hop j-rock jpop kein key party kisaki kreis loopash matina melodic death metal metal oshare kei ps company under code visual kei | | | Listen to music, see charts for j-rock, visual kei, jpop, oshare kei, eroguro kei | | | You can also browse the global tag chart. |
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| | Kuroyume Products |
| | Kuroyume (sads) "corkscrew" CD Jpop Jrock visual kei | | | Kuroyume (sads) "shijuku loft"CD Jpop Jrock visual kei | | | KUROYUME drugtreatment CD x JAPAN visual-kei jrock jpop |
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| | a visual kei board |
| | visual kei flick - Tom on Dec 11, 2005 | | | New visual kei seller on eBay (den_of_moles)-- lots of rare stuff! | | | something based on visual kei - plutarca on Dec 12, 2005 |
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http://www.network54.com/Forum/26694
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| | Gakkou e Ikou! |
| | The segment was always hosted by Sakamoto-kun and Nagano-kun, perhaps not a good idea as their physical representation of Visual Kei tended to be spinning wildly in circles. | | | In a nutshell, it was a battle between amature Visual Kei bands. | | | At this point I'll mention that these are amature Visual Kei bands... |
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| | Jrock and Visual Kei |
| | I haven't listened to Malice Mizer or Visual Kei a lot because I just started listening to them, but they're slowly growing on me. I hope I can listen to more of their music eventually. | | | I adore Visual Kei, I've been hooked since I first saw the clip of Beast Of Blood, I'm listening to mostly PIERROT, Malice Mizer, Gackt, Schwarz Stein, 12012, X-Japan. | | | I just tought of making a topic for this...I was wondering if there are any fans of jrock/visual kei out there. |
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http://www.animenfo.com/forums/post-82531.html
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| | J-Rock Illuminati |
| | September J-Rock/Visual Kei Video DJ night at the Devonshire Arms in Camden For location information check the Dev web site http://www.devcamden.co.uk More Asian alternative music and visuals than you shake a chopstick at! | | | It's focused around J-rock, J-goth, Visual Kei and all their sub-genres. | | | Featuring all your favorite J-Rock and Visual Kei bands. |
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http://community.livejournal.com/jrockilluminati
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