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4D-JAM
4D-Jam is a Japanese R&B and soul music unit under the Giza Studio label active in 1998–2002. In 2014, they came back from 12-year hiatus under indies label Con4Tunes. Members *Maho Furukawa (ふるかわ♥魔法)) – vocalist, lyricist *Kenji Shiojiri (シオジリケンジ) – leader, vocalist, composer, lyricist, arranger *Hiromu Nakao (中尾弘)) – arranger *E:mju – DJ *Mirai & Nozomi – Dancers History The formation of band began in 1996 with Kenji and Hiromu together. In September 1998, as a duo unit they released analog single ''Finger'' under indies R&B label ''Styling Records''. In the same month, during music television program's audition ''Hip Hop'' performing Minnie Riperton's ''Lovin' You''. Soon after, she joined 4D-Jam as a main vocalist and become Maho's solo project. In March 1999, as a trio unit they released a first indies single ''Taiyou no Nai Asa Tsuki no Nai Yoru'' under indies label ''Garage Indies Zapping Association''. One month later in Apr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giza Studio Masterpiece Blend 2001
Giza Studio Masterpiece Blend 2001 is the first greatest hits album by Giza Studio is a Japanese record label. The Giza Studio started as an indie label in the late 1990s under the name Garage Indies Zapping Association, but soon Being Inc. bought it as their sister label company. Giza Studio is located in Osaka, Japan and ... recording label. It was released on 19 December 2001. The album features list of songs from voting inquiry by listeners. In 2010, after fraud scandal with Azumi Uehara is nowadays album out of print. Charting The album debuted at #13 on the Oricon Weekly Albums Chart, selling more than 100,000 copies in first week. Track list References {{reflist 2001 compilation albums Japanese-language compilation albums Being Inc. compilation albums ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Itai Kurai Kimi Ga Afureteiru Yo
" is the 30th single by Zard, released 14 October 1999 under the B-Gram Records label. This is Zard's last single released in 8 cm CD format. The single opened at #5 rank the first week. It charted for six weeks and sold over 124,000 copies. Track list All songs are written by Izumi Sakai. # #*composer and arrangement: 4D-JAM 4D-Jam is a Japanese R&B and soul music unit under the Giza Studio label active in 1998–2002. In 2014, they came back from 12-year hiatus under indies label Con4Tunes. Members *Maho Furukawa (ふるかわ♥魔法)) – vocalist, lyricist *Ken ... #(Re-mix) #*remix: FAST ALVA and ME-YA # (original karaoke) Official track list (in Japanese) http://beinggiza.com/ci/item/JBDJ-1049 References 1999 singles 1999 songs Zard songs Songs written by Izumi Sakai B Zone singles {{1990s-rock-song-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Girl, Girl, Boy, Girl, Boy
''Girl, Girl, Boy, Girl, Boy'' is the second studio album by Japanese J-pop band Rumania Montevideo. It was released on January 26, 2000, by Giza Studio. Background The title of the album represents the members of the band - three "girls" (Mami, Akiko, Satomi) and two "boys" (Makoto, Kazunobu). The album consist of three previously released singles, such as ''Digital Music Power'', ''Picnic'' and ''Koisuru Betty'' (). Koisuru Betty was released two weeks before the album. B-side track ''Under the Skin'' from second single was included in this album as well. ''Digital Music Power'' and ''Picnic'' were re-recorded from the original songs ''Snap'' and ''picnic'' which were performed in English and included in their first and second indies albums ''Jet Plane'' and '' Sunny, Cloudy, Rain''. Charting The album reached #24 on Oricon in its first week and sold 13,410 copies. It charted for 2 weeks and sold 17,490 copies. Track listing Personnel Credits adapted from the CD booklet of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giza Studio
is a Japanese record label. The Giza Studio started as an indie label in the late 1990s under the name Garage Indies Zapping Association, but soon Being Inc. bought it as their sister label company. Giza Studio is located in Osaka, Japan and has been producing successful artists such as Mai Kuraki, Garnet Crow, Rina Aiuchi, etc. since their commercial service on September 1, 1998. Along with other Being Group's sister labels (Zain Records, Rooms Records, B-Gram Records, BMFC, Vermillion Records and Northern Music), the studio's main task is to create music productivity by hiring talented artists, composers and engineers. The label's creative design (such as CD-jacket, photography, cinematography) is handled by Mod's House, while J-Disc is in charge of all the distribution and promotion of the sales. Giza's artists have had provided numerous opening and ending themes for Anime television series such as Meitantei Conan, Project ARMS, MÄR and Tantei Gakuen Q. Sub-labels *Giza ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Can't Forget Your Love/Perfect Crime
"Can't Forget Your Love/Perfect Crime: Single Edit" is a double A-side single by Japanese singer songwriter Mai Kuraki, taken from her second studio album ''Perfect Crime'' (2001) and third studio album ''Fairy Tale'' (2002). It was released on August 29, 2001, by Giza Studio, and both songs were served as the theme song to the Japanese television series '. "Can't Forget Your Love" was written by Kuraki herself, Aika Ohno, Cybersound and Akihito Tokunaga, while "Perfect Crime: Single Edit" was written by Kuraki, Tokunaga, Daisuke Ikeda. Commercial performance Commercially, "Can't Forget Your Love/Perfect Crime: Single Edit" was a moderate success. Although the single instantly peaked at number two on the Oricon Weekly Singles Chart, it has managed to sold 180,040 copies as of February 2018, 30,000 copies fewer than her preceding single "Always". It spent eight weeks on the chart and became 113rd best-selling single of 2001 in Japan and has been certificated gold by Recording Indust ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sekai Wa Kitto Mirai No Naka
is the 29th single by Zard, released 16 June 1999 under the B-Gram Records label. As with their previous singles Atarashii Door and Good Day, this single doesn't include an alternate song. The single debuted at #2 the first week. It charted for nine weeks and sold over 201,000 copies. This marked the 24th consecutive single by ZARD, since Makenaide, which reached the top three in the Oricon rankings. Track list All songs are written by Izumi Sakai. # #*composer: Yuuichirou Iwai (New Cinema Tokage)/arrangement: Akihito Tokunaga, Hirohito Furui and 4D-JAM 4D-Jam is a Japanese R&B and soul music unit under the Giza Studio label active in 1998–2002. In 2014, they came back from 12-year hiatus under indies label Con4Tunes. Members *Maho Furukawa (ふるかわ♥魔法)) – vocalist, lyricist *Ken ... # (original karaoke) Official track list (in Japanese) http://beinggiza.com/ci/item/JBDJ-1047 References 1999 singles Zard songs Songs written by Izumi Sakai B Zone sing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japan
Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north toward the East China Sea, Philippine Sea, and Taiwan in the south. Japan is a part of the Ring of Fire, and spans Japanese archipelago, an archipelago of List of islands of Japan, 6852 islands covering ; the five main islands are Hokkaido, Honshu (the "mainland"), Shikoku, Kyushu, and Okinawa Island, Okinawa. Tokyo is the Capital of Japan, nation's capital and largest city, followed by Yokohama, Osaka, Nagoya, Sapporo, Fukuoka, Kobe, and Kyoto. Japan is the List of countries and dependencies by population, eleventh most populous country in the world, as well as one of the List of countries and dependencies by population density, most densely populated and Urbanization by country, urbanized. About three-fourths of Geography of Japan, the c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anime Musical Groups
is hand-drawn and computer-generated animation originating from Japan. Outside of Japan and in English, ''anime'' refers specifically to animation produced in Japan. However, in Japan and in Japanese, (a term derived from a shortening of the English word ''animation'') describes all animated works, regardless of style or origin. Animation produced outside of Japan with similar style to Japanese animation is commonly referred to as anime-influenced animation. The earliest commercial Japanese animations date to 1917. A characteristic art style emerged in the 1960s with the works of cartoonist Osamu Tezuka and spread in following decades, developing a large domestic audience. Anime is distributed theatrically, through television broadcasts, directly to home media, and over the Internet. In addition to original works, anime are often adaptations of Japanese comics (manga), light novels, or video games. It is classified into numerous genres targeting various broad and niche ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giza Studio Artists
Giza (; sometimes spelled ''Gizah'' arz, الجيزة ' ) is the second-largest city in Egypt after Cairo and fourth-largest city in Africa after Kinshasa, Lagos and Cairo. It is the capital of Giza Governorate with a total population of 9.2 million as of 2021. It is located on the west bank of the Nile, southwest of central Cairo, and is a part of the Greater Cairo metropolis. Giza lies less than north of Memphis (''Men-nefer''), which was the capital city of the first unified Egyptian state from the days of the first pharaoh, Narmer. Giza is most famous as the location of the Giza Plateau, the site of some of the most impressive ancient monuments in the world, including a complex of ancient Egyptian royal mortuary and sacred structures, including the Great Sphinx, the Great Pyramid of Giza, and a number of other large pyramids and temples. Giza has always been a focal point in Egypt's history due to its location close to Memphis, the ancient pharaonic capital of the Old K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Winter Bells
"Winter Bells" is Mai Kuraki's 11th single, released on January 17, 2002 Usage in media * "Detective Conan ''Case Closed'', also known as , is a Japanese detective fiction, detective manga series written and illustrated by Gosho Aoyama. It has been serialized in Shogakukan's Shōnen manga, ''shōnen'' manga magazine ''Weekly Shōnen Sunday'' ..." anime series opening theme Track listing Charts Oricon Sales Chart References 2002 singles 2002 songs Mai Kuraki songs Giza Studio singles Case Closed songs Oricon Weekly number-one singles Songs written by Mai Kuraki Songs with music by Akihito Tokunaga Song recordings produced by Daiko Nagato {{2000s-Japan-single-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mai Kuraki
(born October 28, 1982) is a Japanese pop and R&B singer-songwriter and record producer. After releasing her US debut single " Baby I Like" in 1999, Kuraki signed with Giza Studio and released her Japanese debut single " Love, Day After Tomorrow" in 1999. In 2000, she released her debut album, '' Delicious Way'', which debuted at number-one and sold over 2.2 million copies in its first week. The album has spawned four top-three singles, "Love, Day After Tomorrow", " Stay by My Side", " Secret of My Heart", and "Never Gonna Give You Up". Eventually, the album sold over 3.5 million copies nationwide and became the best-selling album in Japan in 2000, and has been the ninth best-selling album in Japan of all-time. Her second album, ''Perfect Crime'' (2001) debuted atop in Japan and has sold over 1.3 million copies nationwide. After the success in Japan, Kuraki targeted the American market again, with the English-language studio album '' Secret of My Heart'' (2002), however it faile ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miki Matsuhashi
(born August 10, 1983) is a Japanese former singer and songwriter who was active between 2000 and 2003. She achieved national recognition for singing the theme song to the Japanese anime series ''Case Closed'', "Destiny". Matsuhashi had a fairly brief career as an artist. She made indies debut in the summer of 2000, releasing first extended play ''Miki Matsuhashi''. Her debut single, "Time Stands Still" was released in June 2001, and her debut studio album, ''Destiny'', was released in less than a year later. In 2001, Matsuhashi released "Destiny", a cover of Ramjet Pulley as the second single from the album. The single became Matsuhashi's most successful single, reaching number 22 on the Oricon charts.Oricon profile Retrieved September 15, 2010 The song was used as the opening theme song for the anime, ''Detective Conan'', She had ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
